Munshi Premchand was born in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi (Benares), on 31 July 1880 and was appointed Dhanpat Rai (‘master of wealth’). He started writing under the pen name “Nawab Rai” but then moved to “Premchand” as an honorary prefix for Munshi. …
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Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir was born in February 1723 and also known as Mir, was an 18th-century Mughal Indian Urdu poet and one of the founders of the Urdu language. He was one of the principal …
