'Prathapa Mudaliar Charitram', by Samuel Vedanayakam Pillai
The first Tamil novel
Tamil is spoken by more 88 million people worldwide and, according to the 2011 Census of India, by some 69 million in India alone. It is one of the ancient languages of the world. Amongst the languages of India, it has, with the exception of Sanskrit, the oldest body of literary works available to us today. While tradition maintains that Tamil literatur…
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