“The most authentic and penetrating of Premchand’s portrayals center around village life. This was a life he knew intimately, since he had grown up in a village. Then as a teacher, and later an inspector of schools, he travelled extensively through the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh.”

—  Premchand

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