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Foreword-Chapter 3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Rao, Raja. Kanthapura. New Directions, 1963. Hardcover.

· In the “Author’s Foreward,” Rao wrote that villages in India all had rich legendary histories about gods or godlike heroes.

· Rao commented on the difficulties of writing in English, not his native tongue.

· Then there was the struggle with style and attempting to infuse the rhythm of Indian life into English expressions.

· Indian storytelling was very different from English storytelling.

· The story is told from the point of view of Achakka, a widow.

· Her narration uses the stream-of-consciousness technique and the story is not told in a linear fashion.

· For clarity, chapter abstracts are written in the past tense.

· In Chapter 1, Achakka, the narrator introduced readers to Kanthapura.

· The village was located in the province of Kara high in the Ghats Mountains.

· Narrow, dusty, rut-covered roads led...

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