THE INTERIORS, Vol. 10, 2021, 75-84 : ISSN 2319-4804 Manifestation of Exploitation in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable SANJAYKUMAR Abstract. An Indian author, Mulk Raj Anand wrote his first novel Untouchable which reflects the pangs and suffering of dalits or downtrodden in Indian way of caste system. The author presents the issue of exploitation and suffering in human life which results in inhuman manifestation. Indians recognize caste system which has created exploitation to outcaste people or untouchables, ultimately resulting in suffering of millions. Exploitation refers to ill-treatment meted out to the people of low-caste. Bakha is forced to do menial jobs for the caste Hindus but he is not paid by money except bread leftover. The untouchables have no entree to interact with other people except within themselves. It is done by keeping them out to touch and use all public facilities such as road, well, school, temple, and such. The caste Hindus consider the untouchables' touch will pollute anything belonging to them and, for them, the untouchables are bad virus or the cursed ones. In conclusion, Mulk Raj Anand in his novel Untouchable vividly portrays exploitation and human suffering. This inhuman treatment or exploitation which is brought about by the caste system has created dehumanization making the untouchables or the outcastes feel intensity of exploitation, suffering and hopelessness. Keywords : Exploitation; suffering; ill-treatment; dehumanization. Untouchable relates to the story of a young man who comes from outcaste family in Indian society. He is a young man who, at the beginning, idolizes the sahib's life and class. However, he is a realistic individual, lovable, sometimes grand, sometimes weak, as he does his nasty job i.e. of sweeper. The story centres around the young man's one day in his life. He endures one of the most humiliating days of his young life. From sunrise, he is forced to deal with discrimination, hatred and hypocrisy. He is woken in early morning by his abusive father's shouts. Over the course of the day, he was slapped in public for polluting an upper caste Hindu through an accidental touch on the street. His sister was molested by a priest, and had food thrown at him by a woman after he cleaned her gutters. He got humiliation and was blamed for an injury of a little boy, and he was finally thrown out of his house by his father. At the end of his day, he followed a crowd of people to listen to Gandhi's speech on untouchability. Gandhi told the untouchables to stop accepting those maltreatments, he wanted them to refuse the high castes' leftovers. The road out of untouchability is to purify their lives, to improve their hygiene, and get rid of their vices. However, he was confused and has never completely found the answer as he tries to search what he is born for. The storyends with a hope that someday he will find the poet who had told about 'flush system'. He returns to his father and his wretched bed, thinking new of Gundhi 's words and the poet's machine. The Received : 26 th April, 2021; Accepted : 27 1h May, 202 I