IGNOU MEG-10
- English Studies in India,
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MEG-10 English Topics Covered

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

Previous Year Solved Question Papers Included

MEG-10 English (Total-32, Solved-21, Unsolved-11)

• June (2007-2023)
• December (2008-2019, 2021-2022)
• February (2021)

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