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title: "ANTHARJANAM (OIP)"
brand: "devaki nilayamgode"
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# ANTHARJANAM (OIP)

**Brand:** devaki nilayamgode
**Price:** Bs.348
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- **What is this?** ANTHARJANAM (OIP) by devaki nilayamgode
- **How much does it cost?** Bs.348 with free shipping
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ANTHARJANAM (OIP)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read book to learn about this little known cultural nugget of Kerala
*by S***S on 21 September 2020*

The translators have done an excellent job to ensure the memoirs of Devaki Nilayamgode reaches to a wider audience. I really wish I knew to read Malayalam to read the original as well. The essays are very personal in nature but provide an intimate peek into the author’s growing years as an Antharjanam in early 1900s. Descriptions of festivals being celebrated, seasonal vegetables, flowers and food are very fascinating.Chapters like ‘Widows’ ‘Leavings’ make the reader cringe at the anachronistic practices. Chapters ‘A group dance’ , ‘Vistors’ and ‘Clothes’ portrays the innocent excitement of the time. There is reference to bygone practices of harvest, storing perishables and clothes , preparation of food items and battling floods and epidemics. There are several riveting episodes in the book. The one about Namboodiris treating snake-bites is especially intriguing. There is also a brief mention of KP Namboodiri marketing his tooth powder (still hugely popular Danatadhavanachoornam) by travelling on foot to remote villages. Devaki painfully describes the complete negligence towards the women in the Namboodiri community.This book is special for two reasons:1. As claimed by Devaki, this is the first personal account of an Antharjanam.2. The choice of the author to dispassionately narrate her younger years with astounding attention to detail (Devaki first started writing at the ripe age of 75!) without any sense of anger or ill-meaning. She lays her feelings threadbare and calls spade a spade. A life without the burden of judgment or rational analysis of the times. An innocent and poignant insider’s view. Seeing or taking life for what it is and thriving despite oppression. Now this is an endearing and exemplary virtue found in women of substance.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book to read on old customs kerala
*by K***I on 20 October 2020*

Best book ever read on old hindu culture in kerala house activities- we can able to the system prevailed as one cannot get today that meaningful responsibility of housewives in kerala Brahmins, detachment to children, attachment to children at need, amicable relation with co- wives, tolerating male chavainsam etc., The movements of humanity... as a tamilan read the book no of times, debated with malayali for full acquittance.. great book to be preserved

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very easily, simply written
*by K***T on 19 January 2018*

The price stated on the book is 245, it's more expensive here, and there's a delivery fee!That aside, the book itself was an enjoyable read. Very easily, simply written, with no regrets or hatred for the way she was treated as an antharjanam. I quite enjoyed it, if only for the historic value. It paints a very vivid picture of kerala in those days.

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- ANTHARJANAM (OIP)
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*Last updated: 2026-05-16*