Kanthapura - Raja Rao

Kanthapura is one of the book of Raja Rao. Kanthapura was published in 1938. Kanthapura is the first major Indian novel in English was written in the colonial India. This novel deals with the civil Disobedience Movement. Mahatma Gandhi on the participation of a small village of South India in the national struggle calls for the story’s central concern. But this novel of colonial India is Post-Colonial in spirit for various reasons. To deify Gandhi is a part of the process of decolonizing the Indian mind. In the novel there are at least three strands of experience in the novel: the political, the religious and the social, and all are woven inextricably into the complex story of Kanthapura.

 

“Gandhi is alone stood as politician with his virtue and being good man.”

Kanthapura is the brilliant example of such voice of negation confronting the patriarchal convention.

At the end of the novel reflects the entire society’s transform Gandhian socialism to Nehruvian internationalism. However as the novel rightly captures the common, illiterate folk chose to stay with Gandhi.

British rule in India was blessing or disguise? 

        In society, we bind condition of Dalit and Women.  Raja Rao`s –Kanthapura with a view to find out how women are oppressed by men and how the British rule helps women and Dalit get freedom from the age-old conventions. 

In this novel there is also main character namely Moorthy who played a vital role in the novel. But there are also many women characters in the novel some are the played major role and some are the played minor role for example, Waterfall venkamma, Range Gowda, Shankara these are the minor characters in the novel.

                 So, these are the women characters in the novel Kanthapura.