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(b) Point out the elegiac features in Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.
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(c) Discuss whether Coleridges Kubla Khan is a fragment or a
complete poem.
(d) Discuss the response of Keats on his first reading of
Chapmans translation of Homer.
(e) Attempt a critical appreciation of Hopkins Pied Beauty.
Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
1.
(f) Discuss Sassoons They as a war poem.
(g) How does Ezekiel show his awareness of the religious
preudices in Indian society in his poem Background,
Casually ?
Answer any two of the following questions. Do not write more
than 250 words for each answer :
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(a) Attempt an analysis of the imagery in the two sonnets of
Shakespeare in your course and comment on the poets
handling of the images.
(b) What does the term imitation mean in Neo-classical poetry?
Discuss Popes Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot as an imitation of
Horace.
(c) Analyse some of the images in Shelleys To a Skylark and
show how they help in the exposition of the theme of the poem.
(d) What are the features of a dramatic monologue ? Discuss
Brownings Porphyrias Lover as a dramatic monologue.
(e) Point out the features of modern poetry with special reference
to Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
(f) Write a critical appreciation of Nissim Ezekiels poem,
Background, casually.
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Answer any three of the following questions, each within 120
words :
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(a) Discuss the features of metaphysical poetry with reference to
Donnes The Good-Morrow.
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(h) How does Kamala Das challenge the patriarchal notion of a
womens role in society in her poem An Introduction ?
(i) Write a note on the title of Heaneys poem, Digging.
3.
Answer in brief any four of the following questions :
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(a) What is free verse ?
(b) What are ballads ? Give one example of a ballad.
(c) In Kiplings White Mans Burden what is the burden
referred to ?
(d) What is meant by a Symbol ? Explain the use of symbol in
any one poem that you have read.
(e) What is Sprung Rhythm ?
(f) Name and explain the figures of speech in the line The
paths of glory lead but to the grave.
(g) What is the basic difference between sex and gender ?
(h) What does Milton mean when he writes They also serve who
only stand and wait ?
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(i) Scan the following passage and name the dominant metre :
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon his fair
Upon the straits ; on the French coast the light
gleams and is gone ; ...
(j) What is meter ? Name a few popular metrical forms used in
English poetry.
(k) Define metaphor and give two examples to explain the
figure.
(l) Explain alliteration and comment on the purpose of using
alliteration in poetry.
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(c) According to A. C. Benson, the essayist is an interpreter of
life. Discuss.
(d) Discuss The Lagoon as a short story.
(e) Write a short essay on the Picaresque Novel.
(f) Justify the title of the short story The Lotus-Eater.
(g) Discuss the principal traits of the personality of Pips sister
who brought him up.
(h) Discuss on the use of element of humour in seaside.
(i) Write a short note on the structure of A Passage to India.
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Term End Examination June & December, 2009
Elective Course
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Second Paper
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
3.
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
1.
Answer any two of the following questions :
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(a) What is a narrative ? Write an essay on different types of
narrative.
(b) Dickens characters are nearly all flat.
Dicuss with reference to Great Expectations.
(c) Justify the title of the novel Pride and Prejudice.
(d) Evaluate Dream Children : A Reverie as a romantic essay.
(e) Write an essay on the role of Woodifield in the short story The
Fly.
(f) Discuss, after A. C. Benson, two important features of a good
essayist.
2.
Answer any three of the following questions :
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(a) Write a note on the importance of the rustics in The Mayor of
Casterbridge.
(b) Comment on Forsters use of irony in A Passage to India.
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Answer briefly any four of the following questions :
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(a) Comment on the opening statement of Pride and Prejudice
and discuss its significance in the novel.
(b) Give after Robert Lynd, a description of the insects and the
vegetation on the seaside.
(c) Assess the role of the furmity women in The Mayor of
Casterbridge.
(d) Write a brief note on the character of Godbole.
(e) What does lamb say about his grandmother, Mrs. Field, in his
essay Dream Children : A Reverie ?
