Introduction to Indian Literature in English: Colonialism to Postcolonialism

This course is designed to give students a broad overview of Indian Literature In English: Colonialism To Postcolonialism, emphasizing on significant concepts, theory, and research.The main objectives of the course are:This Course Introduction to Indian Literature in English: Colonialism to Postcolonialism will discuss the history of Indian Literature in English.This course will include all major writers, and literary movements in the field of Indian Literature in English.This course will acquaint the students with literary movements in the field of Indian English Literature.This course will acquaint the students with major poems in the field of Indian English Literature.This course will also acquaint the students with the major novels of Indian English Literature.

Weeks Weekly Lecture Topics Assignment (No. & Type)*   Week-01

1. Introduction to the Course
2. History of Indian Literature in English: A Brief Introduction
3. Defining the Category of Indian Literature
4. Introduction to Indian Poetry

  Week-02  

1. Indian Writing In English - Modern Poetry - A.K.Ramanjuam
2. Indian Writing In English - Modern Poetry - Nissim Ezekiel
3. Indian Writing In English - Modern Prose - Part 1
4. Indian Writing In English - Modern Prose - Part 2

  Week-03  

1. Indian Writing In English - Part 1
2. Indian Writing In English - Part 2 - R K Narayan
3. Indian Writing In English - Part 3 – Fiction
4. Indian Writing In English - Part 4 – Poetry

  Week-04  

1. Indian Writing In English -Mulkraj Anand
2. Indian Writing In English -Toru Dutt
3. Indian Writing English - Kamala Das
4. Night Of The Scorpion – Nissim Ezekiel

  Week-05  

1. Nectar In A Sieve - Part – 1
2. Nectar In A Sieve - Part – 2
3. Post Colonialism
4. Postmodernism

  Week-06  

1. Haroun And Sea Of Stories
2. Imperialism And Colonialism
3. Kanthapura By Raja Rao - Part – 1
4. Kanthapura By Raja Rao - Part – 2

  Week-07  

1. Indian Weavers By Sarojini Naidu
2. Untouchable By Mulk Raj Anand - Part – 1
3. Untouchable By Mulk Raj Anand - Part – 2
4. The Home And The World By Rabindranath Tagore - Part -1

  Week-08  

1. The Home And The World By Rabindranath Tagore - Part -2
2. Cry, The Peacock By Anita Desai Part -1
3. Cry, The Peacock By Anita Desai Part -2
4. Our Casuarina Tree By Toru Dutt

  Week-09

1. The Indian Jugglers by William Hazlitt
2. Silence the court is in session part-1
3. Silence the court is in session part-2
4. The Indian Jugglers by William Hazlitt

  Week-10  

1. Anandamath by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
2. Gora by Rabindranath Tagore Part-1
3. Gora by Rabindranath Tagore Part-2
4. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

  Week-11  

1. Hayavadana by Girish Karnad – Part 1
2. Hayavadana by Girish Karnad – Part 2
3. A Defence of Indian Culture by Sri Aurobindo
4. Samskara by U R Anantha Murthy – Part – 1

  Week-12  

1. Samskara by U R Anantha Murthy – Part – 2
2. The Final Solutions and other plays by Mahesh Dattani – part -1
3. The Final Solutions and other plays by Mahesh Dattani – part -2