Assignment Paper No. 4

Topic:- Critical Analysis of "Kanthapura"

Paper No-4 Indian Writings in English
Prepared by: KINNARI HALVADIYA
M.A Semester: 1
Batch: 2019-2021
Enrollment No: 2069108420200014
Roll No: 16
Email id: kinuhalvadiya17@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt. S.B Gardi
Department of English, MKBU

Critical Analysis of Kanthapura:-

  Raja raoa novelist and short story write, he too is child of the gandhian age and reveals in his work his sensitivity and awareness to the force let loose by the Gandhi Revolution as also the thwarting or steadying pulls of past tradition. His most famous four books are....

1) KNTHAPURA 1938
2) THE SERPENT AND THE ROPE 1960
3) THE CAT AND SHAKESPEARE 1965
4) THE COW OF THE BARRICADES 1947

     a collection of short stories by raja rao hails from the mysore state and action of one his novels strays far afield - indeed as france and English his heart is effectively tethering to his immutable ancient moorings with strong invisible strings of the traditional hindu cultures.
'Action' of the story has a physical as well as psychological side. The physical action has a superficial global sweep... Lama travels take him to banaras, Allah bad, Missouri, delhi, Bombay then to Aix en Provence, montpalais pau,Cambridge,London,back again to Haydrabad,bangalore,Hariharapura(own village) , kodaikanal, madura, bombay and finally to Aix-en-provence,Oxford,London,paris. He visit in India in 1951, when his father's death, he visit India again next year, attend his sister saroja's marriage in 1954, end of the novel, he plans to again return to the India. Third time to work out salvation in diligence. Such it was the bare time and space fremawork of the physical action. A truly crowd comprising men and women drewn from india.
Spain, Russia,England,France and india.
       Theme of Kanthapura up as a Gandhi and village, but style of narration made the more gandhi purana. Gandhi was invisible God, Moorthy was the visible avatar. The region of the red man was Asuric rule, and it was resisted by the devas, the satyagrahis. The characters divided into 2 camps:the rulers ( and tgeir suppoters) on the one hand, and the satyagrahis (and their sympathiers) on the other. There are rarious other division too:- Orthodoxy is pitted against reform, explanation against suffering, a planter against the coolies, the corrupt official against the self respecting villager. Birthdays line grew hes even the main issue between the bureaucracy and satyagrahis was joined for most people are there or other side .
Raja rao was put the story into the mouth of a grandmother. Although the family 9 Dutchies and mannerisms, the seemingly effortless rotation of the tongue, girl Meen during the sentence and massive paragraphs were characteristic of the narrator there was nevertheless consummated art in all that of Artlessne ss, Ted was a careful selection behind the apparent absence of details and berries and a droid polarization in the plotless grandmother's tale.
Motive was to Gandhi and geography, the leader of the nonviolent movement in Kanthapura. Dad was at the other extreme bade khan the police man who was the symbol of operation the soul less bureaucracy make vissibled repulsive. But the villagers are unfaird:
" what is a policeman before the Gandhi's man? Tell me, does Moore stand before a lion or a jackal before an elephant?
'' A noble cow, quite generous, serene, deferent and brahmanic, a very prince.."
Already when the story begins, Gandhi was a legendary figure to the villagers and the subject bhajans and harikathas. Jayramachar jumbles with splendid unconcerned traditional mythology and contemporary politics:
" Siva is the three eyed,
And swaraj too is three eyed:
Self - purification, hindu - muslim unity, Khaddar."

# Class Structure:-
√ Untouchability
√ Structure of the village
√ Superstition among people
√ Exploitation due to class
√ caste and creed
√ Class discrimination
√ society and discrimination

We are going to see all these structures in a deeply in above.

√ Untouchability:-

         Contact was narrow structure in this village has people off of many casts, they lived peacefully in this village upper class people, otherwise, they was casted out from that particularly. if a person went to pariha's house. He had to take a bath and go Kashi for purification purpose.

√ Stacture of the village:-

           In the village of houses dead, where the symbols of statues, there were less government servants in the village. Those who was there got respect. There was the house of post master. He lived in two storyed building. Plawari had glass paned windows. Besides this village had a pariah quarter and brahmin. There was only round about hundred House. The house are individualized and particularly.

