In Kanthapura, Raja Rao conveys a purely Indian experience through the foreign medium of the English Language. Comment. 

In the preface of his classic Kanthapura , first published in 1938, Raja Rao writes, “We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot write only as Indians. Our method of expression... has to be a dialect which will some day prove to be as distinctive and colourful as the Irish and the American. Time alone will justify it.”

The beginning of Kanthapura lives up to this distinctiveness: “Our village—I don’t think you have ever heard of it—Kanthapura is its name, and it is in the province of Kara. High on the Ghats is it, high up the steep mountains that face the cool Arabian seas, ______ ____ _______ ______ ___.
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