ABSTRACT
Culture studies seeks to find out how meaning is generated, disseminated, contested, bound up with systems of power and control, and produced from the social, political and economic realms within a particular social formation or conjuncture. In Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) we find some complex ideological and cultural elements that determines the political activity of the Indian intelligentsia and middle classes during the 1930s towards Gandhian ideology. Through cultural voyeurism I aim to find out the way by which negotiated experiences provide a window into a culture that would otherwise be problematic for the voyeur to access. It assists meaningful mediated contact, which in turn helps to develop positive interracial interplay in the novel having a cross-cultural understanding.
