Do provide brief summary, themes & main ideas of raja rao's kanthapura

the narrative of the novel is also important as it is done in the local folklore style as Rajarao also mentions in the preface to the novel

MOORTHY , the protagonist is a Gandhian figure who is brining the ideals of Gandhi to his village and trying to reconstruct the village according to gandian ideals

KANTHAPURA is a novel which deals with the theme of nationalist consciousness as it was emerging in india during the Gandhian era of indian independence