PREMCHAND IN TRANSLATION : BY GOPAL SHARMA (HARDCOVER)

Premchand is one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is a remarkable pronouncement of the maturity of the Hindi fiction. He is an iconic Indian writer who belongs to the literary culture and tradition of both Hindi and Urdu. He remains indisputably the greatest writer of fiction and is the fountainhead of modern Hindi fiction. He is also of enormous political and cultural significance as the foremost imaginative writer on social oppression, religious change, and the various Indian struggles against colonial rule. He is the voice of rural India. He has a reformative view about women, and the breaking out of their female characters has tended to be a measure of the stimulus of his fiction which is never tainted with the charge of obscenity which so many other novelists who dealt with themes of female sexuality explicitly faced during his time. He is as relevant now as he was during the pre-independence era. His literature, the characters he presented, the problems he talked about, are still alive. Be it the poverty or the caste discrimination, his portrayal is still contemporary.