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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

December, 2013

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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.
(a) he popped a stone 4x5=20

in his mouth
and spat out gods.
(b) But not because of its magnificence
Dear is the Casurina to my soul:
Beneath it we have played; though years
may roll.
(c) Life only is, or death is life disguised,
Life a short death until by life we are
surprised.
(d) Their jewel-girt arms and warm, wavering,
lily-long
fingers enchant through melodious hours.
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially
panting,

that passionate bosoms aflaming with fire !

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(e) The slow movement seems, somehow, to say
much more.
To watch the rarer birds, you have to go
Along deserted lanes and where the rivers
flow
In the silence near the source
(f) There is a house now far away where once
I received love. That woman died
The house withdrew into silence, snakes
moved
Among books I was then too young
To read.
(g) He said :
the river has water enough
to be poetic
about only once a year.

2. How is the question of caste addressed in Mulk 20

Raj Anand's Untouchable ? Explain.(500 words)
OR
Raja Rao celebrates the passion of ordinary masses
in his novel Kanthapura. Discuss. (500 words)

3. Simple prose does have the same literary merit as 20

a poem, a drama or a novel. Comment.
(500 words)
OR
Discuss the personalities of Bim and Tara as
depicted in Clear Light of Day. (500 words)

MEG-7 2
4. There are no good or bad characters in Narayan's 20
works. Apply this statement to the short story
An Astrologer's Day. (500 words)
OR
There is a great deal of self-scrutiny in Nehru's
writing. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer.
(500 words)

5. Write a critical note on Rushdie's use of English 20

in Midnight's children. (500 words)
OR
Discuss Dattani's treatment of gender in the play
Tara. (500 words)

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

IN ENGLISH
07965 Term-End Examination
December, 2014

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) Yet shall they dream of it until the day !
When shall those children by their
mother's side
Gather, ah me ! As erst at eventide ?

(b) This is the soul of man. Body and brain

Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.

(c) As others choose to give themselves

In some remote and backward place.
My backward place is where I am.
MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(d) Endless crow noises.
A skull on the holy sands
tilts its empty country towards hunger.
(e) And let the guerdon of my labour be
My fallen country ! One kind wish from thee !
(f) How should I not scream,
"I haven't finished ?"
Yet that too would pass unheeded.
(g) He popped a stone
in his mouth
and spat out gods.

2. Comment on Gandhi's views on education and

their relevance in the age of globalisation.
(450 words) 20
OR

Write an essay on Raja Rao's art of

characterisation as revealed through
Kanthapura. (450 words) 20

3. Delineate the features of Nehru's prose style as

illustrated in the passages taken from
Autobiography. (450 words) 20
OR

Comment on the significance of the title

The Untouchable. (450 words) 20

MEG-7 2
4. Discuss Anita Desai's contribution to
Indian-English fiction. (450 words) 20
OR

Comment on Rushdie's use of language in

Midnight's Children. (450 words) 20

5. Attempt a critical appreciation of either

Gajar Halwa. (450 words) 20

OR
A Toast to Herself (450 words) 20

OR
Comment on the theme of gender in Tara.
(450 words) 20

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December, 2015

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) But who is the fair lady ? Not in vain

She weeps, — for lo ! At every tear she
sheds
Tears from three pairs of young eyes fall
amain,
And bowed in sorrow are the three young
heads.

(b) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage

The burden of thy human heritage,
Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death.

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(c) The trip had darkened every face,
Our deeds were neither great nor rare.
Home is where we have to gather grace.

(d)
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown
often signed in a corner
by my father.

(e) A temple stands frail and still

in the distance, as though lost in reverie.

(f) Outside, the sun has risen quietly,

it aims through an eyelet in the tarpaulin
and shoots at the old man's glasses.

(g) He had spent his youth whoring

after English gods.
There is something to be said for exile.

2. Critically examine the ending of Mulk Raj

Anand's novel Untouchable. What is your
suggestion for ending untouchability ?
(450 words) 20

OR

Discuss Raja Rao's art of characterisation in

Kanthapura. (450 words)

MEG-7 2
3. Does Vikram Seth's writing lack depth ? Discuss,
offering your own views. (450 words) 20
OR

Discuss Amitav Ghosh as a writer of travelogues.

