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2022 Sahitya Akademi award
December 26 , 2022
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- Former IAS Officer M. Rajendran’s historical novel Kala Pani (Black Water) has won the Sahitya Akademi award for 2022.
- It depicts the defeat and exile of 72 persons, including Vengai Periya Udayanna Devar, ruler of Sivaganga, and Duraisamy, son of Chinna Marudu after the Kalayakoil war.
- The battle between the British and Marudu Brothers took place in the forests of Kalayarkoil for six months in 1801.
- After the defeat, the brothers were hanged at Tirupattur, south Tamil Nadu, on October 24, 1801.
- The exile of the 72 persons in the ship began on February 11, 1802 and they reached Penang after 62 days.
- Periya Udayanna Devar was separated from others and sent to Sumatra, where he lived for just four months.
- In 1820, 11 persons including Duraisamy, returned to India.
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