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Indian Literature

Providing useful and comprehensive links to Modern Indian literature is a formidable task. First of we have to define the boundaries of the word “modern”... do we mean specifically 20 and the nascent 21st century?  We also have to take in to account the number of official languages: 

Whilst English enjoys an important status, Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Konkani, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, and Sindhi. Sanskrit is not a spoken language any longer, although historically has one of the richest archives of what could be considered literature; Hindustani, whilst not being a State language is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India. We must consider the important role writing in English by both Indians and those who do not live in India but make a significant contribution to poetry, fiction and general criticism.

A general Overview:

  • A comprehensive guide by two academics on Indians writing in English
  • A quaint, individualistic blog on Indians writing in English:
  • In just one page this site delivers a useful synopsis of Indian literature past and present, the latter is strictly limited to Indian writing in English:
  • An overview of Indian literature from ancient times to the present from Wikipedia
Bengali Literature links:
  • A teasing taster of Bengali literature in English Translation with excerpts
  • A picture gallery of Bengali authors with excerpts: ALL in Bengali
  • Wikipedia on Bengali Literature

    • Assamese Literature links:
Bihari Literature links:
Gujarati Literature links:
Hindi Literature links:
Kannada Literature links:
  • A massive resource on Kannada literature: Requires special font software to render the pages correctly
  • Some useful Links. You can download Kannada fonts 'Baraha'  from the site
  • Wikipedia on Kannada Literature
Kashmiri Literature links:
Konkani Literature links:
Malayalam Literature links:
Marathi Literature links:
Oriya Literature links:
  • History of Oriya Literature
  • A comprehensive listing on all aspects of Orissa.
Punjabi Literature links:
Sindhi Literature links:
Tamil Literature links:
Telugu Literature links:
  • This is a compilation of Literature related links for Telugu Language. It does not contain many useful links such as those to Telugu movie music, general business enterprises, movie stars, etc.
  • Telugu Authors & their work listed
Urdu literature links: