Crossing the cultural frontiers in the narrative of Kanthapura.

Raja Rao's Kanthapura was written in the colonial period. But Rao's handing of the theme of India's struggle for independence and his technique undoubtedly posit the text in the postcolonial context. This paper aims at unraveling some aspects of postcoloniality in the narrative of Kanthapura. If postcoloniality is viewed as a critique of the colonialist perspective which constructs the relationship of the East and the West in the subjective terms of the West, the discourse of the Kanthapura can be read as a very strong dismissal of the East-West binarism.