Biography of Munshi Premchand Munshi Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, was one of the most prolific and influential writers in the Hindi and Urdu languages. He was born on July 31, 1880, in Lamhi, a small village near Varanasi, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India), and he passed away on October […]