New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Premchand

1880 - 1936

Photo of Premchand

Icon of person Premchand

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 laborers prevalent in the society of late 1880s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Premchand has received more than 3,805,689 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Premchand is the 534th most popular writer (up from 623rd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from India (down from 56th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Premchands by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Premchand ranks 534 out of 5,755. Before him are Sidney Sheldon, Lesya Ukrainka, T. S. Eliot, Paul Claudel, Muhammad Iqbal, and José Martí. After him are Patrick Süskind, Camille Flammarion, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Washington Irving, Eugene O'Neill, and Erich Kästner.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Premchand ranks 18. Before him are Franz Marc, André Derain, Paul Hausser, Manuel Azaña, Wilhelm List, and Werner von Fritsch. After him are Elton Mayo, Otto Weininger, Max Wertheimer, H. L. Mencken, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Alexander Blok. Among people deceased in 1936, Premchand ranks 19. Before him are Albert Fish, G. K. Chesterton, Alexander Glazunov, Miguel de Unamuno, Fuad I of Egypt, and Grazia Deledda. After him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Louis Blériot, Hans von Seeckt, Ottorino Respighi, Karl Kraus, and Buenaventura Durruti.

Others Born in 1880

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1936

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In India

Among people born in India, Premchand ranks 60 out of 1,493. Before him are Zubin Mehta (1936), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Savitribai Phule (1831), Salman Khan (1965), and Vyasa (-390). After him are Aśvaghoṣa (80), Kim Philby (1912), Ronald Ross (1857), Satyajit Ray (1921), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), and Ram Mohan Roy (1772).

Others born in India

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Premchand ranks 11. Before him are Valmiki (-80), Tulsidas (1532), Meera (1498), Salman Rushdie (1947), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), and Savitribai Phule (1831). After him are Ghalib (1797), Vātsyāyana (300), Tukaram (1608), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Lawrence Durrell (1912), and Basava (1134).

Indian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL