Write a note on the contribution of Devaki Nanda Khatri to the Hindi Novels.

Devaki Nanda Khatri was born on June 18, 1861, in Pusa in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Devaki Nanda Khatri was the man who blazed a new beginning for Hindi novel writing. The most interesting feature of Khatri‘s novel was Tilism is a magical world full of optical illusion. It was a unique feature of Khatri's novels that the seemingly magical happenings were largely a result of the application of scientific knowledge and workings of mechanical contraptions. Khatri wrote these novels at a time when the Indian middle class looked at novels with suspicion and kept them away from homes so that young boys and girls would not read them and get corrupted. The phenomenal success of the novel titled ChandrakantaSantati (Chandrakanta's Progeny). This was followed by Bhootnath, a novel that detailed the exploits of an Aiyar of the same name who had figured prominently in his earlier novels. He had modelled it on Chandrakanta Santati but could finish only six parts before his untimely death on August 1, 1913.