“Life of Change: A Comparative Study of Impact of Urbanization on Rural Lives in Society and Marali Mannige”

Abstract

Converting farmland for non-agricultural purposes is increasingly taking place in the developing countries. India recorded about million hectares of decline in farm land mostly converted for non-agricultural purposes. That leading the issues of migration, financial crisis, cultural changes, mass urbanization and unemployment too. As well as that phenomena also we can  see in Marali Mannige by K. Shivaram Karanth is a landmark Kannada novel chronicling three generations of a coastal Karnataka family from the mid-19th to early 20th century, capturing the transformation of a traditional agrarian society under the pressures of colonial modernity and social change. The novel vividly portrays the erosion of agricultural roots as the English-educated second generation loses its connection to the land, mirroring today’s trend of agricultural land being converted for commercial purposes due to urbanization, rising property values, and business opportunities. As usual with the text now days we can see the not a single family with the issues of lost land for commercial purpose (sale), rises the financial critical condition, cultural changes, urbanization, lake food as well as unemployment too.