Answer:
Indulekha was a
love story but it was also about a caste issue.
(i) It is about the marriage practices of upper caste
Hindus in Kerala, especially the Nambuthiri Brahmins and the Nayars.
(ii) A
younger generation of English-educated Nayar men who had acquired property and
wealth on their own, began arguing against Nambuthiri alliances with Nayar
women. They wanted new laws regarding marriage and property.
(iii)
In Indulekha, Suri Nambuthiri, a foolish landlord comes to marry Indulekha. The
intelligent heroine rejects him and chooses Madhvan, an educated and handsome
Nayar as her husband.
(iv)
Suri Nambuthiri desperate to find a partner for himself, finally marries a
poorer girl and goes away pretending that he has married Indulekha.
(v)
Another example is that of Potheri Kunjambu's Saraswativijayam mounting an attack
on caste oppression. This novel shows a young man from an 'untouchable caste'
who runs away from his village to escape the cruelty of his Brahmin landlord.
(vi) Later
on, he becomes a judge and returns to a local court as one. In the end of the
trial, he reveals his true identity and then Nambuthiri repents tried to reform
his ways.
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