IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From 8th to 15th Century - Language and Literature

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From 8th to 15th Century

Language and Literature

Structure

' 33.0 Objectives
33.1 Introduction
33.2 Sanskrit Literature
33.3 . Arabic Literature
33.4 Persian Literature
33.4.1 Early Phase
33.4.2 Contribution of Amir Khusrau
33.4.3 Other Persian Po&
33.4.4 Historical Worh in Persian
33.4.5 Slln Literature in Persian
33.4.6 Sanskrit Translatiom in Persian
33.5 Literature in Rzgional Languages
33.6 Social Background of the Detelopment of Regional Languages
33.7 *Literature in the Regional &anguages of North India
33.7.1 The Development of Hindi Literature
33.7.2 The Origin and Growth of Urdu Language
33.7.3 Punjabi Literature
33.7.4 Bengali Literature
33.7.5 Assamese Lite~ture
33.7.6 Oriya Literature
33.7.7 Marathi Literature
33.7.8 Gujarati Literature
33.8 Literature in the Languages of South India
33.8.1 Tamil Literature
- 33.8.2 Telegu Literature
33.8.3 Kannada Literature
33.8.4 Malaydam Literature
33.9 Let Us Sum Up
33.10 Key Words
33.11 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

33.0 OBJECTIVES

After reading this Unit you should be able to know:

that decadence had crept into the quality of Sanskrit works produced during the
period under review,
bout the introduction and growth of Persian language and literature in India,
about theorigin and growth of Urdu language,
thesfactors responsible for the growth of regional languages and literature, and
about the nature of cultural and literary synthesis achieved in this period.

33.1 INTRODUCTION

The Sultanate witnessed the flowering of a rich corpus of literature, This was a
period when new languages were introduced with a remarkable growth in the sphere
of culture and literature. This cultural and literary synthesis is manifested in the
origin and growth of a synthetic language like Urdu and in the interchange between'
Persian and Sanskrit. The regional languages and literature which were considerably
influertced by Sanskrit and Persian mirrored the religious, social and popular '
, attitudes of the period under study. The Hindi works of Mush writers like Amir
Khusrau and Jayasi as well as the Bengali Vaishnavite poems composed by Bengali
: lk#uslims also highlight the process of cultural synthesis operative during this period.