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- 19th-century Indian novelists
- 19th-century Indian short story writers
- 20th-century Urdu-language writers
- Hindi-language novelists
- Indian magazine founders
- Urdu-language short story writers
- Urdu-language writers from British India
- Writers from Varanasi
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet and biographer in both the Hindi and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. Premchand and Amrit Rai are 20th-century Indian novelists, hindi-language writers, Indian male novelists and novelists from Uttar Pradesh.
Anatole France
italic (born italic,; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Premchand and Anatole France are 19th-century pseudonymous writers and 20th-century pseudonymous writers.
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Arranged marriage
Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly by family members such as the parents.
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Bahraich
Bahraich is a city and a municipal board in Bahraich district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: keʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək); 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: Lokamānya), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
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Bazaar E Husn
Bazaar E Husn is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language film, based on Munshi Premchand’s renowned Urdu novel Bazaar-e-Husn, released on 18 July 2014.
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Bazaar-e-Husn
Bazaar-e-Husn (بازارِ حُسن) or Seva Sadan (lit) is a Hindustani novel by Munshi Premchand.
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Benares Estate
Banaras Estate was a large zamindari estate in the United Provinces in British India.
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Bengali literature
Bengali literature (Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization.
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Bigha
The bigha or beegah (بیگھا, बीघा) is a traditional unit of measurement of area of a land, commonly used in northern & eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.
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Bombay Talkies
Bombay Talkies was a movie studio founded in 1934.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
Cameo appearance
A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo, is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts.
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Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
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Central Hindu School
Central Hindu School, located in Kamachha at the heart of the sacred city Varanasi, is one of India's largest educational institutions.
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Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha
Chitraguptavanshi Kayastha, also referred to as North-Indian Kayastha, is a subgroup of Hindus of the Kayastha community that are mainly concentrated in the Hindi Belt of North India.
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Chunar
Chunar is a city located in Mirzapur district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
Dadar
Dadar (d̪aːd̪əɾ) is a densely populated residential and shopping neighbourhood in Mumbai.
David Rubin (writer)
David George Rubin (March 27, 1924 – February 2, 2008) was an American novelist and translator.
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Daya Narain Nigam
Munshi Daya Narain Nigam (22 March 1882 – 2 November 1942) was an Indian Urdu poet, Journalist and writer.
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DD National
DD National (formerly DD1) is an Indian state-owned entertainment television channel, founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
District magistrate
The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India.
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Doordarshan
Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD) is an Indian state-owned public television broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions.
Dowry system in India
The dowry system in India refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the marriage.
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Durga
Durga (दुर्गा) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).
Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature
The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Fasana-e-Azad
Fasana-e-Azad (فسانۂ آزاد;, also romanized as Fasana-i-Azad) is an Urdu novel by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar.
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Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Fatehpur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.
Frontline (magazine)
Frontline is a fortnightly English language magazine published by The Hindu Group of publications headquartered in Chennai, India.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.
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Gaban (film)
Gaban is 1966 Hindi film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, based on Munshi Premchand's classic novel by the same name.
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Gaban (novel)
Gaban (literally, Embezzlement) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, published by Saraswati Press in 1931.
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George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Premchand and George Eliot are 19th-century pseudonymous writers.
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George W. M. Reynolds
George William MacArthur Reynolds (23 July 1814 – 20 June 1879) was a British fiction writer and journalist.
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Godaan
Godaan (gōdān|lit.
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google Doodle
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures.
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (ˈɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː 9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and political mentor of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.
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Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region.
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.
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Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story, as well as a representative of the naturalist school, depicting human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
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Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh
Hamirpur district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India and Hamirpur town is the district headquarters.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author.
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Himanshu Rai
Himanshu Rai (1892 – 16 May 1940) was an Indian actor and film director.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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Hindi literature
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Idgah (short story)
"Idgah" is a Hindustani story written by the Indian author Munshi Premchand.
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India Post
India Post is an Indian government-operated postal system in India, and is the trade name of the Department of Post under the Ministry of Communications.
Indian Councils Act 1909
The Indian Councils Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 4), commonly known as the Morley–Minto or Minto–Morley Reforms, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Millia Islamia (Urdu: جامعہ ملّیہ اسلامیہ; JMI) is a central university located in New Delhi, India.
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John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
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Justice (play)
Justice is a 1910 play by the British writer John Galsworthy.
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Kanhaiyalal (actor)
Kanhaiyalal (1910 14 August 1982) was an Indian actor who acted in 122 films in his career, primarily in Hindi films produced in Bollywood, the Mumbai-based film industry.
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Karmabhoomi
Karmabhoomi (The Land Where One Works) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Lahore
Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.
