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Novels, Society and History
Describe the growth of the novel in South India.
The growth of the novel in South India:
(i)Novels began appearing in south Indian languages during the period of colonial rule. Quite a few early novels came out of attempts to translate English novels into Indian languages.
(ii)For example, O. Chandu Menon, a subjudge from Malabar, tried to translate an English novel called Henrietta Temple written by Benjamin Disraeli into Malayalam. Later he gave up this idea and wrote instead a story in Malayalam in the ‘manner of English novel books’.
(iii)This delightful novel called Indulekha, published in 1889, was the first modern novel in Malayalam.
(iv)The case of Andhra Pradesh was strikingly similar. Kandukuri Viresalingam began translating Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield into Telugu.
(v)He abandoned this plan for similar reasons and instead wrote an original Telugu novel called Rajasekhara Caritamu in 1878.
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The picture of the new middle class which the novel Pariksha-Guru portrays.
Discuss some of the social changes in nineteenth-century Britain which Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens wrote about.
Summarise the concern in both nineteenth-century Europe and India about women reading novels. What does this suggest about how women were viewed?
In what ways was the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonisers as well as the nationalists?
Describe how the issue of caste was included in novels in India. By referring to any two novels, discuss the ways in which they tried to make readers think about existing social issues.
Describe the ways in which the novel in India attempted to create a sense of pan-Indian belonging.
Imagine that you are a historian in 3035 A.D. You have just located two novels which were written in the twentieth century. What do they tell you about society and customs of the time?
Novel is a modern form of literature that first took firm root in:
Which of the following statements is not correct?
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
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