INDIAN LITERATURE
Periods (Ancient - Postclassical- - E Modern- - 19 Century - 20 Century) Genres (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - - Essay)
Literary Works
Ancient Period
Pre-classical Literature
Religious Scriptures
Hinduism VEDAS (c. 1500-900 BCE) - UPANISHAD (c. 800 BCE)
Buddhism THERAVADA (3rd BCE) - MAHAYANA (2nd BCE)
Classical Period
Poetry
Vyasa MAHABHARATA
Valmiki RAMAYANA (B.C.E.500)
Bharavi KIRATA AND ARJUNA
Kalidasa BIRTH OF KUMARA - DYNASTY OF RAGHU-CLOUD MESSENGER
Bharthari SATAKATRAYA
Magha SLAYING OF SHIHUPALA Ilango Atikal CILAPPTIKARAM
Sattanar MANIMEKALAI
Drama
Bhasa
Sudraka LITTLE CLAY CART(2-6th cc. C.E.)
Kalidasa (5th cc. C.E.) SHAKUNTALÂ (5th cc.C.E. )
Fiction
PANCATANTRA
Dandin ADVENTURES OF THE TEN PRINCES/DASAKUMARACARITA Bana KADAMBARI
Subandhu VASAVADATTA
Buddhaghosa JATAKA
Essay
DHARMA SASTRAS (LAW BOOKS)
Life Writing
Asvaghosa (100 - 150 CE) BUDDHACARITA
Bana HARSHACARITA (Harsha's biography)
Postclassical Period
Poetry
Kampan RAMAYANA
Tirutakkatevar CIVAKACINTAMANI
Tolamolittevar CULAMANI
Jayankontar KALINGALUTTAPARANI Devotional Poetry Sankskrit Kannada Hindi Tamil SONGS TO VISHNU - SONGS TO SIVA
Life Writing
Cekillar PERIYAPURANAM (biographies of Tamil poet-saints)
Fiction
SHIVA PURANA - HITOPADESA (Animal Fables - Statecraft) - VETALAPANCAVIMSATI (Vampires)
Somadeva KATHASARITSAGARA/OCEAN OF STORIES (11th CentUry CE) Karki Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Śāstrī Sūri VIKRAMARKA CHARITRAMU (Story of Vikramaditya)
Janna YASHODHARA CHARITE (Jain Values and beliefs)
Nanjunda Kavi RAMANATHAN CHARITE
Tulsi Das RAMCHARITMANAS/LAKE /LAKE OF THE DEEDS OF RAMA (Ramayana)
Oral Epics PABUJI ANNANMAR (‘Two Brothers’) BOW SONG (MUTTUPPATTAN, TAMPIMAR)
Early Modern Period
Poetry
Indo-Persian
Life Writing
Babur(1483-1530 CE) BABURNAMA (1494-1530 CE)
Abul Fazl (1551-1602 CE) AKBARNAMA
Banarasi (1586-1643 CE) HALF A STORY/ARDHAKATHANAK
Fiction Indo-Persian
Jayasi PADMAVAT
Nakhshabi TUTI-NAMA
HAMZANAMA
19th Century
Pillai, S. V. (1826-1889) LIFE OF PRATHAPA MUDALIAR/PRATHAPA MUDALIAR CHARITHRAM (First novel in Tamil)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Chattopadhyay, B. C. ) (1838-1894) KRISHNAKANTA'S WILL - SACRED BROTHERHOOD - POISON TREE
Menon, O. Chandu (1847–1899) INDULEKHA (First novel in Malayalam)
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941) BROKEN NEST - GRAIN of SAND - FAIR-FACED - HOME and WORLD
Aiyar, B. R. Rajam (1872-1898) FATAL RUMOR/KAMALAMPAL CARITTIRAM
Premchand (1880-1936) SEVASADAN - GIFT OF COW
B. Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950) SONG of the ROAD - UNVANQUISHED
