Voice of Conscience as Divine Say: Moral Predicament in Premchand’s The Holy Panchayat

Abstract

The research article titled Voice of Conscience as Divine Say: Moral Predicament in Premchand’s The Holy Panchayat proposes to bring to the fore the dynamic craft of Premchand’s creative oeuvre that shares humanism in the context of thorough social predicaments. Life runs not merely on the ideas of selfish motivation, rather it has psychosocial dynamics. The poverty stricken society of Premchand is not devoid of humane tendencies. The characters in Premchand’s writings portray a vision of life based on the voice of atman. That personal ambitions and grudges hold no value when tested on the measures of conscience forms the central thesis of this article that envisions the seat of a judge akin to the Divine seat.