![]() Eight Jnanpith Awards each have been awarded in Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali and Malayalam, four in Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu, two each in Assamese and Tamil, and one in Sanskrit. ![]() In contemporary Indian literature, there are two major literary awards these are the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship and the Jnanpith Award. In 1913, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became India's first Nobel laureate in literature. Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. ![]() Later, literature in Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, and Maithili appeared. Tagore’s more popular poem on Shivaji was written in 1904. Pratinidhi was a poetic rendering of how the ideal of Swarajya was greater than Shivaji himself. It sought to show the role Samarth Ramdas played in Shivaji’s life and also reflected on the ideal of Swarajya. In the medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 6th and 11th centuries respectively. The poem alludes to Shivaji and Samarth Ramdas. Classical Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the first millennium BCE, as did the Pāli Canon and Tamil Sangam literature. The Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata were subsequently codified and appeared towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig Veda, a collection of literature dating to the period 1500–1200 BCE. ![]() The earliest works of Indian literature were orally transmitted.
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