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Beginning in the early 19th century, the novel follows several families scattered across the villages of the karisal bhoomi, the rain-fed black-soil tracts of southern Tamil Nadu, from Kalingal and Kazhugumalai to Sivakasi. At its heart is the friendship between Aandi, a farmer’s son from Kalingal, and Maari, a washerman’s son who pulls him out of quicksand when they are boys, and the lives of their wives, children and grandchildren. Around them farmers, washermen, toddy-tapping Nadars, landed squires and warriors of many castes live through more than a hundred years of caste animosity and recurring violence, which the story follows up to the Sivakasi riot of 1899 and beyond.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

1066 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

India, 19th–20th century

First published

2012 by Cre-A

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9788192130217 (original)

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