Mulk Raj Anand was an India

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n writer in English

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, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.K. Narayan, Ahmed Ali

Ahmed Ali

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 and Raja Rao

Raja Rao

Raja Rao was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope , is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India...

, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.
Born in Peshawar

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, he studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar

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, before moving to England where he attended University College London

University College London

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 as an undergraduate and later Cambridge University, graduating with a PhD in 1929.