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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Raja Rao’s Social Concerns in His Early Stories

Dr Anupam Kumar
IIMT College of Engineering, Greater Noida

Ms. Abha Pandey, Research Scholar
Mewar University, Chhittorgarh

Abstract

This paper presents before the literary world a review kind of investigation in the stories of Raja Rao. There has always been lack of literary pursuits to explore the different layers of Rao’s stories. To awaken from the slumbering negligence towards the stories of Raja Rao, and to reexamine his stories as the aid to understand his literary world better, is the edifice of the arguments of this paper. His stories are few in number and narrow in range but in impact and depth. The methodology used is analytical and comparative to shed light on the main arguments of the paper. Social and moral issues in his stories are pertinent, relevant and valuable in understanding the human conditions particularly in the middle of the last century. The study gets its thrust from the awareness that there is need to realize the significance of the intellectual encounter which takes place in early English writing.

Keywords:

Social Relationship

Social concerns in Raja Rao’s creative works are an important part of Raja Rao’s literary achievements. One of the most significant aspects of Raja Rao, as a master of Indian English fiction, is his keen perception of the social principles operating in the Indian social psyche of the pre- and post- independence period. The social relationship has had been a dominating shaping force of the hereditary mental disposition in India. This relationship is a part of the rhythm of Indian life and thought. Social ties are pervasive influences in the collective unconscious of a tradition-bound society like the Indian Society. Social values are recurrent in the Indian epics also. The epics have helped society transmit traditional wisdom to posterity. Epics serve as a symbol in the form of patterns or themes evoking the values of the Indian cultural tradition. And this image of social impact remains a source of inspiration and a pervasive influence in Raja Rao’s stories in general and in his novel Kanthapura in particular.

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Dr. Anupam Kumar
Associate Professor of English
IIMT College of Engineering
Greater Noida, NCR
B259, P3,Greater Noida, G B Nagar 201308
Uttar Pradesh
India
anupam.kumar.1974@gmail.com

Ms. Abha Pandey
Assistant Professor of English
Research Scholar, Pursuing Ph.D., Mewar University, Rajasthan
Abha28pandey@gmail.com

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