Talk:Premchand

Essay style

Some of this article does sound essay like, but not the entire article. Please tag only the guilty sections so that other editors can focus on those parts of the article. The intro and first few paragraphs are fine. In fact, they sound like an Urdu biography of the author. But later sections should be tagged for improvement. Thanks. --KP Botany (talk) 11:50, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

nickname of munshi premchand

I want to know the real name of premchand.

Dhanpat Rai Srivastav --Marc Kupper|talk 21:10, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

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Doubts, Suggestions

• Famous Stories and Plays

Any idea of why & how the titles under Famous Stories and Plays are selected? Once we finalize on what names should be included there we can write the stories in short. Few are already written. This blog http://premchand.kahaani.org/2009/09/contents.html has many stories. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 22:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

• Films & TV Serials

Some are described well some are written half way only. Cant even make out if they are Films or Serials. What format do we follow here? -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 22:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Lists

Per WP guidlines, lists such as the one below (transferred here from the article) should be avoided. Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते} 10:25, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Films and TV serials

• Mazdoor (1934)
• Seva Sadan (1938) (based on the novel Bazaar-e-Husn)
• Mazdoor (1945).
• Heera Moti (1959), based on a short story, Do Bailon ki Kahani
• Godaan (1963)
• Gaban (1966)
• Sadgati (1981) (TV)
• Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977)
• Godhuli (1977)
• Oka Oori Katha, based on the story Kafan (1977)with ayush
• Nirmala (TV Series, 1980s)
• Prem Sarovar (TV Series, 1994 – Doordarshan Lucknow & 1996 – DD National Hindi Belt) : Director – Sunil Batta
• Guldasta (TV Series, 2006 – Doordarshan Urdu): Director – Sunil Batta
• Tahreer: Munshi Premchand ki (Doordarshan 2006, Director – Gulzar)

Should we tabulate it? Like this.... Or should we just write paragraphs? -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 11:18, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Paragraphs, imo. Tables etc would go on a list of works. Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते} 06:53, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Medium	Title	Adapted from	Notes
Film	Shatranj Ke Khiladi	Shatranj Ke Khiladi	A 1977 film directed by Satyajit Ray
Short Film	Sadgati	Sadgati	A 1981 short film directed by Satyajit Raj. The film won National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film).

References

Another list from the article

Dont think this belongs on this article. If at all, it should be on List of works by Premchand or a similar list. Around The Globe^{सत्यमेव जयते} 06:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

At this stage of development of the article, not agreed. See Shakespeare#List_of_works. Later on when article is better developed the list can be branched off. As of now, it is probably incomplete and is certainly unreferenced. Also, the long list of non-notable short stories needs to be thinned out and only that which is meaningful left in. AshLin (talk) 09:26, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

List of works

Stories

• Pariksha
• Panch Parameshvar
• Idgah
• Daroga Sahab
• Mantra
• Nashaa
• Shatranj ke khiladi
• Poos ki raat
• Atmaram
• Boodhi Kaki
• Bade Bhaisahab
• Bade ghar ki beti
• Kafan
• Dikri Ke Rupaye
• Udhar Ki Ghadi

• Namak Ka Daroga
• Do Bahanein
• Grihaneeti
• Prem Purnima
• Ramleela
• Chori
• Jurmana
• The night ghost
• Thakur ka kuaan
• Dhaai ser gehun
• Alagyojha
• Vajrpaat
• Gupt Dhan

Plays

• Karbala
• Tazurba

Novels

• Gaban
• Bazaar-e-Husn
• Godaan
• Karmabhoomi
• Kaayakalp
• Manorama
• Mangalsootra (incomplete)
• Nirmala
• Pratigya
• Premashram
• Rangbhoomi
• Vardaan
• Prema
• Juloos

"updesh" 1917

An IP editor tried to add "updesh" 1917. This was reverted by another editor as it messed up the formatting of a table. I'm guessing it's a WP:GF edit but have no idea of the correct place in the article for this. --Marc Kupper|talk 07:47, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

You're right. It was a good faith edit and I've added it back in. --regentspark (comment) 15:09, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Name

Shouldn't this be moved to Munshi Premchand, since the lead states he is "better known as Munshi Premchand" (WP:COMMONNAME)? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:49, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

No, the real name of the author is Dhanpat Rai, while is popular name is Premchand. Munshi is commonly misunderstood to be his honorific, but as is explained here, it is not the case. Munshi was the last name of another person, who co-edited Hans magazine along with Premchand. https://amp.satyagrah.scroll.in/article/108695/the-story-of-munshi-in-premchands-name Seomelono (talk) 08:35, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Further, many people consider Premchand's caste identity as being the reason why Munshi title is used for him. Therefore, in the article, I have deleted the mention of Munshi because futher discussion is required. Seomelono (talk) 08:49, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Weird second sentence.

Eight to nine of land? It seems like there’s a word missing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14d:4000:8310:19a3:b6f3:f9b6:a9e0 (talk) 22:15, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Munshi Premchand history

Dhanpat rai srivasta as well as known as munshi premchand (31 july 1880 -8 october 1936). The pen name premchand meaning is the moon of love . he was an indian witer famous for his modern hindustani literature ~2026-40743-6 (talk) 13:31, 19 January 2026 (UTC)