Indian Literature in English-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 512
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • To enable students to get first hand information about Indian Literature
  • To inculcate the ability to understand and appreciate the literary assets of India
 
12.00
Michael Madhusudon Dutt
Satan 
The Queen of Delhi’s Dream
 
Rabindranath Tagore
The Sickbed-21
Recovery-14                                                                              
Heaven of Freedom
Freedom
 
12.00
Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
 
Sarojini Naidu
Song of Radha – The Quest
The Soul’s Prayer
 
Kamala Das
The Dance of the Eunuchs
My Grandmother’s House
10.00
Mulk Raj Anand 
Untouchable 
14.00
R.K.Narayan                                                         
The Guide
12.00
Anita Desai
Fire on the Mountain
 
Source Books: 
  1. Golden Treasury of Indo-English Poetry : edited by V.K. Gokak
  2. Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets ed. by R. Parthasarathy
  3. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (New Delhi : Sterling, 1984)
  2. M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (New Delhi : Sterling 1965)
  3. Meenakshi Mukherjee : The Twice Born Fiction
  4. Girish Karnad : Hayavadana (The Three Plays, OUP)
  5. Rabindranath Tagore: Rabindra Rachnavali: Selected Poems, Vol. II, Rupa & Co., 2002.
  6. Talking Poems: Conversation With Poets by Eunice deSouza (OUP)
  7. Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems (New Delhi: Penguin,1994)