(450 words)

4. In what ways does R.K. Narayan's story 'Engine

Trouble' appeal to you ? Discuss. (450 words) 20
OR

What are Anita Desai's thematic concerns in

Clear Light of Day ? Discuss. (450 words)

5. Discuss the structure of Midnight's Children.

(450 words) 20
OR

How does Mahesh Dattani treat the issue of

gender in Tara ? Discuss. (450 words)

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O Term-End Examination
re)
O June, 2012

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Explain with reference to context any four of the

following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20
(a) Why hang'st thou lonely on you withered
bough ? Unstrung for ever, must thou there
remain; Thy music once was sweet - who
hears it now ?
(b) Blent with your images, it shall arise In
memory, till the hot tears blind mine eyes !
(c) The poets only sang of the floods.

(d) And then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying

with a rattle in my throat. I am sinner, I am
saint.
(e) At the end of the bumpy ride with your own
face on either side when you get off the bus.
You don't step inside the old man's head.

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(f) 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.
(g) Voice of infinity, sound in my heart, -
call of the one!
Stamp there thy radiance, never to part,
0 Living Sun.

2. Discuss in detail the efforts made by Gandhi to 20

bring together the fragmented society of India
with reference to MulkRaj Anand's
UNTOUCHABLE. (450 words)
OR
In what manner do the women characters in
'Kanthapura' contribute to the progress of the
novel ? Discuss (450 words)

3. How does Sri Aurobindo make a case for India's 20

civilization ? (450 words)
OR
Write an essay on Vikram Seth's prose style.
(450 words)

4. Comment on Shashi Deshpande's style of telling 20

a story, with reference to the MIRACLE ?
(450 words)
OR

MEG-7 2
Enunciate Anita Desai's great contribution to the
Indian - English novel. (450 words)

5. Discuss 'Midnight's Children' as an 20

autobiography of Saleem Sinai. (450 words)
OR
How do Dattani's techniques help to highlight his
thematic concerns ? (450 words)

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ENGLISH

Term-End Examination
June, 2013

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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 :
(a) Three happy children in a darkened room!
What do they gaze on with wide-open
eyes ? 4x5=20
A dense, dense forest, where no sunbeam
pries,
And in its centre a cleared spot
(b) Really what keeps us apart at the end of
years is unshared childhood.
(c) The golden Light came down into my feet;
My earth is now thy playfield and Thy seat.
(d) 0 Love, alas, that could not assuage
The burden of thy human heritage,
Or save thee from the swift decrees of
Death.

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(e) The trip had darkened every face,
Our deeds were neither great nor rare
Home is where we have to earn our grace.

(f) I am Indian, very brown, born in

Malabar, I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one.

(g) But it's in flesh and flesh-tissue

that my destiny lies
and slowly corruption takes a hold.
Over from the mortuary
comes the corpse-drift.

2. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable is a piece of realistic 20

fiction. Comment. (500 words)
OR
Mahatma Gandhi is the hidden protagonist in 20
Raja Rao's Kanthapura. Discuss. (500 words)

3. What does the bronze image of the dancing Shiva 20

symbolise in Coomaraswamy's essay. 'The Dance
of Shiva' ? Explain ( 500 words)
OR
Do you agree with the view there are two 20
(Nirad C) Chaudhuris, a historical witness and a
pseudo-historian ? Give reasons. (500 words)

MEG-7 2
4. Discuss the use of history in Salman Rushdie's 20
novel Midnight's Children. (500 words)

OR

How important is family in Mahesh Dattani's play 20

Tara ? Explain ( 500 words)

5. The country's partition parallels the partition of 20

the Das family in Clear Light of Day. Comment.
(500 words)

OR

Do you agree that Gita Hariharan's 'Gajar Halwa' 20

offers a scathing comment on our social
inequalities ? Give reasons. (500 words )

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

IN ENGLISH
09626 Term-End Examination
June, 2015

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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:
(b) Life only is, or death is life disguised,
Life a short death until by life we are
surprised
(c) In her youth she hath comforted lover and
son,
In her weary old age, 0 dear God, is there
none
To bless her tired eyelids to rest ?
MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(d) 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.

(e) I who have lost

My way and beg now at strangers' doors to
Receive love, at least in small change ?

(f) Really what keeps us apart

at the end of years is unshared
childhood.

(g) She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the

hunger there.

