The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told

Poonam Saxena gathers the Hindi short story at full strength, from Premchand's village realism to writers who came of age after Partition. The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told assembles work by authors including Premchand, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar and Krishna Sobti, translated into English with the intention of keeping the register of the originals. The selections move across caste, displacement, desire, family duty and social change, and the editor's choices favour stories that left a mark on later writing. The result reads as both an anthology and an informal history of a literary tradition. Quick highlights: • Major Hindi short fiction collected in one English-language volume • Writers ranging from Premchand to later twentieth-century voices • Stories addressing Partition, caste, identity and social struggle • An approachable starting place for readers meeting Hindi literature For students of South Asian writing and readers of literature in translation. Published by Aleph and available from Boipoka.