Many novels carried a clear message df social reform.” Explain with an example from Kannada novels in Karnataka.
It is a fact that many early novels carried a clear message of social reform. For example, in Indirabai, a Kannada novel written by Gulavadi Venkata Rao in 1899, the heroine is given away in marriage at a very young age to an elderly man. Her husband dies soon after. She is forced to lead a life of a widow. In spite of opposition from her family and society, Indirabai succeeds in continuing her education. Eventually she marries again, this time a progressive, English-educated man. Thus women’s education, the plight of widow, and problems created by the early marriage of girls were the important issues for social reformers in Karnataka.
