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Gaban : Gaban is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, written in 1931. Through this novel, he tries to show the falling moral values among lower middle class Indian youth in the era of British India, and to what heights a person can get to, to reach the world of elite class,and maintain the false image as a rich person. It tells the story of Ramanath, a handsome, pleasure seeking, boastful, but a morally weak person, who tries to make his wife Jalpa, happy by gifting her jewelry which he can't really afford to buy via his meager salary, and then gets engulfed in a web of debts, which ultimately forces him to commit embezzlement. It is considered Premchand's best work, after Godaan. Godaan : This is the story of Hori, a poor peasant, who longs to own a cow. Hori is so desperate that he gets into an agreement with one of the villagers who gives him a cow in exchange. As much as Hori is delighted, he era, his brother, is jealous. What happens when he era kills the cow? One of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature, God a an was Premchand’s last complete novel. It continues to remain one of the greatest Hindi novels of modern Indian literature.