Gandhi As A Mythic Rather Historical Figure in Raja Rao's Kanthapura.
Gandhi As A Mythic Rather Historical Figure in Raja Rao's Kanthapura.
Gandhi As A Mythic Rather Historical Figure in Raja Rao's Kanthapura.
Ms Pooja Negi
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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
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-
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
Thus, Raja Rao uses Gandhi as a mythic rather historical figure in Kanthapura.