Munshi Premchand

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, known as Premchand, was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, near Benares. A schoolteacher and then school inspector, he first wrote in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai; his first collection, judged seditious, was seized and burned. He left his post at Gandhi's call, founded a printing press and edited magazines. The author of a dozen novels and some three hundred short stories in Hindi and Urdu, he died in Benares on 8 October 1936.

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• NovelThe Gift of a CowगोदानMunshi Premchand · 1936Literature