Raja Rao's Kanthapura is one of the best-known Indian novels in English and regarded a contemporary Indian classic. Published in 1938, it presents a phase of Indian history through the story of a south Indian village in the nineteen thirties with a unique force of evocative and interesting details. The novel made such a strong impact on Indian psyche that during the last six decades since it was published, it has intensely gripped the minds of the readers, in ...