There's the early canon-shaping Urdu literary history Aab-e hayaat (1883; first ed. 1880) by Muhammad Husain Azad; the text pages are hyperlinked from the translation:

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/PK2155.H8413/index.html

all the best,
Fran Pritchett

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Will Sweetman <will.sweetman@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a recent and very interesting study of Jains in Tamil literary histories by Christoph Emmrich: Journal of Indian Philosophy 39, no. 6 (2011): 599-646.  Although mostly concerned with twentieth-century histories, it discusses also precursors to them in the prefaces to nineteenth-century editions of Tamil works. 

Best wishes

Will

On 20/08/2012, at 8:24 AM, Ulrich T. Kragh wrote:

 If by any chance, the history of Indian literary histories has been described in any scholarly publication, I would also be thankful for the bibliographical reference to such a study.