Year:
2015
Roll
No. 29 / Paper-4
Sub.
: Role of Women in Kanthapura
Rao’s
Kanthapura is a subtle study of the immense change that the gandhian movement
of the thirties brought into the life of the Indian woman and yet didn’t let her
cross the conventions to so-called feminine boundaries. The novel traces the
psychologically revolution that accompanied the emergence of the woman from
within the twin incarnations of the devil and the dasi that has reioned the
imagination of the patriarchy since age.
Raols
Selection of old grand mother as the narrator in one of the finest stylistic
devine of the novel and also the influence of moorthys preaching and Rangmal’s
sevika sangha. This is one of the rare instances where history is looked at
from a woman’s point of view as opposed to its analytical, power – structured
male version that ineritably leaves the women folk out.
In
kanthapura women made up a significant part of the satygrahis and many assumed
the role of leadersa in the movement thus we find Gandhi of Kanthapura. Moorthy
selecting Rangmma as one of the members of the congress panchayat committee
saying “We need a woman for the committee for the congress is for the weak and
the lowly.”
Rangmma
acts as a source of information, knowledge and inspiration to the village
women. Rangmma was also one of the strongest woman and she is a widow. She
tells women about laxmibai and trains them to resist the lathi blows of the
core religious zeal in the women and adds a nationalist dimension to it “We
shall fight the police for kenchamma’s sake, and if the rapture of devotion is
in you, the lathi will grow as soft as butter and as supple as a silken threw
and you will hymn out the name the mahatma”
Ken
chamma was the godess. She was the center of the village. The attachments and
love for the mother is express in many ways. Motherhood is represented by
Kenchamma she protects from sickness diseases.
On
the other side Rattan takes lead among women she was daughter of old widover
Kamalamma. Ratan was a Child widow who has been powerfully influenced by modern
ideas and who does not regard being a woman as a matter of shame and
inferiority. She is detested by the
village women along with the evil Bhutan , for walking about the streets
like a boy, wearing her hair to the left “like a concubine” and wearing he jeweler
and all this being a widow. Rattan’s retort when accosted for this is
remarkable.
“When
she was asked why she behaved as though she hadn’t lost her husband, she said
that, that was nobody’s business, and that if these sniffing old country hens
thought that seeing a man for a day and this when one is ten years a marriage,
they had better eat ud and drown themselves in the river” she least the women
against the police as the latter launch a violent assault against the village.”
Rangmma
also plays a vital role in resisting orthodoxy. The breath of orthodoxy found
in kanthapura. Is caused more by women than men. Rangmma has a fair knowledge
of puranas which her fathers Ramakrishna needs. She is also endowed with modern
scientific spirit and knows about evolution of life etc. she praises noorthy as
true gandhian and helps him way relentless fight aginst redmen.
Achakka
the old woman and narrator in kanthapura. She is representative of how Indians
of the time were form between accepting reality as is was or reinvisioning it
as it can or as it should be. She is also representative of had “Women despite
being mired in traditional ways. Can embrace change and be an active agent of
reconstructing reality. She represents the fundamental force of both social and
cultural changes within Kanthapura, and India in general she ends up buying
into morty’s and by extension Gandhi’s call for self-rule.
Women
in raja rao’s Kantjhapuira within the socio Political realms played women in
the Indian fights for independence against British rules. In our society women
one were always marginalize, in fiction but Raja portray eyed women as heroic
figure in Kanthapura.
Even
there are the women like a Akaka and Javni becomes vidow at the young age
remains dependent and bur ten for family in fact her death does not perture but
relieves the other. Gandhian moment had a considerable role to play vital role
in bringing the women out pardah. To remove the ignorance of the women in Kanthapura.
Women
taking part in the national movement in kanthapura it is with the help of women
that mouthy, Gandhi and other man brings in a lot of charge in village in short
we can say that women of Kanthapura are ignorant but we witnessed the immense
charge that is gradually bought about in psyche of the narrow minded prejudiced
and understanding.
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