Bhikhu leaves for Delhi, the promised land, where caste recriminations are erased and where humanity lives in friendship and cordiality. It seems that the road to freedom and salvation, for Bhikhu, is full of dangers which he is unable to circumvent and where he comes to know the futility of all efforts and leaves the task to the future generation. Though defeated, Bhikhu is never defeated, and his taking the road to Delhi should not be interpreted as unseemly defeatism. It is the genuine anguish of an existential hero who rejects everything and seeks penance in self-isolation. Untouchability always provoked the intelligent heart of Mulk Raj Anand to act. According to him, legislation as a means of social change does not work in the case of untouchability, as untouchability is deeply rooted in the Indian psyche. Anand once quoted Gandhiji and said that “parliament is a prostitute”.30 He also said this in “Apology of Heroism”. A democracy that cannot safeguard the economic interests of outcastes works under the protection of the economic interests of outcastes works under an illusion. Religion has played its role in the exploitation of the untouchables. Now there is the illusion of "equality before the law" and the outcaste has neither the money nor the time to go to court. How can an outcaste earn money? This way the “have-nots” would one day sit with the privileged class. Landlord Thakur Singh says: ''Today they are taking the bread out of our mouths. By breaking stones with Dhooli Singh's help, they hope to ingratiate themselves with the Sarkars and earn money so they can purchase twice-born status. They already have more money than they need for... half the paper... (Letter of December 12, 1971).29. Anand, Mulk Raj, 'The Road'. Bombay: Kutub-popular, 1961, P.11030. Dhawan. RK, 'The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand' New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1992, P.205.31. Ibid., P. 20532. Ibid., P. 20533. Ibid., P. 20834. Ibid., P. 20835. Anand. Mulk Raj, 'The Rod', Bombay: Kutub-Popular, 1961, P.82.36. Swami Vivekananda: Caste, Culture and Socialism (published by Swami Ananyananda), Calcutta: Ashutosh Lithographic Co., 1983, PP. 40-4137. Anand. Mulk Raj, 'The Big Heart', New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, new revised edition, 1980, P.136.38. Ibid., P. 13539. Ibid., P. 13440. Ibid., PP.161-16241. Anand. Mulk Raj, 'Author to Critic', Mulk Raj Anand's Letters to Publication, 1973. P.122 (Letter dated November 1971)42. Anand, Mulk Raj, 'The Big Heart' New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, new revised edition, 1980. P.1943. Ibid., P. 6544. Ibid., P. 67