Indian literature

E122607
cultural tradition literature

Indian literature is the diverse body of written and oral works produced in the many languages and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent, spanning ancient epics and religious texts to modern poetry, fiction, and drama.

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Label Occurrences
Indian literature canonical 3

Statements (99)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural tradition ⓘ
literature ⓘ
country India ⓘ
hasCharacteristic culturally diverse ⓘ
historically continuous ⓘ
multilingual ⓘ
religiously diverse ⓘ
hasForm oral literature ⓘ
written literature ⓘ
hasGenre drama ⓘ
epic ⓘ
fiction ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
religious text ⓘ
hasInfluenceFrom Bhakti movement ⓘ
Buddhism ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Indian independence movement ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Jainism ⓘ
Sikhism ⓘ
Sufi tradition ⓘ
colonialism ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn world literature ⓘ
hasLanguage Assamese ⓘ
Bengali ⓘ
English ⓘ
Gujarati ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
Kannada ⓘ
Kashmiri language ⓘ
surface form: Kashmiri

Malayalam ⓘ
Marathi language ⓘ
surface form: Marathi

Odia ⓘ
Pali ⓘ
Prakrit ⓘ
Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form: Punjabi

Sanskrit ⓘ
Sindhi ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ
Telugu ⓘ
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu
hasNotableAuthor Amitav Ghosh ⓘ
Amrita Pritam ⓘ
Anita Desai ⓘ
Arundhati Roy ⓘ
Banabhatta ⓘ
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ⓘ
Bharavi ⓘ
Bhasa ⓘ
Gulzar ⓘ
Guru Nanak ⓘ
Harivansh Rai Bachchan ⓘ
Ismat Chughtai ⓘ
Jayadeva ⓘ
Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ
Bhagat Kabir ⓘ
surface form: Kabir

Kalidasa ⓘ
Khushwant Singh ⓘ
Kiran Desai ⓘ
Mahasweta Devi ⓘ
Mirza Ghalib ⓘ
Mulk Raj Anand ⓘ
Namdev ⓘ
Premchand ⓘ
Qurratulain Hyder ⓘ
R. K. Narayan ⓘ
Rabindranath Tagore ⓘ
S. L. Bhyrappa ⓘ
Salman Rushdie ⓘ
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay ⓘ
surface form: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

Subramania Bharati ⓘ
Thiruvalluvar ⓘ
Tulsidas ⓘ
U. R. Ananthamurthy ⓘ
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer ⓘ
Vikram Seth ⓘ
hasPeriod ancient Indian literature ⓘ
classical Indian literature ⓘ
early modern Indian literature ⓘ
medieval Indian literature ⓘ
modern Indian literature ⓘ
hasWork A Suitable Boy ⓘ
Gita Govinda ⓘ
Gitanjali ⓘ
Godan ⓘ
Mahabharata ⓘ
Midnight's Children ⓘ
Puranas ⓘ
Ramayana ⓘ
Rigveda ⓘ
Cilappatikāram ⓘ
surface form: Silappatikaram

The God of Small Things ⓘ
Tirukkural ⓘ
Train to Pakistan ⓘ
Upanishads ⓘ
region South Asia ⓘ
surface form: Indian subcontinent

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Punjabi literature → isPartOf → Indian literature ⓘ
Bengali literature → hasInfluenceOn → Indian literature ⓘ
Devdas → literaryTradition → Indian literature ⓘ