GODAN by Premchand

GODAN 

  

GODAN is the novel written by the MUNSHI PREMCHAND in 1936. this novel is based on the socio-economic deprivation.

The story of Godan is revolve around the poor farmers of the villages who are unable to pay tax and loan to their zamindars.

    

SUMMARY

The story rotates around numerous characters speaking to the different segments of Indian people group. The worker and rustic culture is spoken to by the group of Hori Mahato and his relatives which incorporates Dhania(wife), Rupa and Sona (girls), Gobar (child), Jhunia (little girl in-law). The Story  of godan begins from a point where Hori has a profound yearning of having a dairy animals as different a huge number of poor workers. He bought, on obligation of Rs.80, a cow from Bhola, a cowherd. Hori attempted to cheat his siblings for 10 rupees. This thus prompted to a battle between his better half and his more youthful sibling, Heera's significant other. Envious of Hori, his more youthful sibling Heera harmed the dairy animals and fled in light of the dread of police activity. At the point when the police came asking the demise of the cow, Hori took an advance and paid the reward to the police and could tidy up his more youthful sibling's name. Jhunia, the girl of Bhola, was a dowager and stole away with Gobar after she got pregnant by him. As a result of the dread of the activity from villagers Gobar additionally fled to the town. Hori and Dhania were not able toss a young lady conveying their child's youngster and gave her security and acknowledged her as their little girl in-law. The town Panchayat fines Hori as his significant other handles the individual assault of the Pandit on them for shielding Jhunia. Hori again is constrained to take a credit and pay the punishment. Hori is in colossal obligation from nearby cash moneylenders and in the end offered his little girl Rupa for insignificant 200 rupees to spare his familial land from being unloaded on account of his failure to pay arrive impose. In any case, his assurance to pay those 200 rupees and to have a bovine to give drain to his fabulous child, prompts to Hori's demise in light of exorbitant work. When he is going to pass on, his better half Dhania took out all the cash she had (1.25 Rupees) and made Hori pay the minister for the benefit of Godan .This inevitably satisfies the customary dream of Hori yet at the same time his craving to pay back the rupees 200 to his child-in-law and to have a dairy animals to nourish the drain to his grandson stay unfulfilled. Hori is appeared as a run of the mill poor laborer who is the casualty of conditions and have every one of the inadequacies of regular man yet notwithstanding this, he remains by his trustworthiness, obligations and judgment when time requires. He is indicated dead in part fulfilled and halfway unsatisfied.

Theme Of The GODAN

 the story of godan is  involve various theme in various different ways. these are:-

• Problem due to caste segregation.
• exploitation of the lower class by zamindars.
• The account speaks to the normal Indian rancher's presence under pilgrim lead, with the hero confronting social and medieval misuse.