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
HinduismVEDAS (c. 1500-900 BCE) - UPANISHAD (c. 800 BCE)
BuddhismTHERAVADA (3rd BCE) - MAHAYANA (2nd BCE)
Classical Period
Poetry
VyasaMAHABHARATA
ValmikiRAMAYANA (B.C.E.500)
BharaviKIRATA AND ARJUNA
KalidasaBIRTH OF KUMARA - DYNASTY OF RAGHU-CLOUD MESSENGER
BharthariSATAKATRAYA
MaghaSLAYING OF SHIHUPALA Ilango AtikalCILAPPTIKARAM
SattanarMANIMEKALAI
Drama
Bhasa
SudrakaLITTLE CLAY CART(2-6th cc. C.E.)
Kalidasa (5th cc. C.E.)SHAKUNTALÂ (5th cc.C.E. )
Fiction
PANCATANTRA
DandinADVENTURES OF THE TEN PRINCES/DASAKUMARACARITA BanaKADAMBARI
SubandhuVASAVADATTA
Buddhaghosa JATAKA
Essay
DHARMA SASTRAS (LAW BOOKS)
Life Writing
Asvaghosa (100 - 150 CE)BUDDHACARITA
BanaHARSHACARITA (Harsha's biography)
Postclassical Period
Poetry
KampanRAMAYANA
Tirutakkatevar CIVAKACINTAMANI
Tolamolittevar CULAMANI
JayankontarKALINGALUTTAPARANI Devotional Poetry SankskritKannadaHindiTamil SONGS TO VISHNU - SONGS TO SIVA
Life Writing
CekillarPERIYAPURANAM (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 SūriVIKRAMARKA CHARITRAMU (Story of Vikramaditya)
JannaYASHODHARA CHARITE (Jain Values and beliefs)
Nanjunda Kavi RAMANATHAN CHARITE
Tulsi DasRAMCHARITMANAS/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
JayasiPADMAVAT
NakhshabiTUTI-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
HinduismVEDAS (c. 1500-900 BCE) - UPANISHAD (c. 800 BCE)
BuddhismTHERAVADA (3rd BCE) - MAHAYANA (2nd BCE)
Classical Period
Poetry
VyasaMAHABHARATA
ValmikiRAMAYANA (B.C.E.500)
BharaviKIRATA AND ARJUNA
KalidasaBIRTH OF KUMARA - DYNASTY OF RAGHU-CLOUD MESSENGER
BharthariSATAKATRAYA
MaghaSLAYING OF SHIHUPALA Ilango AtikalCILAPPTIKARAM
SattanarMANIMEKALAI
Drama
Bhasa
SudrakaLITTLE CLAY CART(2-6th cc. C.E.)
Kalidasa (5th cc. C.E.)SHAKUNTALÂ (5th cc.C.E. )
Fiction
PANCATANTRA
DandinADVENTURES OF THE TEN PRINCES/DASAKUMARACARITA BanaKADAMBARI
SubandhuVASAVADATTA
Buddhaghosa JATAKA
Essay
DHARMA SASTRAS (LAW BOOKS)
Life Writing
Asvaghosa (100 - 150 CE)BUDDHACARITA
BanaHARSHACARITA (Harsha's biography)
Postclassical Period
Poetry
KampanRAMAYANA
Tirutakkatevar CIVAKACINTAMANI
Tolamolittevar CULAMANI
JayankontarKALINGALUTTAPARANI Devotional Poetry SankskritKannadaHindiTamil SONGS TO VISHNU - SONGS TO SIVA
Life Writing
CekillarPERIYAPURANAM (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 SūriVIKRAMARKA CHARITRAMU (Story of Vikramaditya)
JannaYASHODHARA CHARITE (Jain Values and beliefs)
Nanjunda Kavi RAMANATHAN CHARITE
Tulsi DasRAMCHARITMANAS/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
JayasiPADMAVAT
NakhshabiTUTI-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