Vol. 4 No. S-3 (2022): Volume 4, Issue S-3, Year 2022
Articles

Biological and Social Change of the Aayar Ethnic Group in the Keethari Novel

Vimala Devi R
PG Tamil & Research Department, Chellammal Women's College, Guindy, Chennai-600032, Tamil Nadu, India

Published 2022-06-16

Keywords

  • Aayar,
  • Keethari,
  • Mullai,
  • Contemporary writers,
  • Tolkappiyam

How to Cite

R, V. D. (2022). Biological and Social Change of the Aayar Ethnic Group in the Keethari Novel. International Research Journal of Tamil, 4(S-3), 50-54. https://doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s38

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Abstract

Novels are one of the mainstays of contemporary media documenting the biographies of soil-based peoples.  Contemporary writers have documented people's lives, customs, rituals, values, in their novels with a contemporary character.  The industrial revolution, the Green Revolution, the White Revolution, the deforestation for development projects, the occupation of agricultural lands, the loss of livelihoods to the people living in their respective areas as refugees, the loss of their own land due to land occupation. Their work records the changes in society during the respective eras, such as the transformation of wages into agricultural wages and the loss of livelihood and suicide.  Sundara Ramasamy's Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai, Vairamuthu's Kallaikattu epic, work in novels that record the history of the community or a component of a race. S. Tamilchelvi has recorded the lives of the common people who migrate for their livelihood as sheep migrated for their livelihood as evidenced by Kovalan's complaint to chase the prey for livelihood through the sociological approach in the novel. The writers have written extensively on the unique cultural life style of the Mullai people, the people of Mullai land, from the Tolkappiyam to the novel literature up to today. The purpose of this article is to explore the impact of globalization, liberalism, capitalism, the astounding growth of consumer culture and natural disasters on the livestock breeding and availability of the ancient Aayar.

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