Premchand’s Illiteracy Wins over Enlightenment: Flaying the Armchair Nationalist

Name of Author : Dr. Ghanshyam Kumar

Abstract: The present paper entitled Premchand‘s Illiteracy Wins over Enlightenment: Flaying the Armchair Nationalists aims to highlight how the educated feel ashamed before a lone illiterate filled with love for social beings. The story from the book =Famous Short Story from Premchand‘ is the translation from Hindi by J. C. Joshi, in which, a central figure, Thakur Darshan Singh, an old retired army man, sincerely takes a resolve to shoulder the responsibility of social service in front of the enlightened audience and the speaker whose speech on social harmony encourages him a lot from within.

Keywords : Nationalism, armchair nationalist, casteism, outcastes, social harmony

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