Godaan (The Gift of a Cow)

Premchand's last completed novel (1936), and the greatest novel of Indian village life. Hori, a farmer with five bighas of land, a sharp-tongued, loyal wife named Dhaniya and a mountain of debts, wants only one thing: a cow tied at his door. Around his small hope Premchand builds a whole society: the landlord Rai Sahib with his theatricals and his worries, the moneylenders and priests of the village, and the city of Lucknow with its mill-owners, doctors, editors and philosophers. Tender, comic and unsparing, it is the classic of Hindustani realism. Urdu text with a facing English translation; the first two chapters are free to read.

منشی پریم چند کا آخری مکمل ناول (۱۹۳۶ء)۔ پانچ بیگھے کا کسان ہوری، اس کی بیوی دھنیا اور ایک گائے کی آرزو۔ گاؤں کے زمیندار، مہاجن اور پنڈت، اور لکھنؤ کی شہری دنیا۔ اردو متن مع انگریزی ترجمہ۔