WRITER

Premchand

1880 - 1936

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Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (pronounced [preːm t͡ʃənd̪] ), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of the first authors to write about caste hierarchies and the plights of women and labourers prevalent in the society of the late 1880s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Premchand has received more than 4,257,441 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Premchand is the 522nd most popular writer (up from 530th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from India (down from 59th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Writer.

Premchand is most famous for his novel, "Godan," which is a social and moral critique of the exploitation of the rural poor.

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  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Premchand ranks 522 out of 7,302. Before him are Tom Clancy, Alvin Toffler, Henry IV of Castile, Elie Wiesel, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Tennessee Williams. After him are Jostein Gaarder, Harold Pinter, Jean Paul, Imadaddin Nasimi, Pierre de Ronsard, and Kumārajīva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Premchand ranks 18. Before him are André Derain, Ludwig Beck, Manuel Azaña, Paul Hausser, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Werner von Fritsch. After him are Wilhelm List, Elton Mayo, Paul Ehrenfest, Max Wertheimer, Otto Weininger, and H. L. Mencken. Among people deceased in 1936, Premchand ranks 21. Before him are Grazia Deledda, Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Fish, Elsa Einstein, and G. K. Chesterton. After him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Louis Blériot, Buenaventura Durruti, Ottorino Respighi, Hans von Seeckt, and Karl Kraus.

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In India

Among people born in India, Premchand ranks 61 out of 1,861. Before him are Harsha (590), Vyasa (-390), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924), Zubin Mehta (1936), Radha (null), and Lata Mangeshkar (1929). After him are Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), Padmasambhava (717), and Satyajit Ray (1921).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Premchand ranks 11. Before him are Kālidāsa (400), Salman Rushdie (1947), Tulsidas (1532), Ghalib (1797), Savitribai Phule (1831), and Meera (1498). After him are William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Basava (1134), Ahmed Deedat (1918), and Tukaram (1608).

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