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	Sevasadan (Hindi) by Munshi Premchand
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Sevasadan (The House of Service), originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn (Market of Beauty), is one of the most iconic novels by `Upanyas Samrat` Munshi Premchand, first published in Hindi in 1919. A Brahmin woman is beguiled into a loveless marriage owing to her family`s poverty. Suman`s journey from her maternal home to an orphanage, sheltering daughters of courtesans, is a life-changing one. Premchand offers an incisive and yet a sensitive representation of a `fallen` woman in a hypocritical patriarchal society at the turn of the 20th century. Suman`s reformation is a powerful narrative revolving around themes of sexuality, matrimony and prostitution. Set in Varanasi, Sevasadan foregrounds the socio-cultural history of India through a woman`s gaze.

ISBN - 9789352761241

Pages : 350