Indian art and culture / Literature, languages and sources
Bhakti and regional-language literatures
Concepts to cover
- Kabir's Bijak, Jayasi's Padmavat (Awadhi), Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, Surdas's Sursagar (Braj), Mirabai's padas, Raskhan
- Bengali (Chandidas, Krittibas Ramayana, Chaitanya Charitamrita), Assamese (Sankardeva's Kirtan-ghosha, Ankia Naat), Odia (Sarala Das's Mahabharata, Jagannath Das's Bhagavata)
- Marathi (Jnaneshwari, Namdev, Eknath, Tukaram's abhangs, Ramdas's Dasbodh), Gujarati (Narsi Mehta), Punjabi (Adi Granth compiled by Guru Arjan 1604, Gurmukhi)
- Kashmiri (Lal Ded's vakhs, Nund Rishi), Dakhani and early Urdu (Wali Deccani), Manipravalam
- Regional cultures: Rajput heroic traditions, Bengal's pirs and temples, Kerala Malayalam and Sanskrit blend, Odisha's Jagannath cult, miniature and regional scripts