Nivedita Louis நிவேதிதா லூயிஸ்

The books

Sixteen books, one long act of recovery

Biographies of the first women, a field study of Tamil Christianity in two volumes, a history of North Chennai, an archaeology of the Tamil earth, and now a novel. These nine are open for translation in every language.

Also by Nivedita Louis

More books in Tamil

Links open the publisher's or bookseller's page. Translated so far: Trailblazers 1 and 2, From Adhichanallur to Keezhadi and Book of Rebellion in English; Kalaga Puthagam in Sinhala and Malayalam; Peyaratravargalin Kural in Malayalam; Muthal Pengal forthcoming in Bengali.

As translator

Translated by Nivedita Louis

Cover of Potrathakkatha Devadasi Murai? (போற்றத்தக்கதா தேவதாசி முறை?)

Her Stories Classics · Translation

Potrathakkatha Devadasi Murai?

போற்றத்தக்கதா தேவதாசி முறை?

Muthulakshmi Ammal’s vision and work (முத்துலட்சுமி அம்மாளின் பார்வையும் பணியும்)

Should the devadasi system be honoured? In the 1920s Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy, India’s first woman legislator, answered that question with a lifetime’s campaign, and carried the fight to abolish the dedication of girls to temples into the Madras Legislative Council. This slim classic brings her vision and her work to Tamil readers, in a translation by Dr Christy Femila and Nivedita Louis.

Translated by Dr Christy Femila and Nivedita Louis · Her Stories · ISBN 9789348641885 · ₹70

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For young readers

History for readers of twelve and up

Cover of Samacheer Unavu Arasi Rajammal (சமச்சீர் உணவு அரசி ராஜம்மாள்)

Muthal Pengal series · Ages 12+

Samacheer Unavu Arasi Rajammal

சமச்சீர் உணவு அரசி ராஜம்மாள்

Rajammal, Queen of the Balanced Diet

Long before millets returned to the dinner plate, Rajammal Devadas was telling Tamil Nadu why a balanced diet mattered. One of the first women of the Madras Presidency whose lives Nivedita Louis recovered in Muthal Pengal and Paathai Amaithavargal, and the woman behind Coimbatore’s Avinashilingam University, she steps off the page here for readers of twelve and up, in a story lightly touched with imagination.

Wings · ISBN 9788198005809 · ₹50

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