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Short essay on munshi premchand in english

Answer 1

Munshi Premchand was the famous Hindi story writer and novelist. He was the pioneer of modern Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He made Hindi the language of masses. He is rightly called the ‘Father of Hindi fiction‘. He was born in 1880 at 31stof July in the Lamhi village near Varanasi. His real name was Dhanpat Rai Srivastav but fear of British made him change his name to Nawab Rai and he wrote stories in Urdu. Finally his name becomes changed to the Munshi Premchand. His stories poryray a real picture of the social condition of contemporary times. He fearlessly wrote about the various social taboos and religious obligations. Later on he wrote mostly in Hindi.

In 1901, his first story was published by the name of ‘Sanskar ka Sabse Anmol Ratan’ in Jamana. In 1901, ‘Soz- i- Waten’, a collection of short stories was published. But the British government banned it. He wrote nearly 300 stories and most of the stories are collected under the title ‘Mansarovar’. His famous works include ‘ Godan’, ‘Gaban’, ‘ Rangbhumi’, ‘Prem Pachisi’, ‘ Seva Sadan’, ‘Nirmala’. On  8th of October 1936, Munshi Premchand,the Upanyas Samrat left the world. His last story writing is Cricket Match which was published after his death in Zamana in the year 1937.

Answer 2

Munshi Premchand:

• Munshi Premchand was a great Indian writer and novelist.
• He was born in the year 1880 July 31 in Varanasi.
• His parent's names are Ajaib Lal and Anandi Devi.
• He started developing an interest in reading books and novels after the death of his mother.
• He initially worked as a government teacher in a government school.
• Later, he shifted to Kanpur where he wrote short stories and articles for the magazine 'Zamana'.
• In the year 1907, his first writing was published in the magazine 'Zamana' named 'Duniya ka sabse Anmol ratan' and continued by publishing novels in the same year.
• He started to focus on literature after his work life in Varanasi where after much struggles regarding his financial and health status successfully opened his own printing press in Varanasi.
• He got a prefix as Munshi for his name by his beloved readers in order to honor his work in the field of literature.
• He is not recognized by foreign countries as he did not move from his village to anywhere else during his writing period.
• He left the world in the year 1936 8 October due to his illness.