Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "کملا مارکنڈایا" in Urdu language version.
Markandaya was born a Madhwa Brahmin, and, typical of some subsects of the Madhwas who live in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (some of them still remember Marathi and speak it), knows about the customs of the Tamilians.
Born in 1924, Kamala Markandaya hails from a well-to-do orthodox Brahmin family of Dewan Purnaiya of Mysore in South India. Her maiden name was Kamala Purnaiya; and her pen-name is Kamala Markandaya.
