Reviews for A. Madhaviah A Biography

The average rating for A. Madhaviah A Biography based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-11 00:00:00 Nancy Schimmel Madhavaiah was a civil servant and one of the formost writers of late 19th and early 20th century Tamil literature. He is among the first to have written novels in Tamil. He grappled with many issues of his time, including India's colonization, the search for an Indian identity, ills of Hindusim, problems of Christian proselytization and conversions and Indian custom of child brides and widows. As a Brahman himself, he got to see many of the social problems created by the Indian caste system and the Brahminical rituals first-hand and railed against it in his writings. In the first half of this book, Sita Anantharaman presents a biography drawn from his correspondence and by talking to his surviving children and grandchildren. The second half contains the novel Muthumeenakshi which Madhavaiah wrote about a Brahman child bride and her subsequent widowhood and life.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-06 00:00:00 James Kindell Page 1