Raja Rao's Knathapura : A Dynamo of Gandhian Thought
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| contents | <p>Raja Rao (1909 and 2006), a path-breaker of Indian writing in English, was born in an orthodox South<br>Indian Brahmin family in Hasan, Mysore. After graduating from Madras University, he went on to the<br>University of Montpellier in France on a scholarship. He moved to the United States in 1966, where he<br>taught at the university of Texas at Austin until 1981, when he retired as an emeritus professor. As a<br>powerful and profound writer, Rao was honoured with India's second higher civilian award, the Padma<br>Vibhushan, in 2007, the Shitya Akademi Award in 1964 and the Neustadt International Prize for literature<br>in 1988. Raja Rao's Trilogy- "Kanthapura, The Serpent and The Rope and The Cat and Shakespeare"<br>are the most philosophical and ontological in quest. Among the three Kanthapura (1938) is a monumental<br>work which describes the Gandhian movement against the British Rule in India and how it reaches a<br>South Indian village-Kanthapura. This movement quickens the process of social change in Indian villages<br>from which starts the action of the novel. As a whole it can be said that "Kanthapura is a dominantly<br>Ideational Document of India in Microcosm and carries the Gandhian thought in total.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Raja Rao's Knathapura : A Dynamo of Gandhian Thought ideal research review Divine order, Hindu Hierarchy, Divine rescuer, Obscure village, Asuric rule, Politica <p>Raja Rao (1909 and 2006), a path-breaker of Indian writing in English, was born in an orthodox South<br>Indian Brahmin family in Hasan, Mysore. After graduating from Madras University, he went on to the<br>University of Montpellier in France on a scholarship. He moved to the United States in 1966, where he<br>taught at the university of Texas at Austin until 1981, when he retired as an emeritus professor. As a<br>powerful and profound writer, Rao was honoured with India's second higher civilian award, the Padma<br>Vibhushan, in 2007, the Shitya Akademi Award in 1964 and the Neustadt International Prize for literature<br>in 1988. Raja Rao's Trilogy- "Kanthapura, The Serpent and The Rope and The Cat and Shakespeare"<br>are the most philosophical and ontological in quest. Among the three Kanthapura (1938) is a monumental<br>work which describes the Gandhian movement against the British Rule in India and how it reaches a<br>South Indian village-Kanthapura. This movement quickens the process of social change in Indian villages<br>from which starts the action of the novel. As a whole it can be said that "Kanthapura is a dominantly<br>Ideational Document of India in Microcosm and carries the Gandhian thought in total.</p> |
| title | Raja Rao's Knathapura : A Dynamo of Gandhian Thought |
| topic | Divine order, Hindu Hierarchy, Divine rescuer, Obscure village, Asuric rule, Politica |
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