Rao, Raja (1909–2006)

Indian writer. He wrote about Indian independence from the perspective of a village in southern India in Kanthapura (1938) and later, in The Serpent and the Rope (1960), about a young cosmopolitan intellectual seeking enlightenment.

Rao was born at Hassan, Karnataka. He studied at Montpellier and the Sorbonne in France. Collections of stories include The Cow of the Barricades (1947) and The Policeman and the Rose (1978).