1. The document discusses comparative literature in India, noting that India has many languages and literatures representing diversity. 2. It explores different perspectives on whether there is a single "Indian literature" or multiple "Indian literatures", and references scholars like Amiya Dev, Aijaz Ahmad, and Gurbhagat Singh who reject the idea of a single Indian literature. 3. Amiya Dev suggests first understanding our own situations thoroughly and giving full shape to our own comparative literatures before formulating a comparative literature of diversity in general.

1. "Comparative Literature in
India
Amiya Dev

2. Gujarati poet Umashankar Joshi -- a
supporter of the unity approach -- was the
first president of the Indian National
Comparative Literature Association

3. Comparative Literature in India Includes
Unity Diversity
01 02
Indian Literature Literary intersection
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4. Professed autonomy of national literatures, by shifting the theoretical
focus towards plurality and dynamism. We imagine that the
minimum requisite of a comparative study is to start with at least two
literatures. But as Das has reminded us, Comparative Literature is a
method, not an object of study - hence we are interested in how to
study literature

5. Comparative Literature in India
1. In his article, "Comparative Literature in India," Amiya Dev
bases his discussion on the fact that India has many languages
and literatures thus representing an a priori situation and
conditions of diversity.

6. 1. Richard Pierre mentioned that In studying comparative
literature, you will consider literature from different
genres,locations, and time periods simultaneously.
Beyond that, comparative literature thinks across
different disciplines, like literature and music on
literature and anthropology. Finally, comparative
literature is also the de facto home of literary theory;
some consider the field to be concerned with the
general makeup of literature itself, or literariness.

7. 1. Choudhari said, “Our culture has taught us to ask questions and
our literature is a compilation of all answers thus found. It is our
culture to learn by asking questions as having discussions and
arguments are part of upbringing.” (the times of india ,
February 15 , 2019)

8. Is Indian literature, in the singular, a valid category, or are we
rather to speak of Indian literatures in the plural Eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century Western Indologists were not
interested in this question, for Indian literature to them was
mainly Sanskrit, extended at most to Pâli and Prakrit. For
example, with all his admiration for Sakuntala, William Jones
was oblivious of literatures in modern Indian languages. Non-
Indian Indianists today, too, are more often than not
uninterested in the question. Although they do not consider
Sanskrit-Pâli- Prakrit as "the" only literature of India, these
scholars are still single literature specialists. Similarly, literary
histories written in India by Indian scholars also focused and
still focus on a single literature.

9. Gurbhagat Singh who has been discussing the notion of "differential
multilogue" . He does not accept the idea of Indian literature as such
but opts for the designation of literatures produced in India. Further,
he rejects the notion of Indian literature because the notion as such
includes and promotes a nationalist identity

10. Aijaz Ahmad's In Theory: Classes, Nations,
Literatures. Ahmad describes the construct of a
"syndicated" Indian literature that suggests an
aggregate and unsatisfactory categorization of Indian
literature . Ahmad also rules out the often argued
analogy of Indian literature with that of European
literature by arguing that the notion of "European
literature" is at best an umbrella designation and at
worst a pedagogical imposition while Indian literature
is classifiable and categorizable.

11. Conclusion
Amiya Dev suggests that we should first look at ourselves and try to
understand our own situations as thoroughly as possible. Let us first give
full shape to our own comparative literatures and then we will formulate a
comparative literature of diversity in general.

12. Refrence
Ahmad, Aijaz. "'Indian Literature': Notes
towards the Definition of a Category." In
Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Aijaz
Ahmad. London: Verso, 1992.
Choudhri “ Unity, diversity are two sides of
Indian literature “ The Times of India , February
15 , 2022

13. Dev, Amiya. "Comparative Literature In India".
Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture,
vol 2, no. 4, 2000. Purdue University (Bepress),
doi:10.7771/1481-4374.1093. Accessed 4 Mar
2022.
George, K.M., ed. Comparative Indian Literature.
Madras and Trichur: Macmillan and Kerala
Sahitya Akademi,
1984-85. 2 vols.

14. Pierre, R. "Comparative Literature: Definition &
Examples." 29 January,2022
Singh, Gurbhagat. “Differential Multilogue:
Comparative Literature and National
Literatures.” Differential Multilogue:
Comparative Literature and National
Literatures. Ed. Gurbhagat Singh. Delhi: Ajanta
Publications, 1991. 11-19.

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