TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee, Sujit. TI - A dictionary of Indian literature SN - 9788125014539 U1 - 891.403 PY - 1998/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Longman Ltd KW - Indic literature KW - Dictionary N2 - This volume aspires to be a handy reference work for users whose interest is not limited to one or two Indian language literatures but spreads over Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and the Prakrits as well as to Asamiya, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Panjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Telugu and Urdu. A wide-ranging selection of notable literary works, major authors, popular literary works, major authors, popular literary forms and significant literary terms in these languages have been listed here and introduced briefly. Starting with the Vedas and the Upanishads, the coverage spans several centuries upto the year 1850 ER -