Author · 1908 – 2006

Raja Rao

Raja Rao was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope (1960), is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India. It established him as one of the finest Indian stylists.

Works

The serpent and the rope
1960
Kanthapura.
1938
The policeman and the rose.
1978
The fiction of Raja Rao
1980
The best of Raja Rao
1998
The cat and Shakespeare
1965
The chessmaster and his moves
1988
The cow of the barricades
1947
The cow of the barricades and other stories
1947
The great Indian way
1998
On the Ganga ghat
1989
Changing India
1939
The meaning of India
1996
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