Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (Apr 2017)

THE URDU PREMCHAND AND THE HINDI PREMCHAND

  • Harish Trivedi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 30
pp. 69 – 90

Abstract

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Premchand (1880– 1936) is accorded the unique distinction in Indian literary history of having founded and consolidated the modern novel into not one but two of our major languages, Urdu and Hindi.

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