• Aishwaryaa S A
• Dr. M. John Suganya

This article focuses on the challenges and issues involved in translating a regional historical novel into a western language like English which has completely different style, culture, and vocabulary. The chief role of translation is to interlace two or more languages and to unfold the richness of a particular region and its literary manuscripts accessible to the whole world. While in the process of translating, a translator encounters various problems such as finding translational equivalents and cultural terms of the native language. In a multilingual country like India, most people are unobservant of the tradition, History and the anthropology of a lingual group that is distinct from their region. This article analyses the problems of translation of the great Tamil historical novel Parthiban Kanavu originally written by Kalki Krishnamurthy, a proficient Tamil historian who blends History and fiction. The translator M S Venkatraman has tried his best in the translated work, Dream of Parthiban, to retain the essence of ancient Tamil history and its culture along the parameters of semantics, syntactics and stylistics to make his venture palatable to English readers.

culture, history, problems, language, translation, transliteration, equivalence.

"Challenges in Translation: A Study of Select Novels Parthiban Kanavu and Dream of Parthiban", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.186-192, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06036.pdf

"Challenges in Translation: A Study of Select Novels Parthiban Kanavu and Dream of Parthiban", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp186-192, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06036.pdf