Verse genres of the Indian subcontinent, including kavya as Sanskrit court poetry, rekhti as Urdu feminist poetry and the chautisa of Odia poetry. A genre belongs here when its cited article places it in the poetry of South Asia. It excludes the Persian and Arabic forms from which some of these borrowed. The group is organised by form and tradition so that a reader can compare related genres side by side.
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South Asian riddles - Wikipedia
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Riddles have at times been an important literary or folk-literary form in South Asia
Fagu (Wikipedia)
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a genre of poetry in Old Gujarati language
Lavani - Wikipedia
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a genre of music popular in Maharashtra, India
Nazm (Wikipedia)
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Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi poetry
Akam (poetry) - Wikipedia
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Akam (Tamil: அகம், akam) is one of two genres of Classical Tamil poetry that concerns with the subject of love, the other (puṟam) concerns the subject of war.
Chautisa - Wikipedia
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Chautisa is one of the earliest form of poetry in Odia language.
Rekhti (Wikipedia)
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Rekhti (Urdu: ریختی, Hindi: रेख़्ती; [ˈɾeːxtiː]; Rextī), is a form of Urdu feminist poetry.
Kavya, Wikipedia
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Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) was the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets
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