Question

How did novels inspire the freedom fighters ? Explain with two examples.

Answer 1

Indian novelists wrote novels to develop a modern literature of the country that could produce a sense of national belonging and cultural equality with their colonial masters. Indians used the novel as a powerful medium to criticise what they considered defects in their society and to suggest remedies. Writers like Viresalingam used the novel mainly to propagate their ideas about society among a wider readership.