LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 20

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                             EL 1801 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

 

 

Date & Time : 27-04-2006/1.00-4.00 P.M.   Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

 

1. Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

1. After twenty hours

It lost its sting

2. The summer begins to pall
3. O Master of the birds, grant sanctuary and shelter

Also to a homing bird that bars a broken wing.

4. I am my father now
5. Nothing stays out, daughters

Get married to short lived idots

6. The world! The people around us! What you call society
7. I am talking of a culture which is divorced from its educational institutions.
8. “There is not trouble when the mind is converted and the thing is permanent”.
9. Mine is no ordinary appetite.
10. All talk of national integration has so far proved to be an exercise in futility.

 

 

1. Answer FIVE of the following in about 150 words each (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

11. Give a list of the observations that Ramanujan makes about the traditional home.
12. What universal truth does the Pardha Naslin discover almost suddenly?
13. According to Parthasarathy what would good poetry consist of? What are his suggestions?
14. Mention Kamala Das ‘views on what she calls a ‘male-dominated society’.
15. How wholesome is characterization in ’Evam Indrajit?
16. Discuss the subjects of pathos and alienation ‘untouchable’.
17. Explain the place for symbolism in Sakharam, the Binder.
18. How common are Buddhism and Communism according to Ambedkar?

 

 

 

 

 

• Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words

(1 x 20 = 20 marks)

19. Bring out the most important features that you find in Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry.
20. What is the message conveyed in the novel ‘The untouchable’?

 

1. Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words ( 1 x 20 = 20 marks)
2. How relevant is Karnad’s ‘Tughlaq’ to out modern times?
3. Estimate R.K. Narayan’s contributions to literature. Give examples.
4. Comment on the women characters in ‘A Handful of Rice’.
5. How does Toru Dutt blend the personal, the romantic and the sentimental aspects in Ger poetry?
6. Show how vividly the novelist brings out the trauma of partition in ‘Train to Pakistan’.
7. Bring out the features of Indian writing in English advancing examples from the prescribed texts.

 

 

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                        LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

AP 20

FIRST SEMESTER – NOV 2006

EL 1801 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

 

 

Date & Time : 07-11-2006/1.00-4.00     Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 3 = 30 marks)

 

1. The peasants came like swarms of flies

and bugged the name of god a hundred times to paralyse the Evil One.

• Bring out the importance of the figures of speech in these lines.

 

1. ‘The man of action finds his god in fine, the man of feeling in the heart, and the feeble – minded in the idol, but the strong in spirit find God everywhere?”  The seas see the Supreme in the self, and not in images.

• What does the author try to prove here?

 

1. And as you look on, the cracks that began around her eyes spread beyond here skin.

• Comment on the significance of these lines.

 

1. cauvery flows in my veins

chamundi hills rise in my mind with stars afloat

• What compels the poet to say so?

 

1. You are all lowering, friend,

What sweetness is in Miss Pushpa.

• Consider the Indianism in the language used here.

 

1. “The fall, the failure does matter ….

But the reason assigned is not the true one”

• What is the true reason then?

 

1. “Both show an increasing return to the Indian Spirit in fresh forms”

• What does the word both refer to?

 

1. “Not because of its magnificence Dear is the Casuarinas to my soul”

• Any other reason you can give for the Casuarina to be dear.

 

1. “have a way of finding their way back with many re-directions to wrong addresses and red ink marks”

• Comment on ‘redirections to wrong addresses’

 

 

 

 

1. “Being  the burning type

he burned properly

at the cremation”

• Explain to show the two literary elements in the lines.

 

 

PART – B

 

1. Answer any EIGHT of the following in 150 words each: (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

 

1. Write a critique of The Guide.
2. How does Kushwant Singh sketch his characters in ‘Train to Pakistan’?
3. Comment on the portrayal of Indian bureaucracy in English, August.
4. Discuss the theme of Mukta Dhara.
5. How does Sharat Chandra picture India abroad?
6. What are Manu’s views on the status and duty of Indian women?
7. What are the fences India created for protection and how did she break them down for expansion?  According to shir. Aurobindo.
8. Show how Raja Rao infuses his native emotions into an alien English language and make Kanthapura enlarge the frontiers of human consciousness.
9. Discuss ‘Tughlag’ as a political allegory.
10. Mention some of the concerns of Mulk Raj Anand in ‘The untouchable’

 

PART – C

 

III. Answer any TWO of the following in 400 words each:                   (2 x 15 = 30 marks)

 

1. Enumerate the themes and concerns in the study of Indian Writing in English.  Give examples.
2. a) How does Radhakrishnan portray Hinduism to the world in ‘The Hindu View of life’?

OR

b} Discuss the themes of Indian poetry in English as seen from the poems prescribed for

your study.

1. Compare the prescribed poems of Toru Dutt and state how The Lotus is more than potential, the demonstrable working of a genius.
2. A.K. Ramanujan’s poems explore the determined search for the roots accentuated by the circumstances of his expatriation – Discuss.

OR

When will India rise to the height of her opportunity according to Sri. Aurobindo, the

visionary?

 

 

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