Ashar, Meera2015-12-130026-749Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/77572Govardhanram Tripathi wrote the four-volume novel Saraswatichandra as an ‘instruction manual’ for a people facing fundamental social and political change during colonial rule. This article examines a shift in the conception of instruction as the text201510.1017/S0026749X140005112015-12-11