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This entry deals with the Indian novel Rangbhoomi (1924–1925) or Rangabhumi, by Premchand, who was a Marxist and Gandhi-inspired writer of short stories and novels. He coincided with the period of resistance to British imperial rule in India which has the Partition of Bengal (1905), Amritsar, the emergence of the Indian National Congress, and Gandhi’s support of the peasant and traditional Indian life while waging a “noncooperation” war through the 1920s.
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Tambling, J. (2021). Premchand: Rangbhoomi. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_344-1
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