2. Critically examine the treatment of

untouchability in Mulk Raj Anand's novel
Untouchable. Suggest an alternative title for the
novel. (450 words) 20

OR

Discuss the role of Moorthy in Raja Rao's

Kanthapura. (450 words)

M E G-7 2
3. Make an assemment of Nehru's prose style on
the basis of excerpts from his Autobiography.
(450 words) 20
OR

What, according to Ananda Coomaraswamy,

does the bronze image of the dancing Shiva
symbolize ? Discuss. (450 words)

4. 'Degeneration of the worst kind is common to all

the characters in the story A Trip into the
Jungle.' Do you agree ? Discuss. (450 words) 20

OR

Compare and contrast the characters of Bim and

Tara in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day.
(450 words)

5. Discuss the theme of identity in Midnight's

Children. (450 words) 20

OR

How important is the family in Mahesh Dattani's

Tara ? Discuss. (450 words)

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IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
I. 0766 June, 2016
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) The new poets still quoted

the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.

(b) That language is a tree, loses colour

under another sky.
MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(c) When, finally, we reached the place,
We hardly knew why we were there.

(d) Depressed and weary we march back to the

lines
A leader says over the evening wireless,
"We are marching forward."

(e) This is the kind of sadness which closes the

eyes.
Here the memory for faces of the dead
never appears.

(0 I have no joys which are not yours, no

Aches which are not yours.
I too call myself I.

(g) And Flora gave the lotus, "rose red" dyed,

And "lily-white," queenliest flower that
blows.

2. (a) Discuss the appropriateness of the title,

Untouchable. (450 words) 20

OR
(b) Comment on the nature of Gandhi's
influence on Indian fiction in English.
(450 words)

MEG-7 2
3. (a) How does Anita Desai combine the
personal and the political in Clear Light of
Day ? (450 words) 20

OR
(b) Discuss Vikram Seth or Amitav Ghosh as
travel writers. (450 words)

4. (a) What are the various themes that Rushdie

deals with in Midnight's Children?
(450 words) 20
OR
(b) Discuss the theme and technique of
Dattani in Tara. (450 words)

5. (a) What are the main elements of a short

story ? Illustrate with the help of any one of
the short stories of your choice.
(450 words) 20
OR
(b) Comment on the theme of the East-West
Encounter in Indian-English fiction.
(450 words)

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Term-End Examination
June, 2014

MEG-07 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer all questions All questions carry equal marks

I. Explain with reference to the context any four 4x5=20

of the following passages in about 150 words

each:

(a) 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) Thy golden light came down into my feet

My earth is now thy play field and thy seat.

(c) All mine, mine alone. It is half English,

Half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,

It is as human as I am human, don't you see?

MEG-07 1 P.T.O.
(d) Now she looks for the swing in cities with

fifteen suburbs and tries to be innocent

about it.

(e) You learn roots are deep. That language is a

tree, loses colour under another sky.

(I) I can smell violence in the air like the lash

of coming rainmass hatreds drifting grey

across the moon.

(g) Not in vain

She weeps-for lo! at every tear she sheds

Tears from three pairs of young eyes fall

amain, And bowed in sorrow are the three

young heads.

MEG-07 2 P.T.O.
In what ways does Swami Vivekananda see 20
II.
similarities between Hinduism and science?

(450 words).

OR.

Critically describe the main features of Raja

Roo's narrative technique in "Kanthapura."

(450 words).

Critically assess Amitav Ghosh as a travel 20

writer. (450 words).

OR.

Discuss the importance of Gandhian

philosophy in the Novel Untouchable.

(450 words).

3 P.T.O.
MEG-07
IV. Comment on the role of music in Clear light 20
of Day. (450 words).

OR.

Write an essay on history and the individual

in Midnight's Children (450 words).

V. Attempt a critical appreciation of 'The 20

Fourth Daughter' (450 words).

OR.

Comment on the use of English in 'Tara.'

(450 words).

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
C19011- December, 2018

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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 ?
MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(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) 0 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.

MEG-7 2
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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O Term-End Examination
June, 2011

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Explain with reference to content any four of the

following passages in about 150 words each. 4x5=20
(i) ... if thy notes divine
May be by mortal wakened once again,
Harp of my country, let me strike the strain.
(ii) This is the soul of man. Body and brain
Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
(iii) The trip had darkened every face,
Our deeds were neither great nor rare
Home is where we have to earn our grace.
(iv) Probably
only the Egyptian had it right/
their kings had sisters for queens/
to continue the incest/
of childhood into marry.

