MUNSHI PREMCHAND Premcband MUNSHI PREMCHAND a Llterary Biography
MUNSHI PREMCHAND Premcband MUNSHI PREMCHAND A llterary Biography MADAN GOPAl ASIA PUBLISHING HOUSE BOMBAY CALCUTI'A NEW D.£Llll MADRAS LUCKNOW LONDON NEW YORK ANGRAU 920. N64GOP A~c No. 13760 COPYRIGHT © 1964 MADAN GOPAL '~RINTED IN lNDIA BY BIKAEB t:nANDRA RAY AT t. M. H; PRESS, 'CRANDNt CHOWK, DI!LHt, AND PUBLISHBJ) "BY P. :S. UYASINGH£,'/ASIA 1t>tmLISHING HOUSE, BOMBAY To Premakanta, Neeraja and Sachin and Shivrani Devi, Sripatrai and Amritrai Prefac( THIS BIOGRAPHY OF the late Munshi Premchand aims at pro jecting his personality and development as a writer, who voiced the aspirations of the people of India in the early part of the century and during the Gandhian era, and also as a man and as a thinker. In a sense it represents the fulfilment of a commit ment made in my earlier book (Premchand, Lahore, 1944), where in I had promised to attempt a full-dress biography of the great author. In doing this literary portrait, my familiarity with Hindi as well as :Urdu has given me an advantage over many writers who, because of their knowledge of one or the other, had to depend solely on literature available in one of the languages. I have in general consulted almost everything of consequence written on Premchand, including Shrimati Shivrani Devi's Premchand Ghar Men, the reminiscences of a large number of Premchand's friends and contemporaries as recorded in the Premchand memorial numbers ,of Hans and Zamana, and the writings of other littera teu~s published from time to time. The single source of greatest help, however, has been the rich material contained in the unpublished letters of Premchand, which I have collected at great expense in money and time from many places in India.
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