SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE:
SOME PRIMARY SOURCES
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*GENERAL BACKGROUND* == Sources that provide access to a number of texts

*TRAVELLERS' VIEWS* == Some accounts by visitors, storytellers, poets, and philosophers from outside South Asia

*CLASSICAL TEXTS* == Early texts of the Indian religious, philosophical, and literary traditions

*THE TWO GREAT EPICS* == The Ramayana and the Mahabharata (including the Bhagavad Gita), with commentary

*FOLKTALE COLLECTIONS* == Folktales and oral narrative traditions, primary source collections, and some commentary

*MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WORKS* == works in all genres, mostly by South Asians

*THE COLONIAL PERIOD* == works by South Asians, and some relevant British and other colonial writing

*CONTEMPORARY WORKS* == works by South Asians, and some selected work about South Asia by others

 
 

 
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