Name: solanki Jayshree

Class: M.a sem-1

Roll no: 12 enrollment no:pg14101028

Paper no: 4

Paper name: indian writing in

english pre-independence

Topic : Moorthy as

Gandhian man

Submittedt: smt s.b.gardi

m.k.bhavnagar university

Moorthy as gandhiman

Raja rao’s novel Kanthapura is the most

powerful of the portraying the impact of the

Gandhian

Movement on the Indian people.

Gandhi’s civil movement comes to this remote

scheduled village.

Moorthy ,the central character, a young educated man , comes from

the city with the message of

mahatma.

Moorthy goes from door to door, even the to the pariah quarter of the

villagers the significance of the gandhiji’s struggle for freedom.

Moorthy is progressive enough to go to pariah quarters, eat

with them and talk with the pariah.

But, after every interaction

with the pariahs, when we wants to enter rangamma’s house

he asks her whether he could get into her house as he has

come out of pariah hut.

Rangamma asks him to purify himself with ganga

water and then enter.

Moorthy meekly follows her instructions and olnly after

purifying with his sacred thread with ganga water ,

Then he enter in house.

At this narrative juncture, the narrator of the novel

innocuously remarks

“ after all, a brahmin is a Brahmin, sister! ” ( P-105)

This incident portraits here the dormant cast consciousness

that is inherent in people such as moorthy.

Moorthy, who is until then a strong follower of Gandhi ,

to respose his faith in

gandhian ideologies.

He loses strength to continue living under gandhism and

face and brutal music of the British government.

The women of kanthapura dicide generally to back Gandhi

and stay with him even when moorthy who had commonly to

back Gandhi and stay with him even when Moorthy who had

initiated them to gandhism moves away.

There women have reached a stage where they require such

as moorthy to reach Gandhi .

Thus , we can say that the outstanding

personality of the village so far as this narration is

concerned is moorthy the followers of gandhiji.