ABSTRACT
The relationship between colonialism and urbanism or, more especially, between post-colonialism and the metropolis has, as Anthony D. King rightly remarked, been ‘woefully neglected’. Mike Davis acknowledges that ‘not all urban poor, to be sure, live in slums, nor are all slum-dwellers poor’. The trend to ‘outcaste’ the rural poor, migrants and slum-dwellers, has continued in contemporary India and other emerging nations. Mulk Raj Anand is with the poor and the downtrodden, voicing the concerns and predicaments of the lower classes in Indian society and siding with the lost and the sufferers. There is a high infant mortality rate in the slums; relationships do not last; everything is reduced to its monetary value; children are often beaten up by policemen and sexually and physically abused.
