Baal Kathaakaar Premchand [Hardcover] Premchand, Manju Tanwar

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936) , better known as Premchand , was one of the most popular Hindi and Urdu novelists , story writers and thinkers. He wrote about one and a half dozen novels like Sewa Sadan, Premashram, Rangbhoomi, Nirmala, Gaban, Karmabhoomi, Godan etc and more than three hundred stories like Kafan, Poos ki Raat, Panch Parmeshwar, Bade Ghar Ki Beti, Old Kaki, Story of two bullocks etc. Most of them were published in both Hindi and Urdu languages. He wrote in all the major Urdu and Hindi magazines of his era, Zamana, Saraswati, Madhuri, Maryada, Chand, Sudha etc. He wrote Hindi newspaper JagranAnd also edited and published the literary magazine Hans. For this he bought Saraswati Press which later remained in loss and had to be closed. Premchand came to Mumbai to write scripts for films and stayed for about three years. Till the last days of his life, he was engaged in literary creation. Mahajani civilization is considered to be his last essay, the purpose of literature as the last lecture, the last story of the shroud, Godan’s last complete novel and Mangalsutra as the last incomplete novel. Premchand’s literature, written between 1906 and 1936 , is a socio-cultural document of these thirty years. In this, there is a clear depiction of the social effects of the social reform movements, freedom struggle and progressive movements of that period. They depict all the major problems of that period like dowry, mismatch, subjugation, rent, untouchability, caste discrimination, widow marriage, modernity, gender equality, etc. Idealism-oriented realism is the main feature of his literature. In the field of Hindi story and novel, the period from 1918 to 1936 is called ‘Premchand era’ or ‘Premchand era’.
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