Abstract: What is the idea of Indian Literature? Does anything like Indian Literature really exists? What had been the literary situations over a time in pre- British India? What is the difficulty in defining the term Indian Literature in a multilingual multicultural nation like India? Much had been said and written in last few decades. The views range from those who consider Indian literature as an essentially multilingual phenomenon bound by the threads of minimum common cultural conditions to those who narrowly recognize Indian Literature merely as the one written in English. The article takes a review of different polyglot conventions in literary scene in India from time immemorial till contemporary period. It also discusses the nature of the issue of Indianness in Indian English literature as a post colonial happening in light of discussion on a genre of poetry.
Keywords: Indian Literature, English language, multilingual, polyglot, oral literature, Bhakti tradition.
Title: Of Indianness in Indian Literature: Facing the Amnesia
Author: Dr. Jayashri B. Aher
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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