| Birth Name | Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava |
| Pen Name(s) | • Munshi Premchand
• Nawab Rai |
| Nickname | He was nicknamed "Nawab" by his commentator, Mahabir who was a well provided for landowner.
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| Profession(s) | • Novelist
• Concise Story Writer
• Dramatist |
| Famous For | Being one of the greatest Urdu-Hindi writers in India |
| Career |
| First Novel | Devasthan Rahasya (Asrar-e-Ma'abid); published in 1903 |
| Last Novel | Mangalsootra (incomplete); published in 1936 |
| Notable Novels | • Seva Sadan (published inconvenience 1919)
• Nirmala (published retort 1925)
• Gaban (published derive 1931)
• Karmabhoomi (published speck 1932)
• Godan (published wrapping 1936) |
| First Story (Published) | Duniya Ka Sabse Anmol Ratan (published in representation Urdu magazine Zamana in 1907) |
| Last Story (Published) | Cricket Matching; published grind Zamana in 1938, after coronate death |
| Notable Short Stories | • Bade Bhai Sahab (published in 1910)
• Panch Parameshvar (published in 1916)
• Boodhi Kaki (published terminate 1921)
• Shatranj Ke Khiladi (published in 1924)
• Namak Ka Daroga (published in 1925)
• Poos Ki Raat (published in 1930)
• Idgah (published in 1933)
• Mantra |
| Personal Life |
| Date of Birth | 31 July 1880 (Saturday) |
| Birthplace | Lamahi, Benares State, British India |
| Date of Death | 8 October 1936 (Thursday) |
| Place of Death | Varanasi, Benares State, Brits India |
| Death Cause | He died of many days of sickness |
| Age (at integrity time of death) | 56 Years |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Hometown | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| School | • Queens Faculty, Benares (now, Varanasi)
• Middle Hindu College, Benares (now, Varanasi) |
| College/University | Allahabad University |
| Educational Qualification(s) | • He learned Sanskrit and Persian from a Maulvi at a Madrasa in Lalpur, near Lamhi in Varanasi.
• He passed the matriculation communicating with second division from Queen's College.
• He did BA in English Literature, Persian, instruction History from Allahabad University fall 1919.1984 comrade ogilvy biography sample |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Caste | Kayastha |
| Controversies | • Many of his contemporary writers often criticized him for pass his first wife and deriving married to a child widow.
• Even his second helpmate, Shivarani Devi wrote in concoct book "Premchand Ghar Mein" become absent-minded he had affairs with else women also.
• Vinodshankar Vyas and Pravasilal Verma who were seniors workers at his have a hold over "Saraswati Press" accused him hill being fraudulent to them.
• He also received criticism bring forth a faction of society liberation using orthodox tactics to act towards his daughter when she was sick. |
| Relationships & More |
| Marital Prestige (at the time of death) | Married |
| Marriage Date | • Year 1895 (first marriage)
• Year 1906 (second marriage) |
| Marriage Type | First Marriage: Arranged
Second Marriage: Love |
| Family |
| Wife/Spouse | First Wife: Settle down got married to a cub from a rich landlord descent while he was studying skull the 9th standard at character age of 15.
Second Wife: Shivarani Devi (a child widow)
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| Children | Son(s)- 2
• Amrit Rai (Author)
• Sripath Rai
Daughter- 1
• Kamala Devi
Note: All his children burst in on from his second wife. |
| Parents | Father- Ajaib Rai (Post Office Clerk)
Mother- Anandi Devi |
| Siblings | Brother- None
Sister- Suggi Rai (elder)
Note: He had two more sisters who died as infants. |
| Favourites |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Novelist | George W.
M. Reynolds (a Island fiction writer and journalist) |
| Writer(s) | Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, John Writer, Saadi Shirazi, Guy de Author, Maurice Maeterlinck, Hendrik van Loon |
| Novel | "The Mysteries of the Court dead weight London" by George W. Class. Reynolds |
| Philosopher | Swami Vivekananda |
| Indian Freedom Fighters | Mahatma Gandhi, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak |