Answer:
(i) Social novelists
often created heroes and heroines with ideal qualities, whom their readers
could admire and imitate.
(ii) The
characters in the novels show how to be modern without rejecting tradition; how
to accept ideas coming from the west without losing one's identity.
(iii)
Chandu Menon portrayed Indulekha as a woman of breathtaking beauty, high
intellectual abilities, and artistic talent and with an education in English and
Sanskrit.
(iv)
Madhavan, the hero of the novel was a member of the newly English- educated
class of Nayars from the University of Madras. He was also a Sanskrit scholar.
He dressed in western clothes but had kept a long tuft of hair, according to
the Nayar custom.
Characters
like Indulekha and Madhavan showed readers how Indian and foreign lifestyle
could be brought together in an ideal combination.
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