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	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		S the nation prepares itself to mark the birth centenary of renowned short story writer and novelist Munshi Premchand, at least 11 popular artistes from different parts of the country have arrived in Lamahi (Varanasi) to bring alive some of the characters from his most appreciated stories.
		Ahead of the 125th birth centenary celebrations of the legendary Hindi writer Munshi Premchand in July, renovation work is being done in his ancestral village of Lamahi as the nation prepares to celebrate the renowned short story writer.
		Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060716/spectrum/book9.htm (398 words)

	Munshi Premchand - Definition, explanation
		Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) ("Premchand") was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature.
		Premchand was born Dhanpat Rai in Lamahi near Varanasi where his father was a clerk in the post office.
		Premchand was a great social reformer too; he married a widow, Shivarani Devi, which was a courageous thing to do in India at that times.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mu/munshi_premchand.php (303 words)

	Munshi Premchand
		Premchand was the pen name adopted by the Hindi writer Dhanpatrai who was born on 31 July 1880 at Lamati near Varanasi.
		Premchand was the first Hindi author to introduce realism in his writings.
		Premchand died in 1936 and has since been studied both in India and abroad as one of the greatest writers of the century.
	rrtd.nic.in /munshipremchand.htm (355 words)

	Munshi Premchand
		Munshi Premchand, a hoary icon, a sometime sentimentalist from a bygone age, firmly established in the dubious immortality of a curricular classic, poses a similar challenge.
		The icon "Premchand" seems almost complicit with the establishment that honours him, like a distant ancestor who is both remembered and, in the very act of remembering, forgotten.
		What unites these masters of conscience is the fact that they enlarged the range and reach of the social imagination by making a greater proportion of the marginalised life of their times available to the imagination for being given narrative shape, and so form the basis for a moral order.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/munshi.html (740 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Munshi Premchand
		Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880 - October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
		Premchand (Hindi: प्रेमचंद, Urdu: پریمچںد),whose original name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was born in Lamahi near Varanasi where his father was a clerk in the post office.
		Premchand was a contemporary of some other literary giants of that era like Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla and Jaishankar Prasad.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Munshi_Premchand (1276 words)

	Artistes gear up for writer Premchand's birth centenary : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the nation prepares itself to mark the birth centenary of renowned short story writer and novelist Munshi PremChand, at least 11 popular artistes from different parts of the country have arrived here to bring alive some of the characters from his most appreciated stories.
		Ahead of the 125th birth centenary celebrations of the legendary Hindi writer Munshi Premchand in July, renovation work is being done in his ancestral village of Lamahi in Varanasi as the nation prepares to celebrate the renowned short story writer.
		But the President of the Premchand Memorial Trust has alleged that the original structure of the luminary writer's house was tampered and thus it should be restored.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1734577,00110004.htm (483 words)

	Munshi Premchand Summary
		Premchand is the pen name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastana, who was born on 31 July 1880 in the village of Lamahi near Varanasi (Benares), India.
		Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
		Premchand's parents died young - his mother when he was seven and his father while he was fourteen and still a student.
	www.bookrags.com /Munshi_Premchand (1737 words)

	Premchand Biography - Munshi Premchand History - Information on Indian Writer Munshi Premchand
		Premchand wrote on the realistic issues of the day-communalism, corruption, zamindari, debt, poverty, colonialism etc. He avoided the use of highly Sanskritized Hindi and instead used the dialect of the common people.
		Premchand popularly known as Munshi Premchand was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature.
		Premchand was left responsible for his stepmother and stepsiblings.
	www.iloveindia.com /indian-heroes/premchand.html (550 words)

	Zee News - Munshi Prem Chand remembered in Nepal
		Kathmandu, Aug 05: The 125th birth anniversary of noted Indian litterateur Munshi Premchand was marked here with a seminar on his works and screening of 'Sadgati,' a film based on a short story by the renowned author.
		A host of speakers from various walks of life shared their views on Premchand's idealistic life style and his valuable contributions to Hindi literature at the symposium held at the at the Nepal-India Friendship Library here yesterday.
		The works of Premchand in the early 20th century still has relevance in the 21st century where social exploitation, discrimination and untouchably still exist, Speakers at the seminar said.
	www.zeenews.com /znnew/articles.asp?aid=313694&ssid=43&sid=ENT (237 words)

