“Colonial administrators found ‘vernacular’ novels a valuable source of information on native life and customs”. Prove the statement by giving three evidences.
- Such information was useful for them in governing Indian society, with its large variety of communities and castes.
- As outsiders, the British knew little about life inside Indian households. The new novels in Indian languages often had descriptions of domestic life.
- They showed how people dressed, their forms of religious worship, their beliefs and practices etc.
- Some of these books were translated into English.