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Chatterjee, Chaudhuri, Dasgupta, Desai, Desani, Faruqi, Ghosh, Hyder, Jhabvala, Kuvempu, Lahiri, Mistry, Premchand, Rao, Rushdie, Seth, Khushwant Singh, Tharoor, Thayil, Triveni

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Indian Literature
Indian Literature
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In search of India
The Lounge guide to India in 50 books
121 Best English Books By Indian Authors: The Definitive List (2018)
75 Best Indian Authors In English: The Most Definitive List (2018 Update)
Khushwant Singh’s list of 12 significant books that he rates as the best in the last 60 years
My five favourite Indian novels by Mohammed Hanif
Looking for the great Indian novel
The Indian Fiction Top 25
How To Read In Indian: 50 Essential Writers In Translation
Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel
Greatest Indian Novels you cannot afford to miss: part I
8 fiction books by first-time Indian authors you should be reading right now
100 Notable/Best Books of Fiction from India
31 Outstanding Fiction Books by Indian Authors
20 Must Read Gems of Indian English Literature
21 Works Of Fiction By Indian Authors That Everyone Should Read
Greatest Indian Novels you cannot afford to miss: part II
Novel Renditions Reading Hindi literature in translation
Indian English literature
Literature of India in English
English Spoken Here (How globalization is changing the Indian novel)
Women in Pre-Independent India (a bibliography of books written by women in pre-independence India)
Modern Indian Women Writers in English
10 Must-Read Books By Indian Women Authors
53 Indian Women Writers Millennials Must Read
Women Writers of Indian Diaspora Create A Big Impact

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Literature from North East India

Adivasi
Ten voices from Adivasi literature

Assamese
Assamese Literature
Assamese Literature
Assamese Literature
Modern Assamese Literature
Prose in Post-Independence Assamese Literature
Early Women Writers in Assamese Literature
Women Novelists in Post Independence Assamese Literature

Bengali
Bengali Literature
Bengali Literature
Bengali Literature
Bengali Literature
History of Bengali Literature
New Age Bengali Literature
Bengali Novels
Past and Future: A Collection of Bengali Literature
Parabaas (a resource for Bengali Literature)
The Pain of Partition, as Seen in the Literature of Many Languages

Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri Literature
Bhojpuri Literature

Boro
Boro Literature

Dogri
Dogri Literature
Renowned Authors, Lyricists, Novelists and Writers from Jammu

Gujarati
Gujarati Literature
Gujarati Literature
Gujarati Literature
Gujarati Authors
Women Writers in Gujarati Literature
Nationalist Writers in Modern Gujarati Literature
Prose in Modern Gujarati Literature

Hindi
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Immortal Hindi authors and poets
Hindi language (despite the title, about the literature)
Hindi literature in Post Independent Period
Women Writers in Hindi Literature
Modern Period of Hindi Literature

Kannada
Kannada Literature
Kannada Literature
Kannada Authors
Kannada Writers
Modern Period in Kannada Literature
Women Writers in Kannada Literature

Kashmiri
Kashmiri Literature
Kashmiri Literature
Kashmiri Literature

Kharia
Kharia Literature

Khasi
Khasi Literature

Konkani
Konkani Literature in Goa

Korku
Korku Literature in Goa

Maithili
Maithili Literature

Malayalam
Malayalam Literature
Malayalam Literature
Malayalam Authors
Progressive writers in Malayalam Literature
Women writers in Malayalam Literature
Post Modernism in Malayalam Literature

Manipuri
Manipuri Literature
Literatures of Bishnupriya Manipuri

Marathi
Marathi literature
Marathi literature
Prose in Marathi literature
Marathi Authors
Regional Literature in Maharashtra

Newari
Newari Authors

Oriya
Oriya literature
Oriya literature
Oriya literature
Oriya Authors
Oriya Language (but a good section on the literature)

Punjabi
Punjabi literature
Punjabi literature
Punjabi literature
A Short History of Punjabi literature
The Backdrop of Punjabi Literature
East Punjabi Literature: At Cross Roads
Punjabi Literature on Partition: Some Observations
Panjabi Authors

Rabha
Rabha literature

Rajasthani
Rajasthani literature
Rajasthani literature

Santhali
Santhali literature is booming, but needs government help

Sindhi
Sindhi Literature
Sindhi Literature
Sindhi Literature
Sindhi Authors

Sinhalese
Sinhalese Authors
A survey of Sinhalese prose literature from ancient times to the modern period

Tamil
Tamil Literature
Tamil Literature
Modern Era in Tamil Literature
Novel in Twentieth Century Tamil Literature
Tamil Authors

Telugu
Telugu Literature
Telugu Literature
Telugu Literature
Telugu Literature
Telugu Authors
Classical & Famous Telugu Writers
Political and Social Reality in Telugu Fiction

Urdu
Urdu Literature
Urdu Literature
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Urdu Literature in India
The Evolution of Urdu Literature in the 20th Century
Urdu Authors
Will contemporary Urdu novelists please stand up?