How did vernacular novels become a valuable source of information on native life and customs?

The vernacular novels became a valuable source of information on native life and customs in the foll manner:

(i) Such information was useful for Britishers in governing Indian society, with its large variety of communities and castes.

(ii) As outsiders, the British knew little about life inside Indian households. The new novels in Indian languages often had descriptions of domestic life.

(iii) They showed how people dressed their forms of religious worship, their beliefs and practices and so on.