Premchand

Writer

(1880 – 1936) · South Asia

Pen name of Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, the most celebrated Hindi and Urdu fiction writer of the early twentieth century, born in Lamahi in 1880. His novels and stories depicted rural Indian life, caste injustice, and human dignity with unsparing realism, and his novel Godaan is considered a masterpiece.