	Avadh Online
		As a writer Premchand is a pioneer of modern Hindi and Urdu social fiction.
		Premchand represented the spirit of his times which marked a tension between Grandhism and socialism, and a slow change towards urbanization and uneasy modernism.
		Much of Premchand's best work is to be found among his 250 or so short stories, collected in Hindi under the title Manasarovar.
	www.avadh.com /indian1.htm (351 words)

	PRODIGY :: KAKATHIYA HOUSE ONLINE MAGAZINE
		Premchand was just eight years old when his mother died.
		Meanwhile his father married again and Premchand was left without the love of his father too.
		Premchand was the first Hindi author to introduce realism in his writings.
	www.freewebs.com /sphynx1629/munshipremchand.htm (407 words)

	Premchand gave an identity to Indian literature: Soni (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Legendary Hindi writer Munshi Premchand took Indian literature to new heights, Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni said Sunday.
		Addressing the valedictory session of the two-day 125th anniversary celebrations of Premchand that concluded at Aiwain-e-Ghalib here Sunday, Soni said the writer was able to portray various facets of India's social life through his writings.
		Munshi Premchand's stories and depiction of the Indian women 100 years ago is very relevant even today," she said.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060730/407126.html (310 words)

	A tribute to a master
		COME 2005 and the nation will observe the 125th birth anniversary of Munshi Premchand, one of the subcontinent's best-loved writers of the past one century.
		Born Dhanpat Rai in Lamhai near Benaras (Varanasi) in 1880, Premchand is widely regarded as the father of the modern Urdu/Hindi novel.
		SAHMAT chose to focus on Premchand since he is one of the few writers in India whose work shows great empathy for the poor and the oppressed.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl2126/stories/20041231003210900.htm (1003 words)

	Premchand: Sevasadan [Indologica]
		This is a translation of Munshi Premchand's first Hindi novel (1916), centred around political and religious debates about sexuality, prostitution, and poverty.
		One of Premchand’s most successful Hindi novels, Sevasadan is a bold statement on the political and religious debates about marriage, sexuality, and prostitution, at a time when Indian Women were being held up as standard-bearers of a nation in chains.
		Premchand depicts the hypocrisy of the so-called pillars of society, who can sacrifice their orthodox principles behind closed doors, yet do not shirk from mouthing moral platitudes in public.
	indologica.blogg.de /eintrag.php?id=758 (488 words)

	My Life and Times (An Autobiographical Narrative)
		Often compared to Gorky and Tolsty, Premchand was not only a versatile writer of short stories, novels, dramas and essays, but also played an active role in the country's freedom movement.
		Premchand rebelled against narrow religious bigotry and, in fighting it though his writing he imbued a whole generation with the idea of anew social order of justice and equality.
		For all aficionados of Munshi Premchand, this is a book that must find a place on their shelves.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDF497 (221 words)

	Literature by Munshi Premchand
		Munshi Premchand lived from 1880 to 1936 and can justly lay claimto the title of the best Hindi fiction writer ever.
		Munshi Premchand was the son of a postal clerk.
		Premchand wrote in a very direct and simple style, and his wordsmade their own magic.
	www.hindibooks.8m.com /LitByMunshiPremchand.htm (967 words)

	webnewswire.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was addressing the valedictory session of the two-day 125th anniversary celebrations of Munshi Premchand which concluded at Aiwain-e-Ghalib, here, today.
		Soni said Munshi Premchand’s emergence on the Indian literacy scene was at a time which was one of the most volatile periods of not only Indian history but the history of the World.
		While India was fighting for its Independence and was at the same time struggling against a number of social evils to transform itself into a modern progressive society under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, for the World as a whole, it was a period of turmoil between the first and the second World war.
	webnewswire.com /article442216.html (241 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro
		Last Tuesday, when Union minister of culture S. Jaipal Reddy announced a list of programmes to celebrate eminent Hindi and Urdu litterateur Munshi Premchand?s 125th birth anniversary, the gasp of relief among the writer?s abundant admirers was almost palpable.
		Premchand has often been in the news for the wrong reasons in the last few years.
		A master chronicler of rural north Indian life in his short stories and novels, the 1880-born writer?s work was at the receiving end of a motivated socio-cultural offensive in the recent past.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041227/asp/look/story_4161292.asp (931 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Premchand’s early education was in a madarsa under a maulvi, where he learnt Urdu.
		Premchand was only eight years old when his mother died.
		Literature according to him is a powerful means of educating public opinion.He believed in social evolution and his ideal was equal opportunities for all.Premchand died in 1936 and has since been studied both in India and abroad as one of the greatest writers of the century.
	pib.nic.in /feature/feyr2001/fjul2001/f190720011.html (556 words)

