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B. R. Rajam Aiyar was a Indian lawyer and writer who wrote in Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

and English

English language

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. He is the author of Kamalambal the second moden Tamil novel.

Works

Rajam Aiyar was deeply interested in religion

Religion

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and philosophy

Philosophy

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and edited an English magazine Prabudha Bharata. He authored Kamalambal between 1893 and 1895. Kamalambal is the second Tamil novel after Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram , written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. Penned by Mayuram Vedanayagam Pillai, it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry...

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