Question
Why were the history of India were the twisted by the colonial Novelists?
Solution
The history of India were the twisted by the colonial Novelists as:
(i)The history written by colonial historians tended to depict Indians as weak, divided, and dependent on the British.
(ii)These histories could not satisfy the tastes of the new Indian administrators and intellectuals. Nor did the traditional Puranic stories of the past – peopled by gods and demons, filled with the fantastic and the supernatural – seem convincing to those educated and working under the English system.
(iii)Such minds wanted a new view of the past that would show that Indians could be independent minded and had been so in history.
(i)The history written by colonial historians tended to depict Indians as weak, divided, and dependent on the British.
(ii)These histories could not satisfy the tastes of the new Indian administrators and intellectuals. Nor did the traditional Puranic stories of the past – peopled by gods and demons, filled with the fantastic and the supernatural – seem convincing to those educated and working under the English system.
(iii)Such minds wanted a new view of the past that would show that Indians could be independent minded and had been so in history.
