SOURCE: A review of The Coolie, in Life and Letters To-Day, London, Vol. 15, No. 4, Autumn, 1936, pp. 208, 210.

In the following review, Dewsbury praises The Coolie as a realistic depiction of India.

Mr. Anand, in a series of novels, is presenting the panorama of the real contemporary India. The Coolie is a frightening picture, and the author has achieved his purpose by making us wonder what on earth can be done to "save" his country. It is obvious that present evils must be corrected—evils of exploitation and graft. But the book goes much further by showing the inhumanity of man to man, proletarian to proletarian, bourgeois to bourgeois. When class meets class, why should we expect them to love one another who cannot love themselves? Remove existing evils—and the problem of human nature remains. And here the author offers no help.

He might retort that he has shown...