	Munshi Premchan: Biod (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His elder sister was, to an extent, able to fill the gap left by his mother.
		Premchand also had to travel to many towns along with him.
		When the editor of the journal _Maryaada_ was jailed in the freedom movement, Premchand worked for a time as the editor of that journal.
	www.tagore.com /premchand/premchand-bio.html (436 words)

	SEVASADAN
		Premchand depicts the hypocrisy of the so-called 'pillars of society', who can sacrifice their orthodox principles behind closed doors, Yet do not shirk from mouthing moral platitudes in public.
		The stream of idealist that runs through Premchand's works has often been criticized by scholars, but it is the counterpart of a relentless psychological and social realism, which has remained unmatched to this day.
		Munshi Premchand (1880-1936) began life as a schoolteacher, but voluntarily gave up government service to spend the rest of his life as an editor, social reformer, and author of many great works.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDE884 (372 words)

	OUP : - The Oxford India Premchand
		Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in twentieth-century Hindi literature.
		The stories in The World of Premchand, translated by David Rubin, are characterized by compassion for the poor and outrage at the cruelty of the privileged classes.
		Munshi Premchand (1880—1936) A pioneering figure in modern Hindi literature.
	www.oup.co.in /search_detail.php?id=127587 (501 words)

	Munshi Premchand - Hindi Novelist Munshi Premchand Kayastha India
		Premchand was born on July 31, 1880 in a village called "Lamahi", about four miles from the city of Benares, to an ordinary working family.
		Premchand lost his mother in his seventh year.
		Premchand was quite facile in Hindi, Urdu, Parsi, and English.
	www.kayastha.org /kayastha_per_munshi_premchand.html (432 words)

	Munshi Premchand @ URDUSTAN
		Premchand was just eight years old when his mother died.
		It would not be wrong to say Premchand as the Father of Urdu Short- Stories.
		In the later stages of his life He turned his attention to Hindi and now Premchand is claimed by both Urdu and Hindi litterature as their own.
	www.urdustan.com /adeeb/nasr/premchand.htm (450 words)

	Munshi Premchand
		His real name was Dhanpat Rai but he is famous with his pen name of Premchand or Munshi Premchand.
		His grand-mother took the responsiblity of raising him, but she died soon after that.
		Meanwhile his father married again and Premchand was left without the love of his father too.
	www.munsipremchand.iitk.ac.in (82 words)

	Munshi ancestry
		Dec 3, 2007 - This is the Munshi page of genealogy information.
		03 - The Other Malaysia 013 Munshi Abdullah Part I - munshi abdullah bin abdul kadir and the predicament of the modern colonial subject 10 abdullah was a peranakan of mixed indian and arab stock who traced his ancestry to
		09 - Nagar Heritage - derived from family ancestry about ten surnames based on ancestry are antani amp anantani divan durkal hazrat janita jathhal jha kazi majmudar mazumdar medh munshi
	www.museumstuff.com /family-history/names/Munshi.php (401 words)

	Autobiography
		MUNSHI PREMCHAND A pioneer of modern Hindi and Urdu social fiction, Munshi Premchandâs real name was Dhanpat Rai.
		Among his best known novels are: Sevasadan, Rangmanch, Gaban, Nirmala and Godan.
		Much of Premchandâs best work is to be found among his 250 or so short stories, collected in Hindi...
	literaryindia.com /Biographies/Autobiography (98 words)

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