A Study Awareness of Soordas in Rangbhoomi by Munshi Premchand

Abstract

Premchand published his novel Rangbhoomi first time in Hindi in 1925 and he considered the same to be his best work. It came out in Urdu in 1928 under the title Chaugan-e-Hasti. It was translated in English in 2011 by Manju Jain and entitled as Playground. Because “set against the backdrop of colonial India – characterized by a brutal state, opportunistic, feudal landlords and ruthless capitalists – this novel is a grim account of the blind beggar Soordas’s struggle against the acquisition of his ancestral land.” (Premchand, Backside of Cover page). The novel has many themes intermingled with one-another. The “themes such as industrialization, atrocities committed by princely states, the role of women in India’s independence movement and caste and class hierarchies” (backside of cover page) are still relevant.