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{{short description|1957 Gujarati novel by Chunilal Madia}}
{{for|the film based on the novel|Liludi Dharati (film)}}
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| author = [[Chunilal Madia]]
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| published = 1957
| publisher = Navbharat Sahitya Mandir
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| oclc = 39130215
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| followed_by = ''Shevalna Shatdal'' (1960)
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'''''Liludi Dharati''''' ({{lang-gu|લીલુડી ધરતી}}, {{trans|The Green Earth}}) is a 1957 Gujarati novel by [[Chunilal Madia]].<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA117|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|editor1-last=Natarajan|editor1-first=Nalini|editor2-last=Nelson|editor2-first=Emmanuel Sampath|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=117|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|last=Jagmohan|first=Sarala|chapter=Chapter 4 : Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature}}</ref> Though it was written is two parts, its plot is extended with inheritors in another separate novel ''Shevalna Shatdal'' (1960).<ref>{{cite book |last=Jani|first=Balwant|year=1990|title=Chunilal Madia|series=Gujarati Granthakar Shreni|location=Mumbai|publisher=N. M. Tripathi|oclc=25399994|language=gu|page=11}}</ref>

The novel was [[Liludi Dharati (film)|made into a film]] by Vallabh Choksi in 1968.

==Background==
''Liludi Dharati'' was first serialized as a weekly installments in ''[[Janmabhoomi (Gujarati newspaper)|Janmabhumi]]'', a Gujarati newspaper, from 15 November 1956 to 14 September 1957. It was written by Madia on insistence of Sopan, an editor of ''Janmabhumi''. In the preface of the book, Madia mentions that he expected to complete the series in four or five months but it took longer than that.<ref>{{cite book|last=Madia|first=Chunilal|title=[[s:gu:લીલુડી ધરતી - ૧|લીલુડી ધરતી]]|script-title=gu:Līluḍī Dharatī|year=1989|orig-year=1957|publisher=Navbharat Sahitya Mandir|location=Mumbai|oclc=39130215|language=gu}}</ref>

The title is based on Santu's nature. The incarnation of a woman is like green earth which never dries.{{cn|date=November 2019}}

The writer has incorporated the local dialects of Saurashtra region in the novel ingeniously as he himself belongs to the land where the novel is set. His descriptions seem indigenous and full of vitality. {{cn|date=November 2019}} The novel narrates the region specific festival of Bhim Agiyaras and a sport of coconut throwing.{{cn|date=November 2019}}

==Plot==
This novel narrates the life of trapped and confused woman named Santu under strange circumstances and her miserable plight.{{cn|date=November 2019}} The story is set in the remote village near the mountain [[Girnar]] namely Gundasar. Though the main story line moves around a farmer family of Hada Patel, it also includes smaller accounts of other supportive characters, giving a picture of the village life, especially elaborate negative characters and their negativity. Hada Patel has three sons. The elder one has left the village and turned a monk, the second one dies due to some disease and story commences with the last son Gobar and his fiance Santu. The story progresses depicting the struggle of pregnant Santu bearing the blame of her husband's murder.<ref>{{Cite book|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય કોશ : અર્વાચીનકાળ|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|year=1990|editor-last=Topiwala|editor-first=Chandrakant|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|volume=II|location=Ahmedabad|pages=527|language=gu|script-title=gu:Gujarati Sahitya Kosh : Arvachinkal|trans-title=Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature : Modern Era|editor-last2=Soni|editor-first2=Raman|editor-last3=Dave|editor-first3=Ramesh R.|oclc=26636333}}</ref><ref name="GV">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=લીલુડી ધરતી|encyclopedia=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh]]|last=Raghuvanshi|first=Harish|publisher=Gujarati Vishwakosh Trust|year=2004|edition=1st|editor-last=Thaker|editor-first=Dhirubhai|editor-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|volume=XVIII|location=[[Ahmedabad]]|pages=789|oclc=162213119|language=gu}}</ref>

The other major characters are Mandal (cousin of Gobar), Shadul (son of a landlord), Ragha Gor, a Brahmin hotel owner.{{cn|date=November 2019}}

==Reception==
Bhagvanbhai H. Chaudhari in his article "Chunilala Madia's Liludi Dharati: A Narrative centered on Saurastra Region" mentions that though Chunilal Madia wanted to develop the novel a [[chronicle]], however he fails as "characters portrayed in novel Liludi Dharati does not manifest the universal life incorporating the constant changing nature" However since as society or destiny are shown as the central elements which manage the entire human life, the novel shows the vague form of plot called chronicle. Critic Nalin Raval considered it a time-dominated or period novel.<ref>{{cite book |last=Raval |first=Nalin |date=1970|title= Liludi Dharati: Madiyanu Manorajya |location=Ahmedabad|publisher=Madiya Smarak Samiti}}</ref>

Critic Dilavarsinh Jadeja opines that "the true picture of bare reality of rural life and the emphasis towards it should be considered Madiya's specialty among Gujarati novelists".<ref>{{cite book |last=Dave R. R. & Desai P. K. |date=2006|title= Gujarati Sahityano Itihas: Vol. 6.|location=Ahmedabad|publisher=Gujarati Sahitya Parishad }}</ref>

==Adaption==
''Liludi Dharati'' was adapted into Gujarati film with the [[Liludi Dharati (film)|same name]] in 1968 by Vallabh Choksi.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=djUFmlFbzFkC&pg=PA94|title=Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas|editor1-last=Gokulsing|editor1-first=K. Moti|editor2-last=Dissanayake|editor2-first=Wimal|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-77284-9|page=94}}</ref> It was the first colour film of [[Gujarati cinema]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Py9LAQAAIAAJ|title=Limca Book of Records|date=2006|publisher=Bisleri Beverages Limited|page=111|oclc=609208641}}</ref><ref name="GV"/>

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Raval|first=Anantrai|author-link=Anantrai Raval|title=સમીક્ષા|script-title=gu:Samīkshā|chapter=લીલુડી ધરતી Līluḍī Dharatī|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yb4RAQAAIAAJ&q=%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%A1%E0%AB%80+%E0%AA%A7%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%80&dq=%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B2%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%A1%E0%AB%80+%E0%AA%A7%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%80|year=1962|publisher=Vora|oclc=31368356|language=gu}}

==References==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian novels]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language novels]]
[[Category:Indian novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:1957 novels]]
[[Category:Novels first published in serial form]]
[[Category:Third-person narrative novels]]

Liludi Dharati - Revision history

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