Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause. Explain
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Novelists in colonial India wrote for a political cause. They used their novels as a tool to create unity among people, arouse and spread patriotism, expose the exploitation of British and infuse the spirit of sacrifice and freedom among the people.
Many novels established links with the India's past and the period was depicted as golden period which created the idea of national pride among people.
We see Bankimchandra Chattopadhya in his novel Anandmath shows various patriotic acts and sacrifices by his characters in service of motherland and against the British subjugation. It also shows victory of common unarmed Indians against the British trained and armed soldiers.
Likewise Rabindarnath Tagore in his novels Gora and , Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) exposed the exploitation of the British and created patriotism and spark of freedom movement among people.
Similarly hundreds of other novelists used novels as a novel method in exposing the British colonialism and infusing the spirit of struggle among people against the colonial rule.