A History of Indian Literature
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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See also
- Moriz Winternitz : History of Indian Literature.
- Helmuth von Glasenapp : The literatures of India. From its beginnings to the present (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 318). Kröner, Stuttgart 1961, DNB 363784993 .