Godaan by premchand in hindi app for android description: Godaan by premchand in hindigodaan ( ) the gift of a cow is a hindi novel by munshi premchand.
It was first published in 1936 and is considered one of the greatest hindustani novels of modern indian literature.
Themed around the socio economic deprivation as well as the exploitation of the village poor the novel was the last complete novel of premchand.
It was translated into english in 1957 by jai ratan and p.
Lal translation a 1968 translation by gordon c.
Roadarmel is now considered a classic in itself.
Godaan was made into a hindi film in 1963 starring rajkumar mehmood and shashikala.
In 2004 godaan was part of the 26 episode tv series 39 tehreer....
Munshi premchand ki based on the writing of premchand starring pankaj kapur and surekha sikri directed by gulzar and produced by doordarshan.
The story revolves around many characters representing the various sections of indian community.
The peasant and rural society is represented by the family of hori mahato and his family members which includes dhania rupa and sona(daughters) gobar(son) jhunia( daughter in law).
The story starts from a point where hori has a deep desire of having a cow as other millions of poor peasants.
He purchased on debt of rs.
80 a cow from bhola a cowherd.
Hori tried to cheat his brothers for 10 rupees.
This in turn led to a fight between his wife and his younger brother heera s wife.
Jealous of hori his younger brother heera poisoned the cow and ran away because of the fear of police action.
When the police came enquiring the death of the cow hori took a loan and paid the bribe to the police and was able to clear off his younger brother s name.
Jhunia the daughter of bhola was a widow and eloped with gobar after she got pregnant by him.
Because of the fear of the action from villagers gobar also ran away to the town.
Hori and dhania were unable to throw a girl carrying their son 39 s child from their doorstep and gave her protection and acc
