"The Shroud" (Kafan)
by Premchand
(1881-1936)
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*Harmonized translation*
from Urdu-script
and Devanagari versions,
by Frances W.
Pritchett, Dec. 2004
*Notes* to the translation
*A note on textual and script problems*
*The original Urdu text, Dec. 1935*
An
Urdu-script-based,
Devanagari-supplemented text:
*1a*; *1b*; *1c*; *1d*
*2a*; *2b*
*3a*; *3b*; *3c*; *3d*; *3e*
*A
glossary* by Imre Bangha
*A scholarly
version in Devanagari script*
Another
Devanagari version, with annotations:
*A Premchand Reader*, edited by Norman
Zide
(Honolulu:
East-West Center Press, 1965), pp. 99-110
*A
glossary* for the Devanagari version, by S. Verma
A
translation from the Urdu by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad:
*Annual
of Urdu Studies 19 (2004)*
A
translation from the Urdu by Jeffrey Krouse and Hanif Fauque,
2003-04:
*provided by
the translators*
Premchand's
address to the new All-India Progressive Writers' Association,
Lucknow, 1936:
*on
this site*
Some
of
Ghalib's thoughts about shrouds: {3,5}, {7,7}
Mir on shrouds:
{689,2}
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Some background material:
Shaista Akhtar
Banu Suhrawardy, "Prem Cand and His Imitators":
*A
Critical Survey of the Development of the Modern Urdu Novel
and Short Story (1945), Chapter XV*
C. M. Naim and
Carlo Coppola, "Premchand, 1881-1936"
(introduction, novel excerpt,
story): *Mehfil 1,2 (1963)*
Sara Rai,
"Realism as a Creative Process: Features of Munshi Premchand's
Ideology":
*Social Scientist 7, 84 (July 1979)*
K. P. Singh, "Premchand and Gandhism": *Social Scientist 9,97 (Aug. 1980)*
Frances
W. Pritchett, "The Chess Players: From Premchand to Satyajit
Ray":
*Journal of South Asian Literature 22,2
(Summer-Fall 1986*
[*the original Urdu text of Shatranj ki bazi*]
[*a Devanagari text and glossary for Shatranj ke
khilari*]
[*an Urdu text and glossary for the Satyajit Ray
film*]
Jesse Astbury,
"Exploitation and Conscience in Premchand":
*Annual of Urdu Studies 11 (1996)*
Jagdish Lal
Dawar, "Representation of Popular Culture in Premchand's Works":
*Social Scientist 24, 275-77 (April-June 1996)*
Rupert Snell, "A
Timeline of Premchand's Life":
in *a
SOAS workbook, 1996*
Premchand, "The
Pharaohs of Urdu," an essay, trans. by C. M. Naim:
*Annual of Urdu Studies 18 (2003)*
Annie Zaidi, "A
Tribute to a Master":
*Frontline 21,26 (Dec. 18-26, 2004)*
Alok Rai, "Out of
the Textbook":
*Indian Express, Sept. 4, 2005*
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