In which year was Raja Rao's Kanthapura published?
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Correct answer: A. 1938
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Kanthapura (1938) tells the Gandhian movement's arrival in a South Indian village through the voice of an old woman, Achakka. Its foreword famously calls for writing in an English that conveys 'a spirit that is one's own'.
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