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Growth of regional languages and literature during the medieval period.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

The medieval centuries transformed India's regional speech-forms from unlettered vernaculars into full literary languages.

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  • Apabhramsa Roots and the Break-up of a Pan-Indian Sanskritic Order
  • Sanskrit's Institutional Eclipse
  • The Devotional Turn: Nathpanthi, Siddha and Bhakti Literatures
  • Sufi Vernacularization: The Premakhyan Tradition
  • Royal and Regional Patronage
  • A Region-by-Region Sketch
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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