Author: Ravindran, Sankaran ; editor:
Title: The Early Novels in the South Indian Languages
Description: Calicut, University of Calicut, 2001. orig. wrappers. 21x13cm, 171 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 7 papers. Includes: The rise of prose fiction & the 19th century South Indian milieu; "Yes, but...": Response to colonialism & the Kannada novels; The rise of the novel in Tamil: A study of the first three novels; Early Telugu novel: Chilakamarthi; The early novels in Telugu; Sanskrit, Indulekha & English; The early fictional narrative in Malayalam: Fiction as history & history as fiction.

Keywords: Tamil Literature, Telugu Language, Kannada Fiction, Tamil Novels, Malayalam, Literature, Literary Criticism, History, India South Asia, Dravidian Languages