A History of Indian Literature

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A History of Indian Literature ("A History of Indian Literature") is a broad-based English-language history of Indian literature or literatures edited by Jan Gonda (1905–1991). It was published in Wiesbaden by the publishing house O. Harrassowitz in the 1970s and 80s. It comprises ten volumes divided into different fascicles. Numerous scholars have contributed to it.

It is roughly subdivided into the following areas: (1) Veda and Upanishads, (2) epics and religious Sanskrit literature, (3) classical Sanskrit literature, (4) scientific and technical literature, (4) Buddhist and Jaina literature , (5) Islamic literatures of India, (6) Modern Indo-Aryan literatures, (7) Dravidian literatures.

Overview

  • Volume 1. Veda and Upanishads
fasc. 1. Vedic literature: (Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas) Jan Gonda . 1975
fasc. 2. The ritual sūtras Jan Gonda. 1977
  • Volume 2. Epics and Sanskrit religious literature
fasc. 1. Medieval religious literature in Sanskrit. Jan Gonda. 1977
fasc. 2. Hindu tantric and Śākta literature. Teun Goudriaan and Sanjukta Gupta . 1981
fasc. 3. The purāṇas Ludo Rocher . 1986
  • Volume 3. Classical Sanskrit literature
fasc. 1. A history of classical poetry: Sanskrit-Pali-Prakrit Siegfried Lienhard . 1984
  • Volume 4. Scientific and technical literature ; Part 1, [fasc. 1]. Subhāṣita, gnomic and didactic literature Ludwik Sternbach . 1974
  • Volume 4 [i. e. 5]. Scientific and technical literature ; Part 2,
[fasc. 1]. Dharmaśāstra and juridical literature J. Duncan M. Derrett . 1973
  • Volume 5. Scientific and technical literature  ; Part 2
fasc. 2. Grammatical literature Hartmut Scharfe . 1977
fasc. 3. Indian poetics Edwin Gerow . 1977
fasc. 4. Indian lexicography Claus Vogel . 1979
  • Volume 6. Scientific and technical literature ; part 3
fasc. 1. Musicological literature Emmie te Nijenhuis . 1977
fasc. 2. Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Bimal Krishna Matilal . 1977
fasc. 3. Sāṃkhya literature Michel Hulin . 1978
fasc. 4. Jyotiḥśāstra: astral and mathematical literature David Pingree . 1981
fasc. 5. Mīmāṃsā literature Jean-Marie Verpoorten . 1987
  • Volume 7. Buddhist and Jaina literature ;
fasc. 1. The literature of the Madhyamaka school of philosophy in India David Seyfort Ruegg . 1981
fasc. 2. Pāli literature: including the canonical literature in Prakrit and Sanskrit of all the Hīnayāna schools of Buddhism KR Norman . 1983
  • Volume 8. [fasc.] 1. Islamic literatures of India Annemarie Schimmel . 1973
  • Volume 8. Modern Indo-Aryan literatures  ; Part 1,
fasc. 2. Hindi literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Ronald Stuart McGregor . 1974
fasc. 3. Classical Urdu literature from the beginning to Iqbāl Annemarie Schimmel . 1975
fasc. 4. Kashmiri literature Braj B. Kachru . 1981
fasc. 5. Hindi literature in the twentieth century. Peter Gaeffke . 1978
fasc. 6. Hindi literature from its beginnings to the nineteenth century Ronald Stuart McGregor . 1984
  • Volume 8 [i. e. 9]. Modern Indo-Aryan literatures  ; Part 2, [fasc. 1]. Sindhi literature Annemarie Schimmel . 1974
  • Volume 9. Modern Indo-Aryan literatures ; Part 2
fasc. 2. Assamese literature Satyendra Nath Sarma . 1976
fasc. 3. Bengali literature Dušan Zbavitel . 1976
fasc. 4. Classical Marāṭhī literature: from the beginning to AD 1818 Shankar Gopal Tulpule . 1979
  • Volume 10. Dravidian literatures
fasc. 1. Tamil literature Kamil Veith Zvelebil . 1974
fasc. 2. The relation between Tamil and classical Sanskrit literature George Luzerne Hart . 1976

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