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Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, 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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culture · Indian Hindustani writer (1880–1936) · novelist · screenwriter · writer · essayist · editor · short story writer · journalist · also Premchand, Munshi Premchand, Dhanpat Rai, Premacanda, Premtschand, Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava
Born 31 July 1880 · Died 8 October 1936 · Q174152
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2026· 2 entries
Indiatimes: Meet Premchand Godha: The CA who managed Amitabh Bachchan's finances and built a struggling pharma company into a Rs 28,000 crore giant
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2025· 1 entry
Indiatimes: 10 most popular stories by Munshi Premchand: How many have you read
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2024· 1 entry
The Financial Express: Premchand Godha: The man who transformed a struggling company into a Rs 28,000 crore pharma giant with Amitabh Bachchan
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2020· 3 entries
Hindustan Times: The Way We Were: Premchand’s lost months in Bombay
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NDTV: Munshi Premchand's Birth Anniversary: Know About His Famous Works
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The Hindu: Not just Premchand’s wife
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2018· 2 entries
The Asian Age: Celebrating Premchand
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jagranjosh.com: Munshi Premchand birth anniversary: 5 interesting facts you want to know about him
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1977· 1 entry
Satyajit Ray made a film based on Premchand's short story "Shatranj ke Khiladi" ("The Chess Players"), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
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1936· 4 entries
Died 1936-10-08.
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Premchand also published "Kafan" ("Shroud"), in which a poor man collects money for the funeral rites of his dead wife but spends it on food and drink
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“The greater the calamity, [he once wrote] the tougher the fibre. It is tragedy that makes a man.”
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Faced severe financial difficulties and chronic ill health
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1932· 1 entry
Published another novel titled Karmabhoomi
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1931· 1 entry
Premchand moved to Kanpur as a teacher at the Marwari College but had to leave because of differences with the college administration
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1928· 1 entry
Premchand's novel Gaban ("Embezzlement"), focusing on the middle class' greed, was published
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1923· 1 entry
Established a printing press and publishing house in Banaras, christened "Saraswati Press"
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1919· 2 entries
Premchand obtained a BA degree from Allahabad University
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Premchand's first major novel Seva Sadan was published in Hindi
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1914· 1 entry
Premchand started writing in Hindi (Hindi and Urdu are considered different registers of a single language Hindustani, with Hindi drawing much of its vocabulary from Sanskrit and Urdu being more influenced by Persian)
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1909· 1 entry
Premchand was transferred to Mahoba and later posted to Hamirpur as the Sub-deputy Inspector of Schools
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1907· 4 entries
In a book called Soz-e-Watan (Sorrow of the Nation)
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The publishers of Zamana published Premchand's first short story collection, titled Soz-e-Watan
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Another of Premchand's short novels, Kishna was published by the Medical Hall Press of Banaras
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Was penned under the name "Babu Nawab Rai Banarsi"
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1906· 1 entry
Premchand married a child widow, Shivarani Devi, who was the daughter of a landlord from a village near Fatehpur
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1905· 1 entry
Inspired by nationalist activism, Premchand published an article on the Indian National Congress leader Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Zamana
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1900· 1 entry
Premchand secured a job as an assistant teacher at the Government District School, Bahraich, at a monthly salary of ₹20
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1899· 1 entry
Went to a bookshop to sell one of his collected books
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1895· 1 entry
Was married at the age of 15, while still studying in the ninth grade
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-07-31.
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