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I'm not immediately finding any English language translations, but the book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible. This comes with the obvious caveat that I can't read it to confirm that it is the edition you are talking about. Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes, I'm unable to locate an index for that volume to check of the five stories from Soz e Watan are included, but if it is a complete collection one would expect so.

I did find a list at The Wire of the short stories contained in Soz e Watan, which would allow checking against the index of the Penguin edition:

• Soz e Watan (The Dirge of the Nation)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Yahi Mera Watan Hai (This Is My Country)
• Sila e Matam (The reward of mourning)
• Ishqe Duniya aur Hubbe Watan (Love for the World and patriotism)

That source also relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

@GarethRees points out that the Look Inside feature for the Amazon listing for the book allows us to see the list of Contents. From this it is possible to match four of the first five to the titles given by The Wire, but it seems they were wrong about there being an eponymous story in Soz e Watan, and instead the story 'The Rarest Pearl in the World' makes up the set from that book, as confirmed on Penguin's India site. (credit again to Gareth for that last link)

The book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible.

Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes which includes the five stories from Soz e Watan as the first five stories. This is confirmed by comparing the story titles from Soz e Watan (as listed on Penguin's India site)

• Ishq Duniya aur Hubb-e Watan (Love for the World and Patriotism)
• Duniya ka Sab Se Anmol Ratan (The Rarest Pearl in the World)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Sila-e Maatam (Sorrow’s Reward)
• Yehi Mera Watan Hai (This is my Homeland)

with the Contents index (accessible via the Look Inside feature for the Amazon listing) for Volume 1 of the Penguin edition.

I also found an article at The Wire which relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

Thanks to @GarethRees for assistance in squashing a red herring from The Wire and accessing the Penguin Volume Index

I'm not immediately finding any English language translations, but the book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible. This comes with the obvious caveat that I can't read it to confirm that it is the edition you are talking about. Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes, I'm unable to locate an index for that volume to check of the five stories from Soz e Watan are included, but if it is a complete collection one would expect so.

I did find a list at The Wire of the short stories contained in Soz e Watan, which would allow checking against the index of the Penguin edition:

• Soz e Watan (The Dirge of the Nation)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Yahi Mera Watan Hai (This Is My Country)
• Sila e Matam (The reward of mourning)
• Ishqe Duniya aur Hubbe Watan (Love for the World and patriotism)

That source also relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

@GarethRees points out that the Look Inside feature for the Amazon listing for the book allows us to see the list of Contents. From this it is possible to match four of the first five to the titles given by The Wire, but it seems they may have been wrong about there being an eponymous story in Soz e Watan, and instead the story 'The Rarest Pearl in the World' seems likely to make up the set from that book.

I'm not immediately finding any English language translations, but the book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible. This comes with the obvious caveat that I can't read it to confirm that it is the edition you are talking about. Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes, I'm unable to locate an index for that volume to check of the five stories from Soz e Watan are included, but if it is a complete collection one would expect so.

I did find a list at The Wire of the short stories contained in Soz e Watan, which would allow checking against the index of the Penguin edition:

• Soz e Watan (The Dirge of the Nation)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Yahi Mera Watan Hai (This Is My Country)
• Sila e Matam (The reward of mourning)
• Ishqe Duniya aur Hubbe Watan (Love for the World and patriotism)

That source also relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

@GarethRees points out that the Look Inside feature for the Amazon listing for the book allows us to see the list of Contents. From this it is possible to match four of the first five to the titles given by The Wire, but it seems they were wrong about there being an eponymous story in Soz e Watan, and instead the story 'The Rarest Pearl in the World' makes up the set from that book, as confirmed on Penguin's India site. (credit again to Gareth for that last link)

I'm not immediately finding any English language translations, but the book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible. This comes with the obvious caveat that I can't read it to confirm that it is the edition you are talking about. Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes, I'm unable to locate an index for that volume to check of the five stories from Soz e Watan are included, but if it is a complete collection one would expect so.

I did find a list at The Wire of the short stories contained in Soz e Watan, which would allow checking against the index of the Penguin edition:

• Soz e Watan (The Dirge of the Nation)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Yahi Mera Watan Hai (This Is My Country)
• Sila e Matam (The reward of mourning)
• Ishqe Duniya aur Hubbe Watan (Love for the World and patriotism)

That source also relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

I'm not immediately finding any English language translations, but the book itself in Urdu seems to be fairly readily accessible. This comes with the obvious caveat that I can't read it to confirm that it is the edition you are talking about. Penguin Random House publish Premchand: The Complete Short Stories in four volumes, I'm unable to locate an index for that volume to check of the five stories from Soz e Watan are included, but if it is a complete collection one would expect so.

I did find a list at The Wire of the short stories contained in Soz e Watan, which would allow checking against the index of the Penguin edition:

• Soz e Watan (The Dirge of the Nation)
• Sheikh Makhmoor
• Yahi Mera Watan Hai (This Is My Country)
• Sila e Matam (The reward of mourning)
• Ishqe Duniya aur Hubbe Watan (Love for the World and patriotism)

That source also relates the following from 'Premchand: His Life and Times' by writer and poet Amrit Rai, Premchand’s son

A thousand copies of the book were published, out of which about 300 had already been sold. He got the rest and surrendered them to the officer, which were burnt by the government. Incidentally, unknown to the government, some copies were left at the office of Zamana. They were sold secretly. Notably, the government’s stricture did not affect Premchand much: he was of view that he did his job by writing and the government did its by putting restrictions.

which suggests that a goodly number of copies survived the ban.

@GarethRees points out that the Look Inside feature for the Amazon listing for the book allows us to see the list of Contents. From this it is possible to match four of the first five to the titles given by The Wire, but it seems they may have been wrong about there being an eponymous story in Soz e Watan, and instead the story 'The Rarest Pearl in the World' seems likely to make up the set from that book.