Raja Rao was born on November 8,1908 in
Hassan in the state of Mysore in South India, Raja Rao was a well-know
Brahmin family. His native language was kanarese, but his post-graduate
education was in France , and if all this publications in book from in English.
Raja Rao was concerned with the colonial language . in the foreword to
‘Kanthapura’ (19380) published in London, if then he admitted the
difficulties are
“ A
language that is not one’s Own the spirit that is one’s
own”
And
conveying,the various shades and omissions of Certain thought
movement that looks Maltreated in an alien language”
RajaRao the novel Kanthapura (1938) was an the impact of Gandhi’s teaching on non-violent resistance against the
British and then Raja Rao borrows the style and structure from
Indian vernacular tales and folk epic.
The novel Kanthapura in the character of the
young man Moorthy who comes back from the city Kanthapura , then
Rao portrays an idealist and supporter of ahinsa and satayagraha ,
if also create to cross the traditional barriers of caste , as then the old
women calls the ‘ university Graduate’ , and has given up his,
“Boots and hat and suit and had taken
To dhoti and khadi , and it was said he
Had even given up his city habit of smoking”
=>Myth:-
Myth
is a imagination not a reality . myth is always comes from past . it Raja
Rao also used the myth in framework . myth always related with ideal truth and
real world . the use of mythical technique means that the past is juxtaposed
with the present in this way the past may serve us criticism of the present or
it may be used to heighten and glorify the preset . according to Meenakshi
Mukhrjee,
“
Kanthapura is again another and a
Larger
attempt at creating a sthala
Purana
, that is a legendary tale of
A
specific locality”
Myth always tells individual story , early history of people, social
background supernatural beings of events.
=>Importance of myth Kanthapura:-
Myth is one type of particular device that introduce cultural background and
historical movement Kanthapura novel written by raja Rao . Raja Rao is using
the myth in Kanthapura. The importance of myth in Kanthapura is a microcosm of
the Indian society with division of people into castes, untouchability,
poverty exploitation and foreign ruler and ruthless tyranny at
their hands and then the division of the village into the Brahmin quarters the
potter quarters and so on speak of the age long caste system and
untouchability.
Raja Rao write,
“
There is no village in India says Raja Rao , however mean that has not a rich
sthala Purana or legendry history of its own some
God or god like hero has passed by the village Rama might have
rested under the papal tree…..”
The using central myth
of Kanthapura is of ram-sita-ravana, which is the used to illustrate the
fight between Mahatma Gandhi and the British and another use of myth Siva is
the three eyed god so is swaraj and parvati wooed and won Siva
through penances , so does gandhi , Endeavour, attain independence
through penances so does Gandhi Endeavour to attain independence through
ordeals the myth of Kanthapura is connected with the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
The independence is like sita sullied at the hands of ravana and Gandhi like
rama strives to regain her . Gandhi’s visit to England for the
round table conference is like the visit of ram to lanka
after Ravana’s defeat if their Gandhi is rama and Jawaharlal Nehru
is bharta.
In this novel Kanthapura it is a small and beautiful village of people
but who still belongs to the old world of superstition . Raja Rao use Indian
myth sensibility and tradition myth in the novel. Kanthapura shares certain
narrative technique with Purana. The story by a village grandmother and
the style reflect oral heritage also represent the harikathas. In the
village we see the one temple and this temple is most important for
villagers. In this temple Jayaramchar narrate ‘ Harikathas’ and many
katha related on Gandhian ideas. Raja Rao use Indian sensibility,
tradition myth mysticism , religion , techniques in the novel. Raja Rao tells us
that as soon as Gandhi was born “ the four wide walls began to shine like the
kingdom of the sun, and hardly was he in the cradle than the began to lisp the
language of wisdom” the harikathas man Jayaramchar raises Gandhi to the level
of god by his activities with one particular feat of Krishna.
“
you remember how Krishna when he was But a babe of four, had began
to fight against Demons and had killed the serpent kali,so Too our
Mohandas began to fight, against The enemies of the country”
=>Conclusion:-
Raja Rao has also used the myth and reality in the novel
‘Kanthapura’ through their customs, attitudes , ritual and also through
their belief about the religiosity.
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