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Premchand's novella Nirmala, first published in 1928, is one of the most poignant novels in Hindi on the theme of the young adolescent yoked to an elderly husband. Clearly reformist in its agenda, this novel succeeds in exploring sensitive and even dangerous terrain. Alok Rai's English... read more

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Although there were dozens of people in Babu Udayabhanulal's household-cousins maternal and paternal, sons of brothers, sons of sisters-there is little reason to concern ourselves with them here.

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  1. Premacanda (Author)
 

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