An Overview on Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy

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An Overview on Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy

Lalrinchhana

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DOI: 10.64388/IREV9I3-1710485-4458

Abstract

U.R. Ananthamurthy?s Samskara (1965) is a landmark in modern Kannada literature and Indian literary modernism. Written while he was a doctoral student at the University of Birmingham, the work became an iconic text for the ?Navya? (modernist) novella tradition in Kannada and has since been globally recognized through its English translation as A?Rite for a Dead Man (U. R. Ananthamurthy, The Hindu).

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[1] Ananthamurthy, U. R., Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man, translated by A. K. Ramanujan (OUP India, 2012) (All About English Literature, OUP India).

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[5] The Nation. "Book Review: ‘Samskara’ by U.R. Ananthamurthy" (The Nation).

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Lalrinchhana "An Overview on Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 9 Issue 3 2025 Page 779-782 https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I3-1710485-4458

Lalrinchhana "An Overview on Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, vol. 9, no. 3, Sep. 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I3-1710485-4458

Lalrinchhana (2025). An Overview on Samskara by U.R. Ananthamurthy. Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 9(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I3-1710485-4458

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