This course aims to sensitize learners in various aspects and domains of Indian English writings and writers such as, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, , and Raja Ram Mohun Roy amongst others, and reflects on the importance of Indian English literature. It examines the history of the institutionalization of English Studies in India, traces the beginnings of Indian English Poetry, Indian English Novel, different Englishes practiced across the globe, while critically analyzing the problems of teaching and learning English Literature. It also questions the western canon, looks at the emerging Indian literary Canon and talks about decolonizing the mind.
Overview
Syllabus
WEEKS
PDFs
Week -1
Unit-1: Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Unit-2: Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
Week -2
Unit-3: A View of Post Independence Debates
Unit-4: Setting Down of English as Studies and Medium
Week -3
Unit-1: The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Unit-2: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Week -4
Unit-3: Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Unit-4: Toru Dutt: Assertion of Indian Life
Week -5
Unit-1: The Contexts of Bankim
Unit-2: Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-I
Week -6
Unit-3: Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-II
Unit-4: Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s other Novels
Week -7
Unit-1: Evolution of English
Unit-2: Nativisation of English in Post-Independent India: Functions of English
Unit-3: Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
Week -8
Unit-4: Intelligibility of Indian English Globally
Unit-5: Debate Over Native and Non-Native English
Unit-6: Space of English in Multilingual India
Week -9
Unit-1: Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit-2: The March of TELI
Unit-3: Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
Week -10
Unit-4: English Teaching in India
Unit-5: The Lie of the Land: English in India
Unit-6: Publishing in India and English Studies
Week -11
Unit-1: Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
Unit-2: The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the ‘Canon’
Unit-3: Possibilities of New Agreements
Week -12
Unit-4: Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
Unit-5: The Crisis in English Studies
Unit-6: Base, Text and Context: On The Triumph of Theory, The Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base
Week -13
Unit-1: Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Unit-2: Tagore, Prem Chand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Week -14
Unit-3: Feminism: Indian English Writers
Unit-4: The Dalit Canon
Week -15
Unit-1: Orientation and After
Unit-2: Literature and Nationalism
Unit-3: Decolonising the Mind
Week -16
Unit-4: Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
Unit-5: Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation
Taught by
Prof. Parmod Kumar
