South Asian literature

South Asian literature

As the success of Booker Prize winning authors like Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy suggests, India is today one of the world's most vibrant areas of literary and cultural production.For more information, see [http://courseware.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/3663/wiki/index.php/Main_Page WikiGanesh]

For the literature of South Asian cultures, see:

*Bangladeshi literature
**Bengali literature
*Indian literature
**Assamese literature
**Bengali literature
**Gujarati literature
**Hindi literature
**Indian English literature
**Kannada literature
**Kashmiri literature
**Malayalam literature
**Marathi literature
**Nepali literature
**Rajasthani literature
**Sanskrit literature
**Tamil literature
**Telugu literature
**Urdu literature
*Nepali literature
*Pakistani literature
**Kashmiri literature
**Sindhi literature
**Urdu literature
*Sri Lankan literature
**Tamil literature


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