"The most authentic and penetrating of Premchand’s portrayals center around village life. This was a life he knew intimately , since he had grown up in a village. Then as a teacher, and later an inspector of schools, he travelled extensively through the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh."

“The greater the calamity, the tougher the fibre. It is tragedy that makes a man.”

“Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?”

“Premachnad was always man of the people, a man of the soil. He spoke for country’s poor, not just the poor of his native state.With his powerful pen, he painted picture after picture of rural India, its largely static societt, its caste clashes as well its communal harmony, its poverty and its exploitation, as well as richness of character of so many of its people.”

“Premchand’s stories have a mixed legacy. Seen from a contemporary view point it is easy to see his ideal of womanhood the basis for women’s continued subordination withing the patriarchal family.”

“The future belongs to the peasants and workers...India cannot remain unaffected by these winds of change...Who had suspected before the Resolution the tremendous might of the exploited peoples of Russia.”

“Also Premchand can not be seen in isolation. He has to be placed in the colonial dispensation was integral in Premchand’s writings. Any viable reaction to this confrontation had to have a differential mix of both the new and the old.”