A. Madhaviah Explained

A. Madhaviah
Birth Date:16 August 1872.
Birth Place:Perungulam
Death Place:Chennai
Language:Tamil, English
Genre:social reform, classical literature, history
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Notable Works:Padmavathi sarithiram (1898)
Spouse:Meenakshi
Children:Meenambal, Lakshmi, Visalakshi, Muthulakshmi, Saraswati, M. Anantanarayanan, P.M.Y. Narayanan & M. Krishnan

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

In English

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Life, Works and Vision of a Great Tamilian - A. Madhaviah . 2021-05-22 . www.madhaviah.org.
  2. Web site: A Madhaviah Archives . 2021-05-23 . Katha Books . en-US.
  3. Web site: ச.தமிழ்ச்செல்வன் . சிறுகதை வரலாற்றின் முதல் மூவரில் ஒருவர் மாதவய்யா!- கதைசொல்லிகளின் கதை பாகம் 2 . 2021-05-22 . . December 2017 . ta.
  4. Book: Raman, Sita Anantha . 2005 . A. Madhaviah: A Biography . 2021-05-23 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-567021-9 . en.
  5. Book: 2016-09-13 . The Modern Tamil Humanism of A. Madhaviah . https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315276793-11/modern-tamil-humanism-madhaviah-sita-anantha-raman. Nationalism and Imperialism in South and Southeast Asia . 2021-05-23 . Routledge . en . 10.4324/9781315276793 . 9781351997430 . Kaminsky . Long . Arnold P . Roger D .
  6. News: The Hindu . VISWANATHAN . S. . 2005-08-26 . Portrait of a novelist as a social reformer . en . 2021-05-23.
  7. Web site: அக்டோபர் 22 பத்மாவதி சரித்திரம் தந்த மாதவையா நினைவுநாள் . www.dinakaran.com . 2021-04-15 . 2021-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210415171044/https://www.dinakaran.com/News_Detail.asp?Nid=535425 . dead .
  8. Waha . Kristen Bergman . Synthesizing Hindu and Christian Ethics in A. Madhaviah's Indian English Novelclarinda(1915) . 2018-03-26 . Victorian Literature and Culture . 46 . 237–255 . en . 10.1017/S1060150317000419. 165304670 . free .
  9. Parameswaran . Uma . 1986-03-01 . 3. A. Madhaviah 1872 -1925: An Assessment . The Journal of Commonwealth Literature . en . 21 . 1 . 222–239 . 10.1177/002198948602100124 . 161124736 . 0021-9894.

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