Su. Venkatesan: Tamil Valour in Kavalkottam.

This paper aims at studying Kavalkottam by Su. Venkatesan as an attempt to reunderstand the Tamil past. It is viewed as a launch of Tamil valour and as a reinforcement of Tamils' ideology of moral superiority which the writer achieves by projecting the land as a region of straightforward warriors. The paper attempts to study the other social commentaries made by the novelist through his epic portrayal of Tamil monarchic past that merges into the colonial past and later into democratic nation, narrated in a sumptuous, minutely descriptive and rich style. The Tamil community's story of being guardians to the villages to becoming migrant workers in other lands is traced by Venkatesan with sensitivity and imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]