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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1872|08|16}}.<br />
| birth_place = Perungulam<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|10|22|1872|08|16}}<br />
| death_place = [[Chennai]]<br />
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| genre = social reform, classical literature, history<br />
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| notable_works = Padmavathi sarithiram (1898)<br />
| spouse = Meenakshi<br />
| children = Meenambal, Lakshmi, Visalakshi, Muthulakshmi, Saraswati, M. Anantanarayanan, P.M.Y. Narayanan & M. Krishnan<br />
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| website = {{URL|http://www.madhaviah.org/}}<br />
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'''Anantanarayanan Madhaviah''' (16 August 1872 – 22 October 1925)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Life, Works and Vision of a Great Tamilian - A. Madhaviah |url=http://www.madhaviah.org/MadhaviahWelcomeV11.htm |access-date=2021-05-22 |website=www.madhaviah.org}}</ref> is one of the pioneer [[Tamil language|Tamil]] writers, novelists and journalists. His writings were about social reformation and misogyny in society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Madhaviah Archives |url=https://books.katha.org/book-author/a-madhaviah/ |access-date=2021-05-23 |website=Katha Books |language=en-US}}</ref> He is the author of one the early Tamil Novels named ''Padmavathi sarithiram''.<ref name="vikatan">{{Cite web |last=ச.தமிழ்ச்செல்வன் |title=சிறுகதை வரலாற்றின் முதல் மூவரில் ஒருவர் மாதவய்யா!- கதைசொல்லிகளின் கதை பாகம் 2 |url=https://www.vikatan.com/oddities/miscellaneous/109485-writer-amadhavayya-life-history-series-2 |access-date=2021-05-22 |website=[[Ananda Vikatan]] |language=ta}}</ref><br />
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His book Muthumeenakshi is a commentary on marital politics, sexuality, female illiteracy and patriarchy in his time in south India. His take on the reformation in society can be achieved through education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raman |first=Sita Anantha |date=2005 |title=A. Madhaviah: A Biography |url=https://books.google.co.in/books/about/A_Madhaviah.html?id=WItkAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y |access-date=2021-05-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
[[File:MadhaviahGroupPhoto 800x486.jpg|thumb|A. Madhaviah Family Group Photograph]]<br />
Madhaviah was born in [[Perungulam]], [[Tirunelveli District]]. He studied Bachelors degree from [[Madras Christian College]] in 1892 and taught in the same college for five years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-13 |title=The Modern Tamil Humanism of A. Madhaviah |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315276793-11/modern-tamil-humanism-madhaviah-sita-anantha-raman |access-date=2021-05-23 |publisher=Routledge |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781315276793-11/modern-tamil-humanism-madhaviah-sita-anantha-raman}}</ref> He married at the age of 15 to 11 year old girl ''Meenakshi''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=VISWANATHAN |first=S. |date=2005-08-26 |title=Portrait of a novelist as a social reformer |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30205905.ece |language=en |access-date=2021-05-23}}</ref><br />
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== Partial works ==<br />
===Novel===<br />
====In Tamil====<br />
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*''Padmavathi sarithiram'' (1898)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dinakaran.com/News_Detail.asp?Nid=535425 |title=அக்டோபர் 22 பத்மாவதி சரித்திரம் தந்த மாதவையா நினைவுநாள் |website=www.dinakaran.com |access-date=2021-04-15}}</ref><br />
*''Muthumeenakshi'' (1903)<br />
*''Vijayamarthandam'' (1903)<br />
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====In English====<br />
*''Thillai Govindan'' (1903)<br />
*''Satyananda'' (1909)<br />
*''The story of Ramanyana'' (1914)<br />
*''Clarinda'' (1915)<br />
*''Lieutenant Panju'' (1915)<br />
*''Markandeya'' (1922)<br />
*''Nanda'' (1923)<br />
*''Manimekalai'' (1923)<br />
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==Critics==<br />
His writings are criticized as ''being ambivalent toward British Protestant missions in the [[Madras Presidency]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Waha |first=Kristen Bergman |date=2018-03-26 |title=SYNTHESIZING HINDU AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN A. MADHAVIAH'S INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL CLARINDA (1915) |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/synthesizing-hindu-and-christian-ethics-in-a-madhaviahs-indian-english-novel-clarinda-1915/E8BFFEDB9572B78602195445709B6D5F |access-date=2021-05-23 |website=Victorian Literature and Culture |pages=237–255 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S1060150317000419}}</ref> During his time the university students in South India had different family background and when they met the western philosophies it created new thoughts for them which were felt reformist in that era.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parameswaran |first=Uma |date=1986-03-01 |title=3. A. Madhaviah 1872 -1925: An Assessment |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002198948602100124 |journal=The Journal of Commonwealth Literature |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=222–239 |doi=10.1177/002198948602100124 |issn=0021-9894}}</ref><br />
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