प्रेमचंद का सर्वश्रेष्ठ नाटक कर्बला - अमर कथा शिल्पी मुंशी प्रेमचंद द्वारा इस्लाम धर्म के संस्थापक हजरत मुहम्मद के नवासे हुसैन की शहादत का सजीव व रोमांचक विवरण लिए हुए एक ऐतिहासिक नाटक है। इस मार्मिक नाटक में यह दिखाया गया है कि उस काल के मुस्लिम शासकों ने किस प्रकार मानवता प्रेमी, असहायों व निर्बलों की सहायता करने वाले हुसैन को परेशान किया और अमानवीय यातनाएं दे देकर उसका कत्ल कर दिया। कर्बला के मैदान में लड़ा गया यह युद्ध इतिहास में अपना विशेष महत्त्व रखता है। मुस्लिम इतिहास पर आधारित मुंशी प्रेमचंद द्वारा लिखा गया यह नाटक ‘कर्बला' साहित्य में अपना विशेष महत्त्व रखता है
Munshi Premchand (Hindi: मुंशी प्रेमचंद) was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent,and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindustani writers of the early twentieth century.
Born Dhanpat Rai, he began writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand", while he is also known as "Munshi Premchand", Munshi being an honorary prefix. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by some Hindi writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi.
Premchand is considered the first Hindi author whose writings prominently featured realism. His novels describe the problems of the poor and the urban middle-class. His works depict a rationalistic outlook, which views religious values as something that allows the powerful hypocrites to exploit the weak. He used literature for the purpose of arousing public awareness about national and social issues and often wrote about topics related to corruption, child widowhood, prostitution, feudal system, poverty, colonialism and on the India's freedom movement.
Several of his early works, such as A Little Trick and A Moral Victory, satirised the Indians who cooperated with the British colonial government.
In the 1920s, he was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement and the accompanying struggle for social reform. During this period, his works dealt with the social issues such as poverty, zamindari exploitation (Premashram, 1922), dowry system (Nirmala, 1925), educational reform and political oppression (Karmabhumi, 1931).
In his last days, he focused on village life as a stage for complex drama, as seen in his most famous work Godan as well as the short-story collection Kafan (1936).Premchand believed that social realism was the way for Hindi literature, as opposed to the "feminine quality", tenderness and emotion of the contemporary Bengali literature.
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