paper no 4
Topic. Indian village in kanthapura
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2015-2016
Topic. Indian village in kanthapura
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2015-2016
Name - Vala jyotsna Tanshukhbhai
Semester - 1 (one)
Roll No -42
Topic - Indian village in kanthapura.
Work - Assignment
Paper - Course no- 4 (four)
Submitted by –
Smt. S.B. Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji Bhavnagar Uni.Dep. Of
English.
Indian village in kanthapura
Introduction
‘Kanthapura’
is one of the famous novel 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 work, 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
an 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
Ran gamma 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 mum 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.
