From among the following statements regarding Munshi Premchand and his works, which of them are correct (A) Premchand was among the first to portray the Dalits as independent and recognizable characters both as part of the poor and with their own particular problems (B) Premchand was extremely insensitive to the political and social movements of his times (C) Premchand was concerned both about social evils and enslaved conditions of his country (D) One of his (Premchand's) last and most famous stories, Kafan (the Shroud), was first published in Hindi in 1935 and later appeared in Urdu Choose the correct answer from the option given below:?

Option 1 : (A) and (C) only

Among the following statements regarding Munshi Premchand and his works, only (A) and (C) are correct.

• Munshi Premchand was born on July 31, 1880, in the village of Lamhi, Uttar Pradesh.
• Premchand was concerned both about social evils and enslaved conditions of the country.
• He has presented the realistic picture of poverty and social evils with which people were struggling hard during the pre-independence period.
• Through his stories and novels, he has tried to create awareness about the exploitation and suffering of society, by selecting the people from different strata of society including the Dalits.
• His novel 'Kayakalp' was a study of a society torn apart by communal tension, injustice and exploitation.
• He depicted the reality which he saw around him as he was extremely sensitive to the political and social movements of his times and it is also reflected in his literary works.
• Premchand also wrote on the problems of untouchability along with other subjects in his writings.
• Premchand was among the first to portray the Dalits as independent and recognizable characters both as part of the poor and with their own particular problems.
• He is identified as the first Hindu and Urdu writer who has taken up the Dalit question as part of an explicit political agenda.

• One of the Premchand's last and most famous stories, Kafan (the Shroud), was first published in Urdu in 1935 and later appeared in Hindi in 1936 and thus reflected his syncretic personality.

Thus, we can conclude that  the following statements regarding Munshi Premchand and his works are correct:

(A) Premchand was among the first to portray the Dalits as independent and recognizable characters both as part of the poor and with their own particular problems.

(C) Premchand was concerned both about social evils and enslaved conditions of his country.