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REVISED SYLLABUS FOR MA PART I IN ENGLISH

From June 2008 onwards

Part I
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Indian Literature in English (1820s onwards)


Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of Texts
Literature from the English Renaissance to the Augustan Age
(a) Language Learning and teaching
(b) Nineteen and Twentieth Century American Literature

PAPER

I:

INDIAN

LITERATURE

IN

ENGLISH

(1820S

ONWARDS)
1. Background Themes and Issues
(a) The Beginnings and Nationalism: Beginning of English Studies in
India; Macaulays Minutes; Anglicist-Orientalist Debate; Impact on
Early Poetry and the Novel from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Toru
Dutt, Derozio to Aurobindo and Sarojini Naidu; Early Indian Drama in
English; Early Literary Criticism; Tagores Essays on Aesthetics and
Literary Criticism
(b) The Rise of Nationalism and Partitioning of India: Gandhi and
Nehrus vision of India; Critique of Gandhi and Other Indian
Nationalist thinkers (Nirad C Chaudhari, M. N Roy, V. D. Savarkar &
Dr B R Ambedkar); Impact of Western Ideologies on India; Two-Nation
Theory and Partition of India; Impact of Political and Intellectual
movements on Indian writing in English
(c) Post-Independence India: Impact of Language policies on Literature;
The Role of English; Nehruvian Idealism and Loss of Nehruvian
Dream; Power Politics; Emergency Period; Rise of Fundamentalisms;
Criminalization of politics and Societies; Rise of Dalit Power; Gender
Reforms; Globalization and Liberalization of the Indian Economy and
Society; Neo Colonialism
(d) Contemporary Literary Scenario: Debates on concepts of
IndiannessPrescriptive,
Descriptive;
Nativism
versus
Cosmopolitanism; Multiculturalism in Diasporic Indian English
Writing; Gender Issues and Their Impact on Indian Literature in
English; Attempts to Modify and Indianise Standard British English;
Use of History, Myths, Magic Realism, Epic, Minimalism, Folk,
Scherezadic Traditions & Their Impact on Novel, Poetry and Indian
Drama in English

2. Prescribed Texts
(a) Pre-Independence:
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Novels and Poetry


Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Rajmohans Wife
Colonial Poetry: Poems from Early Indian Poetry in English:
an Anthology 1829-1947. Edited by Eunice De Souza.
Oxford University Press. 2006
R. K. Narayan: Swami and Friends
(b) Post-Independence:
Novels
Shashi Deshpande: A Matter of Time
Amitav Ghosh: The Calcutta Chromosome
Poetry
Selection of Poems written by Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes,
Keki Daruwala, A. K. Ramanujan, Vikram Seth, Kamala
Das, Eunice De Souza, Imtiaz Dharkar, Dillip Chitre, Gieve
Patel, Meena Alexander, Arun Kolatkar (4 to 5 poems of
each of the prescribed poets)
Drama
Pratap Sharma: A Touch of Brightness
Mahesh Dattani: Dance Like a Man
3. Secondary Reading
3.1 Macaulays Minutes, 1835
3.2 Behram Malabari, Indian Eye on English Life, 1885
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Comelia Sorabji, The Sun Babies, 1904


Bapsi Sdhwas, Ice Candy Man,1988

4. Recommended Reading
5. Examination Pattern

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