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Ph.D. Elective: Indian Writing in English

The document outlines a Ph.D. level course on Indian Writing in English over 3 modules covering fiction, drama, and poetry. It introduces students to prominent Indian authors who wrote in English like Raja Rao, Kamla Markandaya, and Arundhati Roy for fiction and Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, and Mahesh Dattani for drama. The poetry module covers early and later Indian poets. Suggested background readings on postcolonial literature and theory are also listed.

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Ph.D. Elective: Indian Writing in English

The document outlines a Ph.D. level course on Indian Writing in English over 3 modules covering fiction, drama, and poetry. It introduces students to prominent Indian authors who wrote in English like Raja Rao, Kamla Markandaya, and Arundhati Roy for fiction and Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, and Mahesh Dattani for drama. The poetry module covers early and later Indian poets. Suggested background readings on postcolonial literature and theory are also listed.

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Approval: 6th Senate Meeting

Course Title : Indian Writing in English


Course Number : HS 602
Credit : 3-0-0-3
Prerequisites : Consent of the Course Instructor
Students intended for : Ph.D.
Elective or Compulsory: Elective
Semester : Odd/Even
Course Permeable:

Indian Writing in English seeks to introduce the vibrant and vast body of literature that exists in English
by Indian writers. The engagement with themes, topics and issues is particularly unique because the
writers deal with Indian sensibilities in a language that was considered foreign to begin with, and is still a
second language to most of the readers and the writers. It is interesting to study the journey from Raja
Rao’s apprehensions about writing like the English authors to the commercial success of the likes of
Mahesh Dattani, who write in English primarily for Indian audiences.

Course Outline:

Module I: Fiction (15 Lecture hours)

Raja Rao. Kanthapura. 1938


Kamla Markandaya. Nectar in a Sieve. 1954
Manohar Malgaonkar. A Bend in the Ganges.1964
Salman Rushdie. Midnight’s Children. 1980
Arundhati Roy. The God of Small Things. 1997
Module II: Drama (15 Lecture hours)

Asif Currimbhoy. Goa. 1964


Girish Karnad. Hayavadana.1971
Vijay Tendulkar. Kamala. 1982
Gurcharan Das. Larins Sahib.2003
Mahesh Dattani. Brief Candle. 2010
Module III: Poetry (12 Lecture hours)

Early poetry – A selection of poem from the poetry of Derozio, Toru Dutt, Tagore, Sarojini Naidu
and Sri Aurubindo.

Later Poetry – A selection of poetry from the poems of from Nissim Ezekiel, Kamla Das, Eunice
De Souza, Arun Kolatkar, Jayant Mahapatra, A.K. Ramanujan, Agha Shahid Ali, Sujata
Bhatt
Backgroung reading:

Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. London.

A.K. Mehrotra. An Illustrated History of Indian English Writing.

Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Theatres of Independence, Drama, Theory and Urban Performance in
India since 1947.

Gauri Vishwanathan. Masks of Conquest.

Meenakshi Mukherjee. The Twice Born Fiction; Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English.

M.K. Naik and S. Mokashi-Punekar. Perspectives on Indian Drama in English.

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ed. The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India.

Harish Trivedi. Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India.

Ranajit Guha. A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995.

Salman Rushdie. Imaginary Homelands.

Susie Tharu and K Lalitha. Women Writing in India Vol I and II

Svati Joshi. Rethinking English: Essays in Literature, Language, History.

Vasudha Dalmia. Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre.

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