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Munshi Premchand, author of Shatranj ke khiladi, was a Hindu writer born near Varanasi, who died before Partition. Whilst he did sometimes write in Urdu, Hindi was his preferred language. He can have no relation to Pakistan, even if he sometimes did use what later would become Pakistan's national language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.206.122.30 ( talk) 14:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC) reply