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Raja Rao (1908-2006) was an Indian-American writer, who was one of the most prominent writers of the 20th century.

He wrote several novels and short stories, and his major works include the novels Kanthapura (1938), The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988), The Cat and Shakespeare (1965) which Raja Rao called a ‘metaphysical comedy,’ The Serpent and the Rope (1960) which is a semi-autobiographical novel, and short stories like A Client (1934), The Cow of the Barricades (1938), The Policeman and the Rose (1963), Jupiter and Mars (1954), and The Writer and the Word (1965).

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In 1996, Raja Rao published a series of non-fiction essays under the title The Meaning of India. On 8 July 2006, Raja Rao died due to heart failure at the age of 97.

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Raja Rao was born on Sunday, 8 November 1908 (age 97 years; at the time of death) in Hassan, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (at present in Karnataka, India).

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