Editing Premchand (section)

{{short description|Indian writer of Hindustani language (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Premchand
| honorific_prefix      = [[Munshi]]
| image            = Premchand 1980 stamp of India.jpg
| birth_name       = Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1880|07|31}}
| birth_place      = [[Lamhi]], [[Benares State]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]])
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1936|10|8|1880|07|31}}
| death_place      = [[Benares]], Benares State, British India (present-day [[Varanasi]], Uttar Pradesh, India)
| pseudonym        = Premchand, Nawab Rai
| occupation       = Novelist, short story writer
| language         = [[Hindi]], [[Urdu]]
| nationality      = [[Indian people|Indian]]
| notableworks     = ''[[Godaan]]'', ''[[Bazaar-e-Husn]]'', ''[[Karmabhoomi]]'', ''[[Shatranj ke Khiladi]]'', ''[[Gaban (novel)|Gaban]]'', ''Mansarovar'', ''[[Idgah (short story)|Idgah]]''
| spouse           = First wife ({{abbr|m.|married}}&nbsp;1895; estranged) {{marriage|Shivarani Devi|1906|1936|end=died}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kumar |first=Kuldeep|title=Not just Premchand's wife|date=6 February 2020 |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/not-just-premchands-wife/article30750280.ece |access-date=30 August 2021}}</ref>
| children         = [[Amrit Rai]]
| signature        = Hastakshar premchand.jpg
| years_active     = 1920–1936
}}
'''Dhanpat Rai Srivastava'''<ref name="firstbio">{{cite book |author1=Premchand |last2=Gopal |first2=Madan |title=My Life and Times, Premchand: An Autobiographical Narrative, Recreated from His Works |year=2006 |place=New Delhi |publisher=Lotus Collection, Roli Books|page=1|isbn=978-81-7436-432-6|quote=I was called Dhanpat Rai.}}</ref> (31 July 1880&nbsp;– 8 October 1936), better known as '''Munshi Premchand''' based on his [[pen name]] '''Premchand'''<ref name="sov">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Balin |first=V. I.|title=Premchand |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Premchand |encyclopedia=[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]] |edition=3rd |via=The Free Dictionary |year=1979|access-date=25 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Premchand {{!}} Indian author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Premchand |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |date=27 July 2021|access-date=25 August 2021}}</ref> ({{IPA|hns|preːm t͡ʃənd̪|pron|Premchand.ogg}}), was an Indian writer famous for his modern [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] literature. 

Premchand was a pioneer of [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]] social fiction. He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plights of women and labourers prevalent in the society of the late 1880s.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=August 11, 2016 |title=Premchand, the man who wrote on women's plights and caste hierarchy ahead of its time|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/munshi-premchand-birth-anniversary-839029-2016-10-08|access-date=25 November 2021|magazine=India Today|language=en}}</ref> He is one of the most celebrated writers of the [[Indian subcontinent]],<ref name="MichaelArbolina2008">{{cite book | editor-last1=Sollars |editor-first1=Michael D. |editor-last2=Jennings |editor-first2=Arbolina Llamas |title=The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present |year=2008 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-0-8160-6233-1 | pages=631–633}}</ref> and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century.<ref name="swan">{{cite book |last=Swan|first=Robert O. |year=1969|title=Munshi Premchand of nami Village |publisher=Duke University Press}}</ref> His works include ''[[Godaan]]'', ''[[Karmabhoomi]]'', ''[[Gaban (novel)|Gaban]]'', ''[[:hi:मानसरोवर (कथा संग्रह)|Mansarovar]]'', and ''[[Idgah (short story)|Idgah]]''. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called ''Soz-e-Watan'' (Sorrow of the Nation).

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.

In 21st Century, he was the top featured poet of the [[Dainik sahitya]], [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Hindawi|Hindwi]] and many others.