IGNOU MEG-10 English Studies in India | Detailed Syllabus

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Here you will get the full syllabus for the IGNOU MEG 10 : English Studies in India.

The syllabus of IGNOU MEG 10 is divided in 8 blocks and each block is again divided in units.

You can find the detailed syllabus of all the 8 blocks and its units. 

Block 1 - Institutionalisation of English Studies in India

  • Unit 1 – Entry of English: A Historical Overview
  • Unit 2 – Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
  • Unit 3 – A View of Post Independence Debates
  • Unit 4 – Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium

Block 2 - Beginnings of Indian English Writing

  • Unit 1 – The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
  • Unit 2 – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
  • Unit 3 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
  • Unit 4 – Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life

Block 3 - Beginnings of The Indian English Novel

  • Unit 1 – The Contexts of Bankim
  • Unit 2 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-I
  • Unit 3 – Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-II
  • Unit 4 – Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels

Block 4 - Different Englishes

  • Unit 1 – Evolution of English
  • Unit 2 – Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
  • Unit 3 – Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
  • Unit 4 – Intelligibility of Indian English Globally

Block 5 - Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature

  • Unit 1 – Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
  • Unit 2 – The March of TELI in India
  • Unit 3 – Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
  • Unit 4 – English Teaching in India
  • Unit 5 – The Lie of the Land: English in India
  • Unit 6 – Publishing in India and English Studies

Block 6 - Questioning the ‘Canon’

  • Unit 1 – Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
  • Unit 2 – The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
  • Unit 3 – Possibilities of New Agreements
  • Unit 4 – Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
  • Unit 5 – The Crisis in English Studies
  • Unit 6 – Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base

Block 7 - Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing

  • Unit 1 – Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
  • Unit 2 – Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
  • Unit 3 – Feminism: Indian English Writers
  • Unit 4 – The Dalit Canon

Block 8 - Decolonising The Mind

  • Unit 1 – Orientalism and After
  • Unit 2 – Literature and Nationalism
  • Unit 3 – Decolonising the Mind
  • Unit 4 – Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
  • Unit 5 – Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation