About the Book: Kayakalp
The novel kayakalp by Munshi Premchand has been written keeping in mind the
social, political, communal, and family problems. Along with the social
anomalies, not only have the Hindu-Muslim communal riots been depicted in it,
But the example of communal harmony has also been set through the friendship of
yashodanandan, a Hindu, and Khwaja Mehmood, a Muslim. Along with the British
rule and the tyranny of erstwhile kings and emperors and their sycophants, the
idealistic form of kayakalp comes to the fore in the form of chakras
representing the educated younger generation. The idealism of kayakalp soon
begins to transform into realism and eventually