THE INDIAN LITERATURE

The Indian literature, writings of the Indian subcontinent, produced there in a variety of languages like Sanskrit,Prakit,Pali,Bengali,Gujarati,Hindi,Kannada,Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu etc.. The term Indian Literature is used here to refer the literature produced across the Indian subcontinent prior to the creation of the Republic of India in 1947 and within the Republic of India after 1947.
The earliest Indian literature too the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as veda, written in sanskrit.The vedas are added with commentaries such as the Brahmanas and Upanishads. In addition to sacred and philosophical writings, such genres as erotic and devotional lyrics, court poetry,plays.
Beginning in the 19th century, paricularly during the height of British control over the subcontinent, western literary models had an impact on Indian literature, the most striking result being the introduction of the use of the vernacular prose on a major scale.Such forms of story began to be adoptef by Indian writers, as did realism and an interest in social quetions and pyschological description. A tradition of literature in English was also established in subcontinent.
The production of Sanskrit literature extended from about 1500 BCE toabout 1000CE and reached its height of development in the 1st to 7th centuries CE. Because sanskrit languages was identified with the Brahminical religion of the vedas, Buddhism and jainism adopted other literary languages. From these and other related languages emerged the modern languages of northern India.
The literature of those languages depended largely on the ancient Indian background, which includes 2 sanskrit epic poems- The Mahabharata and The Ramayana as well as the Bhagavata-purana and the other puranas. In addition, the sanskrit philosophies were the source of philosophical writing in the literatures and the sanskrit schools of rheoric were of great importance for the development of court poetry in many of the modern literatures.
Not only sanskrit, many of the languages have played a main role in the Indian literature. The main reason why the sanskrit language is given this imporatance is because of the two epic poems which is mentioned before. From that day to the present all the languages play vital role in Indian literature.