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The literatures of India: an introduction. By E. C. DimockJr., and others, pp. xiv, 265. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1974.

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The literatures of India: an introduction. By E. C. DimockJr., and others, pp. xiv, 265. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1977

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1 It would have been better to divide the Introduction into two distinct parts and make “Literatures; the modern period” a separate chapter; thus the repetitious and misleading subheadings: Hindī, Bengalī, etc., could be avoided.

2 It would be better to say “of India” or “of the Indian sub-continent” than “of South Asia”, since the book does not deal at all, for instance, with Sinhalese literature.

3 This chapter is very poorly documented and quotations are usually not identified.

4 It should be Pūrva-mīmāṃsā (p. 2), Kauṭilya (p. 86), Mithilā (p. 157), etc.