Indian Literature

Section 1: INDIAN CLASSICAL WRITERS (SANSKRIT)

1. Kalidasa

2. Ilango Adikal

3. Sudraka

4. Panini

5. Bhartrhari

6. Patanjali

7. Bhasa

8. Bhavabhuti

9. Abhinavagupta

Section 2: INDIAN LITERARY CRITICISM/ INDIAN AESTHETICS

1. Introduction to Indian Aesthetics

2. Bharat Muni’s Rasa School

3. Bhamaha’s Alamkara School

4. Dandin’s Guna Dosa School

5. Vamana’s Riti School

6. Anandvardhana’s Dhwani School

7. Kuntaka’s Vakrokti School

8. Ksemendra’s Aucitya School

9. A Few More

Section 3: ENGLISH IN INDIA

1. Tracing the Beginnings

2. Charter Act 1813 and Its Impact - Entry of Missionaries in India

3. How English Came to be Demanded by Indians

4. Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Spreading English

5. Role of William Bentinck

6. Macaulay’s Minute

7. Wood’s Despatch of 1854

8. Indian Education Commission 1882 (a.k.a. Hunter Education Commission)

9. Indian University Commission 1902

10. Gokhale’s Bill 1912

11. English Language during Independence Movement

12. English after Independence and Its Present State

Section 4: NOVELISTS

1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)

2. MK Gandhi (1869-1948)

3. C. Rajagopalachari (1878-1972)

4. Premchand (1880-1936)

5. Nirad C Chaudhari (1897-1999)

6. Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)

7. Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906-1988)

8. RK Narayan (1906-2001)

9. Raja Rao (1908-2006)

10. GV Desani (1909-2000)

11. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) #partition

12. Attia Hossain (1913-1998)

13. Manohar Malgaonkar (1913-2010)

14. Bhisham Sahni (1915-2003)

15. Khushwant Singh (1915-2014)

16. Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004)

17. Chaman Nahal (1927-2013) #partition

18. Nayantara Sehgal (1927-)

19. O.V. Vijayan (1930-2005)

20. UR Ananthamurthy (1932-2014)

21. Ruskin Bond (1934-)

22. Anita Desai (1937-)

23. Shashi Deshpande (1938-)

24. Arun Joshi (1939-1993)

25. Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017)

26. Salman Rushdie (1947-)

27. Amitav Ghosh (1956-)

28. Cyrus Mistry (1956-)

29. Chitra Bannerjee Divakurni (1956-)

30. Upamanyu Chatterjee (1959-)

31. Arundhati Roy (1961-)

32. Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-)

33. Kiran Desai (1971-)

Section 5: POETS

1. Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873)

2. Toru Dutt (1856-1877)

3. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

4. Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)

5. Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)

6. Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004)

7. Mahashweta Devi (1926-2016)

8. Jayant Mahapatra (1928)

9. AK Ramanujan (1929-1993)

10. P. Lal (1929-2010)

11. Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004)

12. Kamala Das (1934-2009)

13. R. Parthasarathy (1934-)

14. Keki N Daruwalla (1937-)

15. Dom Moraes (1938-2004)

16. Gieve Patel (1940-)

17. Adil Jussawalla (1940-)

18. AK Mehrotra (1947-)

19. Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001)

20. Meena Alexander (1951-2018)

21. Vikram Seth (1952-)

22. Gopi Kottoor (1956-)

Section 6: PLAYWRIGHTS

1. Mohan Rakesh (1925-1972)

2. Badal Sircar (1925-2011)

3. Asif Currimbhoy (1928-1994)

4. Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008)

5. Girish Karnad (1938-2019)

6. Gurcharan Das (1943-)

7. Mahesh Dattani (1958-)

Section 7: DALIT LITERATURE

1. Introduction

2. Bhim Rao Ambedkar (1891-1956)

3. Major Writers

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