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Part I
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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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4. Recommended Reading
5. Examination Pattern