The author would like to make the following acknowledgements:
I would like to acknowledge the support of my former and current universities—the University of Cambridge and O. P. Jindal Global University—as well as the Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi, where I am an associate researcher. Special thanks to Professor Joya Chatterji, my former supervisor, and the three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. I am also very grateful to the members of Jamia Millia Islamia, particularly Snigdha Roy from the Premchand Archives, as well as Rizwan Qaiser and Shohini Ghosh, for their invaluable help.
The author would like to apologize for this omission.