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KANTHAPURA AS A  GANDHIAN  EPIC

Name:- Bambha Kajal A.

Roll no:- 20

Semester:- 1

Paper no:-Indian Writting in Englisg

                                                                                           INTRODUCTION :-

   There were three Indian modern writer of classic. Their contribution in classic is very significant. 

Mulk Raj Anand

R.K.Narayan

                Raja Rao those three person are great dramatist of the Indian Writhing in English .In Indian Literature we have many forms like Epic,Lyrics Drama short stories and fable but we should wit of novel very long time.  Raja Rao is most remarkable person of Indian writing in English in novel. A novelist and a short story writer, he too is a child of the forces let loose by the Gandhian Revolution as also of he steadying pulls of past tradition. “

● Kanthapura as a Gandhian Epic:

                        Kanthapura is Raja Rao first major Indian novel in English. It is published in 1938; the novel deals with civil disobedience movement. The title of the novel is adopted by village Kanthapura. The title is apt and suitable for the novel is about a south Indian village named ‘KANTHAPURA’.  The story is narrated in flashback by ‘ACHAKKA’. Kanthapura does not exist but it is a imagination of Raja Rao mind. Kanthapura village is situated on the Western Ghats in the valley of Himmavath River.

● Village’s Contemporary situation:

(I) Social Background

(II) Religion Background

(III) Political Background

·        Social Background:

“I will not let anyone walk

Through my mind with their

Dirty feet.”

                        The novel has a dormant pattern to the treatment of castes and communities Kanthapura, a tiny village representative of any other village in south Indian. There were four divisions in caste...

(1) Brahmin

(2) Pariah

(3) Potter

(4) Weaver

There were conflict between castisicm and other issues, but finally all get together and helped each other for the struggle for independence.

● Religion Background:

                        “I like your Christ, I do not like

Your Christians, and your Christians

                        Are so unlike your Christ.”

·        Political Background:

In  ‘Kanthapura’ novel political ideas also be found, earlier, British ruled over Indian and then slowly and steadily education got reformation and Gandhian ideas started by Moorthy.

The Gandhian movement was brought to Kanthapura by Moorthy and the other city boy. He went from door to door to tell people about Gandhi and his views and principles. 

 Like Gandhi he also kept a fast for three days because he felt that he had not been able to live up to the ideas of the Mahatma. He held himself responsible for the skeffington coffee estate.

Mahatma Gandhi

      Moorthy was a follower of Gandhi and told the people of Kanthapura about the views and ideas of Gandhi. After the violence at the gate of skeffington coffee estate when Moorthy had tried to enter Estate, he kept the fast because he felt that he had not been able to live up to the ideas of the Mahatma. Moorthy actually tried to follow Mahatma’s doctrine loving one’s enemies. He really respected Gandhi.

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

This all are Gandhian ideas which Gandhi has used in his life and used into freedom fighting. 

Gandhi was no less than the hero of an epic.The freedom struggle of Indian was an epic strugle. Thousand of people sacrificed their lives. It was remain in the background through the novel Gandhi is no doupt the hero of mavement is on small village called kanthapura.

                                  By reading the novel one get idea about the methods  and principle of Gandhi.Moorthy and the others freedom fighter of kanthapura are followers or Gandhian use Gandhian method in their strugle against the goverment they followed the path of non violence.

     An Epic is a long narrator poem and a great and serious subject related in an elevated style and centered an aheroic or quasidevine figure on whose action depend the fate or trible a nation of the human race.

The novel encompasses with Gandhian  ideology and freedom struggle. The story of satyagra his moved forward steadily till it reached to its climax. It was story of the people of a small village who realized that they need to rise and fight for the freedom of their motherland. They made efforts in this direction and they fail. They left Kanthapura and settled in Kanthapura. As a result of the final clash between the freedom fighters and the soldiers many people died many were injured. After this clash, the whole village was set on fire and destroyed and many people were arrested. The remaining people left the village and never comeback.

During freedom movement as a leader or Gandhi of Kanthapura Moorthy told villagers about the elements that were taking place all over the country. Moorthy told them about important events like Dandy march. Here Mahatma Gandhi never appears on the scene but his presence was felt all the time through the novel. As in inspired by Gandhi’s Satyagraha.

● Conclusion:

                        At last we can say that, at first Gandhian ideology spread as a music in every nook and corner of the village Kanthapura and it directs people against British rulers. It is Kanthapura in which Raja Rao music for Gandhi achieves its perfection. And truly made it Gandhian novel or Gandhian Epic.