Lamhi
Lamhi or Lamahi is a village, and gram panchayat, just north of the holy city of Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Leela Mishra
Leela Mishra (1 January 1908 – 17 January 1988) was an Indian actress.
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Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov.
Literary adaptation
Literary adaptation is adapting a literary source (e.g. a novel, short story, poem) to another genre or medium, such as a film, stage play, or video game.
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Literary realism
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
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Lottery (short story)
"Lottery" (लॉटरी, لاٹری) is a Hindustani short story.
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Lucknow
Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.
M. E. Sharpe
M.
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M. S. Subbulakshmi
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer.
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Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
Mahant
Mahant is a religious superior, in particular the chief of a temple or the head of a monastery in Indian religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
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Mahoba
Mahoba is a city in Mahoba District of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the Bundelkhand region, well known for the ninth century granite Sun temple built in Pratihara style.
Matriculation examination
A matriculation examination or matriculation exam is a university entrance examination, which is typically held towards the end of secondary school.
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Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.
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Mawlawi (Islamic title)
Mawlawi (translit), rendered in English as Molvi, is an Islamic religious title given to Muslim religious scholars, or ulama, preceding their names, similar to the titles Mawlānā, Mullah, or Sheikh.
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Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms
The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as the Mont–Ford Reforms, were introduced by the colonial government to introduce self-governing institutions gradually in British India.
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Mother
A mother is the female parent of a child.
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films.
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. Premchand and Muhammad Iqbal are 20th-century Urdu-language writers and Urdu-language writers from British India.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya
Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya, established in 2008, is general degree college in Sevok Road, Siliguri.
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National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India.
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Nawab
Nawab (Balochi, Pashto: نواب; نواب; নবাব/নওয়াব; नवाब; Punjabi: ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a royal title indicating a sovereign ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince.
Newslaundry
Newslaundry is an Indian media watchdog that provides media critique, reportage and satirical commentary.
Nirmala (novel)
Nirmala is a Hindi novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.
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Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922)
The non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on September 4, 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.
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Oka Oori Katha
Oka Oori Katha (English title: The Marginal Ones; Telugu: ఒక ఊరి కథ) is a 1977 Indian Telugu-language drama film directed by Mrinal Sen.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
P. C. Gupta
Prakash Chandra Gupta (1908–1970) was an Indian writer, both in Hindi and English, and a professor of English. Premchand and p. C. Gupta are university of Allahabad alumni.
Pausha
Pausha (पौष; पूस; தை), also called Paush, Poush, Pausa or Pushya, is the tenth month of the Hindu calendar, corresponding with December/January of the Gregorian calendar.
Pen name
A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh
Pratapgarh, also called Belha or Bela Pratapgarh, is a town and municipality in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
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Prayagraj
Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Prema (novel)
Prema is a Hindi language social novel written by Indian writer Munshi Premchand.
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Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand and Premchand are 19th-century Indian novelists, 19th-century Indian short story writers, 19th-century pseudonymous writers, 20th-century Indian novelists, 20th-century Indian screenwriters, 20th-century Indian short story writers, 20th-century Urdu-language writers, 20th-century pseudonymous writers, hindi-language novelists, hindi-language writers, Indian magazine editors, Indian magazine founders, Indian male novelists, Indian male screenwriters, novelists from Uttar Pradesh, university of Allahabad alumni, Urdu-language novelists, Urdu-language short story writers, Urdu-language writers from British India, writers from British India and writers from Varanasi.
Progressive Writers' Movement
The Progressive Writers' Association or the Progressive Writers' Movement of India or Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (انجمن ترقی پسند مصنفینِ ہند.) or Akhil Bhartiya Pragatishil Lekhak Sangh (Hindi: अखिल भारतीय प्रगतिशील लेखक संघ) was a progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Purdah
Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu پردہ, पर्दा, meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of gender partition prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. Premchand and Rabindranath Tagore are 20th-century Indian novelists.
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Rangbhoomi
Rangbhoomi: The Arena of Life is a Hindi language novel by Premchand.
Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar
Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar (1846 or 1847 – 21 January 1903) was an Indian Urdu novelist, columnist and editor from British India. Premchand and Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar are 19th-century Indian novelists, novelists from Uttar Pradesh, Urdu-language novelists and Urdu-language writers from British India.
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Register (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation.
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Roti
Roti (also known as chapati) is a round flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Saadi Shirazi
Saadi Shīrāzī, better known by his pen name Saadi (help), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period.
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Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin
Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin (alternative: Truth Needs No Support) is a 1979 Bollywood drama film directed by Satyen Bose.
