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Most important of all for Indian literature were the first traces in the vernacular languages of the northern Indian cults of Krishna and of Rama. Included are the 12th-century poems by Jaydev, called the Gitagovinda (The Cowherd`s Song); and about 1400, a group of religious love poems written in Maithili (eastern Hindi of Bihar) by the poet Vidyapati were a seminal influence on the cult of Radha-Krishna in Bengal.
The Indian literary tradition is primarily one of verse and is also essentially oral. The earliest works were composed to be sung or recited and were so transmitted for many generations before being written down.
Officially, India has twenty-odd recognized national languages which more or less map to individual states Regional literature thus refers to writing in those twenty-odd national languages.From the perspective of regional writers, their writing is rooted to Indian realities, and hence much more authentic when compared to Indian writings in English.
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