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	Literature
		The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which aim at providing education, entertainment and enlightenment to its readers as well the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
		Indian English literature refers to that corpus of literature that has been written in the English language by native Indian writers who belong to one of the many regons of India and speak a different language.
		Literature has the capacity to mould the thinking of a whole Age, it is the mirror of the society.
	society.indianetzone.com /literature (408 words)

	Indian literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Among the Muslims classical Persian poetry was the fountainhead of a later growth in the Urdu literature produced for the Mughal court, and elaborate Urdu verse on set themes was produced in abundance.
		Foreign, particularly English, literature was eagerly studied and to some extent assimilated to classical Indian modes and themes.
		Today there is a written literature in all the important languages of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a large literature in English intended to reach all the university-educated public regardless of native language.
	www.bartleby.com /65/in/Indianli.html (376 words)

	Indian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world.
		Indian literature has also thrived in modern times; notable contributors to modern Indian literature include such writers as the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, India's first Nobel laureate, and the Persian and Urdu poet Allama Iqbal, both of whose philosophical poetry is renowned the world over.
		Kannada literature is the third oldest in Indian literature next to Sanskrit literature and Tamil literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_literature (2436 words)

	Indian literature - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indian literature Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent.
		Among the Muslims classical Persian poetry was the fountainhead of a later growth in the Urdu literature produced for the Mughal court, and elaborate Urdu verse on set themes was produced in abundance.
		Today there is a written literature in all the important languages of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a large literature in English intended to reach all the university-educated public regardless of native language.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-indianli.html (528 words)

	Annotated Bibliography – India
		Contains a section on modern Indian literature and the rise of fiction in the industrial age.
		An example of a Metropolitan writer negotiating the stereotypes of Indian psyche and culture in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny.
		India from the Conquest of Sind to the Indian Mutiny.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/india/biblio.htm (889 words)

	INDIAN MIRROR - ARTS - Literature
		Sanskrit literature is at least 3000 years old and its role in maintaining the unity and culture of India can be seen from the various periods of literature including the Vedas and the classicals.
		The history of Hindi literature begins around 1000 A.D. The main trendsetters in the early period till the 14th century were the Siddhas, the Jain poets, the Antha Panthis and the Heroic poets.
		The Golden period of Punjabi literature is undoubtedly the period of the Sikh gurus beginning with Guru Nanak and continuing till the passing away of the Guru Gobind Singh.
	www.indianmirror.com /arts/arts7.html (2773 words)

	Indian Literature
		Furthermore, perhaps because so much Indian literature is either religious or a reworking of familiar stories from the Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and the mythological writings known as Puranas, the authors often remain anonymous.
		In medieval Indian literature the earliest works in many of the languages were sectarian, designed to advance or to celebrate some unorthodox regional belief.
		Most important of all for later Indian literature were the first traces in the vernacular languages of the northern Indian cults of Krishna and of Rama.
	www.diehardindian.com /demogrph/moredemo/literatr.htm (1602 words)

	Muslim Ethos in Indian Literature
		Indian Muslims have always been such an integral part of the nation, that it will be nearly impossible to identify their distinct role without considering the whole gamut of the cultural heritage.
		Urdu literature particularly the ghazal, gave tyrical expression to the agony and ecstasy of the national scene throughout the ages.
		The Indian Muslim writer?s contribution to various modern Indian languages and literatures, therefore, is two-fold: first in creating a secular and cosmopolitan literary idiom, and second in forging a new syntactical conciseness and close-knit poetic and literary expression mainly brought about as part of this Turco-Iranian impact.
	www.islamawareness.net /Asia/India/indian_literature.html (3449 words)

	India Facts- Indian Literature
		In every branch or various sections of literature- be it fiction, drama, biography, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, literary criticism, Indian literature has a tremendous variety to offer.
		The literature of this period are in Sanskrit Pali Prakrit.
		It is interesting to note that Tamil Literature is supposed to be the least sanskritised among all Indian languages because, it had a classical tradition of its own.
	www.webindia123.com /india/literature/literature.htm (450 words)

