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Lamhi or Lamahi is a village, and gram panchayat, just north of the holy city of Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The renowned Hindu and Urdu writer Munshi Premchand was born here in 1880.There are two villages in the Lamahi Gram Panchayat: Lamahi with a population of 1,841 and Banwaripur with a population of 764.In 2016, Banaras Hindu University established its "Munshi Prem Chandra Memorial Research Institute and Study Centre" in Lamhi.