Munshi Premchand, born Dhanpat Rai Srivastava in 1880 near Banaras and died in 1936, was an Indian writer regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. Writing under the pen name Premchand, he authored more than three hundred short stories and over a dozen novels, including Godaan, Karmabhoomi and Gaban, that portrayed caste hierarchies and the hardships faced by women and laborers in rural and small-town India with an unusually direct social realism for his time. He is regarded as one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and his short stories, many collected in the volume Mansarovar, remain widely read staples of Hindi and Urdu literary education.
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1. Munshi Premchand (Wikipedia)
WikipediaEarly life section, opening sentence
Premchand was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located near Banaras, and was named Dhanpat Rai ("master of wealth").
Biography section, closing sentence on his death
He died on 8 October 1936, after several days of sickness and while still in office.
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