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Review article on Sudhi Pradhan’s Documents of the Marxist Cultural Movement in India,  published in The Marxist, Vol. 4, No. 2, April–June 1986. It was in April 1936 that the Progressive Writers’ Association was formed in Lucknow. The Golden Jubilee of that organisation was celebrated recently under the presidentship of…

Presidential Address of Munshi Premchand, delivered at the First All India Progressive Writers’ Conference, held at Lucknow on 10 April 1936. (Translated from Hindustani.) This conference is a memorable occasion in the history of our literature. Hitherto we had been content to discuss language and its problems; the existing critical…