Literature in Persian and Other Indo-Iranian Languages

There is a rich literary heritage in Persian from the sixteenth century.  Of the prose works, history and biography are among the most notable from this period, whilst poetry was also extremely important. There was an important literary culture in Pashto too, as well as in the Indic languages of Pakistan and north-western India; namely, Kashmiri, Panjabi, Sindhi and Hindustani.