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(v) I grasp your hand
in a rainbow of touch. Of the dead
I speak nothing but good.
(vi) I can smell violence in the air
Like the lash of coming rain -
mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon.
(vii) To force the pace and never to be still
Is not the way of those who study birds
Or women. The best poets wait for words.

2. `Bakha is not just a suffering abstraction but a man 20

of flesh and blood convincingly Portrayed by the
author. Discuss. (450 words)
OR
What are the main features of Raja Rao's narrative
technique in kanthapura ? Discuss

3. Discuss the distinctive features of Hinduism on 20

which Swami Vivekananda lays stress in his
Address. (450words)
OR
'Seth achieves almost photographic realism in his
travelogue. We feel that we are travelling along
with him on his journey'. Discuss.

MEG-7 2
4. Discuss Birn's relationship with Baba, Raja and 20
Miramasi in clear light of Day. (450 words)
OR
Pick out two of the stories form your course and
discuss why you like them.

5. Discuss the main features of Rushdie's 20

characterization in Midnight's children.
(450 words)
OR
What according to you, are the main themes of
Tara ?

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IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
June, 2018
00005
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) Those hands are cold — but if thy notes divine

May be by mortal wakened once again,
Harp of my country, let me strike the strain !

(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.

MEG-7 1 P.T.O.
(c) Beauty of the Light, surround my life, —
Beauty of the Light !
I have sacrificed longing and parted from grief,
I can bear thy delight.

(d) In hope of your succour, how often in vain,

So patient she sits at my gates,
In the face of the sun and the wind and
the rain.
Holding converse with poverty, hunger
and pain,
And the ultimate sleep that awaits ... .

(e) 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.

(f) I am sinner, I am saint.

I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys that are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours.
I too call myself I.

(g) My tongue in English Chains,

I return, after a generation, to you.
I am at the end
Of my Dravidie tether,
hunger for you unassuaged.

MEG-7 2
2. Discuss the Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable
as a modern novel. (450 words) 20

OR
Discuss Raja Rao's Kanthapura as a Gandhian
novel.

3. Discuss Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj as a

postcolonial text. (450 words) 20

OR
Discuss the prose style of Nirad C. Chaudhuri
with reference to The Autobiography of an
Unknown Indian.

4. Discuss the prose style of Ruskin Bond with

reference to No Room for a Leopard. (450 words) 20 -

OR
Discuss Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day as a
feminist novel.

. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is in the •

biographical mode. Comment. (450 words) 20

OR
Discuss Mahesh Dattani's Tara as a play with
social purpose.

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IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December, 2016
MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) When shall those children by their

mother's side
Gather, ah me ! As erst at eventide ?
(b) Silence hath bound thee with her fatal
chain;
Neglected, mute, and desolate art thou,
Like ruined monument on desert plain :
(c) This is the soul of man. Body and brain
Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
(d) The trip had darkened every face,
Our deeds here neither great nor rare.
Home is where we have to earn our grace.

MEG - 7 1 P.T.O.
(e) I resemble everyone
but myself, and sometimes see
in shop-windows,
despite the well-known laws
- of optics
the portrait of a stranger,
date unknown
often signed in a corner
by my father.
(f) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage
The burden of thy human heritage,
Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death.
(g) I look around for a cleansed feeling,
the kind you experience
walking in a temple
after a river-bath.
I cannot find it.
I have misplaced it somewhere
in the caverns of my past.

2. How does Mulk Raj Anand paint the picture of a

socially fragmented nation in Untouchable ?
(450 words) 20

OR

Comment on the role of the narrator in Raja

Rao's Kanthapura. (450 words)
MEG-7 2
3. Write a critical essay on Anita Desai's art of
characterization in 'Clear Light of Day'.
(450 words) 20

OR

What aspects of Indian culture figure in the

writings of Swami Vivekananda or Sri Aurobindo ?
(450 words)

4. Write on the structure and theme of

R.K. Narayan's An Astrologer's Day. (450 words) 20

OR

How are love, faith and science intertwined in

Deshpande's Miracle ? (450 words)

5. "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is a

trend-setter for a new genre of fiction." Discuss.
(450 words) 20
OR

How does Dattani deal with the theme of gender

in Tara ? (450 words)

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Term-End Examination

June, 2017

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MEG 7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
-

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) Neglected, mute, and desolate art thou,

Like ruined monument on desert plain :
(b) Three happy children in a darkened room !
What do they gaze on with wide-open-eyes ?

