Novels Depicting Caste Practices and Minorities


 
 
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Novels Depicting Caste Practices and Minorities

Novels Depicting Caste Practices 'Lower-Castes' and Minorities: Some novels highlighted how the lower castes being exploited by the rich and upper castes. Indulekha written by O Chandu Menon exposed the strange cultural practices prevailing in the Nambuthiri Brahmins. Potheri Kunjambu, a 'lower caste writer  wrote Saraswativijayam in 1892, projecting a polemic against caste oppression.

Advaita Malla Burman's Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1956), is an epic about the Mallas, a community of fisher who live off fishing in the river Titash.

The novel describes the community lives of the Mallas, their festivals, boat races, bhatiali songs, their social  relationships and oppression of the upper castes. This novel, is special because the author is himself from a low caste fisherfolk community.

Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer was one of the early Muslim writers in Malayalam. Most of his works were based on his own rich personal experience rather than on books from the past. In some of his stories, Basheer wrote about his days as a vendor of his own books Basheer wrote short novels and stories about poverty, insanity and life in prisons.

Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906): He was one of the foremost oil painters of his time. Malabar Beauty is one of his famous paintings. Many writers like Chandu Menon took inspiration for the characters of their novels by his painting.

TERMS:- 

Epic :-  A long poem narrating adventures or achievements of a heroic figure or a nation . 

Bhatiali :- A folk  music in Bangladesh and West bengal . It is a Traditional boat song , sung by boatmen while going down stream of the river . 

 
 


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