how did the novels raise the question of caste system of the society
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Indians used novel as a powerful medium to communicate to each other.The issue of caste system was also included in novel for the people to know about what was happening around.The novel "Indulekha" show how caste system was there in india during those day by a love story of 2 people who were different caste
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The novel proved to be a powerful weapon through which changed the mind of people especially regarding the caste system included in it.
. → The issue of caste was included in Indian novels for this same purpose. O Chandu Menon's "Indulekha", a love story based on the lines of Benjamin Disraeli's novel "Henrietta Temple", is a comment upon the marriage practices of upper-caste Hindus in Kerala. Through the characterisations of his main characters, the author (himself a member of an "upper caste") pits the ignorant and immoral Nambuthiri Brahmins against the educated and modern Nayars.
→ While writers like Chandu Menon wished to bring about reforms within their castes, there were others who sought to reform the entire caste-based society. In his novel “Saraswativijayam”, Potheri Kunjambu (a "lower-caste" writer from Kerala) attacks caste oppression.
→ The novel shows a young “untouchable” man flee his village to escape caste-based tyranny. After converting to Christianity and receiving modern education, he returns to his village as a judge in the local court where the villagers had filed a case against the local Brahmin bully for murdering this young man.
→ In the end, the judge reveals his identity and the Nambuthiri repents and reforms his ways.
→Apart from being critical of the upper castes, this novel also stresses the importance of education for the upliftment of the lower castes
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. → The issue of caste was included in Indian novels for this same purpose. O Chandu Menon's "Indulekha", a love story based on the lines of Benjamin Disraeli's novel "Henrietta Temple", is a comment upon the marriage practices of upper-caste Hindus in Kerala. Through the characterisations of his main characters, the author (himself a member of an "upper caste") pits the ignorant and immoral Nambuthiri Brahmins against the educated and modern Nayars.
→ While writers like Chandu Menon wished to bring about reforms within their castes, there were others who sought to reform the entire caste-based society. In his novel “Saraswativijayam”, Potheri Kunjambu (a "lower-caste" writer from Kerala) attacks caste oppression.
→ The novel shows a young “untouchable” man flee his village to escape caste-based tyranny. After converting to Christianity and receiving modern education, he returns to his village as a judge in the local court where the villagers had filed a case against the local Brahmin bully for murdering this young man.
→ In the end, the judge reveals his identity and the Nambuthiri repents and reforms his ways.
→Apart from being critical of the upper castes, this novel also stresses the importance of education for the upliftment of the lower castes
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Nikky..
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