(f) What role does Lucetta play in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
(g) Why do you think, does Mansfield refer to the protagonist
simply as the Boss ?
(h) Write a brief note on Point of view.
(i) Briefly comment on the title lagoon.
(j) How does Austen make use of letters in Pride and
Prejudice ?
(k) Discuss one or two important features in the character of
Magwitch.
(l) Why did the boss not refer to the photograph of his son in the
story The Fly?
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(b) Examine the view that Sidneys Loving in Truth is a plea for
artistic sincerity.
(c) Comment critically on the opening scene of Macbeth.
(d) What is the dramatic significance of the Trial Scene in The
Merchant of Venice ?
(e) Write a critical note on the imagery in Lycidas.
(f) What is your impression of the character of Shylock ?
(g) Examine Donnes The Good Morrow as an unusual love
poem.
(h) Do you think the title of Herberts poem The Pulley is
appropriate ? Give reasons for your answer.
(i) Write a short note on the identities of Shakespears patron
friend and the dark lady.
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Third Paper
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
3.
1.
Answer any two of the following questions, each within
250 words :
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(a) In what ways did Machiavelli and Montaigne influence the
Elizabethan and Jacobean writers ?
(b) What were the major sources for The Merchant of Venice?
How does Shakespeare handle these sources in his play ?
(c) Critically analyze the Porter Scene in Shakespeares Macbeth.
(d) What aspects of Renaissance life, attitude and temperament
do you gather from your reading of the four essays of Bacon ?
(e) Critically analyze Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance tragic
hero.
(f) Discuss Bacons prose style with reference to the essays in
your syllabus.
2.
Answer any three of the following questions :
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(a) Discuss briefly the contributions of Kyd and Marlowe to the
development of Elizabethan drama.
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Answer in brief any four of the following questions :
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(a) Write notes on (i) Don Quixote ; (ii) Utopia.
(b) Point out the significance of the Authorized Version of the
Bible of 1611.
(c) Comment critically on Portias attidue to her suitors.
(d) How does a metaphysical conceit differ from a simile ?
(e) What do you understand by the term hamartia?
(f) Write briefly on Nerissa Gratiano sub-plot.
(g) Why did Macbeth plan to kill Banquo and his son ? Was he
successful ?
(h) What is a couplet ? What is the function of the concluding
couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet ?
(i) How does Donne defy death in Death Be Not Proud ?
(j) What does Bacon say about the need for friendship for kings
and monarchs in his essay Of Friendship ?
(k) What does Shakespeare mean when he writes, That in black
ink my love may still shine bright in sonnet No. 65 ?
(l) Why does Faustus say, One drop would save my soul, half a
drop in his last speech ?
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(d) Comment on Popes use of the machinery in The Rape of
the Lock.
(e) What is an elegy ? Discuss Grays Elegy, Written in a
Country Churchyard as an elegy.
(f) Write a short essay on the concept of social contract.
(g) Summarise Gullivers experiences in the land of Hovyhuhnms.
(h) Point out some of the epical qualities in Tom Jones.
(i) Discuss the relationship between Mirabeld and Millamant in
The Way of the World.
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Fourth Paper
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
3.
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
1.
2.
Answer any two of the following questions :
202=40
(a) Discuss the social implications of the rise of the middle class in
the eighteenth century.
(b) Discuss Tom Jones as a picaresque novel.
(c) Assess The Way of the World as a Restoration Comedy.
(d) Discuss the features of Pre-Romanticism with reference to
The Deserted Village.
(e) Discuss Swifts achievement as a writer of satire with
reference to Gullivers Travels.
(f) Discuss Popes Rape of the Lock as a mock-epic.
Answer any three of the following questions :
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(a) Discuss Robinson Crusoe as a story of individual enterprise.
(b) Justify the title of the play She Stoops to Conquer.
(c) Sketch the character of Sir Roger de Coverley from the
essays prescribed in your syllabus.
