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	Kannada literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kannada language belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is the second oldest language currently spoken in India.
		Bhakti literature is the literature composed by the Dasas or saints, around 15th century, singing the glory of God through poems.
		This indeed was the reincarnation of Kannada literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after a period of dormancy in the face of British occupation of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada_literature (1582 words)

	Kannada language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The antiquity of Kannada literature as at present goes back to the 9th century of the Christian era, but as the first work available in Kannada happens to be a work of grammar, it can quite safely be inferred that Kannada must have already had an older flourshing history before that period.
		Kannada is mainly spoken in Karnataka in India, and to a good extent in the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and in Kerala.
		Kannada is one of the 22 official languages of India and is the official language of the state of Karnataka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kannada (1572 words)

	Kannada
		Kannada (also known as Kanarese, Canarese, and Madrassi) is one of the 22 official languages of India.
		Kannada is a highly inflected language with a grammar that is similar to that of Tamil.
		Kannada is written with a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel that can be changed to another vowel or suppressed by the use of diacritics.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Kannada.html (484 words)

	Sri Ramakrishna Math : The Vedanta Kesari, January 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kannada literature was privileged to rank among the earliest to get exposed to these divine thoughts and to be deeply influenced by them.
		The Kannada Criticism identifies the literature of the first half of the 20th Century as Navodaya (new-born) literature with a distinct style of language and metre.
		One of the chief characteristics of this literature was its bias towards mysticism and spiritualism.
	www.sriramakrishnamath.org /magazine/vk/2006/01-4-1.asp (1548 words)

	Literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)").
		The word "literature" as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays; "Literature" as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work, often relating to a specific culture.
		Consequently, a novel by Danielle Steele will be included in "literature" but not in "Literature", since most people would not deem the books to be sufficiently intellectual or meaningful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Literature (2533 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)

	Language in India
		Kannada: Kannada is one of the 1652 mother tongues spoken in India.
		Kannada is one of the 1652 mother tongues being spoken in India.
		Kannada has nouns derived from nouns, numerals, adjectives, verbs, agentivisors etc.,because of development of prefixation as a derivational process, large number of nouns are coined for use in modern Kannada (Sridhar,S N 1990).
	www.languageinindia.com /march2002/sharadachapter1.html (16495 words)

	Kannada Language, History Of Kannada Language, Kannada Literature, Kannada Sahitya Parishad Mysore.
		Kannada is almost as old as Tamil, the truest of the Dravidian family.
		The early (pre 800AD) bits and pieces of Kannada literature are insufficient to lay claims to the literature’s origins.
		Literature in Kannada today is a big enterprise, with bustling centres like the University of Mysore, the Karnataka University at Dharwar and the Kannada Sahitya Parishad of Mysore.
	languages.iloveindia.com /kannada.html (701 words)

	Mysore Round Up- mysoredasara.com
		Considered as the doyen of Kannada literature, B.M. Srikantaiah was born in Tumkur district.
		Some of his rich contributions to Kannada literature included "Gadayuddha Nataka", a play based on a 10th century Indian classic, "Aswathama", a play on the tragic hero of the Indian classic on the lines of the Greek tragic hero Ajax, and "Hooganasugalu", a compilaton of his own poems.
		Karanth was born at Babukodi in South Canara district of Karnataka in 1929.
	www.mysoredasara.com /html/personalities.htm (3886 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: - History of Kannada Literature - I
		For the sake of the convenient study of Kannada language and literature, the pundits have divided the development of Kannada language into three phases; The Old Kannada Phase, The Middle Kannada Phase, and The Modern Kannada Phase.
		The students of Kannada language are familiar with the eulogy of Kappe Arabhatta, a hero remembered as Kaliyuga Vipartitan.
		This rock stone inscription of Badami in archaic Kannada letters is ascribed to the 7th century.
	www.kamat.com /kalranga/kar/literature/history1.htm (696 words)

	WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indian literature in all its branches is thus indebted to the achievements of Jaina authors.
		The "Augustan Age" of Tamil literature was the period of the predominance of the Jainas in intellect and learning.
		Another great Jaina writer of Kannada prose and poetry in that century was Chamundaraya, who besides being an able administrator and warrior, was a patron of Ranna, among others.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/jainart.htm (894 words)

