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Literature
Munshi Premchand
मुंशी प्रेमचंद
- Born as
- Dhanpat Rai Srivastava
- Born
- 31 July 1880
- Birthplace
- Lamhi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
- Died
- 8 October 1936
- Field
- Literature
'Upanyas Samrat' of Hindi–Urdu fiction; wrote some 300 stories and novels such as Godaan, Gaban and Idgah portraying rural India's poor with unmatched realism.
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Source: Kayastha family background as recorded in the English Wikipedia article.
