Gandhism in Raja Rao’s novel Kanthapura : A Review of Moorthy’s Character as an Avatar of Gandhi

Abstract

However as an artist, Raja Rao does not intr character in the novel, and novelist has used artistically the Indian people’s traditional faith in avatars for the purpose of writing his novel. Thus, the central myth of Kanthapurais analysed through the mythical analogy of lo Rama and Mahatma Gandhi. Since everybody in India is familiar with the story of Ramayana, the Kanthapurians are supposed to well follow Gandhi’s fight with foreign rulers in terms of Rama Ravana opposition. What attracts most is the mythicization of the current situation to the extent that Gandhi is accepted as an avatar in his own life time. Nevertheless, on the surface Kanthapuramay appear to be a political novel, but the complex of political events in it follows mythical patterns. Although the them the style of narration makes the novel more a Gandhi Kanthapurais undeniably a veritable grammar of the Gandhian myth, which, incidentally, is poetic trans of reality. Subsequently, the present paper highlights the character of Moorthy in the perspective of Gandhism