[BA 5th Sem Question Papers, Dibrugarh University, 2013, English, Major, Indian Writing in English]
1. Answer very briefly any eight of the following questions: 1x8=8
- In which year did Vasco da Gama discover the sea-route to India?
- In which year was the Battle of Plassey fought?
- Who was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj?
- Name the epic written by Sri Aurobindo.
- Who established the Arya Samaj?
- In which year did Mahatma Gandhi launch the Civil Disobedience Movement?
- Who wrote Glimpses of World History?
- Who is the author of A Passage to England?
- What is the title of Kamala Das’s autobiography?
- Who wrote the historical play, Tughluq?
- Who is the author of A Princess Remembers?
UNIT – I
(History of India Writing in English)
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 10
- Give an account of the factors that created the climate for the growth of Indian English literature.
- Write a note on the contribution of either R. K. Narayan or Mulk Raj Anand to the development of Indian English novels.
- Write a note on the New Poets of Indian English literature.
- Write short notes on any two of the following: 5x2=10
- Henry Luis Vivian Derozio.
- Toru Dutt.
- The Romantic School of Indian English Poetry.
- Khushwant Singh.
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
- Gitanjali or The Princes.
UNIT – II
(Fiction)
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 4
- Why did Moorthy decide to go on a fast?
- Write a brief note on the role of either Bhatta or Ratna.
- How did Moorthy try to convince the villagers to spin on the ‘Charkha’?
4. Answer any one of the following questions: 14
- Show how Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, considered as one of the finest evocations of the Gandhian Age in Indian English fiction, depicts the cross-currents of the Indian freedom struggle.
- Examine Raja Rao’s narrative technique in Kanthapura. What are his views regarding the need for a unique Indian English mode of literary expression? 10+4=14
- “Kanthapura is a microcosm of modern India.” Discuss.
UNIT – III
(Nonfictional Narrative)
5. Answer any one of the following questions: 10
- Describe, in detail, the episode leading to Seth’s obtaining permission to visit Lhasa.
- Given an account of Seth’s stay in the oasis town of Turfan from your reading of From Heaven’s Lake.
- Describe, after Seth, the journey to Nepal and the episode of his confrontation with the customers officer.
UNIT – IV
6. Answer any two of the following questions: 12x2=24
- Comment on Nissim Ezekiel’s depiction of a typical Indian rural scene in Night of the Scorpion.
- Attempt a critical appreciation of Keki N. Daruwalla’s Gulzaman’s Son.
- How does A. K. Ramanujan portray the plight of the kings and princes in the poem, The Last of the Princes?
- Write a note on the use of imagery in Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry with special reference to Hunger.
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7. Critically analyze any two of the following extracts: 5x2=10
- An hour later it is there quavery-legged
and wet and uncertain about
its rickety, four-pronged hold on earth.
- May the sum of evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain, they said.
- I followed him across the sprawling sands,
my mind thumping in the flesh’s sling.
hope lay perhaps in burning the house
I lived in.
- Wife, heirloom pearls in her nose-ring.
Pregnant again, His first son trainee
in telegraphy.
has telegraphed thrice already for money.
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