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Answer any four of the following questions :
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(a) Write a note on any one of the following :
(i) Hume (ii) Voltaire.
(b) Briefly comment on Shadwells coronation.
(c) Describe Gullivers first encounter with the Yahoos.
(d) Write a short note on Heroic Couplet.
(e) Discuss some common conventions of the epic.
(f) Write briefly on rational Christianity.
(g) How is city snobbishness portrayed in The way of the World ?
(h) Comment on the title of MacFlecknoe.
(i) What does Gray mean when he writes, The paths of glory
lead but to grave in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ?
(j) How was Tom Jones discovered in Fieldings novel ?
(k) Discuss Blifils role in Tom Jones.
(l) Comment on the significance of the phrase Lilliput in
Gullivers Travels.
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(f) Write about Scotts treatment of historical characters in
Ivanhoe. Should a novelist be allowed to deviate from
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Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
(b) How does the Mariner describe the spectral ship and the
woman on it ? What is the significance of her exclamation
The game is done ?
(c) How does Wordsworth define poetry, in his Preface to the
this as presented in his essay on Chartism.
(e) Give a short character sketch of any one of the following :
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indicated in the margin.
Answer any two of the following questions :
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(a) Write about the contradiction between the political system and
the changing economic and social structure in 18th Century
France.
(b) Write an essay on the romantic elements in Keats Ode to a
Nightingale.
(c) Nature wrote his poem for him. How far is Arnold just in his
statement about Wordsworth and his poetry ? Give a summary
of his arguments.
(d) Do you consider The Blessed Damozel to be a specimen of
picture poetry ? Give reasons for your answer.
(e) Comment on the title of Lambs essay Dream Children - a
reverie. Is there a pathetic note underlying ?
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Lyrical Ballads ?
(d) What is Laissez faire ? What appear to be Carlyles attitude to
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
1.
Answer any three of the following questions :
(a) What was the role of the French philosophers behind the
outbreak of revolution in France ?
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(i) Priscilla.
(ii) Games Elia.
(iii) The Duchess in My Last Duchess.
(f) Write about George Eliots moral outlook as revealed in her
novels.
(g) The silver answer rang ......
Not Death but love.
What is the meaning of the concluding words quoted from
Elizabeth Barrete Brownings sonnet (included in Sonnets
from the Portuguese) ?
(h) What is a dramatic monologue ? How does Browning create a
dramatic effect in My last Duchess ?
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Answer any four of the following questions :
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(a) Give a short account of the birth of the United States of
America.
(b) What was the primary objective of the Reform Bill of 1832 ?
(c) Name the important women novelists of the Victorian period.
Why did some of them choose not to use their own names ?
(d) How does Wordsworth describe his feelings about nature
when he first came among the hills?
(e) How does Keats present the nightingale as a symbol of
continuity between generations in his ode?
(f) How did the theme of love in Silas Marner show the triumph
of good over evil ?
(g) Who are Macuads? How does Shelley cooke them in Ode
to the West wind?
(h) Write a short note on any one of the following :
(a) Luddism.
(b) Knights and chivalry.
(c) Sundays in the life of the clerk in The Superannuated
Man.
(i) Why does Carlyle think that education is a prime necessity in
mans life ?
(j) What is meant by urbanism? How do you relate it to the
Industrial Revolution ?
(k) Explain the meaning of the following phrases in the context of
the poem.
angels of rain and lightning ,
the trumpet of a prophecy .
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(ii) Describe how Lily Briscoe has a vision and finishes her picture
in the third part of To the Lighthouse.
(iii) What do you understand by the term The Movement as
applied to some poets of the twentieth century. Discuss two
poets of the movement.
(iv) Discuss Destinyas a political play.
(v) How does Ernest Hemingway present Margot Macomber ? Is
she merely a rich bitch or is her character more ambiguously
presented ?
(vi) Write a note on the significance of the epigraph of Eliots poem
Marina.
