Cultural Diversity

Paper Code: 
24CENG201
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to critique the socio-cultural contexts, trends, and unique styles of representative Indian writers writing in English and explore and appreciate diverse literary forms, while examining a variety of influences as reflected in literature.

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Sisir Kumar Das

The Mad Lover

 

Bullah Shah

  Kafi

18.00
Unit II: 

Amir Khusrau

Ghazal

 

Rajinder Singh Bedi

  Lajwanti

18.00
Unit III: 

Songs of Birth and Death

i. A Munda Song

 ii.A Kondh Song

18.00
Unit IV: 

F. M. Shinde

Habit

 

Bama

  Excerpts from Karukku

18.00
Unit V: 

Padma Sachdev

Mother Tongue

 

Raja Rao

  Excerpts from Kanthapura

Source Books: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Alam, Ejaz. ‘Discussion on the Text:

LAJWANTI’,mmhapu.ac.in/doc/eContent/English/EjazAlam/LAJWANTI,%20Sem%204-converted.pdf,

pp. 1-3.

Devy, G.N. ‘Tribal Verse’, NCERT, ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/keww134.pdf, pp. 161-73. Rao, Raja. Kanthapura, TMV,

www.tmv.edu.in/pdf/Distance_education/MA(English)/Indian%20Literature%20in%20English/Ch- 6.pdf, pp. 6-70.

Sachdev, Padma. ‘Mother Tongue’, NCERT, ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/keww116.pdf, pp. 119-20.

 

E-Resources including links:

https://www.rekhta.org/stories/lajwanti-rajinder-singh-bedi-stories?lang=hi https://poemanalysis.com/padma-sachdev/mother-tongue/ https://sufinama.org/poets/bulleh-shah/kaafi

 

Reference Journals:

BECG https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/54064/1/B-1U-2.pdf

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO7.Develop an understanding of  the trends and individual style of the representative writers from the Sufi and Bhakti traditions, writing in Hindi and Urdu

 

CO8. Assess Indian culture via the English language and explore philosophical and cultural representations of various issues, examining the role of diversity to understand tribal/ dalit voices

CO9. Examine the development of Indian writing in English with a comparison and contrast between writers of different eras.

CO10. Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama.

CO11. Discuss the development of social and cultural systems from various historical and environmental systems.

CO12.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction