Literature of Mughal Period

Literature of Mughal Period The Mughal Period was an period of growth of literature in India. The Indian Literature witnessed the golden age during the Mughal Rule. Persian Literature in Mughal Period The Persian Literature flourished during Mughal Period. The tolerant and

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Persian Literature in India

Persian literature and language came to India with the Ghaznavids and the Ghurids. The age of the rule of Khalji Dynasty was a great period for Persian literature in India, the two outstanding personalities of the time being Amir Khusrau and Shaikh

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Tuzk-e-Babri (Baburnama, Memoirs of Babur)

Tuzk-e Babri is also known as the Memoirs of Babur or Baburnama. The founder of Mughal Empire in India, Babur, recorded his impressions about India country is his autobiography, styled the Tuzk-e-Babri. Tuzk-e-Babri was originally written by Babur during his intervals of leisure

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Brief History of Malayalam Language and Literature

History of Malayalam Language and Literature. Pacha Malayalam, i.e. the pure Malayalam stream consists of ballads and folk songs difficult to date. By the 10th century or so, Malayalam Language had come into its own. As a literary language, Malayalam was influenced

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Short article on Manipuri Language

Manipuri of Tibeto-Burmese origin, Manipuri is a combination of seven dialects. The Manipuri language is ancient, but its literature up to practically the 19th century belongs to the folk tradition, though that is rich enough. Some of the works that are famous

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Contribution of India in English Literature

English is a foreign language but the contribution of Indian writers in English Literature can be witnessed on several fields such as education, literary effort and as a medium of communication. A pioneer of Indo-Anglian liter­ature was Raja Rammohan Roy whose prose

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34 Famous Literary Personalities of India

Famous Literary Personalities of India Abul Fazl Abul Fazl was a sixteenth century Muslim scholar and historian. He was one of the most respected scholar in the court of Akbar the Great. Assadullah Khan Ghalib Mirza Ghalib was a great Urdu poet of

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History of Urdu Literature

History of Urdu Literature The same Khari Boli that gave rise to Hindi also gave rise to Urdu around the 11th century AD. The Western Sauraseni Apabhramsa is the source of the grammatical structure of Urdu though the vocabulary of the language, its

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Brief History of Kashmiri Literature

Brief History of Kashmiri Literature. It was around the 10th century AD that Kashmiri separated itself from Apabhramsa parentage. In the beginning Kashmir poetry was an extension of Saiva texts in Sanskrit, for instance, Abhinavagupta’s Tantrasara, Buddhism and Vaishnavism also had an impact

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Brief History of Bangla Literature

Bengali Language probably emerged as a separate language around 1000 AD. The beginnings of Bengali literature are to be seen in the songs composed in the 11th - 12th centuries. The Natha literature was inspired by philosophy of the Buddhist Sahajiya cult.

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