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Gaban (literally, Embezzlement) is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, published by Saraswati Press 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 depths a person can descend to, to become a pseudo-elite, and maintain a false image as a rich person. Gaban is a cult classic satire of Premchand.
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 with his meager salary, gets engulfed in a web of debts, which ultimately forces him to commit embezzlement. It is considered Premchand’s best work, after Godaan.
It was adapted into a 1966 Hindi film with the same name by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
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