52 SOCIAL SCIENTIST v Each and every work ofPremchand enshrines an intention to undo the injustice and exploitation and to bridge the gap between the haves and havcnots. Prcmchand is an authentic writer of the masses before whom the liberation of the people is the foremost aim. Gandhi and Premchand were thus poles apart in the totality of their thought. K P SINGH 1 Shivrani Devi Premchand, Premchand Ghar Men, 1956, p 110. 2 Ibid,^\\2. <{ "I have presented no new principle, but have tried to restate old principles",Nirmal Kumar Bosc, Selections from Gandhi, 1948. 4 ^ Literature and Life : A Selection from Writings of Gorky, 1946, p 99. <) Premchand, Hans, April 1932, p 40. 6 Premchand, ^amana, June 1905. '7 Premchand, Viuidh Prasang, 1962, p 165. 3 M K Gandhi, Towards Non-Violent Socialism, 1951, p 20. ^-9 N K Rose, op cit, p 275. , 10 Ayodhya Singh, Bharat ka Mukti Sangram, 1977, p 442. n Premchand, ^amana, February 1919. 12 Rajeshwar Guru, Premchand Ek Adhyan, 1964, p 101. 13 Premchand, "Mahajani Sabhyata", Mongol Sootra Va Anya Rachnayen, p 367. 14 Premchand, Godan, 1974, p 77. 15 Premchand, Piemashram, 1966, p 43. ^ Premchand, Kaya Kalp, 1973, p 43. 17 M K Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth (Hindi), 1947, p 579. 18 Shivrani Devi Premchand, op cit, p 113. 19 Premchand, Sevasadan, 1973, p 118. ^° Shivrani Devi Premchand, op cit, p 91. 21 Premchand, ('Russia Men Dharm Virodhi Andolan", Viuidh Prasang, 1962, p 154. ^2 Madhuri, Lucknow, December 1928. 'ab Shivrani Devi Premchand, op cit, p 125» 24 JW,pp 148-149. ^ Premchand, Ghaban, 1972, p 172. ^ E M S Namboodiripad, The Mahatma and Ism (Hindi), 1960, p 3. tn Shivrani Dovi Premchand, op cit, pp 253-254. w Premchand, Karm Bhumi, 1973, p 226. ^