	Indian Literature - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indian Literature, literature in the languages of India, as well as those of Pakistan (Indian Languages).
		English Literature, literature produced in England, from the introduction of Old English by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century to the present.
		African Literature, works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, published in written form in various media (books, journals, manuscripts,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Indian_Literature.html (188 words)

	Handcrafted American Indian art
		Artifacts of American Indian art history have been preserved in such places as the Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Museum of the American Indian (New York City), and the Museum of Mankind (London, England).
		People such as the Plains Indians were nomadic and having to move around quite a bit caused them to create art that was easily transportable.
		In the harsher regions of the sub-artic and artic, the American Indian art was often produced from bone and walrus ivory.
	www.indians.org /articles/american-indian-art.html (345 words)

	Literature
		The earliest Indian literature took the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as the Veda, which were written in Sanskrit.
		The literature of those languages depended largely on the ancient Indian background, which includes the Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Krishna story as told in the Bhagavata-Purana, the other Puranic legends, and the fable anthologies.
		In addition, the Sanskrit philosophies were the source of philosophical writing in the later literatures, and the Sanskrit schools of rhetoric were of great importance for the development of court poetry in many of the modern literatures.
	www.hindustan.org /index/literature.htm (391 words)

	INFLUENCE OF PERSIAN LITERATURE IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
		The similarities and relationship between the ancient Iranian and Indian languages originating from a single route is quite apparent and such an affinity is evident when we compare words such as father, mother, brother, daughter, head, body, arm, tooth, elephant, cow, sheep, barley, wheat, pea, sugar, etc. in these languages.
		With regard to literature too should we make a fair comparison of Persian literature with a major part of the subcontinent's literature, we will see many works in Indian literature fully influenced by Persian texts or translation of Persian texts.
		Of course the influence of Persian language and literature is not limited to the Indian subcontinent.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Litrature/persian_india.htm (2236 words)

	AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE, H-O
		With a formal background in literature and English, Momaday experimented with the structure of his first novel, incorporating elements of Native American oral tales and poetry, along with stream-of-consciousness techniques, time juxtapositions, and multiple points of view.
		Indian identity and the problems of fitting into a white society was the focus of Momaday’s novel, initiating a renaissance in Native American literature.
		Simon Ortiz is generally recognized by critics and scholars of American Indian Literature as one of the most talented and accomplished writers of the Native American Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/nativelt/ho.htm (1150 words)

	Indian English Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indeed, according to the words of an Indian critic Iyengar three decades ago, quoted by Kachru, there seems to be an acceptance of Indian English literature as "one of the voices in which India speaks...it is a new voice, no doubt, but it is as much Indian as the others" (Kachru 1994:528-529).
		It can be said to be a challenge for the Indian novelist to write about his experiences in a language which has developed in a very different cultural setting; in a "foreign" language; how to create sense of reality and intensity of Indian life in the medium of English language (Sanyal 1987: 7).
		Indian English writers are sometimes accused of abandoning the national or regional language and writing in a western, "foreign", language; their commitment to the nation is considered suspect.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/india/hohenthal/5.4.html (536 words)

	Culture - Indian Literature - Telugu
		Nannaya, Tikkana and Errana (11th - 14th century): Known as the Kavya Traya or the 'Trinity of Telugu Literature' these three poets are the composers of the Andhra Mahabharata, a replica of the Sanskrit Mahabharata.
		It was the harbringer of modernism of Telugu literature.
		Rayaprolu Subba Rao (1892-1984): Rayaprolu is hailed as one of the pioneers of modern Telugu literature.
	www.teluguworld.org /lit.html (3199 words)

