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MEG-10: English Studies in India

By Prof. Parmod Kumar   |   Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Learners enrolled: 281
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.
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 16 weeks
Category :
  • Language
Credit Points : 8
Level : Postgraduate
Start Date : 01 Jan 2024
End Date : 30 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends : 29 Feb 2024
Exam Date : 25 May 2024 IST
Shift :

Shift-II

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

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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



Instructor bio

Prof. Parmod Kumar

Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi

Prof (Dr) Parmod Kumar started off his career as an Assistant Professor in English in 2001 with RLA College in Delhi University and joined School of Humanities at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi in March, 2007. Apart from his first rank in English Honours in Graduation, he won college color and Gold Medal for his overall performance in DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Dr Parmod Kumar is an Australian Studies scholar and received prestigious Australia India Council Fellowship in Year 2010-11. Dr Parmod Kumar visited Australia to explore the points of coming together and departure in Australian aboriginal writings and Indian Dalit writings. He also acted as a Cultural Ambassador of India and gave lectures on India’s incredible cultural diversity.

His areas of interest and expertise include Post-colonial Literature(s), Indigenous and Marginality studies, Communication and Media Studies, Poetry, Drama, Cinema Studies, Literary Criticism, World Literature(s) in English, Indian Writings in English (IWE), Literary Theory and Criticism, Australian studies, Translation theory and Research, Social inclusion and Distance Education



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