Anantanarayanan Madhaviah (16 August 1872 – 22 October 1925)[1] is one of the pioneer Tamil writers, novelists and journalists. His writings were about social reformation and misogyny in society.[2] He is the author of one the early Tamil Novels named Padmavathi sarithiram.[3]
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.[4]
Early life
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.[5] He married at the age of 15 to 11 year old girl Meenakshi.[6]
Partial works
Novel
In Tamil
- Padmavathi sarithiram (1898)[7]
- Muthumeenakshi (1903)
- Vijayamarthandam (1903)
In English
- Thillai Govindan (1903)
- Satyananda (1909)
- The story of Ramanyana (1914)
- Clarinda (1915)
- Lieutenant Panju (1915)
- Markandeya (1922)
- Nanda (1923)
- Manimekalai (1923)
Critics
His writings are criticized as being ambivalent toward British Protestant missions in the Madras Presidency.[8] 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.[9]
References
- ↑ The Life, Works and Vision of a Great Tamilian - A. Madhaviah. www.madhaviah.org. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ↑ A Madhaviah Archives. Katha Books. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
- ↑ சிறுகதை வரலாற்றின் முதல் மூவரில் ஒருவர் மாதவய்யா!- கதைசொல்லிகளின் கதை பாகம் 2, ச.தமிழ்ச்செல்வன். Ananda Vikatan. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ↑ A. Madhaviah: A Biography, Raman, Sita Anantha. Oxford University Press(2005). Retrieved 2021-05-23.
- ↑ The Modern Tamil Humanism of A. Madhaviah. Routledge(2016-09-13). Retrieved 2021-05-23.
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- ↑ அக்டோபர் 22 பத்மாவதி சரித்திரம் தந்த மாதவையா நினைவுநாள். www.dinakaran.com. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
- ↑ SYNTHESIZING HINDU AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS IN A. MADHAVIAH'S INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL CLARINDA (1915), Waha, Kristen Bergman. Victorian Literature and Culture(2018-03-26). Retrieved 2021-05-23.
- ↑ 3. A. Madhaviah 1872 -1925: An Assessment. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature({Template:Date).