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Kanthapura recounts the rise of a Gandhian nationalist movement in a small South Indian village of the same name. The story is narrated by Achakka , an elder brahmin woman with an encyclopedic knowledge about everyone in her village; she tells the story in the meandering, nonlinear style of a sthala-purana , a traditional “legendary history ...
Raja Rao's first and best-known novel, Kanthapura (1938), is the story of a south Indian village named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a Sthala Purana by an old woman of the village, Achakka.
Kanthapura by Rao Raja. Topics Other Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.475734.
Lesson Plan for Kanthapura. Kanthapura study guide contains a biography of Raha Rao, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
Kanthapura. Raja Rao. 3.40. 1,463 ratings135 reviews. This is the story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India.
Kanthapura is a 1938 novel written by Indian author Raja Rao. It tells the story of Mahatma Gandhi's independence movement from 1919 to 1930, describing its impact on the caste-ridden south...
Kanthapura. Raja Rao. ‘The first literary manifesto to point to an Indian way of appropriating the English language’-Guardian Regarded as the first major Indian novel in English, Kanthapura is the story of how Gandhi’s struggle for Independence came to a casteist south Indian village.