(vii) Why is D.H. Lawrence considered to be a major British
novelist ? Discuss with reference to The Rainbow or Women
in Love or Sons and Lovers.
(viii) Write a note on Synges involvement with the Irih Dramatic
Movement.
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Sixth Paper
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 70%
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
1.
Answer any two of the following :
202=40
(a) Write a brief essay on the consequences of the first World
War.
(b) Discuss whether Mother Courage is a product of war or a
victim of war ?
(c) Write a critical appreciation of the poem, An Acre of Grass.
(d) Analyse the images in Preludes to show how Eliot fuses a
number of acute observations into a powerful feeling : What is
this feeling ?
(e) Show how Graham Greene depicts Raven as more a victim
than a criminal in A Gun for Sale.
2.
Answer any three questions :
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(i) Explain the meaning of the title of Sylvia Plaths poem Lady
Lazarus.
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Answer any four questions :
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(a) Who was Swiss Cheese ?
(b) In Destiny what are the motives of joining the National
Forward Party of any two of the following :
Kershaw, Tony, Turner, Liz.
(c) The worlds revolve like ancient women gathering fuel in
vacant lots. What does the image of the ancient women in
Prelude remind you of ?
(d) In the line My responsible tristia (in Semus Heaneys poem
Digging) what is the significance of tristia ?
(e) Write a note on the significance of the first scene of Destiny.
(f) Explain the term image or imagery as used in criticism. Give
one example of an image from any poem that you have read.
(g) I keep a tryst to-night with a dark lady
Who says this ? Who is the dark lady referred to here ?
(h) In Lady Lazarus what is the allusion in the phrase the dig
strip tease ?
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Write critical notes on any two of the following :
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syllable, vocal cords, bilabial plosives, teeth-ridge, tripthongs,
fricatives, long vowels.
5.
Scan any one of the following passages. Indicate the predominant
metre and variations, if any :
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(a) Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
Or,
(b) We look before and after
And pine for what is not.
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught ...
6.
Identify and explain the figures of speech in any one of the
following passages :
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Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance
in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect
spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting.
The weightage for each question has been
indicated in the margin.
1.
Answer any two of the following questions :
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(a) From a study of French loanwords how do we deduce that the
French were the rich and powerful people at this time ?
(b) How does Shakespeare use language to individualise his
characters ? Answer with examples.
(c) Write a note on hybridism as a method of word-formation.
(d) What was the impact of Christianity on the English
Language ?
(e) Write a brief account of
(i) back-formations (ii) the -s ending.
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husband, tidings, cheap, woman, earl, egg, bread, heathen, pub, its.
Write the phonemic transcription of any four of the following :
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wealthy, stronger, thursday, though, page, young, listen, harm,
why.
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a) O wild, west wind, thou breath of
[Autumns being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence
[the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an
[enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale and
[hectic red.
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Or,
b) Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
Till the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
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Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretchd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay ;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Write the substance of one of the following passages and add a
critical comment diction, imagery and metre :
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(a)
Tonight the winds begin to rise
And roar from youder dropping day
The last red leaf is whirled away,
The rooks are blown about the skies,
The forest crackd, the waters curld
The cattle huddled on the lea ;
And wildly dashd on tower and tree
The sumbeam strikes along the world.
And but for fancies, which aver
That all thy motions gently pass
Athwart a plane of molten glass,
I scarce could brook the strain and stir.
Or,
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high air vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
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For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude ;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
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Northern Ireland form the United Kingdom) are taken into account.
Within the accents of England, the distinction that is most frequently
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made by the majority of English people is between Northern and
Southern. This is a very rough division, and there can be endless
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argument over where the boundaries lie, but most people on hearing
a pronunciation typical of some one from Lancashire, Yorkshire
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or other counties further north would identify it as Northern.
