Previous
Pandit
A colloquial term for British colonists.
Red-men Quotes in Kanthapura
The Kanthapura quotes below are all either spoken by Red-men or refer to Red-men. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Section 1 Quotes
Our village—I don’t think you have ever heard about it—Kanthapura is its name, and it is in the province of Kara. High on the Ghats it is, high up the steep mountains that face the cool Arabian seas, up the Malabar coast it is, up Mangalore and Puttur and many a centre of cardamom and coffee, rice and sugarcane. Roads, narrow, dusty, rut-covered roads, wind through the forests of teak and of jack, of sandal and of salt, and hanging over bellowing gorges and leaping over elephant-haunted valleys, they now turn to the left and now to the right and bring you through the Alambè and Champa and Mena and Kola passes into the great granaries of trade. There, on the blue waters, they say, our carted cardamoms and coffee get into the ships the Red-men bring, and, so they say, they go across the seven oceans into the countries where our rulers live.
Related Characters:
Related Themes:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
In the opening paragraph of Rao’s Kanthapura, the narrator Achakka zooms out from the titular village out across the “seven oceans” where its exports are shipped. Although she knows Kanthapura is just one town among others, Achakka triangulates it geographically for the reader, who is presumed to be an outsider. Here, Achakka foregrounds Kanthapura’s geographical isolation as much as its deep interconnection with the whole world through colonial trade networks. By discussing “the countries where our rulers live,” she reveals her worldly knowledge of India’s broader political predicament and sets the stage for the story of the village Gandhians’ resistance Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam offic
Get the entire Kanthapura LitChart as a printable PDF.
"My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." -Graham S.
Red-men Term Timeline in Kanthapura
The timeline below shows where the term Red-men appears in Kanthapura. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Section 1
...weave their own cloth so that they can keep “the money that goes to the Red-man” within India. Jayaramachar declares Mahatma Gandhi a saint who converts his enemies to followers with...
(full context)
Section 2
...then she is left without her own rice, which has gone “to fatten some dissipated Red-man in his own country.” City-people and foreigners will come to sell their wares, and villagers...
(full context)
Section 5
...court orders the Sahib to pay Seetharam’s family, which he never does, and then “the Red-Man’s Court forgave him.” But the coolies now know that “he’ll never touch a brahmin girl”...
(full context)
Section 19
...there are people for the Mahatma, and “they say the Mahatma will go to the Red-man’s country and he will get us Swaraj. He will bring us Swaraj, the Mahatma. And...
(full context)
