Sevasadan

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Author

Munshi Premchand

Contributions

Vasudha Dalmia (Introduction) - Contributor
Snehal Shingavi (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

2005-10-01 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

79,000 words, Guess

Page Count

316 pages

Identifiers

ISBN-100195668995
ISBN-139780195668995
LibraryThing1529842
Open LibraryOL7394749M

Description

Bazaar-e-Husn(Urdu: بازارٍ حسن;) i.e The Red Light Area(Red-light district), Hindi title Seva-sadan Hindi: सेवासदन (i.e. The House of Service) is a Hindi/Urdu novel by Munshi Premchand. Originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn but first published in Hindi under the title Seva-sadan (i.e. The House of Service) in 1919 and later on in Urdu in 1924 from Lahore[1]. It is the greatest novel of modern Indian literature and was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of just about a hundred pages each.

Subjects

Topics

Hinduism Charitiesthe Hindi title highlights her redemptionthe seva-sadan of the Hindi title. While the Urdu title highlights the fall of the heroineand it is tempting to see the two titles as widely symptomatic of their respective literary culturesBazaar-e-Husn is a tale of an unhappy housewife who is beguiled away from the path of domestic virtue into becoming a courtesan but then reforms herself and atones by serving as the manager of an orphanage for the young daughters of courtesans

Other Editions

SevasadanOxford University Press, USA2005-10-01

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