Premchand

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Premchand was a pioneering early 20th-century Hindi-Urdu writer renowned for his socially conscious short stories and novels that depicted the struggles of rural and lower-class India.

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Premchand canonical 3
Munshi Premchand 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindi writer
Urdu writer
novelist
person
short story writer
alsoKnownAs Munshi Premchand NERFINISHED
birthName Dhanpat Rai Srivastava NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship British India
dateOfBirth 1880
dateOfDeath 1936
ethnicGroup Indian
fieldOfWork fiction
social commentary
genre novel
short story
social realism
hasRole pioneer of modern Hindi literature
pioneer of modern Urdu literature
influenced Hindi literature
Urdu literature
progressive writers in India
influencedBy Indian independence movement NERFINISHED
knownFor depicting lower-class struggles
depicting rural Indian life
socially conscious literature
languageOfWorkOrName Hindi
Urdu NERFINISHED
movement Indian realism
progressive literature
notableWork Gaban NERFINISHED
Godaan NERFINISHED
Kafan NERFINISHED
Karmabhumi NERFINISHED
Nirmala NERFINISHED
Poos Ki Raat NERFINISHED
Sevasadan NERFINISHED
occupation essayist
novelist
short story writer
teacher
placeOfBirth Lamhi, near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh NERFINISHED
pseudonym Nawab Rai NERFINISHED
Premchand NERFINISHED
religion Hinduism
subjectOf Indian literary criticism
writingPeriod early 20th century

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Shatranj Ke Khilari basedOnWorkBy Premchand
this entity surface form: Munshi Premchand