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how did Indians use novels is a powerful medium during the freedom struggle

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Answered by manushkakebole
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Explain how the novels inspire the freedom fighters.Explain with an example.

Indian used the novel as a powerful medium to criticize what they considered defects in their society and to suggest remedies.
b. Writers like Virasalingam used the novel mainly to propagate their ideas about society among a wider readership.
c. Novels also helped in establishing a relationship with the past.
d. Many novels told thrilling stories of adventures and intrigues set in the past.
e. Glorified account of the past in these novels helped in creating a sense of national pride among their readers.
f. People from all walks of life could read novels so long as they shared a common language.  This helped in creating a sense of collective belonging on the basis of one’s language.
g. The people living in different regions speak the same language in different ways, sometimes they use different words for the same thing, sometimes the same word is pronounced differently.  With the coming of novels-the way characters spoke  in a novel began to indicate their region, class or caste.  Thus novels made their readers familiar with the ways in which people in other pars of their land spoke  their language.

Example
a.  Bankim’s  ‘Anandmath (1882) is a novel about a secret Hindu militia that fights Muslims to establish a Hindu Kingdom.
b.  It was a novel that inspired many kinds of freedom fighters.

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