Table of Contents
MEG-10 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – Institutionalisation of English Studies in India
Unit 1 – Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Unit 2 – Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
Unit 3 – A View of Post Independence Debates
Unit 4 – Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium
Block 2 – Beginnings of Indian English Writing
Unit 1 – The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Unit 2 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Unit 3 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Unit 4 – Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life
Block 3 – Beginnings of The Indian English Novel
Unit 1 – The Contexts of Bankim
Unit 2 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-I
Unit 3 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-II
Unit 4 – Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels
Block 4 – Different Englishes
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
Unit 4 – Intelligibility of Indian English Globally
Block 5 – Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit 1 – Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Unit 2 – The March of TELI in India
Unit 3 – Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
Unit 4 – English Teaching in India
Unit 5 – The Lie of the Land: English in India
Unit 6 – Publishing in India and English Studies
Block 6 – Questioning the ‘Canon’
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
Unit 4 – Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
Unit 5 – The Crisis in English Studies
Unit 6 – Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base
Block 7 – Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing
Unit 1 – Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Unit 2 – Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Unit 3 – Feminism: Indian English Writers
Unit 4 – The Dalit Canon
Block 8 – Decolonising The Mind
Unit 1 – Orientalism and After
Unit 2 – Literature and Nationalism
Unit 3 – Decolonising the Mind
Unit 4 – Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
Unit 5 – Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation