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  CRL - Rare Literary Jems
Premchand (1880–1936) was born Dhanpat Rai in a village called Pandepur, near Varanasi.
Premchand’s mother died when he was a young boy; his father, a postal clerk, died while Premchand was still a student, leaving his stepmother to raise Premchand and his stepsiblings under difficult financial circumstances.
Premchand became known as a social reformer of his time and used his novels to awaken interest in national and social issues.
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 Premchand
Munshi Premchand was the pseudonym of Dhanpat Rai, who was born in Banaras in 1880 and died a few months after the publication of Godaan in 1936.
Premchand's other novels include Rangabhumi (The Theatre or Arena, 1925), Nirmala (1927), and Karmabhumi (Arena of Action,1932) where the focus is on the nationalist struggle of the country.
Premchand began writing while teaching at a government school, and adopted this pen name after his first book of short stories was labeled inflammatory and burned by the British government.
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 The Gift of a Cow - Premchand
Premchand suggests the ways in which each locale goes wrong, approving of the political awareness in town, but concerned by the lack of personal connexions, the fraying of the social fabric holding much of society together (despite his strong opposition to aspects of those connexions, especially the often unreasonable demands of caste).
Premchand describes individual incidents well, and when he focusses on unfolding events the book is often very impressive.
Premchand is very ambitious, and he does tell a good story, offering a good, teeming picture of Indian society of this time.
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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.
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