Seva sadan
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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.
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Sign InBazaar-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 courtesansthe seva-sadan of the Hindi title. While the Urdu title highlights the fall of the heroinethe Hindi title highlights her redemptionand it is tempting to see the two titles as widely symptomatic of their respective literary cultures.CharitiesHinduism
The Swinging Light
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First Published
2000
Pages
318 pages
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3
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
HIN, ENG
Status
Published
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