Being Volume IX of the Series International Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (Vol. I dealing with the literature of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit & Apabhramsa, 1987; Vols. II, III, IV, V, VI, VII & VIII covering Tamil, Assamese, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu and Sindhi respectively), the present volume on Oriya offers articles on all important poets, dramatists, fiction writers, important poets, dramatists, fiction writers, essayists and critics and their important works from the beginning of Oriya literature down to the present times. The entries are arranged alphabetically. Generally articles on Indian writers go with their Christian names, but there are cross references under their surnames. This would enable one to locate the writers easily . the articles have been compiled and updated with active and close assistance of the late Professor B. Mohanty, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and Professor Jatindra Mohan Mohanty, Professor and Head of the Department of English (Retd.), Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. For non-Oriya readers and for those who want to have a bird’s eye-view of Oriya literature, an introduction has been given in the beginning of the volume. The first work of its kind in English about Oriya literature, it sould serve the purpose of a handy reference tool. IT should prove quite useful where Oriya is studied as also where there is a comparative study of modern Indian languages. It also serves the purpose of those non-Oriya scholars, who happen to come across names of Oriya writers and their works.
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