Raja rao kanthapura themes in literature

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  • Oral Tradition, Writing, and Political Power · Gandhism and the Erosion of Caste · Nationalism and Colonialism · Land, Geography.
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    Themes of kanthapura

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    23 Nationalism and Resistance: Raja Rao, Kanthapura

    Ananya Bhattacharjee


     

    Introducing the Author

    Raja Rao is one of the most acclaimed writers of Indian English Literature. He was born in 1909 in Mysore and belonged to a south Indian Brahmin family. He did his matriculation from Hyderabad and then went to Aligarh in order to pursue higher education. There he was inspired by Prof. Dickinson to study French language and literature. He got his B.A. degree from a college in Hyderabad and received a scholarship from Hyderabad University with the help of which he went to France and started studying French literature there. He did his Ph.D. under the guidance of Prof. Cazamian at the University of Sorbonne. He lived in France for quite a long time from 1928 to 1939. He returned to India in 1940 and lived for some six to seven years and again went back to France in 1946 and stayed there till 1956. While living in France he got married to an American actress named Katherine and also has a son by her. His first novel Kanthapura was written during the times when he was living in France. Before going to France Raja Rao wrote a number of essays to convey love for his nation and also show how fascinated he was by Indian culture and tradition and the philosophy of the Vedas.

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    Kanthapura

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    Raja Rao

    Raja Rao

    Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

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    Themes

    Caste and Class

    As a village, Kanthapura is divided firmly by the Indian caste system, much like India is divided during this time period. This manifests in both physical and subtler ways—the village is literally divided into quarters for each caste, and the system is enforced by social oversight. Although there are friendships across certain classes, the Pariah class are uniformly treated as exiles from society and ostracized by all classes. Moorthy’s embrace of them is one of the greatest shocks to the existing social structure, and leads to his excommunication from the Brahmin class. Outsiders who do not fit into this traditional caste system, such as the Muslim Bade Khan, often find themselves without a place in the village—not exiled, but simply with no role to play.

    This existing caste system is seen in other elements of the society as well, such as the Skeffington Coffee Estates. With no ties to the caste system, the British imperial government is a