The Proliferation of Gandhian Impact on the Deep Interiors of South India in Raja Rao's Kanthapura


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Gandhian ideology, Movement, Violence, Destruction, FreedomAbstract
Gandhian ideology is rooted in the everlasting human values handed down to us over centuries such as truth, non-violence, righteousness, tolerance and love. Gandhi only reiterated these values taught by Upanishads, the Buddha and the Gita. Gandhian ideology also corresponds a number of contemporary issues like rural poverty, untouchability, plight of women and communal violence. Gandhian thought engineered a mass-based social and political revolution in India. Gandhian movements made an extraordinarily deep impact on literacy writers of Indian writing in English. It provided the writers, for the first time, a vision of a society on the move towards socio-economic reconstruction and political independence. Spiritually and intellectually, it instigated them to seek a new identity: a sensitive blend of the traditional and the modern. This revealed itself in the emergence of a number of Indian Novelist in English.
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Rao, Raja. Kanthapura. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1989, 1938.
Raydu, A.V. Subba. "Gandhian Ideology and the Indian Novel", Chaman Nahal's The Gandhi Quartet. New Delhi: Prestige Book, 2000.
Shiv Niranjan. "An Interview with Raja Rao", Indian Writing in English. ed. Krisha Nandan Sinha, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1979.
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