Indian literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Chapters: The Discovery of India, Kannada literature, Telugu literature, Hoysala literature, Oriya literature, Modern Kannada literature, Gujarati literature, Hindi literature, Indian comics, Urdu literature, Sanskrit literature, Karnataka literature, Kolkata Book Fair, Paryavaran Kavitodyamam, Manusm¿ti, Vijayanagara literature, Jayadeva birth controversy, Urdu in Aurangabad, Marathi literature, Malayalam literature, List of Historic Indian Texts, Blind men and an elephant, Tamil Sangams, List of Hindu scriptures, The Tortoise and the Birds, Vachanamrut, Natyakalpadrumam, Jnanpith Award, Goan literature, Epic India, Umrao Jaan Ada, Jataka tales, Western Ganga literature, Karadi Tales, Rabindra Sangeet, Dalit literature, Mahakavya, Bichitra Natak, Kanyasulkam, Works of Jayadeva, Chemmeen, Heer Ranjha, Rishyasringa, Yavanajataka, Progressive Writers' Movement, Halumatha Kuruba Purana, Jyoti¿sastra, Vi¿¿u Sm¿ti, Indian calligraphy, Harita Kata, Sassi Punnun, Sohni Mahiwal, Kakababu, Librarywala, Yajñavalkya Sm¿ti, Kashmiri literature, Gita Press, Bhandaru Acchamamba, Ekla Cholo Re, Yuga Purana, Subramanyam Bharti Award, Mirat-ul-Uroos, Padshahnama, Shiv Chalisa, Dhaj, Ror Kumar, Buranji, To Mee Navhech, Manipravalam, Astakam, Yakshagana poetry, Bihari literature, The Blue Jackal, Samarangana Sutradhara, Kosalananda Kavya, Bharuci, Gujarati Vishwakosh, Madurai Tamil Sangam, Amaravati Kathalu, Thunnaiezhuthu, Delhi Sultanate literature, Rangila Rasul, Lazzat Un Nisa, The Thama Stories, Jhanki, Ganesha pancharathnam, Chatuva, Pancharatra. Excerpt: Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. Kannada is attested epigraphically from the first millennium AD, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th century Ganga dynasty and during 9th century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. Contemporary Kannada literature is the most successful in India, with India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith awards, having been conferred seven times upon Kannada writers, which is the highest for any language in India. Based on the recommendations of the Committee of Linguistic Experts, appointed by the Ministry of Culture, the Government of India officially recognised Kannada as a classical language. Attestations in literature span something like one and a half millennia, with some specific literary works surviving in rich manuscript traditions, extending from the 9th century to the present. The Kannada language is usually divided into three linguistic phases: Old (600-1200 CE), Middle (1200-1700 CE) and Modern (1700-present); and its literary characteristics are categorised as Jain, Veerashaiva and Vaishnava-recognising the prominence of these three faiths in giving form to, and fostering, classical expression of the language, until the advent of the modern era. Although much of the literature prior to the 18th century was religious, some secular works were also committed to writing. Starting with the Kavirajamarga (c. 850), and until the middle of the 12th century, literature in Kannada was almost exclusively composed by the Jains, who found eager patrons in the Chalukya, Ganga, Rashtrakuta and Hoysala kings. Although the Kavirajamarga, authored during the reign of King Amoghavarsha, is the oldest extant literary work in the language, it has been hypothesized that prose, verse and grammatical tra...