Discuss Mulk Raj Anand as a political novelist with reference to Coolie.

As a writer who became active in the 1930s, Mulk Raj Anand
conceived writing action as a form of political action. The Thirties were the decade
that saw the birth of the Indian movement for independence and the organization of
Marxist political parties. These were a clear influence on his writings of the era,
including Coolie (1936), which powerfully link India's social
problems to the caste system as a necessary product of capitalism and British rule. In
his preface to the second edition of Two Leaves and a Bud (1951),
Anand explcitly commented that his choice to write about the oppressed rather than the
rich was dictated by the need to explore the topic of class exploitation that
nationalist writers had so far neglected. Coolie describes the life
of Munoo with a polemical intent, painting a vast picture of the different social
realities and geographical landscapes of India. The book is clearly designed to provoke
indignation and promote social change.