Seva sadan

Munshi Premchand

About this book

Bazaar-e-Husn(Urdu: بازارٍ حسن;) i.e The Red Light Area(Red-light district), Hindi title Seva-sadan Hindi: सेवासदन (i.e. The House of Service) is a Hindi/Urdu novel by Munshi Premchand. Originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn but first published in Hindi under the title Seva-sadan (i.e. The House of Service) in 1919 and later on in Urdu in 1924 from Lahore[1].

It is the greatest novel of modern Indian literature and was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of just about a hundred pages each.

Subjects

  • and it is tempting to see the two titles as widely symptomatic of their respective literary cultures
  • bazaar-e-husn is a tale of an unhappy housewife who is beguiled away from the path of domestic virtu
  • charities
  • hinduism
  • the hindi title highlights her redemption
  • the seva-sadan of the hindi title. while the urdu title highlights the fall of the heroine