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Thereafter, the literature is divided into medieval (1360-1800) and modern (after 1800). Gītāñjali, a collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in 1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by

https://www.britannica.com/art/Indian-literature
The earliest Indian literature took the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as the Veda, which were written in Sanskrit.To the Veda were added prose commentaries such as the Brahmanas and the Upanishads.The production of Sanskrit literature extended from about 1500 bce to about 1000 ce and reached its height of development in the 1st to 7th centuries ce.

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Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

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Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India has 22 officially recognised languages. Sahitya Akademi, India's highest literary body, also has 24 recognised literary languages.. The earliest works of Indian literature were orally transmitted.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rabindranath-Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on

https://www.jstor.org/journal/indilite
Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi's bimonthly journal, is India's oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three Indian languages besides original writing in English.There is hardly any significant Indian author who has not been featured in the pages of this journal that has completed 55 years of service

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66414.Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore, W.B. Yeats (Introduction) 4.30. 11,033 ratings893 reviews. Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most important writers in 20th-century Indian literature. Among his expansive and impressive body of work, Gitanjali is regarded as one of his greatest achievements, and has been a perennial bestseller since it was

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rabindranath-tagore
Naravane wrote in An Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore, "The modern short story is Rabindranath Tagore's gift to Indian literature." A substantial amount of Tagore's writing was in the form of nonfictional prose—essays and articles, religious and philosophical treatises, journals and memoirs, lectures and discourses, history and

https://medium.com/poetry-explained/gitanjali-a-poetry-collection-by-rabindranath-tagore-31b0b99fb6f
1. "Rabindranath Tagore" by Cea. is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0. Gitanjali (or Gitanjoli) is the title of what is probably the best-known poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941

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Professor of English, University of Delhi. Rabindranāth Tagore is the most widely renowned writer of modern India. In a career spanning more than six decades, he wrote poems, songs, plays, novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, and travelogues, besides a vast number of letters. He wrote primarily

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The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature is a multi-volume English language encyclopedia of Indian literature published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.The idea for the project emerged in the mid-1970s, and three volumes were planned to cover all Indian literature, including that in native vernaculars.The scope of the project expanded as several editors-in-chief succeeded

https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2017/02/rabindranath-tagore-a-great-indian-poet-and-writer/
At the personal invitation of the king Reza Shah Pahlavi, Tagore visited Persia, in April and May of 1932, and paid homage in the city of Shiraz to two great masters of Persian poetry, Hafiz (1320-1389) and Saadi (1184-1283). Tagore's last pilgrimage ended on August 7, 1941. He was 80 years old.

https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810144996/the-idea-of-indian-literature/
Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship bet

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Indian literature Sanskrit literature divides into three periods: the Vedic period (c.1500-c.200 bc) includes the Vedas and the Upanishads; the Epic period (c.400 bc-c.ad 400) includes the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Ramayana; and the Classical period (from c.ad 200) includes the lyrics of Kalidasa. During the 19th century, various regional vernacular literatures emerged.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-54550-3_1
In what follows, we propose a working model of contemporary Indian literature characterized by four features: firstly, it is multilingual, hence our volume draws on the specific linguistic expertise of scholars whose work is included in the collection; secondly, it is translational, namely we consider the process and politics of translation as central to the construction of a pan-Indian canon

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26792170
Indian Literature: 306 Imaginaries is "Beyond the Orientalist and Postcolonial Constructs: The Telos of Translation Studies from the Perspective of Comparative Indian Literature." It highlights the importance of two important moments in Indian literary history — the first, when the hegemony of Sanskrit began to be challenged,

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1913/tagore/facts/
Rabindranath Tagore. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913. Born: 7 May 1861, Calcutta, India. Died: 7 August 1941, Calcutta, India. Residence at the time of the award: India. Prize motivation: "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6875/
Abstract. This project delineates a cultural history of modern Hinduism in conversation with contemporary Indian literature. Its central focus is literary adaptations of the Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata, in English, Hindi, and Bengali.Among Hindu religious texts, this epic has been most persistently reproduced in literary and popular discourses because its scale matches the grandeur of the

https://allpoetry.com/Rabindranath-Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941] was considered the greatest writer in modern Indian literature. A Bengali poet, novelist, educator, Nobel Laureate for Literature [1913]. Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 in protest against the Massacre at Amritsar, where British troops killed around 400 Indian demonstrators.

https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/south-asia-program/events/tagore-lecture-modern-indian-literature
On September 20, 2019, Indian author Anuradha Roy delivered the 11th annual Rabindrinath Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature on "The Clay Typewriter." This lecture discussed how mud and words are connected in her work; how earth, water, air, and fire fusing to create pots is a metaphor for the way in which real and imagined archives can come together in a writer's imagination and

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27276761
Indian Literature. Multilingualism and the Literary Cultures of India Edited by Multilingualism has been in an alarmingly accelerated decline in the post-Independence period despite, or because of, various attempts to re-vamp the 1968 Three Language Formula towards a more flexible national educational

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27291880
Indian Literature. Hurry! Visit Editorial Office: Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001. All original, unpublished submissions should be sent to indianlit@sahitya-akademi.gov.in indlit@gmail.com. Contents EDITORIAL 7 FROM THE ARCHIVES 9 POETRY Lalit Magotra Dogri 12

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Indian Literature: 335 BOOK REVIEWS My Story: Life Writing from Assam, Volume I, by Debraj Roy Tr. Sanjib Sahoo and Uttam Roy Review by Basudhara Roy The Last Drop of Your Tears by Rajorshi Patranabis 189 Review by Jagari Mukherjee Kisses at the Espresso Bar and 192 What's Wrong with Us Kali Women? by Anita Nahal Review by Kamayani Vashisht