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Cultural Clash between Agrarian Versus Civic in Kamala Markandaya’s Novel: A Handful of Rice

Author : A Sankavi

Abstract :

Kamala Markandaya talks about most subject of destitution and starvation followed by multitudinous sufferings, can lead families to awful debasement. Each person needs a small bunch of rice to overview a day-to-day existence, so in this novel A Handful of Rice portrays without food nobody can review in this world. The protagonist Ravi challenging to study around life since who lives in provincial culture with the goal that this novel depicts social conflict between country life address by Ravi, a poor and hungry boy and metropolitan culture through the term of Ravi, a famous crook. The novel depicts how longing for a sumptuous life compel one to follow crimes. All through this novel, creator power to convey rich experience of the west, provincial Indian structures the premise of her inventive inclination.

Keywords :

Clash, Starvation, provincial culture, country life, poverty