LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:1 January 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Kanthapura Protagonist as Representation of Gandhi

Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

This article focuses on how the protagonist of Kanthapura brought the social conditions and value of Indian society. It delineates the Gandhian impact and his participation in India’s struggle for Independence. Additionally, Gandhi is regarded as the ‘builder of the nation’ whose weapon of Non-Violence did tremendous change in the justice of Indian society. Moreover, the novel Kanthapura is the elucidation of Gandhian ideology and spread Gandhism.

Keywords: Kanthapura, Gandhism, Patriotism, Non-Violence, Nationalism, Philosophical ideas.

There is no `denying the fact that Mahatma Gandhi is regarded as the ‘Builder of this nation’ and ‘the Architect of Free India’ whose strong weapon of Non-violence and novel technique of ‘Satyagraha’ did tremendously regain and restore justice to the Indian society which could see and enjoy the presence of Gandhi and his forceful activities through his participation in India’s struggle for Independence. No doubt, Gandhi and Independence were found to be inseparable companion to each other, for he is said to have been credited with the Indian National Movement almost ‘a mass struggle’ earning a great momentum in the political movement in India. Non-violence was used by him as a powerful weapon on some occasions against the British Dictatorship. What is generally held is that India’s political struggle and Gandhiji became synonymous with each other.

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Dr. C. Ramya, M.B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Department of English
E.M.G. Yadava College for Women
MADURAI – 625 014
Tamil Nadu, India
Cell :9626238788
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