LITERATURE CONTENT:KANTHAPURA

Raja Rao is one of the most important Indian English writers. He is Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Academy Award winner. kanthapura is best known piece of art .novel is narrated in form of Purana where brahmins are privileged and pariahs are marginalised but village retains its traditions. orthodox is pitted against progression .it is a great regional Indian novel written in English where Ram Ravan myth is described. RAM is Moorthi. Sita is India and Ravana is British colonization .Mahatma Gandhi is not visible but his progressive ideas, Satyagrah are always there in the soul of the novel novel stresses on widow remarriage ,women education rising above the castiesm and against the practice of untouchability. there is carefully chosen imagery and antithesis with paradox indulges in the novel .It is a perfect Masterpiece.