Godaan - A novel by Munshi Premchand

Here is my next novel known as Godaan by Munshi Premchand which is also known as The Gift of a Cow.


Content : This story revolves around many characters representing various section of Indian Community . The peasents and rural society by the family of Hori Mahato and the various characters related to him . The story starts from the desire of Hori of having a cow like other poor peasent . So , to fulfill his desire of having a cow , he at the debt of Rs. 80 bought it from Bhola . Hori tried to cheat on his brothers for 10 Rs. which led to a fight between his wife and his younger brother's wife, Heera's wife. Heera poisoned Hori cow ,because of his jealousy towards Hori , and ran away because of fear of police action . Hori took loan and pay bribe to police for inquiring about the death of his cow and was able clear off the name of Bhola. Jhunia ,daughter of Bhola , was widow and eloped with Gobar , son of Hori , after she got pregnant by him . Hori and his wife Dhania were unable to throw a girl carrying their son child and so accepted her daughter-in-law after Gobar ran due to the fear of villagers action. Hori again is compelled to pay penalty by taking loan as his wife tackles personal attack of Pandit  on them for sheltering Jhunia by village Panchayat , eventually married his daughter Rupa off for mere  200 rupees to save his ancestral land being auctioned due to inability to pay tax and loans . His determination to pay 200 rupees and have a cow to provide milk to his grandson , leads to his death due to excessive work. When he was about to die , his wife took all moey had [1.25Rupees] and made Hori pay the priest on the behalh of ( godan ) (cow donation) which fills his traditional dream but his desire to pay 200 rupees back  to his son-in-law and have cow to feed milk to his grandson remain unfulfilled . Hori here is shown as a poor peasent who is the victim of circumstances of common man but despite all he stand by his honesty , duities and judgement when required .



Review : Godaan is mostly rated good but with some persons perspective it was not liked by them.But we should respect each  individuals opinion.
Rating : 4.3/5

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