(c) Bride of the Fire, clasp me now close, —

Bride of the Fire !
I have shed the bloom of the earthly rose,
I have slain desire.
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(d) In hope of your succour, how often in vain,
So patient she sits at my gates,
In the face of the sun and the wind
and the rain.

(e) Another phase was reached when we

Were twice attacked, and lost our way.
A section claimed its liberty
To leave the group.

(f) There is a house now far away where once

I received love ...

(g) The new poets still quoted

the old poets, but no one spoke
in verse
of the pregnant woman
drowned, with perhaps twins in her,
kicking at blank walls
even before birth.

2. Discuss the narrative technique used by Mulk

Raj Anand in his novel Untouchable ? 20
(500 words)

OR

Discuss Raja Rao's novel Kanthapura as a novel

written in true Gandhian spirit. (500 words)

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3. Compare and contrast the autobiographies of
Nehru and Nirad C. Chaudhuri. (500 words) 20

OR

Critically comment on the way in which

Anita Desai weaves the political elements in
Clear Light of Day. (500 words)

4. Attempt a character sketch of the astrologer.

Does this story evoke sympathy or anger for him
in you ? (500 words) 20

OR

Discuss Shashi Deshpande as a short story

writer. (500 words)

5. Discuss the narrative technique of Salman

Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. (500 words) 20

OR

What according to you are the major themes of

Tara ? Discuss whatever you consider to be the
most important of them. (500 words)

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Term-End Examination
071. 4-1.
December, 2017

MEG 7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) Thy minstrel hath no wreath to

weave for thee,
Save the sad story of thy misery !
(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.

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(c) Life only is, or death is Life disguised, —
Life a short death until by Life we are
surprised.

(d) 0 Love, alas, that love could not assuage,

The burden of thy human heritage
Or save thee from the swift decrees of Death.

(e) I went to Roman Catholic School,

A mugging Jew among the wolves.

(f) I am Indian, very brown, born in

Malabar, I speak three languages,
write in two, dream in one.

(g) Endless crow noises

A skull in the holy sands
Tilts its empty country towards hunger.

2. Discuss the various wishes and plans of Bakha as

narrated by Mulk Raj Anand in his novel
Untouchable. (500 words) 20

OR
Discuss the narrative technique of Raja Rao's
Kanthapura. (500 words)

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3. What, according to you, is Gandhi trying
to convey to the readers in Hind Swaraj ?
Explain. (500 words) 20

OR

Critically comment on Anita Desai's use of

imagery in her novel Clear Light of Day.
(500 words)

4. Do you agree that "Gajar Halwa" offers a

scathing comment on our social inequalities ?
Give reasons. (500 words) 20

OR

Discuss Ruskin Bond as a short story writer with

reference to his stories in your syllabus.
(500 words)

5. Discuss the dominant themes Salman Rushdie

weaves in his novel Midnight's Children. 20
(500 words)
OR

Discuss Mahesh Dattani's play Tara as a social

tragedy. (500 words)

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Term-End Examination
O
December, 2011

MEG 7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Explain with reference to the content any four of

the following passages in about 150 words each.
4x5=20
(a) At everytear she sheds
Tears from three pairs of young eyes ball
amain.
And bowed in sorrow are the three young
heads.

(b) When I awoke , alas , my love was vain E'en

to annul one throe of destined pain
Or by one heart-beat to prolong they breath;
(c) Long and lean , her years were cold as rubber
She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the
hunger there,
the other one the fish slithering , turning
inside.

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(d) .... you cannot believe, darling
can you that I lived in such a house and
Was proud, and loved.... I who have lost
My way and beg now at stranger's doors to
Receive love , at least in small change.
(e) Who was that, you ask
The eight arm goddess, the priest replies
A sceptic match coughs. you can count.
But she has eighteen, you protest.
(f) Depressed and weary we march back to the
lines.
A leader say's over the evening wireless,
"We are marching forward."

