Untouchable is a novel published in 1935. The novel is written by a prominent member of Progressive Writers Movement Mulk Raj Anand. Anand had a great influence of Mahatma Gandhi on his mind. He met Gandhi in his ashram and discussed about his plan of writing a novel about the untouchability. He completed the draft of the novel in the ashram itself. Untouchable tells the story of a scavenger boy Bakha. It relates a one day odyssey of his life. Bakha becomes the representative and mouthpiece of the whole section of untouchables. Their life is full of sordidness and squalor. They are not even considered as human beings. Their mere touching to another person can bring dire consequences to them. The present paper examines the problems and plight of untouchables and their possible solution as described by Mulk Raj Anand.