Point out the wrong statement in the following:

• Many early Indian novels carried a clear message of social reform

• The heroes and heroines of most of the Indian novels were the people who lived in the modern world

• R. Krishnamurthy was the most popular historical novelist in Malayalam. He wrote under the pen-name ‘Kalki’

• As elsewhere in the world, in India too, the novel became a popular medium of entertainment among the middle class

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?