MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December 2021
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours. Maximum : Marks : 100
Answer
all questions. All questions carry equal
marks.
1 1.Explain with reference to the context any four of the following passages in about 150 words each: 4x5=20
(a) My country! In thy day of
glory past
A beauteous halo circled round thy brow,
And worshiped as a deity thou wast.
(b)
Like a huge
Python, winding round and round
The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars
Up to its very summit near the stars,
A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound
No other tree could live.
(c) Thy golden light came down
into my feet;
My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.
(d)
The scents of
red roses and sandalwood
flutter and die in the maze of their gem-
tangled hair.
(e) A poet-rascal-clown was
born,
The frightened child who would not eat
Or sleep, a boy of meagre bone.
(f)
I am sinner,
I am saint.
I am the beloved and the Betrayed.
I have no joys which are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours.
(g)
Mortal as I
am, I face the end with
unspeakable relief,
Knowing how I should feel if I were stopped
and cut off.
2. Discuss the narrative
technique of Mulk Raj Anand's novel
Untouchable.
(500
words) 20
OR
Raja Rao's Kanthapura
captures the mood of India in the 1930s. Comment. (500
words)
3. Discuss the prose style of
Jawaharlal Nehru with reference to his
Autobiography (500 words). 20
OR
Discuss the central theme
in Anita Desai's novel Clear Light of Day
(500
words).
4.
Discuss the
prose style of R.K. Narayan, with reference to his short
stories prescribed in your syllabus (500 words). 20
OR
Discuss Shashi Deshpande
as a short story writer with reference to "The
Miracle" (500
words).
5.Discuss Salman Rushdie's
novel Midnight's Children
as a
Postcolonial text (500 words).
20
OR
Critically comment on
Mahesh Dattani's play Tam as a
feminist play (500
words).
MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December 2019
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum : Marks : 100
Answer
all questions. All questions carry equal
marks.
1. Explain
with reference to the context any four of the
following passages (150 words) :
[4x5=20]
(a)
My Country!
In thy day of glory past
A beauteous halo circled round thy brow,
And worshipped as a deity thou wast.
(b)
Love came to
Flora asking for a flower
That would of flowers be undisputed queen,
The lily and the rose, long, long had been
Rivals for that high honour.
(c) Thy
golden light came down into my feet;
My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.
(d)
The Indian
landscape sears my eyes.
I have become a part of it
To be observed by foreigners
They say that I am singular
Their letters overstate the case
(e)
I who have
lost
My way and beg now at stranger's doors to
Receive love, at least in small change ?
(f)
The good
wife lies in my bed
through the long afternoon;
dreaming still, unexhausted
by the deep roar of funeral pyres.
like the lash of coming rain -
mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon
2. Does Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable provide a viable solution to the eradication of untouchability ? Discuss. [20]
OR
Discuss the issue of
form in Raja Rao's Kanthapura.
3.
Write an essay
on the role and importance of Raja in Anita Desai's novel Clear
Light of Day. [20]
OR
Critically comment
on Nirad C. Chaudhari's The Autobiography
of an Unknown Indian.
4.
Write an
essay on the issues dealt within Subhadra Sen Gupta's "The Fourth
Daughter." [20]
OR
Write an essay on
Ruskin Bond's treatment of nature in the short stories in your course.
5.
Write an
essay on the "family as character" in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. [20]
OR
What according to you are the use of language in Mahesh Dattani's Play Tara.
MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN
ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December 2018
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours. Maximum : Marks : 100
Answer
all questions. All questions carry equal
marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context
any four
of the following passages in about 150 words
each : 4x5=20
(a) Where is that glory, where that reverence
now ?
Thy eagle pinion is chained down at last,
And grovelling in the lowly dust art thou,
Thy minstrel hath no wreath to weave for
thee
Save the sad story of thy misery !
(b) Three happy children in a darkened room !
What do they gaze on with wide-open eyes ?
(c) The
golden light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched
became
A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane,
A calm illumination and a flame.
(d) o Love, I dreamed my soul
had ransomed
thee,
In thy lone, dread, incalculable hour
From those pale hands at which all
mortals cower,
And conquered Death by Love, like Savitri.
(e) I have made my commitments
now.
This is one : to stay where I am,
As others choose to give themselves
In some remote and backward place.
My backward place is where I am.
(f) I am Indian, very brown,
born in Malabar,
I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one.
Don't write in English, they said, English is
Not your mother-tongue.
(g) I can smell violence in
the air
like the lash of coming rain -
mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon.
2. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand's
novel "Untouchable" as a novel of social
criticism. (450 words)
20
OR
Discuss the
narrative technique of Raja Rao's Kanthapura.
3.
Discuss the
prose style of Jawaharlal Nehru with reference to his An Autobiography.
(450
words) 20
OR
Discuss Shashi
Deshpande as a short story writer with special reference
to her story "Miracle".
4.
Write a
critical appreciation of Githa Hariharan's "Gajar
Halwa". (450 words) 20
OR
Discuss the
political dimensions in Anita Desai's novel
Clear
Light of Day.
5.
Discuss the
narrative technique in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's
Children. (450 words) 20
OR
Discuss Mahesh
Dattani's Tara as a problem play.
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