Your roadmap · आपका रोडमैप
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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Part 1 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 1Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 1: Rise of Indian Writing in EnglishUnit 2: Indian English PoetryUnit 3: Indian English Fiction
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Part 2 of the syllabusपाठ्यक्रम भाग 2Unit-wise coaching with notes and doubt classes.
Unit 4: Indian English DramaUnit 5: Indian English Prose
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Unit tests & assignmentsयूनिट टेस्टRegular tests in the university / board pattern.
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Semester 5 exam (university / board)विश्वविद्यालय / बोर्ड परीक्षाPrevious papers and full revision before the exam.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Syllabus · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 5 chapters · 21 topics
01Unit 1: Rise of Indian Writing in English
4 topics+
- Macaulay's Minute and English education
- Early writers: Derozio, Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt
- First Indian English novels
- Themes and the question of Indian English
02Unit 2: Indian English Poetry
5 topics+
- Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali
- Sarojini Naidu
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Kamala Das
- A.K. Ramanujan and Jayanta Mahapatra
03Unit 3: Indian English Fiction
5 topics+
- Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable
- R.K. Narayan: The Guide / Malgudi stories
- Raja Rao: Kanthapura
- Anita Desai and Arundhati Roy
- Salman Rushdie and later novelists
04Unit 4: Indian English Drama
3 topics+
- Girish Karnad: Tughlaq, Hayavadana
- Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions
- Themes of myth and history in Indian drama
05Unit 5: Indian English Prose
4 topics+
- M.K. Gandhi: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Jawaharlal Nehru: The Discovery of India
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
About this course
You will be able to
- Trace the growth of Indian writing in English from Derozio to the present
- Explain prescribed poems of Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Ezekiel, Kamala Das and Ramanujan
- Analyse novels of Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao and later novelists
- Analyse plays of Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani
- Discuss prose works of Gandhi, Nehru and Abdul Kalam
- Explain themes such as nationalism, tradition and modernity, caste and identity
Who it is for
- B.A Semester 5 students with English as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
- Students preparing for TGT / PGT / UGC NET English
What you need
- English papers of Semesters 1-4
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Student login →
Questions
Which syllabus does this course follow?
It follows the UP State Universities NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus (MGKVP, VBSPU, Lucknow University and others) for B.A English, Semester 5. Where your own university's syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.
How will I be tested?
Unit-wise MCQ tests, short and long answer practice in university exam pattern, and a final mock paper.
Which texts are prescribed?
Texts vary by university; the centre teaches the ones in your university's list, with summaries and themes.
