COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DHARUPADI IN THE EPIC MAHABHARATA AND THE

PALACE OF ILLUSIONS BY CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI.

Report submitted to Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous)

In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the

Award of the Degree of

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Submitted by

DEEPIKA A.

(Reg. No. 18BEN025)

Under the guidance of

MS. S. VARSHA VARTHINI. M.A., M.Phil.

Head of the department

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

RATHINAM COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE (AUTONOMOUS) POLLACHI

ROAD, EACHANARI, COIMBATORE-641 021.

April 2021
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to my supervisor S.
VARSHA VARTHINI, M.A., M.Phil. Assistant Professor. Department of English for her
valuable guidance, monitoring and constant encouragement throughout the project. Her guidance
helped Me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. And once again I heartily thanks
to S. VARSHA VARTHINI, M.A., M.Phil. Assistant Professor of English Department for giving
this opportunity to undergo a project for my career development.

I acknowledgement my deep sense of gratitude to our Principal, Dr. R. MURALIDHARAN

M.SC., M.Phil., Ph.D., Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous) for giving me this
Opportunity to get practical experience beyond the bounce of theoretical knowledge through
Project work.

I take this opportunity to express might be sense of gratitude to Dr. MADHAN. A. SENTHI,
M.Sc., Ph.D., Chairman of Rathinam group for permitting to do the project work. I express my
gratitude to my parents and my friends for help and service bring this project as successful.
 DECLARATION

I A. Deepika hereby declare that the dissertation entitled “COMPARATIVE STUDY OF

DHARUPADI IN THE EPIC MAHABHARATA AND THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS BY
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI” submitted to the Rathinam College of Arts and
Science (Autonomous), Coimbatore in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE is a record of original project work done
by me during 2020-2021 under the supervision and guidance of MS. S. VARSHA VARTHINI,
M.A., M.Phil. Assistant professor Department of English, Rathinam College of Arts and Science
(Autonomous) Rathinam Techzone, Pollachi Road, Eachanari, Coimbatore-641021.

PLACE:

DATE:

Signature of the Candidate:

 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the work entitled “COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DHARUPADI IN

THE EPIC MAHABHARATA AND THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS BY CHITRA
BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI” submitted to the Rathinam College of Arts and Science
(Autonomous) in partial fulfilled of the requirements for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of
Arts in English Literature is a record of original project work done by Deepika A (Reg. No.
18BEN025) during the period 2020-2021 of her Study in Department of English, at Rathinam
College of Arts and Science (Autonomous) under my supervision and guidance.

PLACE:

DATE:

Signature of the Guide

Signature of the Head of the Department Signature of the Principal

Internal Examiner External Examiner

VIVA VOCE EXAMINATION HELD ON…………………………….

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTERS TOPICS PAGE NO

CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION 1-8

CHAPTER - 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 9-16

CHAPTER - 3 COMPARATIVE STUDY 17-29

CHAPTER - 4 CONCLUSION 30

REFERENCE 31