Karmabhoomi - Premchand

Karmabhoomi jest hindi powieść napisana przez Munshi Premchand.

Karmabhoomi is set in the Uttar Pradesh. From the start of the 20th century, Hinduism and Islam had coexisted in India for more than a thousand years. Barring the occasional outbursts of violence, both spiritual communities shared powerful societal bonds except union and had lived together peacefully. English Education, drove a wedge between communities.

India consisted of a great mass of poor and illiterate people who have been used by the wealthy and strong, irrespective of religion or caste. The writer has sympathy and toiling masses are certainly revealed in his writings. Novel is set against this backdrop.

Being significantly affected by Gandhiji's satyagraha movement, this novel is woven by Premchand across the societal aims championed because of it. Human life is described as a field of activity where destinies and the character of people are formed and shown through their activities. A number of these activities, which might appear melodramatic increase resonance in Karmabhumi in common realistic fiction,, set as they can be in this philosophical and representational framework. Each character (or group) is depicted as coming to your place where they, she, or else he have to act on their convictions. The climax occurs within an assembly of dispossessed and the poor, where they express their demand. A cop's bullet puts to death the most youthful, which event finally results in success of the basis for land.