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 MANIMEKALAIDrama 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 SIVALife 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-PersianLife Writing Babur(1483-1530 CE) BABURNAMA (1494-1530 CE) Abul Fazl (1551-1602 CE) AKBARNAMA Banarasi (1586-1643 CE) HALF A STORY/ARDHAKATHANAKFiction 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 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)-A SILENCE OF DESIRE(1960)-POSSESSION(1963)-A HANDFUL OF RICE(1966) 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 MANIMEKALAIDrama 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 SIVALife 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-PersianLife Writing Babur(1483-1530 CE) BABURNAMA (1494-1530 CE) Abul Fazl (1551-1602 CE) AKBARNAMA Banarasi (1586-1643 CE) HALF A STORY/ARDHAKATHANAKFiction 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 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)-A SILENCE OF DESIRE(1960)-POSSESSION(1963)-A HANDFUL OF RICE(1966) 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