{"id":4248,"date":"2019-08-01T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:15:23","slug":"munshi-premchands-birth-anniversary-celebrated-on-31-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/munshi-premchands-birth-anniversary-celebrated-on-31-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Munshi Premchand\u00b4s Birth anniversary celebrated on 31 July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Munshi Premchand \u00b4s Birth anniversary celebrated on 31 July. He was born as Dhanpat Rai on July 31, 1880 in the Lamhi village near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the Indian writer found fame under his pen name Munshi Premchand, even though he began writing under the pen name “Nawab Rai “. His first name – Munshi is an honorary prefix given by his lovers in the society because of effective and quality writings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munshi Premchand wrote over a dozen works, 250 short stories and numerous essays. He had also translated a number of foreign literary works into Hindi language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love for books was not new for Premchad. His bond with\nliterature began after his mother’s death. He started reading and to get a\nchance to read more books, he started working as a book seller at a wholesale\nbook shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some books written by\nhim :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considered to be one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern\nIndian literature, Godan, was first published in 1936. The book was translated\ninto English as The Gift of a Cow. While it was first translated in English in\n1957 by Jai Ratan and P. Lal translation, Gordon C. Toadarmel 1968 translation\nis now considered to be a classic in itself. The novel is set in the\npre-colonial period and takes us on a trip through the lives of a\npoverty-stricken peasant family in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaban<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in 1931, the literal meaning of Gaban is\nembezzlement. Premchand had written the novel in realism style and had used the\ncharacters in a way that readers are left with no option but to get engrossed\nin it. The classic novel describes the true picture of the Indian society.\nGaban has been translated in English by Christopher R. King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nirmala<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The melodramatic novel written by Premchand centres on\nNirmala, a young girl who was forced to marry a widower of her father’s age.\nThe story unfolds after Nirmala’s husband start suspicious that there is a\nrelationship brewing between his wife and his eldest son. The suspicion leads\nto the son’s death. The novel also speaks about dowry. Nirmala was first\npublished in 1927. The novel which was initially written in Hindi and Urdu\nlanguages was translated in English for the first time in 1988 as The Second\nWife by David Rubin. In 1999, Premchand’s grandson Alok Rai translated the\nnovel again in English using the same name, Nirmala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Munshi Premchand \u00b4s Birth anniversary celebrated on 31 July. He was born as Dhanpat Rai on July 31, 1880 in the Lamhi village near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, the Indian writer found fame under his pen name Munshi Premchand, even though he began writing under the pen name “Nawab Rai “. His first name – Munshi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-munshi-premchand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}