A study of Indian writing in English_20240929_085858_0000.pdf

R.K.Narayan

1. GOVERNMENT ARTS COLLEGE
,VALLABHIPUR
A INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN WRITING IN
ENGLISH,THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
By- Vegad Maulika

2. Introduction
• Western education, as we have seen,
proved to be a blessing in the long run. With
the spread of Western education, a large
number of Indians imbibed a modern,
rational, liberal, progressive outlook.
• The impact of modern ideas gave birth to a
new awakening. A vast ancient country like
India had been enslaved by a handful of
foreigners.

3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772-27 September 1833) was a
founder (along with Dwarkanath Tagore and other Bengali
Brahmins) of the Brahmo Sabha movement in 1828 which
engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential Bengali socio-
religious reform movement.

4. Ram Mohan Roy, a learned person from Bengal understood what was wrong with this
country.
"He was attracted by science and modern knowledge.
He went to England and fight for the justice of India.
"He said to his wife, "Cows are of different colors but the color of their milk is the same.
Different terachers have different opinions but the essence of every religion is the same."
His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration and
education as well as religion. He is best known for his efforts to establish the
abolishment hurry of the practice of sati, the Hindu funeral practice in which
the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself on her husband's funeral pyre in
some parts of the then Bengal. It was him who first introduced the word
"Hinduism" into the English language in 1816. For his diverse contributions to
society, Raja Ram Mohan Roy is regarded as one of the most important figures
in the Bengali renaissance. H His efforts to protect Hinduism and Indian rights
by participating in British government earned him the title "The Father of the
Indian Renaissance"

5. Biography of R.K.Narayan
• Rasipuram Krishnaswami lyer Narayanaswami (RK Narayan) was a well-known Indian writer
famous for his set of work and writing in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was
one of the leading and famous authors of early Indian literature written in English along with
two others, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
• Narayan's greatest achievement was to make India accessible to the outside world through
his writing and powerful words in his literature. Narayan's biography is always centered on his
friendship with Graham Greene. Because he was Narayan's mentor and close friend. He was
actively involved in identifying and getting publishers for Narayan's first four books.
In 1941, he founded his own publishing house and his works quickly found a permanent and
favorite place in the bookshelves of almost all the Indian homes. When he was at the peak of
his fame in his successful career, Narayan was then awarded a Padma Bhushan in 1964 and 36
years later, just a year before his death at 94, another prestigious Padma Vibhushan award in
2000.

7. R.k.Narayan's Contribution to Indian English
Literature
Narayan's greatest achievement was making India accessible to the outside
world through his literature. He is regarded as one of the three leading
English language Indian fiction writers, along with Raja Rao and Mulk Raj
Anand.
He has devoted himself exclusive to writing a rare observable fact in the
modern Indian literature. His little dreams of middle class life are enacted in
Malgudi, an imaginary small town in south India which comes to be felt as a
living ambience in his fiction.
• The place that R K Narayan occupies in Indian English literature is hailed by
the critics in India as well as other countries. He set the stage open for the
authors to come and display their creative skills. To conclude, he was very
essential phenomenon for Indian English writing.

8. About Raja Rao
RAJA RAO WAS AN INDIAN WRITER OF ENGLISH- LANGUAGE NOVELS AND SHORT
STORIES, WHOSE WORKS ARE DEEPLY ROOTED IN METAPHYSICS.
BORN: 8 NOVEMBER 1908, HASSAN, KARNATAKA
DIED: 8 JULY 2006, AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNITED STATES
AWARDS: PADMA VIBHUSHAN, NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, ALIGARH MUSLIM
UNIVERSITY
NOTABLE AWARDS: SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD (1964),

9. Moorthy is the protagonist of Raja Rao's
novel Kanthapura, which records the
influence of Mahatma Gandhi's ideals on
Kanthapura, a remote fictional village in
South India, during the years of the
Indian independence movement. It has
been suggested that Moorthy is a stand-
in for Rao himself.

11. Reference
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/rknarayan/265504605
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/indian-renaissance/51670342
http://famousindians.blogspot.com/2007/12/raja-rammohan-roy.html

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