LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 3102 – INDIAN NATIONALIST LITERATURE
Date : 28-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
PART – A
- Explain with reference to context any FIVE of the following in 75 words each: 5 x 4 = 20
- Here flourish thousand castes,
But no room for foreigners.
The mother’s children may quarrel,
Yet they are brothers.
- Two hands are we to serve thee, O our mother,
To strive and succor, cherish and unite.
Two feet are we to cleave the waning darkness,
And gain the pathways of the dawning light.
- Mother, O Mother, wherefore dost thou sleep?
Arise and answer for thy children’s sake!
- This, this is the land that gave us
Birth and suck and the light of knowledge.
- I do not remember her having ever missed the chaturmas.
- I passed my childhood in Porbandar.
- Answer TWO of the following in 100 words each: 2 x 5 = 10
- How does Bharathi reveal his respect and reverence in his poem Vande Mataram?
- Bring out the images used by Sarojini Naidu in her poems ‘To India’ and ‘An Anthem of Love’.
- Write down Gandhiji’s impressions on Harischandra and Shravana.
- Write down Gandhiji’s perception of child marriage, with special reference to his child marriage with Kasturibai.
- Attempt an ESSAY on any TWO in 150 words each: 2 x 10 = 20
- What are the salient features one could see in the poems of Bharathi and Sarojini Naidu that bring out one’s patriotism?
- Elucidate Mahatma Gandhi’s obsession with truth with reference to his autobiography.
- Attempt an essay on Pandit Nehru’s love for India as exemplified in the text ‘India’s strength and Weakness.’
Part B
- Annotate any five of the following: (5×2=10 marks)
- What are you worried about grandfather? The country is in safe hands. Safer than you have seen before
- Would you believe me if I told you I have never consciously tried to go against the tenets of Islam?
- But have I really fallen so low that even you have to lie to me.
- Why do you seek him? His time had come and Bhairava called him away.
- Their lives were not given in vain. My dam is completed.
- And then comfortably forget to pay your taxes, I suppose?
- Answer any two of the following in 150 words each: (2×10 =20 marks)
- Analyse the character of Muhammad’s stepmother and her relationship with Muhammad.
- Is changing the capital from Delhi to Dauladabad justifiable in Tughlaq
- Analyse the character of Dhananjaya in Mukta dhara.
- Answer any two of the following in 300 words: (20 marks)
- Critically evaluate the strengths and the weaknesses of Muhammad in Tughlaq.
- Estimate Mukta dhara as a play of the people and for the people.
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