	Glory ahead for Kannada literature: CNR - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kannada literature has borrowed from various literatures but has moulded the influence to suit its culture and necessities.
		The literature is the same but they are re-interpreted by every generation to suit their own psychological needs.
		Oral literature is given its due and serious writing in Kannada has found various forms in the last two decades.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan022005/artic3.asp (577 words)

	Satyanath
		Students of modern Kannada literature are familiar with the term that was in use to address the white master, bil?i-dore, 'white king' akin to the term gauranga mahaprabhu in Hindi and other modern Indo-Aryan languages.
		Kannada scholars have pointed out that a newly developing modern Kannada intellectual community accepted Shakespeare to such an extent that he was popularly referred to as Sekh Pir.
		The Kannada folk-plays based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata episodes contain verses from in the Yakshagana performances of coastal Karnataka region is well known to students of Kannada literature.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/satya.htm (5476 words)

	Haridasa Literature
		Hale Kannada compositions were already masterpieces of Kannada literature and style, by the time a new Kannada style emerged with the growing intelligence and developing culture and civilization of the people.
		The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards, for great literature 'rises from the heart of the seer and from the distant home of truth; and the greatest poetry gives expression to the realization of the Divine in the world and in Man'.
		This literature is very voluminous and many interpolations and corruption's have crept in, owing to its wide diffusion and the lack of proper historico-literary traditions.
	www.dvaita.org /haridasa/overview/hdlit.html (1121 words)

	Contribution of Jainism to Indian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The authors of this Sramana literature have contributed enormously to the religious, ethical, poetical, and scientific literature of ancient India.
		The literature of the Jainas is also very important from the point of view of the history of Indian languages for the Jainas always took care that their writings were accessible even to the masses of the people.
		Along with literature the Jainas have always contributed considerably to the development of the arts in the country The Jainas have taxed their mite to enhance the glory of India in several branches of arts.
	www.jainworld.com /jainbooks/antiquity/contjnic.htm (3327 words)

	Language in India
		Mallikarjun, Ph.D. Dr. Giraddi Govindaraj, a renowned writer and critic of Kannada literature, raised an important issue when he called upon the new entrants to the field of Kannada creative literature not to neglect the regional dialects of Kannada as medium of expression.
		The variety of spoken Kannada in Belgaum or the variety of spoken Kannada in Raichur (I think that he rightly chose these two varieties, because the former is adjacent to Marathi, and the latter to Telugu) was of equal worth and quality compared to the varieties of Kannada spoken in Mysore or Bangalore.
		He argued that the new entrants to the field of literature from the Belgaum or Raichur region should not think that their dialects are non-standard varieties and, on this account, do not deserve to be used as the medium of expression in their writings.
	www.languageinindia.com /jan2002/jan2002notes.html (671 words)

	kannadashortstories
		Thus the history of Kannada literature is at least 1500 years old.
		The noteworthy thing is that in the span of just 100 years four different stages can be traced in the development of the Kannada literature.
		The characteristics of the renaissance literature was love towards own culture, heritage, awaeness of one's history, acceptance of the value of the old teaching (concepts of Dharma etc), awareness of the stupidity of a blind imitation of other cultures.
	ch.8m.com /kannada1.htm (424 words)

	languagehat.com: HISTORY OF KANNADA.
		To mark the celebration of the World Millennium Kannada Conference (held in September 2000 in Houston), I asked my mother Dr. Jyotsna Kamat, a passionate student of ancient Kannada literature to trace the History of the Kannada Language for a special feature at Kamat's Potpourri.
		Kannada happens to be the language I speak at home.Here's a link to some more Kannada resoures.
		As i have understood kannada is the mother toungue of all languages, simple to speak, easy to understand and our karnataka is the place choosen by chandra gupta maurya to spend his last days, even today karnataka is the host for many languages like konkani, kodava, and others.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001589.php (3592 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka News : `Declare Kannada a classical language'
		The committee was constituted to strengthen the Government's demand to the Centre to accord classical status on Kannada soon after it submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, in that regard on February 11 last.
		The first record on Kannada language is traced to Emperor Ashoka's Brahmagiri edict dated 230 B.C. Kannada words are found in Greek comedies of first and second century A.D. The first full- length Kannada edict is "Hanmidi" (also known as Halmidi) dated AD 450.
		He said Kannada has been developing both as a language and a literature for over 2,000 years and eminently merits recognition as a classical language.
	www.hindu.com /2005/05/27/stories/2005052703230500.htm (623 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The website should not be an elitist medium, and it should help in reaching Kannada literary works and their authors to a wider international audience of all classes, he said.
		Chandrashekar said other authors should come forward to have their writings on the site, just as the oral and written traditions of literature had complemented each other, the Internet could become a new medium, he said Students of Kannada literature in universities across the world and Kannadigas living overseas would find the website immensely useful.
		Bangalore, June 11: A website on Kannada literature that claimed to be Jnanapith award-winner U R Ananthamurthy's official website has got help from the Pennsylvania state University for free unlimited webspace.
	www.kannadasaahithya.com /eng/index.php?layout=main&cslot_1=5 (1981 words)

