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Indian Literature Flashcards

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A group of nomadic warriors and herders were the earliest known migrants into India.

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Aryans

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They brought with them a well deceloped language and literature and a set of religious belief.

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Aryans

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This period is named for the Vedas

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Vedic Period

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It is a set of hymns that formed the cornerstone of Aryan Culture. It is also the most sacred of all literature in India.

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Vedas

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What are the 4 Vedas?

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Rig Veda
Sama Veda
Yajurveda
Atharvaveda

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Hymns of supreme sacred knowledge of all literature. Believed that have been revealed to humans directly from God.

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Rigveda

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How many hyms are included in Rigveda?

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1, 028 hymns

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The Song of Creation is from?

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India

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“Words of Doctrine”
“Way of Truth”
Buddhist Teaching

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Dhammapada

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It is ruled hy Ashoka promoted Buddhism and preached goodness l, non violence, and righteousness.

Known for warfare and iron-fisted rule

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Maurya Dynasty

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During this time, Hinduism reached a full flowering and was evident in culture and arts.

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Gupta Dynasty

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Who is the author of Mahabharata?

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Vyasa

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It is about the struggle for supremacy between two groups of cousins - The Kauravas and Pandavas.

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The Mahabharata

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The mahabharata composed of how many couplets?

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100, 000 couplets

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“Code of Conduct” including the proper conduct of a king, a warrior and of a man living in times of calamity.

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Dharma

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English Translation of Bhagavad Gita

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“The Blessed Lord’s Song”

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One of the greatest and most beutiful Hindu Scriptures.

Regarded as the same way as Gospels of Christians.

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Bhagavad Gita

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Who is the author of Ramayana?

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Valmiki

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How many couplets are there in Ramayana?

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24,000

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It reflects the Hindu values and forms of social organization, the theory of karma, the ideals of wifehood, and feelings about case, honor, and promises

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Ramayana

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Who is the wife of Rama?

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Sita

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Whi is the demon-king of Lanka who was reject by Rama?

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Ravena

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What is the main literary language of northern India during Classical Period?

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Sanskrit

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It is a collection of Indian beast fables originally written in Sanskrit.

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Panchatantra

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In Europe Panchatantra is known under the title of?

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The Fables of Bidpai

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It is a sanskrit drama by Kalidasa

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Shakuntala

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Who are the Characters in Shakuntala?

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Shakuntala and Dushyanta

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This play include a Brahman merchant who has lost his money through liverality, a rich courtesan in love with a poor young man

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The Little Clay Cart by Shudraka

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During this period, Persian influence literature.

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Medieval and Modern Age

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30
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It was published in 1910 and the transation followed in 1912.

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Gitanjali

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English Translation of Gitanjali

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Song Offerings

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It uses imagery ftom nature to express the themes of love and internal conflict between spiritual longings and earthly desires.

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Gitanjali

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A poem by Sahir Ludhianvi which is about the mausoleum in North India built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.

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Taj Mahal

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It is an essay written by Santha Rama Rau. It illustrates the telling effects of colonization on the lives of the people particularly the younger generation.

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On Learning to be an Indian

35
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Religions in India

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Hinduism and Buddhism

36
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The ________is the three ends of man

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Purusartha

37
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one of the three ends

Virtue, duty, righteousness, moral law

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Dharma

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Wealth

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Artha

39
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Kama

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Love or Pleasure

40
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What is the fourth end?
What it means?

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Moksha - combination of the three

41
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It is the cycle of births and deaths

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Samsara

42
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Everything that seems to divide the soul from reality is ________

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Maya or illusion

43
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it is a classic book on aerobics and other forms of pleasure and love which is attributed to the sage Vatsyayana

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Kama-Sutra

44
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The universal spirit in India

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Purusha

45
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It is the life-giving principle in all animated objects

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Purusha

46
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Indian Caste System

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Brhaman
Ksatriyas
Vaisyas
Sudras

47
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It means priest, from mouth of Purusha.

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Brhaman

48
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their duty is to perform sacrifices to study and the teach the Vedas

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Brhaman

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They are the warriors. Protectors

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Ksatriyas

50
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These are the peasants, thighs. They live by tading, herding and farming.

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Vaisyas

51
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They are engaged in handicrafts and manual occupation.

Serfs

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sudras

52
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“Sitting at the feet of the teacher”

The most important philosophical fdoctrinr of a single supreme being.

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Upanishads

53
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The proponent of Buddhism

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Siddharta Gautama Buddha

54
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Self awareness and self development in order to attain Nirvana

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Buudhism

55
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What are the four noble truths?

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  1. Life is suffering
  2. The cause of suffering is desire
  3. the removal of desire us the removal of suffering
  4. The Eight Fold Path leads to the end of suffering
56
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It means way of truth it is an anthology of basic buddhist teaching in a simple aphoristic style

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Dhammapada

57
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Greatest Indian Writer of All Time

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Kalidasa

58
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His poems suggest that he was a Brahman (priest).

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Kalidasa

59
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Indian Shakespeare

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Kalidasa

60
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The son of great sage.
Bengali poet and mystic who won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1913.

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Rabindranath Tagore

61
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He is a gifted composer and a painter

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Rabindranath Tagore

62
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What is the real name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava

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Prem Chand

63
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He pioneered in adapting Indian themes to Western Style.

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Prem Chand

64
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He worked as a teacher before joining Mahatma Gandhi’s anticolonial Noncooperation Movement.

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Prem Chand

65
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It was written by Prem Chand, translated with House of Service.

It is his first major novel deals with prostitution and moral corruption among Indian Middle Class.

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Sevasadana

66
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A collection of 250 or so short stories which contains most of Prem Chand’s best works.

Translation: The Holy Lake

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Manasarovar (The Holy Lake)

67
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Last novel of Prem Chand.
It deals with his favorite theme-the hard and unrewarding life of the village peasant.

Translation: The Gift of a Cow

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Godan

68
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Her works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values

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Kamalaya Markandaya

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Kamala Markandaya’s first novel and most popular work.

It is about an Indian peasan’t narrative of her difficult life.

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Nectar in Sieve

70
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All of his works are set in the fictitious South Indian town of Malgudi

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R.K. Narayan (1906)

71
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R.K. Narayan first novel which is an episodic narrative recounting the adventures of a group of school boys.

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Swami and Friends

72
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An English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s book.

She is India’s premier imagist writer. Her works reflect Desei’s tragic view of life.

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Anita Desai

73
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Anita Desai’s first novel that addresses the theme of the suppression and oppression of Indian Women.

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Cry, the Peacock

74
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Anita Desai’s most successful work, this is highly evocative portrait of two sisters caught in the lassitude of Indian life.

This was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize.

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Clear Light of Day

75
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This work was criticized as relying too heavily on imagery at the expense of plot and characterization.

It won for her Royal Society of Literature Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

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Fire on the Mountain

76
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A Sikh writer and theologian.

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Vir Singh

77
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A novel by Vir Singh about the life of the 17th century guru Gobind Singh.

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Kalghi Dhar Chamatkar

78
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A young female writer whose first book “The God of Small Things” won for her a Booker Prize.

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Arundhati Roy

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