Name: Kishan HariyaniClass: M.A. Sem-1Enrolment No: 15101021Roll No. : 21Email id: kishanhariyani1992@gmail.comYear: 2015/16

Submitted To: Department of English M.K. Bhav. University

Kanthapura as a Gandhian Epic

Big Three

Raja Rao

R. K. Narayan

Mulk Raj

Anand

According to History of Indian Writing in English - K.R.S Iyingar

Definition of Epic:

• “An Epic is the greatest and most sublime form of Poetry divided into several books, celebrating the life, heroic deeds and achievements the life of a national hero, whether historical or legendary”.

Moorthy sticks to above Gandhian Ideas and reforms the position of village including Social, Religious, Political background.

Ratna was also follower of Gandhian ideas. She becomes the leader of the freedom fighters in the Kanthapura in absence of Moorthy.

The novel has a Gandhian ideology and freedom struggle.

Background of Novel

Kanthapura

Moorthy

Follower Reformer

Gandhiji

Ideas

Moorthy as a spokesman of Gandhian virtue

“Moorthy is not man of modern novel. He is a ‘very Prince’, ‘our Rama’ and ‘small mountain’…

He follows the principle of Gandhiji

He burnt foreign clothes and started using Khadi

Moorthy as The Gandhi of Kanthapura

Gandhian Ideology

Peace Satyagraha

Non-Violence Truth

Charkhas as a Symbol of Gandhian idea.

Many symbols epitomise India’s independence from British rule, but the ‘Charkha’ or spining Wheel perhaps one of the most powerful sign Of the values and aspirations of India’s Independence movement.

GANDHI HIMSELF HAD SAID OF THE SPINNING TO FIND PEACE OF MIND

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