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Describe how literature developed in India between the ​19th and the early 20th centuries.​

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Instructions: Discuss the progress in literature in various fields during the 19th and early 20th centuries.​
​Cite examples of the popular compositions of ​famous novelists.​
​Cite the names of short story writers.
Name the poets and the different languages they wrote in.

Solution: The period between the 19th and the early 20th centuries saw a significant development in various forms of literature, such as novels, short stories, and poems.​
  • Most of the literature during the period was composed in Bengali.
  • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote ‘Anand Math’, which is the source of our national song ‘Vande Mataram’.
  • Munshi Premchand wrote in Urdu and Hindi. ‘Godan’ and ‘Rangbhoomi’ are some of his popular novels.
  • Some of the popular short story writers of the period included Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand, Yashpal, Jatindra Kumar, and Krishan Chander​.

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