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Sadgati
Sadgati is a 1981 Hindi television film directed by Satyajit Ray, based on a short story of same name by Munshi Premchand.
Sadhana Shivdasani
Sadhana Shivdasani (2 September 1941 – 25 December 2015), known mononymously as Sadhana, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films.
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Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Saraswati (magazine)
Saraswati was the first Hindi monthly magazine of India.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Premchand and Satyajit Ray are 20th-century Indian screenwriters and Indian male screenwriters.
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Satyen Bose
Satyen Bose (22 January 1916 – 9 June 1993) was a film director from India. Premchand and Satyen Bose are 20th-century Indian screenwriters.
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments.
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Sevasadanam
Sevasadanam is a 1938 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by K. Subrahmanyam.
Shankar–Jaikishan
Shankar–Jaikishan (also known as S-J), were an Indian composer duo of the Hindi film industry, working together from 1949 to 1971.
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Shatranj ke Khiladi
Shatranj Ke Khilari is a 1924 Hindi short-story written by Munshi Premchand.
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Shemaroo Entertainment
Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. is an Indian content creator, aggregator and distributor, specifically in the media and entertainment industry.
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Shroud
Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by English author George Eliot.
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Siliguri
Siliguri, also known as Shiliguri, is a major tier-II city in West Bengal.
Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.
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Stepmother
A stepmother, stepmum or stepmom is a female non-biological parent married to one's preexisting parent.
Strife (play)
Strife is a three-act play by the English writer John Galsworthy.
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Sumit Sarkar
Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) is one of the foremost historians of modern India.
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Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt (born Balraj Dutt; 6 June 1929 – 25 May 2005) was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.
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Thaïs (novel)
Thaïs is a novel by French writer Anatole France, published in 1890.
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The Blind (play)
The Blind (Les aveugles), also known as The Sightless, is a play that was written in 1890 by the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck.
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The Chess Players (film)
Shatranj Ke Khilari, also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Mysteries of London
The Mysteries of London is a "penny blood" or city mysteries novel begun by George W. M. Reynolds in 1844.
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The News Minute
The News Minute is an Indian digital news platform based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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The Silver Box
The Silver Box is a three-act comedy, the first play by the English writer John Galsworthy.
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The Story of Mankind
The Story of Mankind is a book written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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Tobacconist
A tobacconist, also called a tobacco shop, a tobacconist's shop or a smoke shop, is a retail business that sells tobacco products in various forms and the related accoutrements, such as pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, and pipe tampers.
University of Allahabad
The University of Allahabad is a Public Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
Urdu Bazaar
The Urdu Bazaar (literally, 'camp market') is a major market in the walled city of Delhi, India that connected the canal in the middle of Chandni Chowk to Jama Masjid.
Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Village accountant
A Village Accountant or Karanam (Andhra Pradesh), Patwari (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, West Bengal), Patowary (Assam), Talati (Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra), Lekhpal (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand) is a government role in rural areas of the Indian subcontinent.
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White Nights (short story)
"White Nights" (Белые ночи, Belye nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career.
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Women in Hinduism
Hindu texts present diverse views on the position of women, ranging from feminine leadership as the highest goddess, to limiting gender roles.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zamania
Zamania is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).
See also
19th-century Indian novelists
- Akshay Chandra Chaudhury
- Appu Nedungadi
- Arch Deacon Koshy
