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Gaban
AuthorMunshi Premchand
Original titleगबन
TranslatorChristopher R. King
LanguageHindi
GenreFiction
Published1931
PublisherSaraswati Press (India), Oxford University Press (US)
Published in English
2000
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
ISBN978-0-19-565216-1 (Eng. trans. paperback)
Original text
गबन at Hindi Wikisource

Gaban (literally, Embezzlement) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, published by Saraswati Press in 1931.[1] Through this novel, he tries to show "the falling moral values among lower middle class Indian youth in the era of British India", and to what depths a person can descend to, to become a pseudo-elite, and maintain a false image as a rich person.[2]

It tells the story of Ramanath, a handsome, pleasure seeking, boastful, but a morally weak person, who tries to make his wife Jalpa happy by gifting her jewelry which he can't really afford to buy with his meager salary, gets engulfed in a web of debts, which ultimately forces him to commit embezzlement. It is considered Premchand's best work, after Godaan.

It was adapted into a 1966 Hindi film with the same name by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

References

  1. ^ Sigi 2006, p. 90
  2. ^ "Munshi Premchand Birth Anniversary - From 'Sevasadan' to 'Godaan', 5 must-read books by the legendary author". The Free Press Journal. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

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