√ Superstition among people:-

        In this village people are religious minded. They like education, they believe in superstition. people accepted Hinduism when a police man can come to the village for their. It was very difficult for him to get a room to leave or lose we're surrounded of many superstitions. So it was so difficult for him to survive there.

√ explanation due to class:-

      The condition of the villagers was such a dad, upper class exploited the lower class people as well as. The whole description of working laborers were touching remaining hungry, half hungry, poorly Hourished they had to work very hard.

√ cast and creed:-

     This small village symbolically the depicts, the country's condition. The country's condition during. The time of freedom, struggle, people of all castes unanimously united themselves to fight against the country's enemy. Educated people were influenced by Gandhi Ji and became his followers. They cast away the social norms of caste also.

√ class discrimination:-

         Wealthy people ruled the village, but who came in village with nothing become prosperous. He did not want others to marry second time, but he himself from Mary teenage girl. He got dowery too. When Moorthy went to pariha's house for sime work people started bitching, and the news raised to his mother dead, his mother old narsimma worried a lot.

√ society and discrimination:-

            When Moorthy visited pariah family, well treated by all but villager started speaking about him, he was supposed to be outcast people, especially Orthodox woman were against him also.

       Raja rao's Kanthapura is reconstruction of his own village. Harihalli or Hariharapura. Going to put on top mini picture of India, this book gives us a social, political, religious and mythical scenario of nineteen thirties.Kanthapura was deals with the condition of Indian village during this struggle for independence. In Kanthapura feels within tales are found like cabbage a peels. Tales from mythology become a part of their life but frequently leave with her conversation with them. Moorthy and seenu become rama and brother laxman. Need a sita to make the picture complited. Moorthy becomes prachalad and hahuman. Mohandas comes to destroy the red men, as krishna had the serpent kali, gandhi and moorthy are compared respecting to ram, and hanuman where's jawaharlal to bharath. The people belived that gandhiji might not to go.
     Sea to manufacture salt because the gods might have a spare this ordeal even before he is. Vow is fulfilling as they had for harishchandra. According to a critic, there are no exit point of correspondence in those analogies but they leaved an immediate action on the illiterate. Indian village and explains to them, the political situations of India third twenties very successfully and a great.
The central myth of Kanthapura was gave mystical background.the mythical background. The myth is of ramayana where the story goes like this rama was the hero and sita was his wife. Laxam a brother of ram. Ravan was the villen. According to myth ravan wants to marry sita. He went to forest where these three rama, laxaman, sita lived. Ravan took the adventures about loneliness of sita and kidnapped her. And brings to lanka. Laxaman, hanuman, rama and the others of are attack on lanka to save sita from ravana they rescue sita after many attempt.
Here in Kanthapura the central myth used about rama laxmana sita ravana. Which is used to illustration the fight between mahatna gandhi ji and the British . Rama and ravana. Sita was the three eyed god, so is swraj parvati wood and won siva through penances, so does gandhi endeavor to attain independence through ordeals. Independence was like a sita sullied at the hands of ravana and gandhi. Like rama strives to regain her. Gandhi's visit to england for the round table conference is like the visit of rama to lanka after ravani's defeat. Gandhiji as per as indian history is concerned in order to negotiate for Indian's freedom.
     The Indian sensibility is best shown in the image Proverbs,phrases,idioms,pictures and literal translation of Indian expression. The image are drawn from Indian mythology,legend,history and Natural phenomena found in india.

 # CONCLUSION:-

     Raja rao's Kanthapura was one of the good novels of mid- twentieth century india . It is the story of how gandhi's struggle for independent from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura in south. India Young moorthy,back from the city with "new ideas", cuts to unite the villagers in non violent action which is met with violence by landlord's and police. The dramatic tale unfolds in a poetic, almost mythical style which conveys as never before the rich textures of indian rural life. Hard, negative and the way she tells it evokes the spirit of Indian traditional folk epics, this edition included extensive notes on Indian movies, religion, social customs and dog independence movement, which field the background for the American readers more complete understanding and enjoyment.