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Introduction to Indian Literature in English: Colonialism to Postcolonialism

By Dr. Jai Singh   |   The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Learners enrolled: 862
This course is designed to give students a broad overview of Indian Literature In English: Colonialism To Postcolonialism, emphasizing on significant concepts, theory, and research.

 The main objectives of the course are:

  1. This Course Introduction to Indian Literature in English: Colonialism to Postcolonialism will discuss the history of Indian Literature in English.
  2. This course will include all major writers, and literary movements in the field of Indian Literature in English.
  3. This course will acquaint the students with literary movements in the field of Indian English Literature.
  4. This course will acquaint the students with major poems in the field of Indian English Literature.
  5. This course will also acquaint the students with the major novels of Indian English Literature.

Summary
Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Language
Credit Points : 5
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 01 Jul 2024
End Date : 31 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 31 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 15 Dec 2024 IST
Exam Shift :

Shift -1

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout


Weeks                                  Weekly Lecture Topics                                   Assignment (No. & Type)*

Week-01          
  1.      Introduction to the Course
  2.      History of Indian Literature in English: A Brief Introduction              
  3.      Defining the Category of Indian Literature
  4.      Introduction to Indian Poetry

 Week-02     
                          
  1.    Indian Writing In English - Modern Poetry - A.K.Ramanjuam
  2.    Indian Writing In English - Modern Poetry - Nissim Ezekiel
  3.    Indian Writing In English - Modern Prose - Part 1
  4.    Indian Writing In English - Modern Prose - Part 2

 Week-03

  1.     Indian Writing In English - Part 1
  2.     Indian Writing In English - Part 2 - R K Narayan
  3.     Indian Writing In English - Part 3 – Fiction
  4.     Indian Writing In English - Part 4 – Poetry

Week-04

  1.   Indian Writing In English -Mulkraj Anand
  2.   Indian Writing In English -Toru Dutt
  3.   Indian Writing English - Kamala Das
  4.   Night Of The Scorpion – Nissim Ezekiel

Week-05

  1.    Nectar In A Sieve - Part – 1
  2.    Nectar In A Sieve - Part – 2
  3.    Post Colonialism
  4.    Postmodernism

Week-06

  1.   Haroun And Sea Of Stories
  2.   Imperialism And Colonialism
  3.   Kanthapura By Raja Rao - Part – 1
  4.   Kanthapura By Raja Rao - Part – 2

Week-07

  1.    Indian Weavers By Sarojini Naidu
  2.    Untouchable By Mulk Raj Anand - Part – 1
  3.    Untouchable By Mulk Raj Anand - Part – 2 
  4.    The Home And The World By Rabindranath Tagore - Part -1

Week-08

  1.  The Home And The World By Rabindranath Tagore - Part -2
  2.  Cry, The Peacock By Anita Desai Part -1
  3.  Cry, The Peacock By Anita Desai Part -2
  4.  Our Casuarina Tree By Toru Dutt

Week-09
  1.  The Indian Jugglers by William Hazlitt
  2.  Silence the court is in session part-1
  3.  Silence the court is in session part-2
  4.  The Indian Jugglers by William Hazlitt

Week-10

  1.     Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  2.     Gora by Rabindranath Tagore Part-1
  3.     Gora by Rabindranath Tagore Part-2
  4.     The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Week-11 

  1.    Hayavadana by Girish Karnad – Part 1
  2.    Hayavadana by Girish Karnad – Part 2
  3.    A Defence of Indian Culture by Sri Aurobindo 
  4.    Samskara by U R Anantha Murthy – Part – 1

Week-12

  1.      Samskara by U R Anantha Murthy – Part – 2
  2.      The Final Solutions and other plays by Mahesh Dattani – part -1
  3.      The Final Solutions and other plays by Mahesh Dattani – part -2







Books and references

  • De Souza, Eunice, and Pereira, Lindsay (eds.) (2002) Women’s Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English (Delhi: Oxford University Press).
  • Hasan, Mushirul (ed.) (1994) India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom (New Delhi: Penguin).
  • Srilata, K. (ed. and trans.) (2003) The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (Delhi: Kali for Women).
  • Ahmad, Aijaz (1991) In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures (Delhi: Oxford University Press).
  • Anderson, Benedict (1991) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 1st pub. 1983 (London: Verso).
  • Bhabha, Homi K. (ed.) (1990) Nation and Narration (London: Routledge).
  • Chatterjee, Partha (1993) Nationalist Thought in the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse, 1st pub. 1986 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
  • Cohn, Bernard S. (2002) Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India, 1st pub. 1996 (Delhi: Oxford University Press).
  • Das, Sisir Kumar (1991) A History of Indian Literature, 1810–1910 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi).
  • Edney, Matthew H. (1997) Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
  • Paul Kumar, Sukrita (2004) Narrating Partition: Texts, Interpretations, Ideas (Delhi: Indialog).
  • Viswanathan, Gauri (1989) Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (New York: Columbia University Press).

Instructor bio

Dr. Jai Singh

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Theory, Postcolonial theory and literature, Indian writing in English, Diaspora Literature, Feminism, Cultural Studies, Orientalism, and Digital Humanities. 

• M Phil Dissertation: Culture and Hegemony: A Study of Orientalism 
• Ph. D Thesis: Positioning Orientalism in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh 

Papers Presented- 60 in India 15 outside India 

  • International Visits: 5
  • International Funding: 1 
  • International Assignments 
  • Member of Panel for Research, Royal University of Bhutan 

Books: 2 

Published Papers: 38 
Scopus Indexed: 8 
Resource Person (Plenary Speaker): 60 
Newspaper Publication: 4 

• “Interview with Amitav Ghosh Published in Deccan Chronical dated 6 August 2015. 
• “Problems of Laughter and The Comic” The Hindustan Times. 29 July 2017. 
• Singh, Jai. “Till New Beginnings are made” The Sunday Tribune: Spectrum. 17 June 2018. 4. Print. 

Other Academic Contributions 

• Contributed to Parable International English – Hindi Dictionary by Abhai Maurya 

On the Review board and Editorial, board of various Research Journals 

1. Editor in Chief: Quote Unquote 
2. Guest Editor: Literary Miscellany 
3. Guest Editor: Literaria 
4. Editorial Board The Contour 
5. Editorial Board The Literati: A Peer Reviewed Journal of Language & Literature 
6. Review Board, The Postcolonial Text 
7. Review Board, ICIK 
8. Review Board, Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 
9. Review Board, Amsterdam University Press, for the section on Continental Literature 
10. Review Board, Amsterdam University Press, for the section on Asian Studies 
11. Review Board, Duke University Press, for the section on Asian Studies 

Course certificate

30 per cent for in course Assessment And 70 Percent for end term proctored exam


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