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MEG-10: English Studies in India

By Dr. Pema Eden Samdup   |   Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Learners enrolled: 334
This course aims to sensitize learners in the history of the institutionalization of English Studies and the introduction of English to India beginning with Macaulay’s Minute of 1835. It also traces the beginnings of Indian English Poetry discussing the poems of Henry Louis Vivian Derezio, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, the first Indian Novel to be written in English by Bankim C Chattopadhya, 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 : 15 Jul 2024
End Date : 30 Nov 2024
Enrollment Ends : 31 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 14 Dec 2024 IST
Exam 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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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

Dr. Pema Eden Samdup

Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Dr Pema Eden Samdup joined the Faculty of English in August 1999, and has developed both Bachelor’s Degree as well as Master’s Degree Courses. She has a Ph D in Culture Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is deeply interested in ICT interventions in the Humanities. Her areas of research interest include Culture Studies, Semiotics, Fiction, South Asian Diasporic Literature and Native Literatures and Culture. Her latest publication is a chapter on “India’s Indira Gandhi National Open University, Focusing on Instructional Design and Pedagogy”, Quality Assurance in Distance Education and eLearning, Challenges and Solutions from Asia, Sage: New Delhi, 2013, Eds. Insung Jung, Tat Meng Wong, and Tian Belawati.


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