“In the case of Untouchable, the influences were not only Euro-Russian. Anand has recalled in several sources that he was so taken by Gandhi's story about an Indian sweeper named Uka that he was inspired to return to India in early 1929 and visit Gandhi in his ashram at Sabarmati, where he showed Gandhi the manuscript of his novel. Gandhi responded in most scathing terms, advising Anand to cut out one hundred pages, 'especially where he [the sweeper] thinks like a Bloomsbury intellectual.”