Nirmala By Munshi Premchand, Size : 5" X 8"

Munshi Premchand’s Nirmala is a Hindi classic novel. In it, a fifteen year old girl is forced to marry an old widower, and her life seems to have become turned on its head by fate. The novel discusses the problems of the institution of marriage and shows how child marriages have worked against the women in this largely partriarchal society. The book is an example of Hindi literature at its finest and will interest students of Hindi literature.