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Telugu literature

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• Indic literature

• Telugu literature -- 1500-1800
• Telugu literature -- To 1500
• Telugu poetry
• Telugu prose literature

• Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Dean Shulman (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Dean Shulman (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Graded Readings in Modern Literary Telugu (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1967), by G. N. Reddy and Dan M. Matson
  • main volume: page images at Chicago
  • glossary volume: page images at Chicago

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Harvard Oriental Series (partial serial archives)

• Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Pranav Jani (PDF at Ohio State)

• Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Paula Richman (HTML at UC Press)

• Bazyaft (partial serial archives)
• Oriental College Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1999), by Balachandra Rajan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)

• Educating Seeta: the Anglo-Indian Family Romance and The Poetics of Indirect Rule (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Shuchi Kapila (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Bengali Ramayanas: Being Lectures Delivered to the Calcutta University in 1916, as Ramtanu Lahiri Research Fellow in the History of Bengali Language and Literature (Kolkata: University of Calcutta, 1920), by Dineshchandra Sen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Kathryn Hansen (HTML at UC Press)

• Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)

• The Mirror of Composition: A Treatise on Poetical Criticism (Kolkata: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, 1875), by Viśvanātha Kavirāja, trans. by James Robert Ballantyne and Pramada Dasa Mitra
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Primer of Tamil Literature (Chennai: Ananda Press, 1904), by M. S. Purnalingam Pillai
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1982), by Brenda E. F. Beck (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Frances W. Pritchett (HTML at UC Press)

• Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, Entitled, Dhamma-Sangani (Compendium of States or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1900), contrib. by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hindu Literature: Comprising The Book of Good Counsels; Nala and Damayanti; The Ramayana; and Sakoontala; With Critical and Biographical Sketches (revised eition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by Edwin Arnold, Ralph T. H. Griffith, and Monier Monier-Williams, contrib. by Vālmīki, Kālidāsa, and Toru Dutt (Gutenberg text)

• Indian Poetry: Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two Books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and Other Oriental Poems (eighth impression; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and CO., 1904), ed. by Edwin Arnold, contrib. by Jayadeva (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Cantos I-VIII: Edited With the Commentary of Mallina'tha, a Literal English Translation, Notes and Introduction (second edition, in Sanskrit and English; Mumbai: Standard Pub. Co., 1917), by Kālidāsa, ed. by M. R. Kale, contrib. by Mallinātha
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hymns to the Goddess, ed. by John George Woodroffe (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Indian Idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907), trans. by Edwin Arnold (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Broken Ties and Other Stories (c1925), by Rabindranath Tagore (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Oral Tales of India (Indiana University Publications folklore series #10; 1958), by Stith Thompson and Jonas Balys (page images at HathiTrust)

• Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold (HTML at UC Press)

• Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold (HTML at UC Press)

• Indian Ghost Stories (second edition; Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler and Co., 1917), by S. Mukerji (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (second edition; London: K. Paul, Trench and co., 1885), by Toru Dutt, contrib. by Edmund Gosse
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry Into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harvard Oriental Series (partial serial archives)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

• Avadâna-C̜ataka: Cent Légendes (Bouddhiques), Traduites du Sanskrit (Annales du Musée Guimet book 18, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1891), ed. by Léon Féer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Gallica

• Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Cantos I-VIII: Edited With the Commentary of Mallina'tha, a Literal English Translation, Notes and Introduction (second edition, in Sanskrit and English; Mumbai: Standard Pub. Co., 1917), by Kālidāsa, ed. by M. R. Kale, contrib. by Mallinātha
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Bharavi's Poem Kiratarjuniya: or, Arjuna's Combat with the Kirata (Harvard Oriental Series v15, primarily in German; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1912), by Bhāravi, ed. by Carl Cappeller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Adventures of the Gooroo Paramartan (Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1920), ed. by Costantino Giuseppe Beschi and Charles Clinch Bubb, trans. by B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)

• She-Rab Dong-Bu, by Nagarjuna, trans. by W. L. Campbell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Annual of Urdu Studies (partial serial archives)

• The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

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