20th Century
Ali, Ahmet (1905-1977) TWILIGHT IN DELHI
Anand, Mulk Raj(1905-2004) UNTOUCHABLE-COOLIE-TWO LEAVES and a BUD-VILLAGE-ACROSS THE BLACK WATERS-SWORD and SICKLE-BIG HEART
Narayan, R. K. (1906-2001) SWAMI and FRIENDS-BACHELOR of ARTS-DARKROOM-ENGLISH TEACHER-PRINTER of MALGUDI-FINANCIAL EXPERT-WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA -GUIDE-MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI - VENDOR OF SWEETS - PAINTER of SIGNS - WORLD OF NAGARAJ
Rao, Raja (1908-2006) KANTHAPURA - THE SERPENT and THE ROPE
Singh, Khushwant (1915-2014) TRAIN to PAKISTAN - DELHI: A NOVEL
Mitra, Narendranath (1917- ) MAHANAGAR / BIG CITY Markandaya, Kamala (1924-2004) NECTAR IN A SIEVE(1954)-SOME INNER FURY(1955)-A SILENCE OF DESIRE(1960)-POSSESSION(1963)- A HANDFUL OF RICE(1966)-COFFER DAMS(1969)-NOWHERE MAN(1972)-TWO VIRGINS(1973)-GOLDEN HONEY COMB(1977)-PLEASURE CITY(1982)
Ananthamurthy, U. R.(1932-2014) SAMSKARA - SILENCE of DESIRE - A HANDFUL OF RICE
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (1927-2013) NATURE of PASSION - HEAT and DUST (1975)
Desai, Anita (1937- ) CRY, The PEACOCK-BYE-BYE BLACKBIRD-FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN-CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY-IN CUSTODY - BRAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY-FASTING FEASTING
Mukherjee, Bharati(1940-2017) JASMINE
Rushdie, Salman(1947- ) MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -SATANIC VERSES
Ghosh, Amitav (1956-) GLASS PALACE - HUNGRY TIDE - SEA of POPPIES - RIVER of SMOKE - FLOOD of FIRE
Chatterjee, Upamanyu (1959-) ENGLISH, AUGUST - AN INDIAN STORY - THE LAST BURDEN
Roy, Arundhati (1961- ) GOD of SMALL THINGS Chaudhuri, Amit (1962-) STRANGE and SUBLIME ADDRESS - IMMORTALS
Desai, Kiran (1971-) HULLABOLU GUAVA ORCHARD - INHERITANCE of LOSS
Adiga, Aravind (1974-) WHITE TIGER - LAST MAN in the TOWER
Bhagat, Chetan (1974-) ONE INDIAN GIRL - TWO STATES - HALF GIRLFRIEND
Periods (Ancient - Postclassical- - E Modern- - 19 Century - 20 Century) Genres (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - - Essay)
Literary Works
Ancient Period
Pre-classical Literature
Religious Scriptures
Hinduism VEDAS (c. 1500-900 BCE) - UPANISHAD (c. 800 BCE)
Buddhism THERAVADA (3rd BCE) - MAHAYANA (2nd BCE)
Classical Period
Poetry
Vyasa MAHABHARATA
Valmiki RAMAYANA (B.C.E.500)
Bharavi KIRATA AND ARJUNA
Kalidasa BIRTH OF KUMARA - DYNASTY OF RAGHU-CLOUD MESSENGER
Bharthari SATAKATRAYA
Magha SLAYING OF SHIHUPALA Ilango Atikal CILAPPTIKARAM
Sattanar MANIMEKALAI
Drama
Bhasa
Sudraka LITTLE CLAY CART(2-6th cc. C.E.)