(g) He had spent his youth whoring the English

gods.
There is something to be said for exile.

2. Critically examine Gandhiji's speech on 20

untouchabality in untouchable. Do you think the
solution he offers is radical enough ? Discuss. (450
words)
OR
How does Raja Rao achieve a fusion of theme,
form and narration in kanthapune ? Discuss.

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3. How does Swami Vivekananda view Budhism ? 20
Discuss. (450 words)
OR
Comment on the significance Angor Wat as a
symbol of the future , not the past.

4. What are the major strengths of Anita Desai's 20

Clear Light of Day ? (450 words)
OR
Pick out two of the stories from your course and
discuss the narrative technique used in them.

5. Discuss the structure of Midnight Children. 20

(450 words)
OR
Discuss the major themes in Tara.

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH
Term-End Examination
December, 2012

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Explain with reference to context any four of the

following passages in about 150 words each : 4x5=20
(a) The trip had darkened every face, our deeds
were neither great nor rare. Home is where
we have to earn our grace.
(b) Her last wish to be cremated here twisting
uncertainly like light on the shifting sands.
(c) They minstrel hath no wreath to weave for
thee save the sad story of thy misery!
(d) At every tear she sheds Tears from three
pairs of young eyes fall amain,
(e) This is the soul of man.
Body and brain
Hungry for earth
Our heavenly flight detain.

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O Love, alas, that love could not assuage
The burden of thy human heritage, Or save
thee from the swift decrease of Death.
It is I who laugh, it is I who make love And
then, feel shame, it is I who lie dying with a
rattle in my throat.

2. Discuss in your essay the narrative technique

20
employed by Raja Rao in Kanthapura.
(450 words)
OR
'Various themes have been explored, mirroring
the social and political picture of colonial India in
Anand's novel.' Enunciate. (450 words)

3. How can Gandhi's views of Swaraj and 20

Swadeshi, be relevant in present day India ?
(450 words)
OR
Choose any two Non-fictional prose writers and
discuss their writings and contributions.
(450 words)

4. Cita Hariharan deals with many issues in the 20

simple short story, 'Gajar Halwa'. Elaborate.
(450 words)

OR

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What is the role of Baba in the novel 'Clear Light
of Day' ? (450 words)

5. "Rushdie's Midnight's children is a trend 20

setter of sorts". Discuss. (450 words)

OR

Appreciate Dattani's use of language in Tara.

(450 words)

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

Term-End Examination, 2019

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time :3Hours] [Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the

folloiving 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.

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(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.

(g) I can smell violence in the air

like the lash of coming rain -

mass hatreds drifting grey across the moon

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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

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What according to you are the use of language in Mahesh
Dattani's Play Tara.

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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH

Term-End Examination, 2019

MEG-7 : INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time : Three Hours] [Maximum Marks : 100

Note : 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) Image of ecstasy, thrill and enlace, -

Image of bliss !

I would see only thy marvellous face,

Feel only thy kiss.

(b) Of love, I dreamed my soul had ransomed thee,

In thy lone, dread, incalculable hour

From those pale hands at which all

mortals cover,

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And conquered Death by Love,

like Savitri.

(c) It started as a pilgrimage

Exalting minds and making all

The burdens light.

(d) I am Indian, very brown, born in

Malabar, I speak three languages,

Write in Two, dream in one.

(e) Now she looks for the swing

in cities with fifteen suburbs

and tries to be innocent

about it.

(f) Endless crow noises.

A skull on the holy sands

tilts its empty country towards hunger.

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(g) You look down to the roaring road,

You search for signs of daybreak in

What little light spills out of bus.

2. Discuss Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable as a social novel.

[20]

OR

Discuss the character of Moorthy in Raja Rao's

Kanthapura. [20]

3.. Discuss the theme of alienation in Anita Desai's novel

Clear Light of Day. [20]

OR

What is important in Gandhiji's Hindi Swaraj in today's

context ? [20]

4. Discuss the theme of Arun Joshi's "The Only American

From Our Village". [20]

OR

Discuss the narrative technique used by Githa Hariharan

in her story "Gajar Halwa". [20]

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[P.T.0.]
5. Write an essay on the use of narrative technique by.
Salman Rushdie in his novel Midnight's ohildren. [20]

OR

Identify the themes in Dattani's play Tara. [20]

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