Bharatendu Harishchandra was the pioneer of modern Hindu literature. He encouraged writers to recreate and translate novels from other languages. First proper modern Hindu novel was Pariksha Guru written by Srinivas Das of Delhi in 1882. The novel trees to teach the young readers the right way to live and expects all ‘sensible men’ to remain wordly wise and practical and to remain rooted in the valves of their own tradition and culture. It was too moralising in its style and did not become popular. Devakinandan khatri created a novel reading public. His Chandrakanta was a bestseller romance mixed with dazzling fantasy. It made Hindu language and script popular. This novel though written purely for ‘pleasure of reading’, gave some interesting insight into the fears and desires of its reading public. It was Premchand who made Hindi novel achieve excellence. He took away Hindi novel from the realm of fantasy, moralising and simple entertainment to a serious reflection on the lives of ordinary people and social issues. His novels Sevasadan, Godan, and Rangabhoomi had powerful characters drawn from all strata of society. His women characters were powerfully drawn. He chose poor and downtrodden as his heroes, discussed every kind of oppression,modelled his characters on Gandhiji and made us think of India as one nation.