Volume 7, Issue 10

வாய்மொழிப் பாடல்களில் பஞ்சகாலக் குறிப்புகள் | References to the Famine in Oral songs

Author

M.Kalaiselvan , Phd Scholar, Department Of Tamil Studies In Foreign Countries, Tamil University, Tanjore

Abstract

Oral traditions are the source of many literary works. Oral traditions, which form the basis of rich literary works, contain many historical information. Oral songs have a unique specialty. They have detailed information of peoples birth to death. In this way, references to the famine that prevailed in Tamil Nadu are widely found in oral songs. In particular, oral songs have clearly recorded the ‘thathu varuda Pancham’ that occurred during the colonial period and the miserable life of the people during the famine.

Keywords; Colonial period, Thathu Varudap Pancham, oral songs, historical documentation

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