Under colonial rule, many of the English educated class found new Western ways of living and thinking. However, at the some time they did not want to loose their own identity and traditions. To such people, novels like Indulekha  showed the way. The hero of  Indulekha was Madhavan, an English educated class of Nayars. He was also
a first class Sanskrit scholar. He dressed in Western clothes. But the kept a long tuft of hair, according to the Nayar custom. Indulekha was woman a brethtaking beauty, high intellectual abilities, artistic talent and with education in English and Sanskrit. The heroes and heroines in most of the novels were people who lived in the modern world. Thus they were different from the ideal or mythological characters of the earlier poetic literature of India. The characters like Indulekha and Madhavn showed how Indian and foreign lifestyles could be brought together in an ideal combination.