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Article on Sindhi Language
There is some controversy over how old Sindhi Language is and what family of languages it belongs to. But Sindhi Language in India continues to florish even today. While most scholars consider it an Indo-Aryan language, some scholars…
History of Tamil Literature
The oldest of the Dravidian languages is Tamil. Tamil literature has had unbroken development over twenty centuries. Dating ancient Tamil literature is, however, a problem. Most scholars agree that Tolkappiyam is the earliest extant Tamil…
History of Urdu Literature
History of Urdu Literature
The same Khari Boli that gave rise to Hindi also gave rise to Urdu around the 11th century AD. The Western Sauraseni Apabhramsa is the source of the grammatical structure of Urdu though the vocabulary of the…
History of Gujarati Literature
Gujarati evolved from a dialect of the Gurjara Apabhramsa. Gujarati Literature reached a distinctive form by the 12th century. Jain influence is strongly evident in the early stages of its development. Jain authors transformed the Rasa,…
Short paragraph on Assamese Literature
Assamese literature forms developed in the Assamese language by the 13th century though the language can be traced back to the seventh century AD. In the early period Rudra Kundali translated the ‘Dronaparva’ of the Mahabharata, and Madhava…
Short Article on Konkani Literature
Much of the early indigenous Konkani literature has been lost. As a language it is close to Marathi and Hindi and Devanagari is its natural script. Tales of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana translated from Marathi by Krishnadas Sharma in…
Brief History of Kashmiri Literature
Brief History of Kashmiri Literature.
It was around the 10th century AD that Kashmiri separated itself from Apabhramsa parentage. In the beginning Kashmir poetry was an extension of Saiva texts in Sanskrit, for instance, Abhinavagupta’s…
Brief History of Bangla Literature
Bengali Language probably emerged as a separate language around 1000 AD. The beginnings of Bengali literature are to be seen in the songs composed in the 11th – 12th centuries. The Natha literature was inspired by philosophy of the Buddhist…
Summary of Our Casuarina Tree
Introduction
Our Casuarina Tree by the women Poetess Toru Dutt, a romantic lyric, has an intimately personal association. The tree belonged to the big garden house at Rambagan where the poetess passed her girlhood and youth. She used to…
Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas
Ramcharitmanas is an epic poem written by Tulsidas during the Mughal Period in India.
Tulsidas, also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a great poet. He was a worshipper of Ram. The Ramcharitmanas is one of the most popular books in this…
