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Kaadharperumayum Kadungudi Sirumayum or Kripambigai (1912), written by So.Ra. Srinivasa Pillai, was the first Tamil novel to talk about alcohol prohibition. | |||
== Author == | |||
So.Ra. Srinivasa Pillai was involved in the Congress party of India. | |||
== Synopsis == | |||
Vidyasagaran and Kripambigai are lovers who get married. Vidyasagaran struggles with alcohol addiction. This drives Kribambigai to the verge of suicide from which she returns and brings her husband out of addiction by going on religious pilgrimages and through her love. | |||
== Literary Significance == | |||
The novel talked about alcohol prohibition in Tamil Nadu, ten years before Anti-liquor movements were initiated in the state as part of Gandhi's temperance movement. Even before this, members of the Congress party observed that Indians were becoming severely addicted to alcohol under the British rule. This novel served as the ideal for later novels about temperance like ''Dikkatra Parvathy'' (C. Rajagopalachari) and ''Thiyagu'' (Sivasankari). | |||
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Kaadharperumayum Kadungudi Sirumayum or Kripambigai (1912), written by So.Ra. Srinivasa Pillai, was the first Tamil novel to talk about alcohol prohibition.
Author
So.Ra. Srinivasa Pillai was involved in the Congress party of India.
Synopsis
Vidyasagaran and Kripambigai are lovers who get married. Vidyasagaran struggles with alcohol addiction. This drives Kribambigai to the verge of suicide from which she returns and brings her husband out of addiction by going on religious pilgrimages and through her love.
Literary Significance
The novel talked about alcohol prohibition in Tamil Nadu, ten years before Anti-liquor movements were initiated in the state as part of Gandhi's temperance movement. Even before this, members of the Congress party observed that Indians were becoming severely addicted to alcohol under the British rule. This novel served as the ideal for later novels about temperance like Dikkatra Parvathy (C. Rajagopalachari) and Thiyagu (Sivasankari).
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