Major Indian Languages and Important Authors
Assamese : Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya; Damodra Dev; Hem Chandra Barua; Hem Chandra Goswami; Madhavkandali; Nagen Saikia; Dr. Indira Goswami,
Bengali : Ashapoorna Devi; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyaya; Bishnu Dey; Premendra Mitra; Rabindranath Tagore; R. C. Dutt; Michael Madhusudan Datt; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya; Mahasveta Devi; Sunil Gangopadhyay.
English : Karnla Das; Manohar Malgonkar; R.K. Narayan; Raja Rao; Mulk Raj Anand; Bhabani Bhattacharya; Sasthi Brata; Arun Joshi; Chaman Nahal; K. A. Abbas; Anita Desai; R. Prawer Jhabwala; Kamla Markandeya; Khushwant Singh; Manoj Das.
Gujarati : K. M. Munshi; Narmada Sagar; Narsinh Mehta; Govardhan Ram; Pannalal Patel; Parmanand; Uma Shankar Joshi.
Hindi : Tulsidas; Surdas; Bihari; Kabir; Sumitranandan Pant; Jai Shankar Prasad; Maithlisharan Gupt; Gurudatt; Munshi Prem Chand; Upendra Nath Ashq; Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'; Naresh Mehta; Acharya Chatursen; Mohan Rakesh; Harivansh Rai Bachchan; Mahadevi Verma; Bhagwati Charan Verma; Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'; Nirmal Verma; Gurdial Singh; Harish Chander; Yashpal; M. D. Thomas; Mirabai; Mridula Garg.
Kannada : K V. Puttappa; B. M. Karanth; Pampan; Ranna; Ramchandra Bendre; K S. Karanth; Purandar Das; Masti Venkatesh Iyenger; Girish Karnad; U. R. Anantha Murthy.
Kashmiri : Farooq Nazki; Moh. Zaman Azurdah; Mahjur Ali Moharrunad Lone; Amin KanUl.
Konkani : Dilip Borakar; Pundalik N. Naik; Dona Barreto; R.V. Pandit.
Malayalam : C. V. Raman Pillai; M. T. Vasudevan Nair; S. K Pottekkatt; G. Sankara Kurup; Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai; O. Chandu Menon; Vallathol; Kumaran Asan; Narayana Menon; Moharruned Bashir.
Manipuri : A. S. Singli; 1. B. Singh.
Marathi : Hari Narayan Apte; P. L. Deshpande; Tikaram Mahay; Vijay Tendulkar; Tukaram; V. S. Khandekar; Keshavsut.
Nepali : Nagendramani Pradhan; Ramachandra Giri; Motiram Bhatra; Leknath; Balakrishna; Sama; Pratiman Lama.
Odia : Gopabandhu Das; Gopi Nath Mohanty; Pandit Dukhisyama Pattanayak; Radha Nath Ray; Satchidanand Routray; Sitakant Mohapatra; Chandrasekhar Rath.
Punjabi : Bhai Veer Singh; Dhani Ram Chatrik; Amrita Pritam; Jaswant Singh Kanwal; Nanak Singh; Balwant Gargi; Waris Shah; Bulle Shah; Sheikh Farid.
Sanskrit : Maharishi Valmiki, Maharishi Ved Vyas; Harsha; Ashvaghosh; Shudrak; Bhasa; Bharvi; Jaidev, Bhartrihari; Kalidas; Dandi; Banabhatta; Bhavabhuti; Shyam Dev Prashar; Kamlesh Dutta Tripathi; Ram Karan Sharma.
Sindhi : Ishwar Anchal, Hari Motwani; Mohan Kalpana.
Tamil : P. V. Akilan; Subramania Bharati; Ramalingam; D. Jayakanthan.
Telugu : Ajanta; Lakshrni Narasimhan; Triputi; V. Satyanarayana.
Urdu : Ali Sardar Jafri; Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib'; Mohammed Iqbal; Mir Taqi Mir; Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq Gorakhpuri'; Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi; Faiz Ahmed 'Faiz'; Krishan Chander; Rajinder Singh Bedi; Upendra Nath Ashq; Qurrtulain Haider.
