Premchand
Sign in to saveDhanpat 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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Munshi Premchand (1880–1936) was an Indian writer who became famous for pioneering modern literature in Hindustani, the language spoken across much of India. His work is considered significant because he helped establish Hindustani as a serious literary language and created influential modern stories and novels that are still read today.
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- Born
- 1880-07-31
- Died
- 1936-10-08
- Works
- 38
Top works
- Selected Short Stories
- Do Bellon Ki Katha
- Maa Ki Mamta
- Sujan Bhagat
- Meri Kahani
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20 sectionsContents
- 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
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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.
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).
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