Name: Jankiba Rana
M.A. Semester 3
Roll No. 11
Batch 2014.15
Paper:4 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Kanthapura Microcosm of
Macrocosm
Kantha Pura - a great imagination of Raja Rao.
Kantha Pura was discovered and read with interest after Raja Rao won
international fame and recognition with the publication of his next novel:
“The Serpent and the
Rope”
Kanthapura
gradually came to recognized as a classic of the indo- Angian fiction, as one
of the most-authentic and most remarkable village novel ever written by an
Indian in English.
A Social Indian Village:
The
novel opens with an account of the situation, the locale, of the village.
We
are told in very beginning that kanthapura is a village in Mysore in the
province of kara, it is situated in the vally of himavathy, there it lies,
Curled up like a child on its
mother’s lap
The people of kanthapura
In kanthapura we are told of the
people their poverty their ignorance, and their petty jealousies.
Prof atma ram says
“ in kanthapura the villagers are
depicted in realistic clours.
Rao gives us a rich picture of a
village and its people at the time but it is, above all the stay of the
independence of a small village that mahes this novel interesting.
Cast divisions:
Kanthapure there is a complex
structure of cast division. It has four and twenty houses in Brahmin quarters
there is also a pariahquarter, a potters quarter a weavers quarter and a sudra
quarter.
Through this the novelist has
highlighted the fact that the Indian villages are cast ridden that there is no
free mixing of the people even in small an limited community of a village.
The religious faith
Folk song for goddess kwnchamma
Kenchamma, kenchamma goddess benign
and bounteous mother of earth blood of life harvest queen rain crowned,
kenchamma, kenchamma goddess, benign and bounteous.
Religion is very important and the
people are continuously holding religious celebrations.
The symbolic significance
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In
kantha paral the picture of village life is filled up by giving further
accounts of the grinding poverty, illiteracy and the conflicts and tensions
that mark the Indian village life.
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Indeed
there is a constant shifting and ordering of material selection of significant
details so that kanthapura acquiers a symbolic significance.
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It
becomes a migrocosm of macrocosm one out of the lakhs of Indian villages in
which live 80% of he people of india.
Response to gandhian movement
In this remote south india village
there comes the Gandhi movement through morthy dear and other village boys.
It is moorthy who organizes the
Gandhi work in the village. He is indeed the life and spirit behind the
movement is kanthapura just as Gandhi was the life and spirit of the freedom
struggle in india. But way soon the people of kanthapura as a whole are
actively involved and the novel becomes an account of their sufferlus and their
heroic sacrifice.
The people of kanthapura have been
enthoused with spirit of Gandhi and they march ahead heroically despite all the
sufferus and the hardship they have to undergo.
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