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The Literature of India

Famous Indian Writers and Poets

A Comprehensive Index of Websites

Hindi
Journals
Poets
Sanskrit
Urdu



B

Bhagavad Gita
Etext versions listed at The Open Directory Project.

Bangladesh

Bangla art and literature.
Anirban

Bangladesh Novels

Boiwala
The Boiwala Online Library
An initiative to digitize the entire Bangla literature and introduce it to the world through this web portal and online library.

Bengali literature

Bengali wruters.
Open Directory Project

Parabaas,
an online journal of Bengali literature.
C

Calcutta

Calcutta writers.
Sahitya Academy Awards, Jnanpith Awards (awarded to Bengali writers)

Chaudhuri, Nirad C.  The Nirad C. Chaudhuri Page.

D

Dictionaries.
Sanskrit, Tamil and Pahlavi Dictionaries.

H

Hindi authors and poets

Hindi authors and poets.
The early period, the middle period, the modern period.

Hindi poets, Hindi authors from the early, middle and modern periods.

Hindi Poetry Books
Vibhom Enterprises - promoting Hindi language, art, literature and culture.

Hindi writers.
A list from The Open Directory Project.

I

Indian authors, writers, poets.
Urdu letters of Mirza Ghalib. Hues, a literary ezine.

J

Journals

Contemporary Literary Review
Poetry, stories, criticism, reviews, non-fiction, and other genres of the best quality from around the world.

The Criterion
A online journal in English. The Criterion encourages interpretative criticism and fresh insights into new and established authors and texts and seeks to generate a serious debate on different academic issues.They also encourage literary contributions in the form of original as well as translated poetry and fiction.

Dialogue
Dialogue is a Bi-annual journal published in June and December at Lucknow. It aims at providing a better understanding of the polyphonic literary text.

Muse India
Started and run by a group of writers, Muse India is a literary e-journal with the primary objective of showcasing Indian writings in English and in English translation to a broad-based global readership. The journal publishes both creative and critical writing and offers a wide range of literary forms.

Rupkatha


L

Literary India.com
An Indian literary magazine.

M

Mahabharata


P

Poets

Poets, philosophers, mystics and teachers from India's
history.
Namadev, Ekanath Maharaj - Eknath, Guru Gobind Singh
- Sikh, 10th Guru (17th c).
Guru Nanak - Great teacher and poet, Founder of Sikhism
(1469-1538).
Janabai - A maid who achieved the Highest State while
grinding wheat, a student of Namadev.
Jnaneshwar Maharaj Jnanadeva - Great teacher and poet at the age of 16 (1275-1296).
Kabir - (Book), Great Teacher and poet, a weaver from
Benares. 
Milarepa - (Book) Great teacher of Tibet's Mahayana Buddhism.
Mirabai -  Mira Bai Rajput, Princess.

Hindi Poetry Books
Vibhom Enterprises - promoting Hindi language, art, literature and culture.

Poets of India
An introduction.

Poet seers of India.
A selection of India's greatest poets from a wide range and diversity of spiritual traditions.

A list of Indian poets, from Wikipedia.

Urdu Poetry Portal
A collection of Urdu poetry by famous Indian and Pakistani Poets.

S

Sanskrit literature

GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages

Sanskrit Wikibooks

TITUS Indica
Sanskrit Literature
Vedabase.net:
Vaishnava literatures with word for word translations from Sanskrit to English.

Official page of the Clay Sanskrit Library, publisher of classical Indian literature with facing-page texts and translations.

Sanskrit literature, Wikipedia entry.

U

Upanishads
English translations at The Sacred Text Archive.

Upanishads
Wikipedia entry.

Urdu poetry

An Urdu poetry archive with ghazals, nazms, articles, mailing lists and links to related websites.

UrduPoint.com
Famous Urdu Poets from Pakistan.

Shayari, Urdu Shayari, Urdu SMS, Urdu Poetry

Urdu poetry Wikipedia entry.

Urdu Poetry
A website for lovers of Urdu poetry

HallaGulla
UrduWorld, one of the largest Urdu poetry forums.

Vedas
Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia entries on Indian, Hindu, Sanskrit, Tamil literature.

Indian Writers, Poets

The Open Directory Project web index of Indian writers.

A list of Indian writers, from Wikipedia.


A

Ahmed, Humayun. Humayun Ahmed,
contemporary Bengali writer.


Desai, Anita. Anita Desai
An introduction.

Anita Desai
Wikipedia entry.

Anita Desai at Contemporary Writers.com.

K

Kalidasa
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Arthur W. Ryder.

N

Narayan, R. K. R K Narayan
Open Directory Project web links.

R. K. Narayan
Wikipedia

Nasrin, Taslima. Taslima Hasrin


Nazrul. Kazi. Nazrul Islam

R

Roy, Arundhati Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize Winner


Rushdie, Salman, Salman Rusdie. Web links from The Open Directory Project.

S

Seshendra Sarma
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma


Seth, Vickram.Vikram Seth
Wikipedia entry.

T

Tagore, Rabindranath. Rabindranath Tagore
Collection of Tagore poems.
The Works of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
Wikipedia entry.




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