| Marali Mannige | |
| Author: | K. Shivaram Karanth |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Kannada |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Published: | 1941 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Marali Mannige (meaning: Back to soil) is a Kannada novel by novelist K. Shivaram Karanth.[1]
The novel has the story of three generations spanning from 1850 to 1940. This books is written in Dakshina Kannada dialect, capturing the changing face of a traditional, agrarian, caste-ridden society in the wake of its brush with ‘modernity’ and participation in the Indian freedom movement.
This novel got translated into other 10 Indian language.[2] This books got translated to English by Padma Ramachandra Sharma, has been conferred the State Sahitya Akademi award.[3]