1. Answer very briefly any eight of the following questions: 1x8=8
- Who was the founder of the Bengal Asiatic Society in 1784?
- In which year was the Oriental Drama Club established?
- Who is the author of Unto This Last?
- In which year was the All India Trade Union Congress founded?
- Who wrote Hind Swaraj?
- How many letters are there in Nehru’s Letters from a Father to his Daughter?
- Who is the author of the work, The Hindu View of Life?
- What is the title of R. K. Narayan’s autobiography?
- Who wrote the novel, The Princes?
- Who is the author of the volume of short stories titled, The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories?
UNIT – I
(History of Indian Writing in English)
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 10
- Write a note on the contribution of Henry Derozio to the development of Indian English poetry. 10
- Examine the impact of the ‘Gandhian Whirlwind’ on Indian English Literature. 10
- Assess the contribution of women novelists in the development of Indian English novel. 10
- Write short notes on any two of the following: 5x2=10
- Sarojini Naidu.
- Autobiographies in Indian English Literature.
- Cornelia Sorabji.
- Girish Karnad.
- The Guide or A Passage to England.
- Salman Rushdie.
UNIT – II
(Fiction)
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 4
- Attempt a brief character sketch of the White owner of the Skeffington Coffee Estate.
- Give an account of the Satyagraha at the Today Booth led by Moorthy.
- Write a brief note on the role of either Range Gowda or Waterfall Venkamma.
4. Answer any one of the following questions: 14
- Comment on Raja Rao’s portrayal of Moorthy as the Gandhi incarnate in Kanthapura.
- Show how in Kanthapura Raja Rao’s narrative follows the Indian style of storytelling while retaining the world-view characteristic of the instinctively bilingual Indian.
- Kanthapura portrays the picture of emerging modern India. Discuss.
UNIT – III
(Nonfictional Narrative)
5. Answer any one of the following questions: 10
- Why does Seth consider his journey to Lhasa as the fulfillment of an obsession? Describe the journey in detail. 4+6=10
- Describe, after Seth, his interlude at Nanhu. 10
- Who was Sui? Narrate the incident of the loss of Seth’s bag. How did he recover that? 2+4+4=10
UNIT – VI
(Poetry)
6. Answer any two of the following questions: 12x2=24
- Attempt a critical appreciation of Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion.
- Describe how Jayanta Mahapatra juxtaposes the two human desires – hunger for food and hunger for sex in the poem. Hunger.
- “He describes scenes and incidents in great detail.”
Examine K. N. Daruwalla’s Gulzaman’s Son in the light of the above comment.
- A. K. Ramanujan’s poem, The Last of the Prices combines familial experience with acute historical sensibility. Elucidate.
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7. Critically analyze any two of the following extracts:
- The peasants came like swarms of files
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyze the Evil One.
- Hope lay perhaps in burning the house
I live in.
Silence gripped my sleeves; his body clawed
at the forth his old nets had dragged up from
the seas.
- ….He lives on, heir to long
Fingers, faces in paintings, and a belief
in auspicious
snakes in the skylight : he lives on,
to cough.
- Either the doorway has been cleared,
or clouds
have been parted for an instant by the sun.
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