Indian literature

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Indian literature is the diverse body of written and oral works produced in the many languages and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent, spanning ancient epics and religious texts to modern poetry, fiction, and drama.

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Indian literature canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural tradition
literature
country India
hasCharacteristic culturally diverse
historically continuous
multilingual
religiously diverse
hasForm oral literature
written literature
hasGenre drama
epic
fiction
non-fiction
poetry
religious text
hasInfluenceFrom Bhakti movement
Buddhism
Christianity
Hinduism
Indian independence movement
Islam
Jainism
Sikhism
Sufi tradition
colonialism
hasInfluenceOn world literature
hasLanguage Assamese
Bengali
English
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
linked to: Kashmiri language

Malayalam
Marathi
linked to: Marathi language

Odia
Pali
Prakrit
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language

Sanskrit
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasNotableAuthor Amitav Ghosh
Amrita Pritam
Anita Desai
Arundhati Roy
Banabhatta
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bharavi
Bhasa
Gulzar
Guru Nanak
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Ismat Chughtai
Jayadeva
Jhumpa Lahiri
Kabir
linked to: Bhagat Kabir

Kalidasa
Khushwant Singh
Kiran Desai
Mahasweta Devi
Mirza Ghalib
Mulk Raj Anand
Namdev
Premchand
Qurratulain Hyder
R. K. Narayan
Rabindranath Tagore
S. L. Bhyrappa
Salman Rushdie
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Subramania Bharati
Thiruvalluvar
Tulsidas
U. R. Ananthamurthy
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
Vikram Seth
hasPeriod ancient Indian literature
classical Indian literature
early modern Indian literature
medieval Indian literature
modern Indian literature
hasWork A Suitable Boy
Gita Govinda
Gitanjali
Godan
Mahabharata
Midnight's Children
Puranas
Ramayana
Rigveda
Silappatikaram
linked to: Cilappatikāram

The God of Small Things
Tirukkural
Train to Pakistan
Upanishads
region Indian subcontinent
linked to: South Asia

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Punjabi literature isPartOf Indian literature
Bengali literature hasInfluenceOn Indian literature
Devdas literaryTradition Indian literature