In "Nimantran", Premchand is critical of social conventions in the context of caste based customs

and the way a false message is created where brahmins disrespect Shudras. The plot centers
around Pandit Moteram Shastri, a high-caste arrogant priest, who is ambitious and interested
only in his own gain. He acquires some machinations and mingles in a function at Rani Sahib’s
court. These activities reveal his plotting traits.

The genders of men and women in the story follow the same note of their traditional sense of
genders along with the dominant-subordinate sense of male gender roles existing in the society
then. The way Moteram handles his wife clearly portrays his dominant character; however, he is
the only one who he thinks has the right over his home. He places her at risk by having her pose
as a man so that she, too, could attend the feast being held in honor of Theseus, hereby he calls
her feelings and her existence into question.

The trait’s are exaggerated in this story. Moteram is in power and greedy like his name implies;
he is ready to go as far as he can to ensure that his family gets the lot allocated for the feast. The
advent of Chintamani Pandit, Moteram's friend, challenges Moteram's original plan and shows
the presence of antecedent character in the story and thus it questions Moteram's loyalty.

Moteram and Chintamani are the two key characters where the play highlights the pitfalls in their
characters, as they compete to outperform each other in the feast. Like their father each son at
this feast tries to act his own deception and has to put up with the pressure of lies.

Thereby, "Nimantran" deprives society and the nature of human relationships, and it reveals the
detailed conditions of men and women in the patriarchal society. This story stresses on the
negative effects of selfishness between people and deceptiveness in society as well as in self-
development.