Indian village in kanthapura

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Indian Writing in English

NAME              :-Olakiya Sonal Z.

ROLL NO           :-31

PAPER NO         :- 4

SEMESTER       :-1(one)

YEAR               :-2016-2018

EMAIL ID    :-sonalolakiya2405@gmail.com.

SUBMITTED    :-Dr.Dillip Barad Dept of English.

Smt.S.B Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University.

Indian village in kanthapura

Introduction

                   ‘Kanthapura’ is one of the famous novels by Raja Rao. He was born in 8 November 1908 Hassan, Mysore, India and died in 8 July 2006. He is famous for Novel, Short Story and Essay. Whose works deeply rooted in Hinduism? The Serpent  and the Rope (1960) a semiautobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India,

established him as one of the finest India prose stylists and won him the Sathiya Academy  Award in 1964. For the entire body of his work, Raja Rao was awarded the Neustadt International prize for literature in 1988.

                     Rao’s wide ranging body of work, spanning a number of works, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English Literature, as well as world literature.

His Notable Work

1).Kanthapura (1938).

2).The Serpent and the Rope (1960).

                       Raja Rao’s first novel “Kanthapura” is the story of a village in south Indian name Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a “Sthalapurana” by an old woman of the village, Achakka.

                             Kanthapura is a traditional caste ridden Indian village which is away from all modern ways of living. Dominant castes like Brahmins are privileged to get the best region of the village whereas sudras pariahs are marginalized. The village is believed to have protected by a local deity called Kenchamma. Through casteism the village has got a long nourished traditions of festivals in which all castes interact and the village are united. 

      

     Social background of Novel:

                In Kanthapura novel Raja Rao expertise, society of Indian what they believe culture and religious political etc… Kanthapura Novel show the society because in Indian society rules are very difficult and hardy followed.

                Writer wanted to show the mirror of Indian society background, Bhatt’s Other social considerations hardly go farther. As for them tees said the better. Bhatia was the only one who would have nothing to do with those ganglia bhagans he wouldn’t have the city trouble in Kanthapura. On anodynes besides his business construal he onward to government patron age. He was also the elation agents and got two thousand for it. But Bataa fellow this bhatta the remark made earlier in the  novel has its overtones of indignation castinas in our attitude towels him.

                And here writer put the image of Kanthapura who we real whole novel the same time we realized before society belong all spirit. Kanthapura name of villager it was very old and their peoples uneducated and blindly believe anything villager a siring bajan all songs and religious idea if image very old idea of raja Rao.

                General Indian believed poor idea and reach religious the society rules were more hardly to followed people. And Kanthapura is good expressed idea of social value Indian cultural extent political even etc…

        The novel has a dormant pattern to the treatment of caster and communities of any Kanthapura a village representative of any other village in south India.

                In the beginning of the novel we endanger the whole village stratified and hierarchies on the basis of caste creed and religion,

                “Earlier in India Brahmin are major of role

                Of in society and they were more religious

                And idealized in society all other communist’s

                People believed in Brahmin cast. And casteism

                Also main part of the society.”

                                         When novel organizes an open meeting to garner support to get moorthy out of jail sends old man in turban belonging to upper caste flares up against all Gandhi a stuff of caste mixing. The whole image also expressed the idea of society in kanthapura novel because that time of cast mixing.

                                            In kanthapura novel based on social even and try to repressed to truth by Raja Rao he warded to explain their idolize and uneducated people and also political even are main them of novel kanthapura. And background based was very mixed.

               

                     Woman Condition in Society

                           The anther point is the oppression of women by men. As it is discussed earlier that Indian is a land of great tradition and culture woman is portrayed as an embodiment of sacrifice and they are thought the virtues to be develop to become an ideal Indian woman. The tradition patriarchal framework experts a lot from a woman. During the time of general construction. The girl child aqueous pre-knowledge of her rights and responsibilities and role and relations to be observable at both the natal as well as in law’s home and gets that in such a way that the girls.

                                     It also another large of oppression the oppression of widow in the society their oppression was more in Brahmin community the woman who lost her husband had to save her head and wear only white sari.

They would not be allowed to participate in any good events and they could not come before anybody who was leaving his house for work or for any good events. If he happened to see a widow while leaving his house, it was consider ill women.

                                           Women condition very difficult and men central character in society. The fiction character Rangamma in this novel resembles the character of Rama in reality; Rama was the founder of Aria Mahila was Sabah. As early in 1882 she fought against male domination in the society and she founded saradha. Saradha in Mahila Sabah she organized a lost of meeting for women and through her revolutionary talk she made them realize the they should be independent and come out of the walls built around them and come out of the walls built around them and especially she demanded freedom for widows to decide their life and remarriage. It was unacceptable and she was critiqued badly for her speeches. She real all the puranas. Epics Vedas and Literature and found that there was no justice for woman in anything.

                                  In Indian society more difference of other countries even now a day also not more changes through. In novel main points are societies of kanthapura politician religious colonies etc. Main themes are the novel kanthapura. Well I read book at that time and I find kanthapura village quite same even today villages and it also sow image of myth and Raja Rao view of colonies and Englishmen.

                                   Kanthapura is the first major Indian novel in English by Raja Rao. The novel deals with the civil disobedience movement of 1930.Mahatma Gandhi on the participation of a small village of south Indian in the national struggle calls for the story’s central concern.The villagers sacrifice all their material possessions in a triumph of the spirit. It shows how the people of country united at the time of movement and joined at the nonviolence movement to bring independence from the British.Achakka narrator the whole story. She is an old village woman and the story revolves around in a village kanthapura in south India.

                         In this village there are clear discrimination between Brahman sudra and parish quarters still the mutual bonding between the villagers are very strong and they live happily with equal social and economical bonding.Rao depicts beautifully the participation of the villagers in different festivals like Dussera, puja ganesh jayanti etc…. The story of the Nobel belongs to kanthapura, a small village in remote corner of south India.The people here were mostly poor illiterate and backward.The village was caste ridden with different quarters in it housing people of different castes the highest cast being Brahmin the lowest the pariahs.People were extremely religious minded goddess kenchamma was the president deity of the village.

                       The protagonist of the novel is a young Brahmin boy named moorthy staunch follower of Gandhi.Once this boy found a half buried lingo in the village. He dig it out installed it at another plays and buits a temple there. This temple becomes the center of social life in the village. Moorthy arranged various religious ceremony and kathas here. Once katha man jayaramachar mixed political propagandas in his kathas. The foreign governments   got a wind of this and arrested him. A polish man bode khan was posted in the village, to keep an eyes on the going on there. Being a mohmmendan he could get no accommodation in the village the sahip of the neighboring skeffington.

                        Coffee instead opened a hut for him and logged him in the estate. The congress committee of the nearby karwar city costumed moorthy. He came back to the village looks of congress literature and spring wear home. Span khaddar discard the foreign cloths and thus stop theconomic exploitation of Indians by foreigners.

                                  Conclusion

                      The novel starts with simple narration by an old woman about one of the village in India, later it evolves to entire India. The narration starts as tale is told to children by their grandmother as it is the Indian tradition. Raja Rao has combined the myth for authentication of his work by putting myth in novel he easily achieved his goal. Not only the use of myth makes it popular but, his intellectual power, his imaginative power, his ability to use and utilize the Indian the Indian and it’s his knowledge of Indian culture and people.

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