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Kamalāmpāḷ Carittiram

novel by Aiyar

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modern Tamil literature

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    In South Asian arts: Tamil

    Quite different is the Kamalāmpāḷ Carittiram (“The Fatal Rumor”), by Rajam Aiyar, whom many judge to be the most important prose writer of 19th-century Tamil literature. In this work, the author created a series of characters that appear to have become classics; the story is a romance, yet life…

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