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In what ways was the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonisers as well as the nationalists?
a.  Colonial administrators found ‘vernacular’ novels a valuable source of information on native life and customs.
b. Knowledge about the native life and customs was useful for them in governing Indian society, with its large variety of communities and castes.
c. 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 and so on.
d. Some of the Indian novels were translated into English by British administrators or Christian missionaries.


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