Prema by Premchand in Hindi. Popular Hindi novel by famous Hindi writer Munshi Premchand Ji. Premchand (or Prem Chand) is a pseudonym; His name was actually Navab or Dhanpat (Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava). One source notes that "Sixty-five years after his death Premchand remains the most outstanding figure in twentieth-century Hindi literature.