India's Literature: Love, War, Wisdom and Humor

1 Course Unit

This course introduces students to the extraordinary quality of literary production during the past four millennia of South Asian civilization. We will read texts in translation from all parts of South Asia up to the sixteenth century. We will read selections from hymns, lyric poems, epics, wisdom literature, plays, political works, and religious texts. Fall or Spring Also Offered As: SAST 0004 1 Course Unit