Bazaar-e-Husn(Urdu: بازارٍ حسن;) i.e The Red Light Area(Red-light district), Hindi title Seva-sadan Hindi: सेवासदन (i.e. The House of Service) is a Hindi/Urdu novel by Munshi Premchand. Originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn but first published in Hindi under the title Seva-sadan (i.e. The House of Service) in 1919 and later on in Urdu in 1924 from Lahore[1].
It is the greatest novel of modern Indian literature and was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of just about a hundred pages each.
Genres
- Bazaar-e-Husn is a tale of an unhappy housewife who is beguiled away from the path of domestic virtue into becoming a courtesan but then reforms herself and atones by serving as the manager of an orphanage for the young daughters of courtesans
- the seva-sadan of the Hindi title. While the Urdu title highlights the fall of the heroine
- the Hindi title highlights her redemption
- and it is tempting to see the two titles as widely symptomatic of their respective literary cultures.
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- Hinduism
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