In 1874, Burnell published a Handbook of South Indian Palaeography, characterized by Max Müller as indispensable to every student of Indian literature, and in 1880 issued for the Madras government his greatest work, the Classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore.
Sisir Kumar Das (1936-2003) was a poet, playwright, translator, comparatist and a prolific scholar of Indian literature.
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His explorations in Hindu mythology and Indian literature led him to close links with the cultural life of India, where he lived for long and short periods from 1939 right up to the late seventies.
The district (smallest in size among the 30 districts in Odisha) has produced some of the most famous names in Oriya and Indian literature: Sarala Dasa, Birakishore, Gopal Chhotaray, Pratibha Ray and Bibhuti Patnaik, for example.
The newspaper also publishes an annual journal around Diwali or New Year which is dedicated to Indian literature, cultural & environmental issues, and reviews on important events of the year.
Katha Books, also known as Katha Vilasam, is a publishing house owned by Katha NGO, that has done pioneering works in the field of translating Indian literature written in the regional languages, community and child welfare.
Paul Thieme was awarded the 1988 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".
His most quoted literary works include a study of East Bengal folk ballads (Bengali Folk Ballads from Mymensingh and the Question of their Authenticity) and a comprehensive history of Bengali literature ("Bengali Literature") published in 1976 in the prestigious publication History of Indian Literature edited by Jan Gonda.
He attended the Lester B. Pearson United World College in Victoria, B.C., Canada, the University of Hull where he was awarded the Philip Larkin Prize, and the University of Edinburgh where he completed his doctoral studies in African and Indian Literature.
In 2007 he won Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literature Golden Jubilee Literary Translation Prize for Poetry along with Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan.