Cultural Diversity

Paper Code: 
CENG 201
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO1.   Develop familiarity with the socio-cultural milieu of the time; the trends and individual style of the representative writers

CO2.   Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

CO3.   Develop an awareness of Indian Culture via English Language and will be acquainted with significant works of Indian poets

CO4.Develop familiarity with the development of Indian writing in English

18.00
Unit I: 

Sufi and Bhakti Traditions

Sisir Kumar Das

The Mad Lover

 

Bullah Shah

Kafi

 

18.00
Unit II: 

Language Politics: Hindi and Urdu

 

Amir Khusrau

Ghazal

 

Rajinder Singh Bedi

Lajwanti

 

18.00
Unit III: 

Tribal Verse

 

Songs of Birth and Death

i.    A Munda Song

ii. A Kondh Song

18.00
Unit IV: 

Dalit voices

 

F. M. Shinde

Habit

 

Bama

Excerpts from Karukku

 

18.00
Unit V: 

Writing in English

Padma Sachdev

Mother Tongue

 

Raja Rao

Excerpts from Kanthapura

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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: 
2023-2024