Premchand Quotes

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava , better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand , was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plights of women and laborers prevalent in the society of late 1880s. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. His works include Godaan, Karmabhoomi, Gaban, Mansarovar, Idgah. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e-Watan .

He began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand". A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" by Hindi writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 300 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi.

Rekhta's preservation initiative has archived Premchand's literary work that constitutes 278 e-Books, 63 short-stories, 13 articles and 31 quotes. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. July 1880 – 8. October 1936
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Famous Premchand Quotes

“My ideal of a woman is a combination of sacrifice, care and purity at one place. Sacrifice without a hope for reward, without showing any dissatisfaction and purity like Ceaser’s wife, which does not bring any regret.”

He wrote many of his novels in Hindi on his avowed words, in page=90.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

Premchand Quotes

“Nervous like a knife, he cuts clear through hypocrisy and falsehood.”

By Mulkraj Ananad on Premchand’s novel Godan, a novel of Peasant India” in [Premchand, Godan, http://books.google.com/books?id=9XcFkXR78BYC, 2002, Jaico Publishing House, 978-81-7224-219-0]

“If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.”

In page =90
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“It is the duty of a writer to protect and argue in favour of those who are oppressed, sufferers, whether an individual or a group deprived.”

Spoke in a lecture quoted in page=96
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?”

Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

“The future belongs to the peasants and workers…India cannot remain unaffected by these winds of change…Who had suspected before the Resolution the tremendous might of the exploited peoples of Russia.”

After he published the Hindi novel in which the theme was about the oppressed and exploited Indian peasant quoted in [Anupa Lal, Munshi Premchand: The Voice of Truth, http://books.google.com/books?id=fTK-023B_wkC&pg=PA1900, 2002, Rupa, 978-81-7167-994-2, 1917]

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