Mulk Raj Anand

Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar on 12 December 1905, the son of a coppersmith who became a soldier in the Indian army. Briefly imprisoned for taking part in the civil disobedience of 1921, he left for London, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1929 and mixed with the Bloomsbury group; in 1937 he joined the International Brigades in Spain for three months. Back in India after the war, he founded the art journal Marg in 1946 and chaired the fine arts section of the National Academy of Art. He died in Pune on 28 September 2004.

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• NovelUntouchableMulk Raj Anand · 1935Literature