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Novels, Society and History
Why is Godan known as an epic of the Indian peasantry?
Godan is known as an epic of the Indian peasantry:
(i)Godan, The Gift of Cow, was published in 1936, remains Premchand’s best-known work.
(ii)The novel tells the moving story of Hori and his wife Dhania, a peasant couple.
(iii)Landlords, moneylenders, priests and colonial bureaucrats – all those who hold power in society – form a network of oppression, rob their land and make them into landless labourers.
Yet Hori and Dhania retain their dignity to the end.
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The Oriya novel
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Jane Austen's portrayal of women
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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:
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