Why is Godan known as an epic of the Indian peasantry?

Godan is known as an epic of the Indian peasantry:

(i)Godan, The Gift of Cow, was published in 1936, remains Premchand’s best-known work.

(ii)The novel tells the moving story of Hori and his wife Dhania, a peasant couple.

(iii)Landlords, moneylenders, priests and colonial bureaucrats – all those who hold power in society – form a network of oppression, rob their land and make them into landless labourers.
Yet Hori and Dhania retain their dignity to the end.