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Indic literature (English)

Here are entered collections of literary works in English by native residents of India. Collections of literary works in English by British residents of India are entered under Anglo-Indian literature. Collections of literary works in English written in Britain by authors of East Indian origin or ancestry are entered under English literature -- East Indian authors.

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• Indic literature
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• Indic literature (English) -- 20th century
• Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism
• Indic literature (English) -- Periodicals
• Indic drama (English)
• Indic fiction (English)
• Indic poetry (English)
• Soldiers' writings, Indic (English)

• English literature -- India
• Indo-English literature

• Indo-Anglian literature. (Thacker, Spink, 1883), by Edward Charles Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Layla-Majnu : a musical play in three acts (P. Elder, 1916), by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition of the late governor-general of India's last act (Edinburgh : Johnstone, 1837., 1837), by Alexander Duff (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The gardener (The Macmillan company, 1913), by Rabindranath Tagore, Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress), and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• IL (Sahitya Akademi, 1957), by Sahitya Akademi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lost ring. (Printed and published by Stephen Austin, 1855), by Kālidāsa and Monier Monier-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hari; the jungle lad. (Dutton, 1928), by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
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• The Bengali book of English verse (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918), by Theodore Douglas Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Echoes from East & West, to which are added stray notes of mine own (Galloway and Porter, 1909), by Roby Datta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from East and West, to which are added stray notes of mine own (Galloway and Porter, 1909), by Ravi Datta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India in song : eastern themes in English verse by British and Indian poets (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by Theodore Douglas Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Dutt family album. (Longmans, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coloured garden. (Society for the Promotion of National Education; publishers: The Commonweal Office, 1919), by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Society for the Promotion of National Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan (K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1906), by Toru Dutt and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of Ind, and Other Poems, by T. Ramakrishna Pillai (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Bengali book of English verse (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1918), by Theodore Douglas Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient ballads and legends of Hindustan (K. Paul, Trench & co., 1888), by Toru Dutt and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Madras occasional verse. (Higginbothams, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Garden of Kama (John Lane Co. ;, 1916), by Laurence Hope (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Garden of Kama (John Lane Co. ;, 1906), by Laurence Hope (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India's love lyrics, including The garden of Kama (J. Lane [etc., etc.], 1917), by Laurence Hope (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life (Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825), by Robert Grenville Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Harvard Oriental Series (partial serial archives)
• Kashmir series of texts and studies. (Srinagar, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaekwad's oriental series. (Oriental Institute [etc.], 1916), by Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara (India : District). Central Library, and India) Oriental Institute (Vadodara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliotheca Indica. (Baptist Mission Press, 1848), by India) Asiatick Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, and India) Asiatic Society (Calcutta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indiens Literatur und Cultur in historischer Entwicklung : ein Cyklus von fünfzig Vorlesungen zugleich als Handbuch der indischen Literaturgeschichte, nebst Zahlreichen, in deutscher Uebersetzung mitgetheilten Proben aus indischen Schriftwerken (H. Haessel, 1887), by Leopold von Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient language and literature of India a paper read before the Hamilton Association, Dec. 11, 1884 (s.n.], 1885), by H. B. Witton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die entwicklung der indologie in Europa und ihre beziehungen zur allgemeinen völkerkunde; antrittsvorlesung. (Anthropologische gesellschaft, 1895), by Leopold von Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die Poesie des indischen Mittelalters; Vortrag gehalten in der Aula der Universität zu Dorpat, den 20. Februar 1882. (E.J. Karow's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1882), by Leopold von Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of India : moral, mystical, spiritual and romantic (Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House, 1906), by Rose Reinhardt Anthon and Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Indian literature (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892), by Albrecht Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commemorative essays presented to Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar. (Bhandarkar Oriental research institute, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amar chitra katha: [immortal pictorial classics from Indian history and mythology] (Mirchandani :, 1900), by Anant Pai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian vernacular literatures. (The Panini office, 1911), by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sagen und Märchen Altindiens. (Berlin-Charlottenburg, 1916), by Alois Essigmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalogue of the Library of the India Office. (H. M. Stationery Off., 1900), by Great Britain. India Office. Library and India Office Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the library of the India office ... (Eyre & Spottiswoode, printers, 1888), by Great Britain. India Office. Library, James Fuller Blumhardt, and Reinhold Rost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of native publications in the Bombay presidency up to 31st December 1864. (Education society's press, Byculla, 1867), by Bombay (India : State). Educational Dept, Krishna Shastri Chiplonkar, James Braithwaite Peile, Mahadev Govīnd Ranade, Franz Kielhorn, and Alexander Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian literature, art and religion. (London, 1913), by Probsthain & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A union list of printed Indic texts and translations in American libraries (New Haven, Conn. : American oriental society, 1935., 1935), by M. B. Emeneau and American Council of Learned Societies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of books printed in the Bombay Presidency. (1893), by Bombay (India : State) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sūci patram [priced catalog. (Education Society's Press, Byculla], 1887), by Jyesthārām Mukundji (Bookseller) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian literature abroad (China) (N.C. Paul, 1928), by Prabhatkumar Mukherjee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• A short history of Indian literature (T. F. Unwin, 1907), by E. P. Horrwitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• India's past; a survey of her literatures, religions, languages and antiquities. (The Clarendon press, 1927), by Arthur Anthony Macdonell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian literature abroad (China) ([Calcutta Oriental press], 1928), by Prabhātakumāra Mukhopādhyāẏa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die literaturen Indiens von ihren anfängen bis zur gegenwart, in verbindung mit dr. Banarsi Das Jain ... dr. Wilhelm Geiger ... dr. Friedrich Rosen ... d. Hilko Wiardo Schomerus ... (Akademische verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, m. b. h., 1929), by Helmuth von Glasenapp, Hilko Wiardo Schomerus, B. D. Jain, Friedrich Rosen, and Wilhelm Geiger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Materialien zur Geschichte der Indischen Visionslitteratur (A. Twietmeyer, 1892), by Lucian Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der indischen litteratur. (C. F. Ameland, 1908), by M. Winternitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der indischen Litteratur. (C.F. Amelang, 1905), by M. Winternitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• SarasvatiBhavana studies (Government Sanskrit Library, 1922), by Sampūrṇānanda Saṃskr̥ta Viśvavidyālaya, Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, and India). Library Government Sanskrit College (Vārānasi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian literature abroad (China) (N.C. Paul, 1928), by Prabhatkumar Mukherjee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indiens Literatur und Cultur in historischer Entwicklung; ein Cyklus von fünfzig Vorlesungen zugleich als Handbuch der indischen Literaturgeschichte (H. Haessel, 1922), by Leopold von Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Akademische Vorlesungen über indische Literaturgeschichte (Ferd. Dümmler, 1852), by Albrecht Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la littérature des Hindous (A. Durand, 1860), by Louis Enault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sarasvati Bhavana studies. (Varanasi [etc.], 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Love in Hindu literature (Maruzen company, ltd., 1916), by Benoy Kumar Sarkar and Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Indian literature (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892), by Albrecht Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om de oeldste tidsrum i den indiske historie med hensyn til literaturen. (Schultz, 1860), by N. L. Westergaard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Indian literature (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892), by Albrecht Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materialien zur Geschichte der Indischen Visionslitteratur (Leipzig : A. Twietmeyer, 1892., 1892), by Lucian Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.