- B. R. Rajam Iyer
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
- Bithia Mary Croker
- C. V. Raman Pillai
- Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham
- Cornelia Sorabji
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Dinendra Kumar Roy
- Emeric Hulme Beaman
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- Hara Prasad Shastri
- Hari Narayan Apte
- Hari Singh Gour
- Joseph Furtado
- Kishorilal Goswami
- Krupabai Satthianadhan
- Kshirode Prasad Vidyavinode
- Lakshminath Bezbarua
- Laxmikanta Mohapatra
- Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth
- Manilal Dwivedi
- Nandshankar Mehta
- Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
- Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
- Peary Chand Mitra
- Premchand
- Rajanikanta Bordoloi
- Ramanbhai Neelkanth
- Rasik Krishna Mallick
- Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar
- Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Sarasibala Basu
- Shardha Ram Phillauri
- Sivanath Shastri
19th-century Indian short story writers
- Bandaru Acchamamba
- Bithia Mary Croker
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- Hari Narayan Apte
- Lakshminath Bezbarua
- Laxmikanta Mohapatra
- Moorkoth Kumaran
- Premchand
- Sarat Chandra Goswami
- Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar
20th-century Urdu-language writers
- Ahmad Faraz
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
- Akbar Allahabadi
- Akhtar Sheerani
- Ali Akbar Natiq
- Chiragh Hasan Hasrat
- Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani
- Hamida Salim
- Hilal Naqvi
- Ibn-e-Insha
- Ibn-e-Safi
- Ismat Chughtai
- Jamiluddin Aali
- Jaun Elia
- Javed Chaudhry
- Josh Malihabadi
- Mahir ul Qadri
- Muhammad Faizullah
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Naseem Hijazi
- Nisar Ahmed Faruqi
- Premchand
- Qasim Mahmood
- Razia Sajjad Zaheer
- Sadiq ul Khairi
- Shah Ahmad Shafi
- Shibli Nomani
- Zahida Hina
- Zahida Khatun Sherwani
Hindi-language novelists
- Agyeya
- Gaurav Sharma (author)
- Gulshan Nanda
- Madhur Kapila
- Nasira Sharma
- Prabhat Ranjan
- Premchand
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Shankar Puntambekar
- Usha Priyamvada
Indian magazine founders
- Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
- Agyeya
- Alexander Duff (missionary)
- Amit Saigal
- Anandshankar Dhruv
- Anil Acharya
- Anil Agarwal (environmentalist)
- Aroon Purie
- Barun Sengupta
- Chunilal Madia
- John William Kaye
- Lambert Mascarenhas
- Manilal Dwivedi
- Munshi Nawal Kishore
- Pralhad Keshav Atre
- Premchand
- Rakesh Pandey (author)
- Raman Soni
- Ramananda Chatterjee
- Rashid Meer
- Romesh Thapar
- Sayyid Mumtaz Ali
- Shahid Siddiqui
- Shanti Swaroop Baudh
- Shibli Nomani
- Siddharth Sivakumar
- Suresh Joshi
- Tarun Tejpal
- Upasana Makati
- Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
- Vaju Kotak
- Vinod Jose
Urdu-language short story writers
- Abdullah Hussain (writer)
- Akhtar Husain
- Ali Akbar Natiq
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Anwar Shemza
- Ashfaq Ahmed
- Awaz Sayeed
- Clement Daniel Rockey
- Ghulam Abbas (writer)
- Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi
- Gulzar
- Hussain Ul Haque
- Ismat Chughtai
- Kausar Chandpuri
- Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
- Krishan Chander
- List of Urdu short story writers
- Majnun Gorakhpuri
- Masroor Jahan
- Mirza Adeeb
- Muhammad Asim Butt
- Muhammad Mansha Yaad
- Mumtaz Mufti
- Naiyer Masud
- Niaz Fatehpuri
- Prem Nath Dar
- Premchand
- Qasim Mahmood
- Qurratulain Hyder
- Rajinder Singh Bedi
- Rashid Jahan
- Razia Butt
- Sadiq ul Khairi
- Salma Siddiqui
- Shaukat Thanvi
- Syed Muhammad Ashraf
- Upendranath Ashk
- Wajida Tabassum
- Zia Fatehabadi
Urdu-language writers from British India
- Abdur Rahman Bijnori
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
- Akbar Allahabadi
- Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Bekhud Badayuni
- Bihari Lal Fitrat
- Chiragh Hasan Hasrat
- Hafiz Mehmood Khan Shirani
- Hijab Imtiaz Ali
- Humayun Iqbal
- Ibn-e-Safi
- Josh Malihabadi
- Khwaja Hasan Nizami
- Khwaja Mir Dard
- Mahir ul Qadri
- Mir Anees
- Mir Taqi Mir
- Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer
- Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Mulla Wahidi
- Nazeer Akbarabadi
- Nusrat Zaidi
- Premchand
- Qasim Mahmood
- Rashid ul Khairi
- Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar
- Shibli Nomani
- Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu
- Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram
- Tabish Dehlvi
- Zahida Khatun Sherwani
Writers from Varanasi
- Agha Hashar Kashmiri
- Anjaan (lyricist)
- Anuraadha Tewari
- Arun Joshi
- Bedhab Banarasi
- Bettina Bäumer
- Bhagat Pipa
- Bhagwan Das
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Dyal Singh Majithia
- Jaishankar Prasad
- Kabir
- Kalika Prasad Shukla
- Kishorilal Goswami
- Krishna Chandra Chunekar
- Manmath Nath Gupta
- Namvar Singh
- Nilakantha Daivajna
- Premchand
- Premendra Mitra
- Rajbali Pandey
- Ram Krishna Singh
- Ram Shankar Misra
- Salma Siddiqui
- Shiv Prasad Mishra
- Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil'
- Sunny Singh (writer)
- Surya Bikram Gyawali
- Sushruta
- Tulsidas
- Vagish Shastri
- Vidya Niwas Mishra
References
Also known as Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, Durgadas (novel), Munshi Premchand, Pratigya (novel), Prem Chand.