- Peasantry, Fiction, Fiction, general, India, fiction
"Premchand is the most famous Hindi novelist, and Godaan is Premchand's most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer, and his family's struggle for survival and self-respect.
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- Author
- Munshi Premchand
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 442
- Publisher
- Gurjara Grantharatna Kāryālaya, Lokayama Press, Allen & Unwin
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Hindi, guj, English
- ISBN
- 9780948924071
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Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. 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. He began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand". Munshi being an honorary prefix. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of for
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