Munshi premchand urdu stories
There, he met the headmaster of a missionary school at Chunar, who offered him a job as a teacher, at a monthly salary of ₹18. After racking up several debts, in 1899, he once went to a book shop to sell one of his collected books. He used to reside in a mud-cell over the advocate's stables, and used to send 60% of his salary back home. He then obtained an assignment to coach an advocate's son in Benares at a monthly salary of five rupees. He then sought admission at the Central Hindu College, but was unsuccessful because of his poor arithmetic skills. However, only the students with first division were given fee concession at the Queen's College. He managed to pass the matriculation exam with second division (below 60% marks). His father died in 1897 after a long illness. The girl was from a rich landlord family and was older than Premchand, who found her quarrelsome and not good-looking. The match was arranged by his maternal step-grandfather. In 1895, he was married at the age of 15, while still studying in the ninth grade. Īfter his father was posted to Jamania in the mid-1890s, Dhanpat Rai enrolled at the Queen's College at Benares as a day scholar. The character was based on Premchand's uncle, who used to scold him for being obsessed with reading fiction the farce was probably written as a revenge for this. It was a farce on a bachelor, who falls in love with a low-caste woman. He composed his first literary work at Gorakhpur, which was never published and is now lost. Reynolds's eight-volume The Mysteries of the Court of London. He learnt English at a missionary school, and studied several works of fiction including George W. He took the job of selling books for a book wholesaler, thus getting the opportunity to read a lot of books.
He heard the stories of the Persian-language fantasy epic Tilism-e-Hoshruba at a tobacconist's shop. Īs a child, Dhanpat Rai sought solace in fiction, and developed a fascination for books. The stepmother later became a recurring theme in Premchand's works. His father, who was now posted at Gorakhpur, remarried but Premchand received little affection from his stepmother. Premchand felt isolated, as his elder sister Suggi had already been married, and his father was always busy with work. His grandmother, who took the responsibility of raising him, died soon after. When he was 8, his mother died after a long illness. He learnt Urdu and Persian from a maulvi in the madrasa. When he was 7 years old, Dhanpat Rai began his education at a Madrasa in Lalpur, located near Lamhi. Munshi Premchand Memorial Gate, Lamhi, Varanasi "Nawab Rai" was the first pen name chosen by Dhanpat Rai. His uncle, Mahabir, a rich landowner, nicknamed him " Nawab", meaning baron. Dhanpat Rai was the fourth child of Ajaib Lal and Anandi the first two were girls who died as infants, and the third one was a girl named Suggi. His mother was Anandi Devi of Karauni village, who probably was also his inspiration for the character Anandi in his "Bade Ghar Ki Beti". His grandfather, Guru Sahai Rai was a patwari (village land record-keeper), and his father Ajaib Lal was a post office clerk. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 300 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi.ĭhanpat Rai was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located in Varanasi district. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor Among Novelists") by writers. He began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand", Munshi being an honorary prefix. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e-Watan. His works include Godaan, Karmabhoomi, Gaban, Mansarovar, " Idgah". He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century.
He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plights of women and labourers prevalent in the society of late 1880s. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Premchand ( pronounced ( listen)), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.