What do you know about earliest Indian novels?
Answer:
- Some of the earliest Indian novels were written in Bengali and Marathi.
- The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s ‘Yamuna Paryatan’, which used a simple style of story telling to speak about the plight of widows.
- This was followed by Lakshman Moreshwar Halbe’s ‘Muktamala’. This was not a realistic novel; it presented an imaginary ‘romance’ narrative with a moral purpose.