Raja Rao

Background

Raja Rao was born on November 8, 1908 in Hassan, in the state of Mysore (now Karnataka) in South India, into a well-known Brahmin (Hoysala Karnataka) family. He was the eldest of nine siblings - two brothers and seven sisters. His native language was Kannada, but his post-graduate education was in France, and all his publications in book form have been in English. His father taught Kannada at Nizam College in what was then Hyderabad State.

Education

It was a muslim school.

He studied French language and literature, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris , he explored the Indian influence on Irish literature.

Works

• book

  • "The Cow of the Barricades and Other Stories:

  • "The Policeman and the Rose"

  • "On the Ganga Ghat "

  • "The Best of Raja Rao"

  • "5 Indian Masters"

  • "Daughter of the Mountain "

  • "A Myrobalan in the Palm of Your Hand"

• non-fiction

  • "Changing India: An Anthology"

  • "Tomorrow "

  • "Whither India?"

  • "The Meaning of India"

• novel

  • "Kanthapura"

  • "The Serpent and the Rope"

  • "The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India "

  • "Comrade Kirillov"

  • "The Chessmaster and His Moves"

Politics

Raja Rao was a nationalist.

Views

Quotations: "I am a proud Indian. It is my karma that has destined me to live more than half my life outside this Punyabhumi. India indeed is the land of the ultimate value. The Truth. Hence we can believe and shout Satyameva Jayate." (1998)

Membership

• Quit India Movement , India

  1942

• Sri Vidya Samiti , India

Connections

Father:

HV Krishnaswamy

Mother:

Gauramma

1-st wife:

Camille Mouly

2-nd wife:

Katherine Jones

Son:

Christopher Rama

3-rd wife:

Susan Vaught

school friend:

Ahmed Ali

Friend:

Jawaharlal Nehru

Friend:

Indira Gandhi