Month: October 2020

• October 8, 2020

  Literary production in Medieval South Asia

  The Sanskrit literature until the medieval period (c. 900-1700 CE) in South Asia was dominated by intelligentsia belonging to the so-called higher rungs of the society. For some context on the social stratification, you may refer to this. It was also around this time that the social hierarchy was challenged, and some shift in the…