	AMERICAN INDIAN AUTHORS & LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I began to look for other novels by Indian writers, and to be interested in the field as a field -- one in which the possibility of a transcendence of cultural boundaries was implicit in the form.
		The Surrounded explored questions of assimilation and alienation from both the white way of life and from traditional culture and laid the groundwork for future writers, although it wasn't until after the political ferment of the 1960s that these questions began to be raised loudly enough to be widely noticed in the mainstream society.
		Native American literature should be seen, I think, as not a subset of American literature but an expansion of it.
	www.ioba.org /newsletter/V7/KenLopezArticle.html (1116 words)

	American Indian Education Literature Review
		Many Indian children live in homes and communities where the cultural expectations are different and discontinuous from the expectations held by schoolteachers and school authorities.
		The average Indian family teaches its children valuable attitudes and skills, but conditions of poverty, isolation, nonparticipation in the urban-industrial society, and language difference are conducive to lower performance on the usual measurements of academic achievement.
		Indian students "spoke of the boredom of remedial classes, the repetition of the same exercises and uninteresting subjects" (1989, p.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/AIE/Family.html (11277 words)

	Indian Literature Bibliography
		Several motifs come together to distinguish Indian writing: family and neighborhood dynamics are often used to mirror larger political and social events; the rich description of sights, sounds, and smells which envelope the reader’s senses; the Rashomon-like convergence of many characters’ viewpoints that tell a shared story.
		This classic novel about an Indian aristocrat as he witnesses the disintegration of his family’s hopes, dreams, and status in the last days of the Moghul Empire to the beginning of British occupation gives a human face to the overwhelming social and political shift that continues to influence Indian writers today.
		Roy examines life in a small rural Indian town as seen through the eyes of two children, twins Estha and Rahel, and the consequences of a fatal drowning of their cousin.
	www.epl.org /library/bibliographies/indian_literature.html (2124 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Indian festival debates local talent
		Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has expressed concern at the problems faced by non-English-language writers in India.
		Indian authors who wrote in languages other than English often suffered from undeserved neglect, said Mr Vajpayee.
		But the Indian premier's remarks were contradicted by one of the star guests at the event - the Nobel Laureate, Sir VS Naipaul.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1827773.stm (500 words)

	West Coast collection of Native literature unveiled in Portland : ICT [2005/08/30]
		Black is for the titles Carmin's already acquired as part of Multnomah County Library's goal of creating a body of Native American literature within its Special Collections department.
		Although the play that became the basis for the musical ''Oklahoma'' - ''Green Grow the Lilacs,'' by Cherokee writer Lynn Riggs - was penned in 1931, a mainstream audience for literature specific to Indian culture simply did not exist until the counterculture of the late '60s.
		Indian Country Today strives to provide many media options that will serve the different needs of different users.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096411473 (828 words)

	West Indian Literature
		My definition of a "West Indian Author" is rather broad: Most West Indian authors were born and raised in the West Indies.
		Many West Indian authors have found it necessary to live in other countries in order to better pursue their careers as writers, often becoming citizens of their new home countries.
		Today, a West Indian Author could live anywhere in the world, and may be "claimed" by both a West Indian country and their country of residence.
	www.westindiesbooks.com (385 words)

	Indian literature — Infoplease.com
		Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent.
		Sanskrit literature: Bibliography - Bibliography Translations of many of the important texts of Sanskrit literature are in The Sacred...
		Dying Saints, vanishing savages: "dying Indian speeches" in colonial New England literature.(Critical Essay)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0825109.html (446 words)

	Web Portal on Indian Culture and Lifestyle
		The prestigious and honourable awards that are being given by the Government of India to the successful Coaches.
		The awardees of the "Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award" are the biggest names of the history of Indian sports.
		Ulhasnagar is one of the city of Thane districts in Indian state of Maharashtra.
	www.indianetzone.com (493 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Indian
		Indian poets writing in various Indian languages : short biographies - Provides biographical notes on major Indian poets writing in different Indian languages.
		Indian Short Stories in English - E-Katha publishes contemporary short stories which reflect Indian culture and thought.
		Indian Women’s Writing - A world of words, lost and found: a brief overview of women’s literature in India from the 6th century BC onwards.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Indian (471 words)

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