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?Colonial administrators found ?vernacular' novels a valuable source of information on native life and customs.". Prove the statements but giving three evidences.

Vernacular novels were of great se to the Colonial Administrators:
  1. A source to understand native life and customs.
  2. It helped to govern Indian society with various communities and castes.
  3. Novels helped to know the domestic life dresses religious worships etc.
  4. Some of the books were translated into English by British administrators or Christian missioners for better understanding about how to govern the Indians.
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  • Colonial administrators found 'vernacular' novels a valuable source of information on native life and customs.
  • Such information was useful for them in governing Indian society, with its large society of communities and castes.
  • As outsiders, the British knew little about life inside Indian households.
  • They showed how people dressed, their forms of religious worship, their beliefs and practices, and so on.
  • Some of these books were translated into English, often by British administrators or Christian missionaries
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Vernacular novels were useful for colonials as:
1. it gives various informations to them about traditional & cultural beliefs of veitnamese.
2. Informations about veitnamese were useful for administrators to govern them easily & effectively.
3. Through vernacular novels administrators explored to their languages & their domestic household practices.
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