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Mansarovar 1 (मानसरोवर 1): प्रेमचंद की मशहूर कहानियाँ
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Mansarovar is the title under which Munshi Premchand's short stories were gathered in several volumes, and this first one brings together a selection of his best-known tales. Written in Hindi, they take in the lives of villagers, farmers and townspeople in British-ruled North India, looking closely at poverty, caste, family duty and the pressures of changing times.
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Premchand's sympathy for ordinary people, often the poor and the overlooked, runs through these pieces. They are simple in form yet sharp in their observation of human behaviour and social hypocrisy, and for many readers in India they are a first encounter with modern Hindi fiction.
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