Indian Political and Historical Novel (Before and After Independence)

Indian Political and Historical Novel (Before and After Independence):

Though the growth of novels in later years far exceeded that of most other forms, fiction was actually the last to arrive on the Indian English literary scene. Kailash Chunder Dutt’s A Journal of 48 Hours of the Year (1945) was published in Calcutta literary Gazette on 6th June 1835. In this literary fantasy, the author narrates the story of an imaginary unsuccessful revolt against British rule a hundred years later. The Shoshee Chunder Dutt’s Republic of Orissa appeared in the Saturday Evening Hurkaru on 25th May 1845 which depicts a British defeat leading to the establishment of a democratic republic in Orissa.