Reality and Realism-Indian Women as Protagonists in Four Nineteenth Century Novels

Indian Women as Protagonists in Four Nineteenth Century Novels Meenakshi Mukherjee It is a critical platitude to say that the Indian novel has a derivative form, imitated from the West This is only superficially true. A form cannot be superimposed on a culture where there is no appropriate ethos to sustain its content. The reality of the Indian social situation had to be bent to suit the exigencies of realism. The realistic novel came into existence when the tension between the individual and the society acquired a certain intensity.