Premchand, his real name was Dhanpat Rai wrote several hundred short stories and a couple of novels before he died in 1936. This is a selection of short stories on which Satayajit Ray based his film, The Chessplayers.

Deliverance and Other Stories

PREMCHAND

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Co-Wife & other Stories is a collection of twenty classic tales of Premchand. These stories provide a glimpse into Premchand s extraordinary range and diversity and his amazing ability to write on a variety of subjects from romance and satire to social dramas and nationalist tales. Some of the stories included in the book reflect Premchand s sympathy for the underdog, while the others expose human idiosyncrasies in a humorous manner. A few of the stories included in the book are Stigma, Rani Sarandha, Two Graves, The Co-Wife, The Child and A Winter Night. Ruth Vanita s translation captures the beauty of Premchand s language and conveys the nuances of the original. This book will be cherished by all Munshi Premchand fans.

The Co-Wife and Other Stories

Penguin

Set against the backdrop of colonial India - characterized by a brutal state, opportunistic, feudal landlords and ruthless capitalists - this novel is a grim account of the blind beggar Soordas's struggle against the acquisition of his ancestral land. Weaving together themes such as industrialization, atrocities committed by princely states, the role of women in India's independence movement, and caste and class hierarchies, Playground's concerns remain shockingly relevant. Capturing Premchand's masterful handling of a variety of linguistic registers, Manju Jain's evocative translation shows us the deep humanism of one of India's greatest writers.

Playground: Rhangboomi

Penguin Global

Language: EnglishPages: 3224About the BookPremchand (1880-1936), considered one of the greatest fiction writers in Hindi, was born Dhanpat Rai in Lamahi, a small village near Benares. He wrote in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai and changed it to Premchand when his collection of short stories, Soz-e Watan, was seized for sedition in 1909. In a prolific career spanning three decades, Premchand wrote fourteen novels, two plays, almost 300 short stories and several articles, reviews and editorials. He edited four journals, and also set up his own printing press. Though best known for his stories exposing the horrors of poverty and social injustice, he wrote on a variety of themes with equal felicity-romance, satire, social dramas, nationalist tales, and yarns steeped in folklore.Back of the BookMunshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories in the course of a

Premchand: The Complete Short Stories Box Set (4vols) [Paperback] [Dec 15, 2017] Premchand

Contemporary

Karmbhoomi

Prhi Hindi

In seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, 
sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert of 
Karbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India, 
when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about this 
pivotal event of Islamic history and transformed it into a nationalist narrative. 
This first-ever English translation of Premchand's outstanding play Karbala 
(1924) is an illuminating blend of historical facts and imagination. It reveals 
Premchand's profound understanding of the communal conflict in early 
twentieth-century India and his unique way of imagining the nation, in tune 
with Gandhian principles of communal harmony and co-existence of religions.

Karbala: A Historical Play by Premchand

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Nirmala

Premchand's novella Nirmala, first published in 1928, is one of the most poignant novels in Hindi on the theme of the young adolescent yoked to an elderly husband. Clearly reformist in its agenda, this novel succeeds in exploring sensitive and even dangerous terrain. Alok Rai's English translation includes an Afterword which takes note of the novel's special context, placing it in perspective and making a contemporary reading of the work possible.

Rai, Alok

World Literature

Gaban: The Stolen Jewels

Gaban, first published in 1931, five years before Premchard's death, is the story of Ramanath, a morally weak but physically charming youth brought to near-disaster by his beautiful wife Jalpa's inordinate craving for jewelry. This is a felicitous translation by Christopher R King and will enable many readers to appreciate Premchand's important novel, available for the first time in English.

King, Christopher R.

This collection of stories by the great Hindi writer, many translated for the first time, demonstrate how far ahead of his time Premchand was where social issues were concerned.

Widows, Wives and Other Heroines: Twelve Stories by Premchand

Rubín, David

This is a new collection of translations of thirty stories written by Premchand, who virtually created the genre of short story writing in Hindi and Urdu. The selection reveals the wide range of Premchand's genius and the scope of his appeal. While most of the stories are woven against a rural backdrop, some also demonstrate an urban sensibility.

The World of Premchand: Selected Short Stories

David Rubin

Literary

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