Sevasadana

novel by Premchand

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In Premchand
His first major Hindi novel, Sevasadana (1918; “House of Service”), dealt with the prostitution and moral corruption among the Indian middle class. Premchand’s works depict the social evils of arranged marriages, the abuses of the British bureaucracy, and exploitation of the rural peasantry by moneylenders and officials.
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