First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The literature of India is one of the most ancient (along with Egyptian and Assyrian) literatures of which we possess written records. Indian literature divides itself into two great periods, the Vedic and the Sanskrit.

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