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PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. DESCRIBE BRIEFLY THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN LITERATURE.
2. EXPLAIN THE ROLE PLAYED BY RELIGION IN INDIAN LITERATURE.
3. DIFFERENTIATE RAMAYANA FROM MAHABHARATA AS TO THE THEME.
4. HOW DO SEVERAL LANGUAGES AFFECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN LITERATURE?
5. HOW WAS ENGLISH ACCEPTED AS LITERARY MEDIUM?
GROUP THESAURUS’ ANSWER:
1. THE LITERATURE OF INDIA HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE DEVELOPMENT. AFTER THE RIG VEDA CAME THE BRAHMANAS WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY UPANISHADS THEN REPLACED BY THE PURANAS.

2. THE LITERATURE OF INDIA IS MOSTLY INFLUENCED BY ITS RELIGION. ANEXAMPLE IS WHEN THE ARYANS WHO CAME FROM THE CENTRAL ASIA BRINGIN THEIR OWN GODS WITH THEM, MEMORIZED THEDE SACRED LITERATURE.

3. THE MAHABHARATA INTERWOVE IDEAS ABOUT COSMOLOGY, STATECRAFT, PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCE OF WAR INTO ITS STORIES OF THE DEEDS OF GODS AND MEN. IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE LONGEST POEM IN ANY LANGUAGE. THE RAMAYANA SIMPLY RECOUNTED A SEQUENCE OF HEROIC ADVENTURES, MANY OF THEM WITH MORAL UNDERTONES.

4. SEVERAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF INDIA RESULTED IN THE PRODUCTION OF ITS REGIONAL LITERATURE.

5. WRITING IN ENGLISH WAS VIEWED WITH MIXED FEELINGS IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA BUT WAS WELL ESTABLISHED NEVERTHELESS.

WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED IN EACH PARAGRAPH?

PARAGRAPH 1 IT IS ALL ABOUT THE SEQUENCE OF INDIA’S LITERARY WORKS FROM THE RIG VEDA TO THE PURANAS AND ABOUT THE SANSKRIT LITERATURE

PARAGRAPH 2 IT IS ALL ABOUT FEATURING THE TWO MOST FAMOUS PURANIC EPICS KNOWN AS MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA.

PARAGRAPH 3 INDIAN CONSTITUTION RECOGNIZED SEVERAL OFFICIAL LANGUAGES AND RESULTED IN THE PRODUCTION OF REGIONAL LITERATURE.

PARAGRAPH 4 MODERN INDIAN LITERETURE STARTED WITH STABLISHMENT OF CIVIL SERVISE TRAINING SCHOOLS AND PRINTING PRESSES.

PARAGRAPH 5 IT IS ALL ABOUT THE FOCUS OF DIFFERENT SECTORS ON DIFFERENT TIMES.

PARAGRAPH 6 IT IS ALL ABOUT THE ACCEPTANCE OF ENGLISH AS INDIAN LITERARY MEDIUM.

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