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  1. Indian literature

    From these and other related languages emerged the modern languages of northern India. The literature of those languages depended largely on the ancient Indian background, which includes two Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, as well as the Bhagavata-purana and the other Puranas. In addition, the Sanskrit philosophies were the ...

  2. Indian literature

    Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India has 22 officially recognised languages. Sahitya Akademi, India's highest literary body, also has 24 recognised literary languages .

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    India - Literature: Popular epics, such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, were injected with didactic sections on religion and morality and elevated to the status of sacred literature. Their heroes, Krishna and Rama, were incorporated into Vaishnavism as avatars (incarnations) of Vishnu. The concept of incarnations was useful in subsuming local deities and cults. The epics also served as a ...

  4. PDF A History of Indian English Literature

    to a confusion between categories such as 'Anglo-Indian literature', literature in the Indian languages translated into English and original composition in English by Indians. Thus, in his A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature (1908), E.F. Oaten considers the poetry of Henry Derozio as part of 'Anglo-Indian literature'.

  5. History of Indian Literature, Regional Indian Literature

    The first ever ancient Indian literature was Sanskrit literature comprising of Rig Veda, the Ramayana and Mahabharata which were written in first millennium BCE. Then developed, Kannada and Telugu Literature in the medieval era. They were followed by Marathi, Bengali and Urdu literature. Among the Indian literary personnel, the name of Bengali ...

  6. Ancient Indian Literature

    The apex of Indian culture has been ancient literature, which demonstrates the masters' wide range of aptitude and expertise. Do you know the history of ancient literature? What are the main topics discussed by them? What is their classification? What is the importance of Ancient literary works? Read the article to know more about Ancient Indian Literature.

  7. Indian English literature

    Indian English literature ( IEL ), also referred to as Indian Writing in English ( IWE ), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt followed by Rabindranath Tagore and Sri ...

  8. Indian Literature

    Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi's bimonthly journal, is India's oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three Indian languages besides original writing in English.

  9. Depictions of India in Ancient Literature

    Alexander the Great enters India Alexander the Great invaded India in 327 BCE, and to this expedition we owe all our real knowledge of Indian history in ancient times.

  10. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature

    The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. The idea for the project emerged in the mid-1970s, and three volumes were planned to cover all Indian literature, including that in native vernaculars.

  11. History and Development of Indian Literature

    A Brief History of Indian Literature. During the anti-colonial period, the Indians began gauging themselves with the rest of the world in education. To keep pace with the world's developed literature, the Indian linguist created genres unknown to the past. Genres like fiction, essay, lyrical poetry, theatre, criticism and literary history ...

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    Much of the literature tried to revive the great periods of Indian history, such as the Mauryan, Gupta, and Mughal dynasties, before the British intervened. Gandhi urged authors to write for the masses. One of the exponents of Gandhian thought was Jainendra Kumar, an essayist, novelist, and short-story writer in Hindi.

  13. Foundations of Medieval Indian Literature: 600 CE to 1700 CE

    Foundations of Medieval Indian Literature: 600 CE to 1700 CE. Medieval Indian literature begins from the 7th century when Alwars and Nayanmars, a group of devotional poets appeared in South India. These devotional poets developed a literature completely different from classical literature in Sanskrit and Tamil.

  14. A History Of Indian Literature

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  15. A History of Indian Literature , Volume 1

    A History of Indian Literature. , Volume 1. Sisir Kumar Das. Sahitya Akademi, 2005 - India - 815 pages. This Volume, The First To Appear In The Ten Volume Series Published By The Sahitya Akademi, Deals With A Fascinating Period, Conspicuous By The Growing Complexities Of Multilingualism, Changes In The Modes Of Literary Transmission And In The ...

  16. The History of Indian Literature

    ABSTRACT First Published in 2000. This title is Volume 10 in the 14-volume series titled India: Language and Literature, one of the Trüber's Oriental Series. The lectures in this volume were presented to the narrow circle fellows in this field of study. This publication will now reach the wider circle of those interested and those researchers of the history of literature generally. The form ...

  17. Literary Sources of Ancient Indian History

    The main literary sources of Ancient Indian History are Vedas, Puranas, Buddhist and Jain literature, and the works created during the empires especially by any of the court poets.

  18. Introduction: Indian Literature and the World

    Indian Literature and the Public Sphere. Several recent studies spanning from India's pre-independence period to the beginning of the twenty-first century use the 'public sphere' as a notion with which to interrogate the role of literature and the media in their interplay with society and politics.

  19. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English

    A Concise History of Indian Literature in English. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Permanent Black, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 456 pages. For anyone interested in the story of English in India, or in the finest English storytellers of India, this is the essential companion. This book is a history of two hundred years of Indian literature in English.

  20. Hindi literature

    Hindi literature also conventionally includes those works of Muslim writers (such as Jayasi) in the Persian script in which the content is Hindu rather than Muslim in nature. It first began to appear in the 7th century ad and reached a consistency in the 10th. Almost all the earlier literature is in verse and in a dialect other than Khari Boli.

  21. Ancient India

    India is a country in South Asia whose name comes from the Indus River. The name 'Bharata' is used as a designation for the country in their constitution referencing the ancient mythological emperor, Bharata, whose story is told, in part, in the Indian epic Mahabharata. According to the writings known as the Puranas (religious/historical texts ...

  22. Indian Literature

    Indian Literature This study guide collection celebrates novels, short story collections, and memoirs from some of the most distinguished authors from the Indian sub-continent, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy, R.K. Narayan, and Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul. Read on to discover discussion topics and insightful analyses on diverse titles, from an updated translation and ...

  23. 30 fascinating facts about the Indian Ocean

    The Indian Ocean spans over 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from the southern tips of Africa to Australia and covers about 27,243,000 square miles (70,560,000 square kilometers), excluding its marginal seas. ... History and Exploration. ... Literature "One Thousand and One Nights" is a classic collection of Middle Eastern folk tales featuring ...