A Muslim police officer who moves to the Skeffington Coffee Estate to keep an eye on Kanthapura after Moorthy hires the Harikatha-man Jayaramachar to talk about Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. Achakka’s descriptions of Khan often liken him to an animal. Khan enforces and represents the government’s will in Kanthapura, and commits the book’s first act of violence when he attacks Moorthy. When the Gandhians practice their resistance methods, they imagine Khan attacking them. Moorthy wants to convert Khan to Gandhism and even convinces him to attend some of his bhajans, but Khan ultimately ends up helping the police suppress the rebellion.
Badè Khan Quotes in Kanthapura
The Kanthapura quotes below are all either spoken by Badè Khan or refer to Badè Khan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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What is a policeman before a Gandhi’s man? Tell me, does a boar stand before a lion or a jackal before an elephant?
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Badè Khan Quotes in Kanthapura
The Kanthapura quotes below are all either spoken by Badè Khan or refer to Badè Khan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Section 5
Quotes
What is a policeman before a Gandhi’s man? Tell me, does a boar stand before a lion or a jackal before an elephant?
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