List of Novels, Writers and Dates from History Chapter Novels, Society and History (Class 10)

From the history chapter Novels, Society and History (NCERT), is considered as an important chapter for exams.

The list of novels with author name and date will be useful for you in gaining a quick revision of chapter more clearly.

But, there aren’t many resources out there on the internet which includes all the Novels name, authors, dates and about the novel from the history chapter Novels, Society and History.

So, I’ve decided to collect all the important novel names from the history chapter Novels, Society and History, and put them all in the table below.

List of all the Novels, Writers and Dates from History Chapter Novels, Society and History

Novel is a modern form of literature. Novel writing began from the 17th century but, they flowered from the 18th century.

Here, we go.

Novel Name	Writer’s name	Date	Objectives/Theme
Tom Jones	Henry Fielding (epistolary)	1749	Issued in six volumes which were priced three shillings each- which was more than what a labourer earned in a week
Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens (serialised)	1836	Serialisation allowed readers to enjoy the suspense, discuss the characters such as television serials in today’s era
Hard Time	Charles Dickens	1854	Describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, serious place full of machinery
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	1838	Poor orphan lived in a world of the petty workhouse, finally adopted by a rich man
Germinal	Emile Zola	1885	Based on the life young miner in France
Mayor of Casterbridge	Thomas Hardy	1886	Michael Henchard, a grain merchant
Pride and Prejudice states	Jane Austen	1813	Make people think about a society which encouraged women to look for good marriages and find propertied husbands
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	1874	Jane is shown as independent and assertive, Jane at the age of 10 opposed the hypocrisy of her elders
Treasure Island	R.L.Stevenson’s	1883	A novel full of adventures, especially for young boys to idealise a new type of man
Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	1894	Great hits among youngsters
Ramona	Helen Hunt Jackson	1884	A love story written for adolescent girls became popular in the US
What Katy Did	Sarah Chauncey Woolsey	1872	Series entitled under her pen-name Susan Coolidge
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	1719	Novel’s hero is a slave trader and an adventurer, Shipwrecked on the island, Crusoe treats coloured people, not as human beings
Kadambari	Banabhatta	17th Century	Tales in prose(novel comes to India), written in Sanskrit
Panchatantra	Vishnu Sharma	Around 200 BC	Tales in prose
Yamuna Paryatan	Baba Padmanji	1857	Employed a simple style of storytelling to speak about the plight of widows
Muktamala	Lakshman Moreshwar Halbe	1861	Imaginary romance narrative with a moral lesson
Indulekha	O.Chandu Menon	1889	First modern novel in Malayalam
Rajasekhara Caritamu	Kandukuri Viresalingam	1878	Wrote an original Telgu novel
Pariksha Guru	Srinivas Das	1882	Warned young men of rich families against the dangerous influences of bad company and resultant loose morals
Chadrakanta	Devaki Nandan Khatri	1888	A romance coupled with dazzling elements of fantasy (in the Hindi language)
Sewasadan	Premchand	1916	Deals with the poor condition of women in society (issue like child marriage, dowry)
Durgeshnandani	Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay	1865	Bengali Novel which achieved excellence so quickly
Sultana’s Dream	Rokeya Hossein	1905	A satiric fantasy in English shows a topsy-turvy world in which women take the place of men
Padmarag	Rokeya Hossein	1924	Pointed out the need for women to reform their condition by their own actions
Karuna o Phulmonir Bibaran	Hannah Mullens	1852	A Christian missionary, known as the first novel in Bengali
Saraswativijayam	Potheri Kunjambu	1892	Mounting a strong attack on caste oppression
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam	Advaita Malla Burman	1956	An epic about the Mallas, about three generations of the Mallas and their recurring tragedies
Anguriya Binimoy	Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay	1857	The first historical novel is written in Bengal (Its hero Shivaji engages in many battles against a clever and cunning Aurangzeb)
Anandamath	Bankim	1882	Novel about the secret Hindu militia which fights Muslims to establish the Hindu Kingdom
Rangbhoomi (The Arena)	Premchand	20th Century	The central character, Surdas, is a blind beggar from untouchable caste, (reflects the struggling of Surdas for his land)
Godan(The Gift of Cow)	Premchand	1936	An epic of the Indian peasantry (Story of Hori and Dhania fought for their land against moneylenders and landlords)

Final Words

So, that’s it.

All the novels of the chapter Novels, Society and History from the NCERT class 10 are listed above in the table format.

If you have any related queries or suggestions; feel free to let me know in the comments right now.

Sources:

• NCERT – Novels, Society and History