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Novels, Society And History

Question
CBSEENSS10017020

How the novelist countered the effects of modernity in India?

Solution
The ways:

(i)Although they were about imaginary stories, novels often spoke to their readers about the real world.

(ii)But novels did not always show things exactly as they were in reality. Sometimes, they presented a vision of how things ought to be.

(iii)Social novelists often created heroes and heroines with ideal qualities, who their readers could admire and imitate.