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Mohd Adil Ali

Ms Pooja Negi

Eng 0403(ii)

19th April 2019

Gandhi as a mythic rather historical figure in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

The Novel as opposed to being conventional Novel with a slick direct structure and reduced plot,

it pursues the custom of Indian sthala-purana or history. As Raja Rao clarifies in Kanthapura by

the symbolism of village and villagers, for what occurs in Kanthapura was occurring everywhere

throughout the nation amid those blending days of the Gandhian freedom struggle.

In Kanthapura Raja Rao utilised the mythical system. The utilisation of mythical method implies

that the past is compared with the present an in his manner the past may fill in as analysis of the

present, or it might be utilised to uplift and laud the present.

As Raja Rao lets us know in the absolute first sentence of his notable prelude of the novel, each

town in India has a rich sthala purana or incredible history. It has a legend concerning the nearby

goddess Kenchamma who shields the locals from damage what's more, directs their predetermi-

nation. The writer style or portrayal makes it a Gandhi epic.

The tale "Kanthapura" takes us to the universe of history of Hindu. We likewise encountered the

Hindu legends and furthermore go over the Hindu musings. The epic has likewise built up its

mythic and representative structure. We discover a few components which demonstrates the mes-

sage of nationalism that were antiquated history, religion, characters from the stories, characteris-

tic scene and straightforward existence of the town network of Kanthapura. Hari-Kathas was

practiced by the villagers. As it is a customary type of narrating. Hari-Kathas are the narrative of

God. Jayramchar was Hari-Katha man who described Hari-Katha dependent on Gandhi and his

goals. A short time later he was arrested in light of the political promulgation introduced in the

story.
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Gandhi's character was depicted as a legend resembles Ram, Krishna, Shiva in the novel "Kan-

thapura". The epic characterises Gandhi as a perfect resurrection of Shiva. Kanthapura rises to be

a research facility of the Gandhian idea and hypothesis. The epic is a veritable sentence structure

of the Gandhian myth. In Kanthapura, religion, an essential piece of culture has been utilised for

a common and political reason, for example, achieving Independence. Here religion has a note-

worthy task to carry out in characterising the personality of individuals and furthermore of the

country. Raja Rao's utilisation of myth empowers him to contain Western misuse as a minute in

fanciful time where everything turns into a sort of MAYA in which 'Hindu power has viably

phagocytes western attack, western history. This isn't just an embellishment misrepresented by

the content yet additionally an absolute misconception of Rao's utilisation of myth in the novel.

He utilises myths and legends and arranges the novel in chronicled time, not in fanciful existence.

It is in this sense Rao utilises myths and mythical strategy since it gives a worldview of Gandhi

comes as an AVATAR to crush 'ADHARMA ' . In the Gandhian fiction "Kanthapura" still appre-

ciates the focal position it genuinely speaks to Gandhi and furthermore the opposite side of the

truth of the Gandhian myth.

Thus, Raja Rao uses Gandhi as a mythic rather historical figure in Kanthapura.