Raja Rao (1909 and 2006), a path-breaker of Indian writing in English, was born in an orthodox SouthIndian Brahmin family in Hasan, Mysore. After graduating from Madras University, he went on to theUniversity of Montpellier in France on a scholarship. He moved to the United States in 1966, where hetaught at the university of Texas at Austin until 1981, when he retired as an emeritus professor. As apowerful and profound writer, Rao was honoured with India's second higher civilian award, the PadmaVibhushan, in 2007, the Shitya Akademi Award in 1964 and the Neustadt International Prize for literaturein 1988. Raja Rao's Trilogy- "Kanthapura, The Serpent and The Rope and The Cat and Shakespeare"are the most philosophical and ontological in quest. Among the three Kanthapura (1938) is a monumentalwork which describes the Gandhian movement against the British Rule in India and how it reaches aSouth Indian village-Kanthapura. This movement quickens the process of social change in Indian villagesfrom which starts the action of the novel. As a whole it can be said that "Kanthapura is a dominantlyIdeational Document of India in Microcosm and carries the Gandhian thought in total.
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