<page_title> List of historical novels in Indian languages </page_title> <section_title> Early Phase </section_title> <table> <cell> Marthandavarma <col_header> Title </col_header> </cell> <cell> Malayalam <col_header> Literature or Language </col_header> </cell> </table>
The novel, Marthandavarma was the first novel in the genre of historical fiction in Malayalam literature, thus became a historical novel.