New IGNOU MEG-10 Help Book English Studies in India in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Institutionalisation of English Studies in India
Entry of English: A Historical Overview
Macaulay, Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Charles E Trevelyan
A View of Post Independence Debates
Settling Down of English as Studies and Medium

Block 2 – Beginnings of Indian English Writing
The Context of the Earliest Indian English Writings
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and the Early Voice of Identity
Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the Evolution of Modernity
Toru Dutt: Assertions of Indian Life

Block 3 – Beginnings of The Indian English Novel
The Contexts of Bankim
Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-I
Themes in Rajmohan’s Wife-II
Marriage and Transgression in Bankim’s Other Novels

Block 4 – Different Englishes
Evolution of English
Nativisation of English in Post Independent India (Functions of English)
Nativisation of English Discourse: Syntax, Morphology, Phonology
Intelligibility of Indian English Globally

Block 5 – Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
Problems of Teaching and Learning English Literature
The March of TELI in India
Role and Function of TELI in the Contemporary Context
English Teaching in India
The Lie of the Land: English in India
Publishing in India and English Studies

Block 6 – Questioning the ‘Canon’
Questioning the Canon, Ideology and Assumptions of the Canon
The Rise of English and Issues Concerning the Canon
Possibilities of New Agreements
Exploding English: Criticism, Theory and Culture
The Crisis in English Studies
Resistance to Reading and the Question of Material Base

Block 7 – Evolutions of Canons in Indian English Writing
Canon Making in the Era of Gandhi, Nehru, Socialism
Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao
Feminism: Indian English Writers
The Dalit Canon

Block 8 – Decolonising The Mind
Orientalism and After
Literature and Nationalism
Decolonising the Mind
Civilisational Conflicts in Literature
Resisting Colonisation and Re-Colonisation