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Karmabhoomi (Hindi: कर्मभूमि, translated,The Land Where One Works) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. The novel is set in the Uttar Pradesh of the 1930s. [ 1 ] By the beginning of the 20th century, Islam and Hinduism had coexisted in India for over a thousand years.
Gaban (Hindi: ग़बन, Urdu: غبن, lit. 'embezzlement') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, published by Saraswati Press in 1931. [1] Through this novel, he tries to show "the falling moral values among lower middle class Indian youth in the era of British India", and to what depths a person can descend to, to become a pseudo-elite, and maintain a false image as a rich person. [2]
First Gujarati novel. Depicts story of Karna, the last ruler of the Vaghela dynasty who was defeated by Alauddin Khalji in 1298. Mrinalini: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: 1869 Bengali: Maharastra Jibanprabhat: Romesh Chandra Datta: 1871 Bengali: Mochangad: Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar: 1871 Marathi: First Marathi historical novel.
Chandrakanta is an epic fantasy Hindi novel by Devaki Nandan Khatri. Published in 1888, it was the first modern Hindi novel. It gained a cult following, and contributed to the popularity of the Hindi language. The copyright on the novel expired in 1964 and it is now in the public domain, along with other titles by the author.
Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel by the Indian novel writer Bhagwati Charan Verma about the philosophy of life, love, sin and virtue. It is said to be modelled on Anatole France's 1890 novel Thaïs but set in India. [1] However, the author noted in the book's preface:
The first Hindi books, using the Devanagari script or Nāgarī script were Heera Lal's treatise on Ain-i-Akbari, called Ain e Akbari ki Bhasha Vachanika, and Rewa Maharaja's treatise on Kabir. Both books were published in 1795. [citation needed] Munshi Lallu Lal's Hindi translation of Sanskrit Hitopadesha was published in 1809.
Nirmala [a] is a Hindi novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.The melodramatic novel is centered on Nirmala, a young girl who was forced to marry a widower of her father's age.
Godaan (Hindi: गोदान, Urdu: گودان, romanized: gōdān, lit. 'cow donation') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand. It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature. Themed around the socio-economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor, the novel ...