What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?
Actions of Robinson Crusoe:
(i)Shipwrecked on an island, Crusoe treats coloured people not as human beings equal to him, but as inferior creatures.
(ii)He rescues a ‘native’ and makes him his slave.
(iii)He does not ask for his name but arrogantly gives him the name Friday.
What actions of Robinson Crusoe make us see him as a typical coloniser?
After 1740, the readership of novels began to include poorer people.
Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause.
Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in the readers of the novel in the eighteenth century Europe.
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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?
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