State whether the following sentences are true or False and rewrite them: a) The novel as a literary genre has a history of about two thousand years. T b) After 1840, novel originated as the literary form in England. T c) Rajmohan's Wife, by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya serialized in The Indian Field was the first novel in English written by an Indian. + d) There are five elements essential of 'Novel' or 'Novella!
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The figure of Bankimchandra Chatterjee, author of fourteen novels, strides over Bengali – and Indian – literature like a colossus. And yet a book that receives relatively little attention even now is the very first novel he wrote which, interestingly, was not in Bengali but in English.
Like that other great Bengali writer Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bankim began writing in English before switching over to his “mother tongue.” Rajmohan’s Wife, first published in serialised form in 1864, is widely regarded as being the first Indian novel written in English. This slim 125-page book is set in feudal, rural Bengal and contains within its pages all the elements of a potboiler – burglaries, abductions, betrayals, legal intrigues, and illicit love.
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Rajmohan's Wife, by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya serialized in The Indian Field was the first novel in English written by an Indian.
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True