Makers of Indian Literature by Professor Prakash Chandra Gupta Here’s an excerpt from Bade Ghar Ki Beti – The character of “Anandi” in his 1926 short story “Bade Ghar Ki Beti” is most probably inspired by his mother. His mother was from a wealthy family of a village called Karauni in Uttar Pradesh. At the age of eight, he lost his mother, Anandi Devi.At the age of seven, he started attending a madrasa in Lalpur, near his village Lamahi where he learned Persian and Urdu from a Maulvi.His grandfather, Guru Sahai Rai was a British government official and held the post of village land record-keeper a post that is better known as “Patwari” in north India. Premchand’s childhood was mostly spent in Benares (now Varanasi).Munshi Premchand’s House in Lamahi Village, Varanasi He was born as Dhanpat Rai into a Kayastha family in a village called Lamahi in Benares (now Varanasi) in British India.
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We will ourselves increase the capital of our literature.” We will have to raise the standard of our literature, so that it can serve the society more usefully… our literature will discuss and assess every aspect of life and we will no longer be satisfied with eating the leftovers of other languages and literatures. While talking about literature in an interview, he said, He is, in fact, considered the first Hindi author to feature “realism” in his writings.
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Reynolds (a British fiction writer and journalist) Makers of Indian Literature by Professor Prakash Chandra GuptaĬharles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy, Saadi Shirazi, Guy de Maupassant, Maurice Maeterlinck, Hendrik van Loon Note: He had two more sisters who died as infants. Note: All his children are from his second wife. Second Wife: Shivarani Devi (a child widow) He also received criticism from a faction of society for using orthodox tactics to treat his daughter when she was sick.įirst Wife: He got married to a girl from a rich landlord family while he was studying in the 9th standard at the age of 15.Vinodshankar Vyas and Pravasilal Verma who were seniors workers at his press "Saraswati Press" accused him of being fraudulent to them.Even his second wife, Shivarani Devi wrote in her book "Premchand Ghar Mein" that he had affairs with other women also.Many of his contemporary writers often criticized him for leaving his first wife and getting married to a child widow.He did BA in English Literature, Persian, and History from Allahabad University in 1919.He passed the matriculation exam with second division from Queen's College.He learned Urdu and Persian from a Maulvi at a Madrasa in Lalpur, near Lamhi in Varanasi.Central Hindu College, Benares (now, Varanasi).Queens College, Benares (now, Varanasi).Shatranj Ke Khiladi (published in 1924).Mangalsootra (incomplete) published in 1936ĭuniya Ka Sabse Anmol Ratan (published in the Urdu magazine Zamana in 1907)Ĭricket Matching published in Zamana in 1938, after his death Premchand A Life by Amrit Raiīeing one of the greatest Urdu-Hindi writers in Indiaĭevasthan Rahasya (Asrar-e-Ma'abid) published in 1903
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He was nicknamed "Nawab" by his uncle, Mahabir who was a rich landowner.