# Daatu

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{{short description|1973 Kannada-language novel by S L Bhyrappa}}
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{{Infobox book
| name          = Daatu
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = SL-Bhyrappa-Daatu.jpg
| image_size    = 270px
| caption       = ''Cover photo of 2017-18 publication of novel ′Daatu′ ''
| author        = [S L Bhyrappa](/source/S_L_Bhyrappa)
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = Chandranath Acharya
| country       = [India](/source/India)
| language      = [Kannada](/source/Kannada)
| series        = 
| subject       = 
| genre         = [Indian Caste System](/source/Indian_Caste_System)
| publisher     = Sahitya Bhandara, Bangalore
| pub_date      =  1973
| english_pub_date = 
| media_type    = Print ([Hardcover](/source/Hardcover))
| pages         = 412
| isbn          = 9788126021550
| oclc          = 1010505848
| preceded_by   = [Grahana](/source/Grahana_(novel))
| followed_by   = [Anveshana](/source/Anveshana_(novel))
| website       = [http://slbhyrappa.in/daatu-the-crossing-over/ ''Official website'']
}}

'''''Daatu''''' (''meaning: cross'') is a novel by [Kannada](/source/Kannada) writer [S L Bhyrappa](/source/S_L_Bhyrappa) for which he was awarded the [Sahitya Akademi Award](/source/Sahitya_Akademi_Award) for the year 1975.<ref name="academy">{{cite web |url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10307.htm#kannada |title=Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2005 |work=Online Webpage of Sahitya Academy |publisher=Sahitya Academy of India |accessdate=23 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211010650/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10307.htm#kannada |archivedate=11 December 2007 }}</ref> The Book  has story which goes through the complex caste system that is deep rooted into Indian society demonstrated through the characters. This book has been translated to 14 major Indian Languages.<ref>{{cite web|title=datu|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13706919-daatu}}</ref> The novel name indicated the crossing over the boundaries of castes and colors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://booksrevisit.blogspot.in/2014/09/DaatuKannadaNovelReview.html|title=Daatu by Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa |date=3 September 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nitinkidiyoor.blogspot.in/2009/08/daatu-review.html|title=Daatu and Indian secularism|date=6 August 2009 }}</ref>

The novel was translated into [Gujarati](/source/Gujarati_language) by [Jaya Mehta](/source/Jaya_Mehta), published in 1992.<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=D. S.|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA48|year=2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7|page=48}}</ref>

==References==
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{{S. L. Bhyrappa}}

Category:Novels in Kannada
Category:1973 Indian novels
Category:Sahitya Akademi Award–winning works
Category:Novels by S. L. Bhyrappa

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