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Discuss the relationship between emergence of literature in vernacular languages and formation of regional identities in early medieval India.
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Early medieval India, roughly the sixth to thirteenth centuries CE, saw the consolidation of regional kingdoms, temple-centred agrarian economies, and new devotional movements, alongside a decisive shift in literary culture: languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi and Bengali progressively acquired the status of literary languages, challenging Sanskrit's long-standing pan-Indian monopoly over prestige composition. This…
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- From Sanskrit Cosmopolis to Regional Literary Cultures
- Regional Courts as Patrons of Vernacular Literary Formation
- Bhakti as a Vernacularising and Identity-Forming Force
- Inscriptions, Administration and the Public Authority of Vernaculars
- Literature as an Instrument of Dynastic Legitimacy
- Limits: Regional Identity Was Not Proto-Linguistic Nationalism
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