	Welcome, :kannadasaahithya.com, a web journal for Kannada and Third world literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		You have to have BRH Kannada fonts to view pages in Kannada.
		Baraha is a multi-linguistic transliterating freeware which includes: Kannada, Telegu, Tamil, Malayalam, Devanagari and Marathi.
		Kannada pages are slow in downloading because of the size of files.
	www.kannadasaahithya.com (292 words)

	The Hindu : Humour in Kannada literature
		It is also said with this, Kannada literature, which was till then the exclusive domain of kings and poets, came out in the open and to the common man.
		It may be worth mentioning here that around the time that Kailasam started using the spoken language, Telugu scholars also began a similar movement but have ended up making a mess of the whole thing — many writings of this variety are incomprehensible, drowned in a sea of colloquialism.
		But Kannada scholars confined the spoken language to where it rightly belonged — drama and humour.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/br/2002/06/04/stories/2002060400080302.htm (494 words)

	MusicalNirvana - Shri Purandara Dasa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This was the golden age of Kannada literature too, under the most famous Vijayanagar emperor Sri Krishnadeva Raya.
		The influence of of Shri Purandara on carnatic music and kannada literature is immense.
		He virtually started the branch of literature which is now known as Dasa Sahithya.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /composers/purandara.html (369 words)

	Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar :: Official website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The problems of the childhood, the insecurities of adolescence, the difficult times of adulthood nothing has changed the core of this man, who grew up on a staple diet of literature and art.
		Today, Chandru is one of the top names in the field of Kannada literature.
		Otherwise, there was no reason for this Master of Art (Kannada) gold medallist -- he won 8 of them -- from Mysore University, to venture into an industry as uncertain as the film world.
	nagathihallichandru.com /r_abouthim.html (249 words)

	Kannada Literature, Janapada Literature, Bandaya Literature, Book Reviews, Writers, Articles
		Kailasam, Sriranga, Karnad and Kambar with plays made Kannada literature a rich and diverse body of writing.
		Tejaswi somehow has remained a parallel to the mainstream intellectual modern Literature of Kannada.
		Although his name is usually taken in the same breath as Ananthamurthy, Lankesh and Karnad, Tejaswi has never been intellectually acknowledged as the flag-bearer of any literary movement.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /literature.htm (530 words)

	Poets
		The Jnanapeeth award- the highest award in literature, was conferred to two giants of literature, DR D R Bendre and Dr V K Gokak.
		A kannada artilce on Dr Bendre, in Nimmaputa.
		Recipient of prestigious Jnyanapeeth Award in 1999 for his contribution to Kannada literature and theatre.
	www.dharwad.com /poets.html (787 words)

	Indian Polish Yellow Pages - Polska - Poland - Polen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kannada Saahitya PuTa- Extensive resource of literature in Kannada.
		Sasialit: Literature Of South Asia And The Indian Diaspora- Discussions of contemporary literature of south Asia, including works by authors of south Asian origin throughout the world.
		Seshendra: Visionary Poet of the Millennium- Seshendra is a trendsetter both in poetry and criticism, occupies a place of crucial importance in the development and evolution of Modern Indian literature.
	www.yp.pl /ca/97367/Indian (556 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Indian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Literature by South Asian Writers Writing in English - This is actually one long page, but it has a listing for quite a few authors along with bibliography.
		Sasialit: Literature Of South Asia And The Indian Diaspora - Discussions of contemporary literature of south Asia, including works by authors of south Asian origin throughout the world.
		South Asian American Literature - Literature and issues of the South Asian diaspora.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Indian (595 words)

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