Moorthy

Moorthy is a character in Raja Rao's novel Kanthapura, which records the influence of Gandhian ideals on a remote South Indian village during the years of the Indian independence movement. Though it is a story of Gandhiji's charismatic effect on the village, the Mahatma does not appear in the novel. His spokesman is his disciple Moorthy who follows his master by fasting and preaching against the caste system.