Kalidasa (5th cc. C.E.) SHAKUNTALÂ (5th cc.C.E. )
Fiction
PANCATANTRA
Dandin ADVENTURES OF THE TEN PRINCES/DASAKUMARACARITA Bana KADAMBARI
Subandhu VASAVADATTA
Buddhaghosa JATAKA
Essay
DHARMA SASTRAS (LAW BOOKS)
Life Writing
Asvaghosa (100 - 150 CE) BUDDHACARITA
Bana HARSHACARITA (Harsha's biography)
Postclassical Period
Poetry
Kampan RAMAYANA
Tirutakkatevar CIVAKACINTAMANI
Tolamolittevar CULAMANI
Jayankontar KALINGALUTTAPARANI Devotional Poetry Sankskrit Kannada Hindi Tamil SONGS TO VISHNU - SONGS TO SIVA
Life Writing
Cekillar PERIYAPURANAM (biographies of Tamil poet-saints)
Fiction
SHIVA PURANA - HITOPADESA (Animal Fables - Statecraft) - VETALAPANCAVIMSATI (Vampires)
Somadeva KATHASARITSAGARA/OCEAN OF STORIES (11th CentUry CE) Karki Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Śāstrī Sūri VIKRAMARKA CHARITRAMU (Story of Vikramaditya)
Janna YASHODHARA CHARITE (Jain Values and beliefs)
Nanjunda Kavi RAMANATHAN CHARITE
Tulsi Das RAMCHARITMANAS/LAKE /LAKE OF THE DEEDS OF RAMA (Ramayana)
Oral Epics PABUJI ANNANMAR (‘Two Brothers’) BOW SONG (MUTTUPPATTAN, TAMPIMAR)
Early Modern Period
Poetry
Indo-Persian
Life Writing
Babur(1483-1530 CE) BABURNAMA (1494-1530 CE)
Abul Fazl (1551-1602 CE) AKBARNAMA
Banarasi (1586-1643 CE) HALF A STORY/ARDHAKATHANAK
Fiction Indo-Persian
Jayasi PADMAVAT
Nakhshabi TUTI-NAMA
HAMZANAMA
19th Century
Pillai, S. V. (1826-1889) LIFE OF PRATHAPA MUDALIAR/PRATHAPA MUDALIAR CHARITHRAM (First novel in Tamil)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Chattopadhyay, B. C. ) (1838-1894) KRISHNAKANTA'S WILL - SACRED BROTHERHOOD - POISON TREE
Menon, O. Chandu (1847–1899) INDULEKHA (First novel in Malayalam)
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941) BROKEN NEST - GRAIN of SAND - FAIR-FACED - HOME and WORLD
Aiyar, B. R. Rajam (1872-1898) FATAL RUMOR/KAMALAMPAL CARITTIRAM
Premchand (1880-1936) SEVASADAN - GIFT OF COW
B. Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950) SONG of the ROAD - UNVANQUISHED
20th Century
Ali, Ahmet (1905-1977) TWILIGHT IN DELHI
Anand, Mulk Raj(1905-2004) UNTOUCHABLE-COOLIE-TWO LEAVES and a BUD-VILLAGE-ACROSS THE BLACK WATERS-SWORD and SICKLE-BIG HEART
Narayan, R. K. (1906-2001) SWAMI and FRIENDS-BACHELOR of ARTS-DARKROOM-ENGLISH TEACHER-PRINTER of MALGUDI-FINANCIAL EXPERT-WAITING FOR THE MAHATMA -GUIDE-MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI - VENDOR OF SWEETS - PAINTER of SIGNS - WORLD OF NAGARAJ
Rao, Raja (1908-2006) KANTHAPURA - THE SERPENT and THE ROPE
Singh, Khushwant (1915-2014) TRAIN to PAKISTAN - DELHI: A NOVEL
Mitra, Narendranath (1917- ) MAHANAGAR / BIG CITY Markandaya, Kamala (1924-2004) NECTAR IN A SIEVE(1954)-SOME INNER FURY(1955)-A SILENCE OF DESIRE(1960)-POSSESSION(1963)- A HANDFUL OF RICE(1966)-COFFER DAMS(1969)-NOWHERE MAN(1972)-TWO VIRGINS(1973)-GOLDEN HONEY COMB(1977)-PLEASURE CITY(1982)
Ananthamurthy, U. R.(1932-2014) SAMSKARA - SILENCE of DESIRE - A HANDFUL OF RICE
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (1927-2013) NATURE of PASSION - HEAT and DUST (1975)
Desai, Anita (1937- ) CRY, The PEACOCK-BYE-BYE BLACKBIRD-FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN-CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY-IN CUSTODY - BRAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY-FASTING FEASTING
Mukherjee, Bharati(1940-2017) JASMINE
Rushdie, Salman(1947- ) MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN -SATANIC VERSES
Ghosh, Amitav (1956-) GLASS PALACE - HUNGRY TIDE - SEA of POPPIES - RIVER of SMOKE - FLOOD of FIRE
Chatterjee, Upamanyu (1959-) ENGLISH, AUGUST - AN INDIAN STORY - THE LAST BURDEN
Roy, Arundhati (1961- ) GOD of SMALL THINGS Chaudhuri, Amit (1962-) STRANGE and SUBLIME ADDRESS - IMMORTALS
Desai, Kiran (1971-) HULLABOLU GUAVA ORCHARD - INHERITANCE of LOSS
Adiga, Aravind (1974-) WHITE TIGER - LAST MAN in the TOWER
Bhagat, Chetan (1974-) ONE INDIAN GIRL - TWO STATES - HALF GIRLFRIEND