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| birth_place = [[Lamhi]], [[Banaras State]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
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| death_place = [[Allahabad]]<br />
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'''Amrit Rai''' (3 September 1921 &ndash; 14 August 1996) was an Indian writer, poet and biographer in both the [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]] styles of the [[Hindustani language]]. He is the son of [[Munshi Premchand]], a pioneer of modern [[Urdu literature]] and of [[Hindi literature]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Kumar |first=Kuldeep |date=2021-09-13 |title=Munshi Premchand’s younger son Amrit Rai was an important writer and translator in his own right |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/remembering-amrit-rai-the-raj-kapoor-of-hindi-literature/article36430246.ece |access-date=2025-05-28 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> A prolific writer, Rai made his literary debut with novel ''Beej'' in 1952 and went on to write an acclaimed biography of his father, Premchand, ''Kalam ka Sipahi'' (1962),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Amratray |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.514644 |title=Premchand Kalam Ka Sipahi |date=1962}}</ref> which later won him the [[Sahitya Akademi award]] for 1963.<ref name="today" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Rai co-edited ''Chitthi Patri'' (1962), a two-volume book on the letters of Premchand along with his biographer, Madan Gopal. In 1982, he donated a collection of his father's 236 letters to the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] (NMML) at [[Teen Murti House]], [[Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|title=New light on Premchand|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/new-light-on-premchand/article3750272.ece|date=10 August 2012|accessdate=2013-10-30|archive-date=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203075639/http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/new-light-on-premchand/article3750272.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> His ''A House Divided'' is an influential account of how the shared Hindi/Hindavī linguistic tradition became differentiated into Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Death ==<br />
Rai died in [[Allahabad]], in August 1996 at the age of 75. He had suffered a paralytic stroke earlier in March.<ref name=today>{{cite web| title = Amrit Rai, prolific Hindi writer & son of Munshi Premchand, passes away in Allahabad| publisher = India Today| url = https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/signposts/story/19960915-amrit-rai-prolific-hindi-writer-son-of-munshi-premchand-passes-away-in-allahabad-764263-2012-10-16| date = 16 October 2012| access-date = 2013-10-30| archive-date = 26 March 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140326042400/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/amrit-rai-prolific-hindi-writer-%26-son-of-munshi-premchand-passes-away-in-allahabad/1/283239.html| url-status = live}}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Rai, Amrit. ''Premchand: A Life''. Harish Trivedi, translator. New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1982.<br />
* Rai, Amrit. ''A House Divided: The Origin and Development of Hindi/Hindavi''. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984.<br />
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