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Through the novel, ‘Untouchable’ Anand tries to explore the various rules imposed on the lower caste, for example, walking with dhol or whistle so that they can produce sound to announce their arrival so that the people of upper caste could give them space to walk and to avoid themselves to being polluted. The untouchables must live outside the village. They don’t have the right to take water from village well by their own hands. They have to attach a sweep at their back so that when they walk their footprints do remove from the earth. Because in that time it is believed that by the upper caste if the untouchable footprints remains on the earth, the earth will be polluted. It also reveals the hypocrisy of Hindu religion and shows the helplessness of the lower community.