Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Shrivasatava)
(1880-1936)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Gaeffke, Peter, Hindi Literature in the 20th Century (1978)
  • Prakash, Chandra Gupta, Premchand (1968)
  • Premchand, The Gift of a Cow, trans. Gordon Roadarmel (1968)
  • Rai, Amrit, Premchand: His Life and Times (1991)
  • Roadarmel, Gordon, ed. & trans., A Death in Delhi (1972)
  • Rubin, David, The World of Premchand (1969)

 

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