16/06/2026
2026 is the National Year of Reading! To celebrate we are sharing some Library staff recommendations!
Recommendation 7: Untouchable by Mulk Raj
One of our Research and Academic Support Librarians shares: "I have owned this book since my undergrad, when it was on a big reading list... and I didn't read it. Since moving and building my shelves, I have made a deal with myself to read every book on there that I haven't read yet.
Untouchable is very different fare from my usual reading, and I am definitely out of practice reading early 20th century English. I am not very familiar with the caste system beyond the very basics, and this book is quite eye opening in that regard. It's also interesting in the context of the experience of colonisation of course, and the complex relationship an outcast can develop with a foreign-to-them culture when their own culture seems inhospitable to them."