Indian Writing in English – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 - A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
13.00
UNIT I: 
Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali   (Songs 1-3, 8-10, 16, 27-30, 33, 36, 43, 46, 53, 62, 75-77, 82-85, 90-93, 100 and 103)

 

10.00
UNIT II: 
 

Toru Dutt :

Lakshman

Our Casuarina Tree

The Lotus

Sarojini Naidu:

The Purdah Nashin

The Bird Sanctuary

A Rajput Love Song

 

10.00
UNIT III: 
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Rajmohan’s Wife

 

 

11.00
UNIT IV: 
Vijay Tendulkar

Silence! The Court is in Session

 

13.00
UNIT V: 
U.R. Ananthamurthy

Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man

 

Source Books: 

Source Book :

  • The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry - V.K. Gokak
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings

  • K.R.S. Iyengar : Indian Writing in English (Sterling, 1984)
  • M.K. Naik : Dimensions of Indian English Literature (Sterling, 1965)
  • Susie Tharu & K. Lalitha : Women Writing in India (600 BC to the Present)
  • Indian English Poetry – O.Longman
  • Talking Poems: Conversation with Poets by Eunice de Souza (OUP)
  • A Concise History of Indian Literature in English ed. by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Permanent Black)
Academic Year: 
2015-2016