Question

How were novels useful for the nationalism?
(Class 10 SSt Sample Question Paper)

Answer 1

SOLUTION:
The novels were useful for the nationalism because:

1.Novels had played a very important role for imbibing a sense of Nationalism in Indians.

2. Novels had brought this aspect by bringing together people from different background and produced a sense of shared community. Many different communities live together with different nature.

3.The novels had produced a sense of sharing and promoted an understanding of different people, different values and different communities. Different groups had begun to question or reflect upon their own identities,thus indirectly bonding them with a national feeling.

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Answer 2

(i) Indians used the novel as a powerful medium  to criticise what they considered defects in their society and to suggest remedies.

(ii) Writers like Viresalingam used the novel mainly  to propagate their ideas about society among a  wider readership.

(iii) Novels also helped in establishing a relationship  with the past. Through glorified accounts of the  past, these novels helped in creating a sense of  national pride among their readers.

(iv) At the same time, people from all walk 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.

(v) Novels also made their readers familiar with the  ways in which people in other parts of their land  spoke their language.