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The Literature of India
Indian Writers and Poets, a Website Index
Hindi
Journals
Poets
Sanskrit

Awards
The Vodafone Crossword Book Award
recognises and rewards the best of Indian writing and ensures that works of merit reach a wider audience.

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Bhagavad Gita
Etext versions listed at The Open Directory Project.
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Bangla art and literature.
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Bangladesh Novels
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Bengali literature

Bengali wruters.
Open Directory Project
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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.
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D

Dictionaries.
Sanskrit, Tamil and Pahlavi Dictionaries.

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Hindi authors and poets

Hindi authors and poets.
The early period, the middle period, the modern period.
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Hindi poets, Hindi authors from the early, middle and modern periods.
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Hindi Poetry Books
Vibhom Enterprises - promoting Hindi language, art, literature and culture.
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Hindi writers.
A list from The Open Directory Project.

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Indian authors, writers, poets.
Urdu letters of Mirza Ghalib. Hues, a literary ezine.
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Indian Writers.org
A website dedicated to personal webpages of indian writers, journals, books, literary organisation, mailing addresses of indian writers, literary writers ...
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J

Journals

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


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Literary India.com
An Indian literary magazine.

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Mahabharata

Mahabharata, Wikipedia entry.
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The Mahabharata in Sanskrit.
Parallel Devanagari and Romanization
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.
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Hindi Poetry Books
Vibhom Enterprises - promoting Hindi language, art, literature and culture.
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Poets of India
An introduction.
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Poet seers of India.
A selection of India's greatest poets from a wide range and diversity of spiritual traditions.
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A list of Indian poets, from Wikipedia.
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Urdu Poetry Portal
A collection of Urdu poetry by famous Indian and Pakistani Poets.

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Sanskrit literature

GRETIL: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
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Sanskrit Wikibooks
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TITUS Indica
Sanskrit Literature
Vedabase.net:
Vaishnava literatures with word for word translations from Sanskrit to English.
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Official page of the Clay Sanskrit Library, publisher of classical Indian literature with facing-page texts and translations.
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Sanskrit literature, Wikipedia entry.

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Upanishads
English translations at The Sacred Text Archive.

Upanishads
Wikipedia entry.
Vedas
Wikipedia entry.
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Wikipedia entries on Indian, Hindu, Sanskrit, Tamil literature.

Indian Writers, Poets

The Open Directory Project web index of Indian writers.
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A list of Indian writers, from Wikipedia.


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Ahmed, Humayun. Humayun Ahmed,
famous contemporary Bengali writer.
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Desai, Anita. Anita Deasi
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K

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

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

R. K. Narayan
Wikipedia

Nasrin, Taslima. Taslima Hasrin
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Nazrul. Kazi. Nazrul Islam
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R

Roy, Arundhati Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize Winner
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Rushdie, Salman, Salman Rusdie. Web links from The Open Directory Project.

S

Seshendra Sarma
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma
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Seth, Vickram.Vikram Seth
Wikipedia entry.

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











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