منشی پریم چند کے افسانوں میں سماجی شعور

  • Dr. Muhammad Ijaz Tabassam
  • Bushra Ishaq

Abstract

Prem Chand has a great importance in the history of Urdu fiction. He has depicted the village life and natural living style of people very artistically through his short stories. His social conscious distinguish of the culture and traditional society of his age. At the same time he has highlighted the current issues of human society in the perspective of modern age of his time. He portraits the pictures of the society, with great skill and powerful expressions. He also described the village culture, the economic, religious and political issues through his short stories especially in Pachtawa (1914) Panchayat (1916) Sawa Ser Geehon (1924), Pawas ki Raat (1930) and Kafan (1935) got a significant popularity on the horizon of Urdu literature. This tradition can be scene in the literary works of Balwant Singh, Rajhinder Singh Baidi and Ahmad Nadim Qasmi. In this essay all the facts are described in details through the references of Prem Chand's short stories.