Premchand

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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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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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 ( 1895; divorced)
Writer.children: Amrit Rai
Writer.signature: Hastakshar premchand.jpg
Writer.years_active: 1920–1936

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date of birth: 1880-07-31
date of death: 1936-10-08
Commons category: Premchand
Commons Creator page: Munshi Premchand
IPA transcription: pɾeːmt͡ʃənd̪

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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 – 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).