Time : Four Hours
Full Marks : 100
A term which is widely found now a days is Estuary English,
Weightage of Marks : 70%
Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the
and many learners of English have been given the impression that
this is a new accent of English. In reality there is no such accent
answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy
work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each
and the term should be used with care. The idea originates from
the sociolinguistic observation that some people in public life who
question has been indicated in the margin.
would previously have been expected to speak with a BBC (or
RP) accent now find it acceptable to speak with some
1.
Write an essay on any one of the following topics :
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characteristics of the accents of the London area (the estuary
referred to is the Thames estuary), such as glottal stops, which
(a) Literature and Jouranism.
(b) Reading for Pleasure.
would in earlier times have caused comment or disapproval.
(c) The Study of History.
(d) Epic Poetry.
3.
Manjit Bawa, who died on Monday, will be remembered for his
(e) Media does more harm than good.
(f) Global Warming.
2.
Write the substance of the following passage and add a critical
note on its theme and prose style.
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In talking about accents of English, the foreigner should be careful
about the difference between England and Britain, there are many
different accents in England, but the range becomes very much
wider if the accents of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
(Scotland and Wales are included in Britain, and together with
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Read the following passage and answer the questions given below :
paintings of gamboling animals, mythic creatures and legendary
characters in a pastoral set-up depicted against a single-colour
field of satiny hues red, green, yellow or mauve straight out
of Pahari and Rajput miniatures he loved so much.
Bawa may have thus become the darling of the smart set but
that should not obscure the fact that he collaborated with Sufi
musicians, eminent theatre directors and filmmakers as well, and
was an outspoken critic of belligerent Ram bhakts. During the
anti-Sikh riots, Bawa was no silent observer. He had worked in
refugee camps.
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1941. His father was a timber merchant who cared for and treated
Bawas figures had impossible bone structures which gaven them
their remarkable plasticity. He admitted that he tried to capture
sick cows and calves, and this must have left a deep impression
the magic of circus with all its risk, humour and colour.
on his young mind, for cows and cowherds in the avatar of Krishna
A striking figure with a lean frame and a shock of hair and beard,
he had acted in plays directed by Prasanna and M. K. Raina,
Bawa was born in his family goshala at Dhuri in Punjab in
and Ranjha of the popular romance from Punjab were recurrent
icons in his canvases. He was brought up on the Indian epics,
Ramayana and Mahabharata, Panchatantra and the Puranas, the
poetry of Waris Shah and readings from Granth Sahib.
His brother Manmohan Singh, a graphic artist, was another early
made posters for the films of Mani Kaul and Sandeep Bedi, and
sung with Allan Faqir, the celebrated Sufi singer from Sind.
He became director of Roopankar, the arts wing of Bharat
Bhavan in Bhopal, in 1992 and remained so, though he had
influence on the artists, who was trained at the Delhi School of
distanced himself from the institution after a BJP takeover.
Art between 1958 and 1963. Among his teachers were Somnath
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Hore and B.C. Sanyal, but it was Abani Sen who gave him a
(a) What do we learn about Manjit Bawas paintings from the
sense of identity.
passage ?
(b) What was the influence of his family background on his
Bawa had learnt to play the flute from the maestro, Pannalal
Ghosh. He went for long rides on his bicycle when he was
physically seized by the vibrant colours of hill-sides, paddy and
mustard fields and violet jacaranda trees. He had motored down
to Britain with friends, and this journey was an eye-opener as he
was exposed to the flavours of Europe and diverse cultures. He
lived in London for eight years, and after the first year he was
trained in serigraphy (colour silk screen technology) at the London
School of Printing.
After returning from the UK, he immersed himsef in mythology
and Sufi poetry. He tried to look back at myths through a
contemporary consciousness, and although he went back to his
favourite miniatures for inspiration, Bawas works were never
cluttered with details.
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painting ?
(c) How did he journey to Britain & how did the European
influence work on him ?
(d) Which artists were Bawas teachers ?
(e) What does the passage say about his interest in music and
theatre ?
(f) What do we learn about Bawas social and political
commitments ?
