When did novels develop in India and why?

(a) The novels developed in India in the nineteenth century as Indians became familiar with the Western novel.
(b) Causes for the development of novel in India were as follows:
(i) Development of the vernaculars, print : and a reading public helped in the development of novel. One of the earliest, Indian novels in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s Yamuan Paryatan (1857) which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of window.
(ii) Novelists also wrote for a cause because the colonial rulers treated the Indian culture as inferior. So Indian novelists wrote to produce a sense of national belonging and cultural equality. This helped in the development of novel in India.
(iii) Translations of novels into different regional languages too helped in its development.