Product Description A collection of short stories by Munshi Premchand, one of India's leading Hindi authors of the early twentieth century. About the Author Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (July 31, 1880 October 8, 1936), better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the Upanyas Samrat (Emperor among Novelists) by writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi.