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Premchand

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Also known as Munshi Premchand, Dhanpat Rai, Premacanda, Premtschand, Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, Premcand

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

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Premchand (1880–1936) was a male novelist, screenwriter, and writer who held citizenship in the British Raj. Born in Varanasi, he was a practitioner of Hinduism and associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement. His literary output included works in Hindi, Urdu, and Hindustani. Among his notable works are *Godaan*, *Bazaar-e-Husn*, and *Karmabhoomi*. Open Library records list 38 works, including *Selected Short Stories*, *Do Bellon Ki Katha*, *Maa Ki Mamta*, *Sujan Bhagat*, and *Meri Kahani*.

Premchand was the father of Amrit Rai and a relative of Sara Rai. He passed away in Varanasi. His writing career is documented in the Writing department of TMDb.

Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
38

Top works

  • Selected Short Stories
  • Do Bellon Ki Katha
  • Maa Ki Mamta
  • Sujan Bhagat
  • Meri Kahani

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Film & TV

Writing

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Characteristics and utilisation of copper slag—a review

    · 2003 · cited 762x

  2. Removal of High Density Salt and Pepper Noise Through Modified Decision Based Unsymmetric Trimmed Median Filter

    · 2011 · cited 429x

  3. Efficacy of self-monitored blood pressure, with or without telemonitoring, for titration of antihypertensive medication (TASMINH4): an unmasked randomised controlled trial

    · 2018 · cited 364x

  4. Autonomic Regulation Therapy via Left or Right Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Results of the ANTHEM-HF Trial

    · 2014 · cited 351x

  5. Period-dependent Associations between Hypotension during and for Four Days after Noncardiac Surgery and a Composite of Myocardial Infarction and Death

    · 2018 · cited 286x

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Quotes

  • “For children, father is a luxurious item, - just like beans for the horse....but mother is everything for the child. The child cannot bear separation from his mother even for a minute.”

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Key facts

Writer.name
Premchand
Writer.honorific_prefix
Munshi
Writer.image
Photo of Premchand.webp
Writer.birth_name
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
Writer.birth_place
Lamhi, Benares State, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Writer.death_place
Benares, Benares State, British India (present-day Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Writer.pseudonym
Premchand, Nawab Rai
Writer.occupation
Novelist, short story writer
Writer.language
Hindi, Urdu
Writer.nationality
Indian
Writer.notableworks
Godaan, Bazaar-e-Husn, Karmabhoomi, Shatranj ke Khiladi, Gaban, Mansarovar, Idgah
Writer.spouse
Unknown (&nbsp;1895; divorced)
Writer.children
Amrit Rai
Writer.signature
Hastakshar premchand.jpg
Writer.years_active
1920–1936

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • Biography
  • Early life
  • Stay at Kanpur
  • Adoption of the name Premchand
  • Gorakhpur
  • Back to Banaras
  • Bombay
  • Last days
  • Style and influences
  • Legacy
  • List of works
  • Novels
  • Short stories
  • Translations
  • Other
  • Adaptations of Premchand's works
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • References
  • External links

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880&nbsp;– 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plight of women and labourers of the late 1880s. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. His works include Godaan, Karmabhoomi, Gaban, '', and Idgah. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e-Watan'' (Sorrow of the Nation).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Premchand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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