Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet and biographer in both the Hindi and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. He is the son of Munshi Premchand, a pioneer of modern Urdu literature and of Hindi literature. A prolific writer, Rai made his literary debut with novel Beej in 1952 and went on to write an acclaimed biography of his father, Premchand, Kalam ka Sipahi (1962), which later won him the Sahitya Akademi award for 1963.
Amrit Rai
- Name
- Amrit Rai
- Born
- 3 September 1921
- Birthplace
- Lamhi, Banaras State, British India
- Died
- 14 August 1996
- Place of death
- Allahabad
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Known for
- Premchand: Kalam Ka Sipahi
- Honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award · Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship
- Languages
- Hindi
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Amrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet and biographer in both the Hindi and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. He is the son of Munshi Premchand, a pioneer of modern Urdu literature and of Hindi literature. A prolific writer, Rai made his literary debut with novel Beej in 1952 and went on to write an acclaimed biography of his father, Premchand, Kalam ka Sipahi (1962), which later won him the Sahitya Akademi award for 1963.
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Amrit Rai (1921–1996) was a biographer, opinion journalist and writer, a national of the British Raj and the Dominion of India. The biographer was born in Kanpur and died in Prayagraj.
Among the works is Premchand: Kalam Ka Sipahi. Languages used include Hindi. Honours include Jawarharlal Nehru Fellowship and Sahitya Akademi Award.
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• Name — Amrit Rai • Born — 3 September 1921 • Birthplace — Lamhi, Banaras State, British India • Died — 14 August 1996 • Place of death — Allahabad • Occupation — Writer • Language — Hindi, Urdu • Relatives — Munshi Premchand (father)
Career
Career
Rai co-edited Chitthi Patri (1962), a two-volume book on the letters of Premchand along with his biographer, Madan Gopal. In 1982, he donated a collection of his father's 236 letters to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) at Teen Murti House, Delhi. His A House Divided is an influential account of how the shared Hindi/Hindavī linguistic tradition became differentiated into Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu.
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Death
Rai died in Allahabad, in August 1996 at the age of 75. He had suffered a paralytic stroke earlier in March.
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- 1.Kumar, Kuldeep. Munshi Premchand’s younger son Amrit Rai was an important writer and translator in his own right. The Hindu. 2021-09-13. 0971-751X.
- 2.Amratray. Premchand Kalam Ka Sipahi. 1962.
- 3.New light on Premchand. The Hindu. 10 August 2012.
- 4.India Today. Amrit Rai, prolific Hindi writer & son of Munshi Premchand, passes away in Allahabad. 16 October 2012.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Rai, Amrit. Premchand: A Life. Harish Trivedi, translator. New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1982.
- Rai, Amrit. A House Divided: The Origin and Development of Hindi/Hindavi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984.
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