Question

what is the setting of kafan by premchand

Answer 1

Shroud by Munshi Premchand is the story of two chamar (dalit) characters Ghisu and Madhav who are poor and lazy to do work. Ghisu is the father and Madhav is the son and both do not want to work. Both just want to relax and rest all the time. What happened that the wife of Madhav Bhudhiya is pregnant and father & son have not money for the treatment of her. And the next morning she died due to the lack of treatment and miserable situation. After the death they have to arrange some money for the funeral but they have not money so they arrange some money by beg to their neighbor. They went to buy a Shroud for her funeral but rather purchasing the shroud they spend the money to drink and eat some pakode and the story ends.