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Amrit Rai (1921-1996) was an Indian writer and biographer, known for his contributions to Hindi and Urdu literature as well as for being the son of the renowned author Munshi Premchand. His notable works include the biography 'Kalam ka Sipahi' and 'A House Divided', which explores the evolution of Hindi and Urdu. Rai passed away in Allahabad at the age of 75 after suffering a stroke.

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Amrit Rai

Amrit Rai (1921-1996) was an Indian writer and biographer, known for his contributions to Hindi and Urdu literature as well as for being the son of the renowned author Munshi Premchand. His notable works include the biography 'Kalam ka Sipahi' and 'A House Divided', which explores the evolution of Hindi and Urdu. Rai passed away in Allahabad at the age of 75 after suffering a stroke.

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Amrit Rai

Amrit Rai (3 September 1921 – 14 August 1996) was


an Indian writer, poet and biographer in both the Hindi Amrit Rai
and Urdu styles of the Hindustani language. He is the Born 3 September 1921
son of Munshi Premchand, a pioneer of modern Urdu Lamhi, Banaras State, British
literature and of Hindi literature. A prolific writer, Rai India
made his literary debut with novel Beej in 1952 and Died 14 August 1996 (aged 74)
went on to write an acclaimed biography of his father, Allahbad
Premchand, Kalam ka Sipahi (1970),[1] which later Occupation Writer
won him the Sahitya Akademi award for 1963.[2] Language Hindi, Urdu
Nationality Indian
Relatives Munshi Premchand (father)
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.[3] His A House Divided is an
influential account of how the shared Hindi/Hindavī linguistic tradition became differentiated into
Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu.

Death
Rai died in Allahabad, in August 1996 at the age of 75. He had suffered a paralytic stroke earlier in
March.[2]

Bibliography
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.

References
1. Amratray (1962). Premchand Kalam Ka Sipahi (http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.51
4644).
2. "Amrit Rai, prolific Hindi writer & son of Munshi Premchand, passes away in Allahabad" (htt
p://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amrit-rai-prolific-hindi-writer-%26-son-of-munshi-premchand-p
asses-away-in-allahabad/1/283239.html). India Today. 16 October 2012. Archived (https://w
eb.archive.org/web/20140326042400/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amrit-rai-prolific-hindi-
writer-%26-son-of-munshi-premchand-passes-away-in-allahabad/1/283239.html) from the
original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
3. "New light on Premchand" (http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-cultu
re/new-light-on-premchand/article3750272.ece). The Hindu. 10 August 2012. Archived (http
s://web.archive.org/web/20140203075639/http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/hi
story-and-culture/new-light-on-premchand/article3750272.ece) from the original on 3
February 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

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