How long does it take to read Sevasadan?
Sevasadan by Munshi Premchand takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 318 pages, about 87,450 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bazaar-e-Husn(Urdu: بازارٍ حسن;) i.e The Red Light Area(Red-light district), Hindi title Seva-sadan Hindi: सेवासदन (i.e. The House of Service) is a Hindi/Urdu novel by Munshi Premchand. Originally written in Urdu under the title Bazaar-e-Husn but first published in Hindi under the title Seva-sadan (i.e. The House of Service) in 1919 and later on in Urdu in 1924 from Lahore[1]. It is the greatest novel of modern Indian literature and was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of just about a hundred pages each.
Subjects: Charities, Hinduism
