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Product DescriptionBrought together for the first time, the multi-volumeCollected Short Stories of Premchand are the first authoritative editions of their kind. Written between 1908 and 1937, they chart out the development of the author who held seminal views on morals and manners, nation and nationhood, loveand longing, power and politics, creeds and credo, and margins and peripheries, contextualizing him and bringing his contemporary relevance.The first in the multi-volume collection of short stories, this book contains, in chronological order, 50 short stories written by Premchand between 1908 and 1916. With a General Introduction by Alok Rai, a Volume Introduction by the editors, a comprehensive chronology of Premchand, extensive notesand detailed publishing history of the stories, a special table with titles in Urdu, Hindi, and English translation, and a glossary, this volume will appeal to students of literature in general and translation in particular as well as general readers.About the AuthorPremchand (1880-1936) was one of India's greatest writers in Hindi and Urdu.Anisur Rahman is Professor in the Department of English and the Registrar at Jamia Millia Islamia.Ameena Kazi Ansari is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Jamia Millia Islamia.Alok Rai is Professor, in the Department of English at the University of Delhi.