A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399: From Courtly to the PopularThe Present Volume Deals With The First Nine Hundred Years Of The Medieval Period Of Indian Literary History.A History Of Indian Literature Is An Account Of The Literary Activities Of The Indian People Carried Through In Many Languages And Under Different Social Conditions. It Is The Story Of A Multilingual Literature, A Plurality Of Linguistic Expressions And Cultural Experience And Also Of The Remarkable Unity Underlying Them. |
Contents
The Poetry of Ecstasy 27 227 | 27 |
The World of Sanskrit Plays and Other Traditions | 52 |
The Prose Narratives and the Short Verses | 92 |
Its Configurations | 118 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 129 |
CHAPTER NINE | 172 |
Innovations in Modern Indian Languages | 189 |
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