2024 Roll No.
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MA Semester I
Post-Independence Indian Literature (120351103)
Time: 3 hours Maximum marks: 70
(Write your Roll No. on the top immediately on receipt of this question paper)
Answer Q. No. 1 which is compulsory and any 3 others from 2 to 8. Question No. 1 carries 25
(5x5) marks and the others carry 15 marks each. Q. No. 1 is in nine parts, five of which must be
attempted.
Note: The maximum marks printed on the question paper are applicable for the students of the
regular college (Category A). These marks will, however, be scaled up proportionately in respect
of the students of NCWEB at the time of posting of awards for compilation of results.
1. Write a short note, in approximately 250 words each, on any five of the following:
i. Ashiana as a "living symbol."
ii. Partition literature and Progressive Writers’ Movement
iii. "But as regards the moment of decolonisation itself, it is experienced in the whole range of
Urdu literature of the period not in the celebratory mode but as a defeat, a disorientation, a
diaspora."
iv. Ruppan Babu
v. The homeless hungry humans as a pressure group in the Politics of the Governed
vi. National longing for form and “Imaginary Homelands.”
vii. Implications of the metaphor of exile in Salman Rushdie’s Moor’s Last Sigh
viii. "No more a place of worship this place is nothing less than the house of god"
ix. Spiritual exploration within the context of Chaitanya.
2. How does Aijaz Ahmad delink the language question from any particular region and religion?
3. Examine Sunlight on a Broken Column as a Partition novel, specifically in light of the impact
that Partition has on this particular taluqdari family from Awadh.
4. The Indian state is produced and reproduced through administrative procedures in Raag
Darbari. Give a reasoned answer.
5. “Shivpalganj proper was in Vaidyaji’s sitting-room.” Make a critical note of how Vaidyaji
represents feudal power in post-independence India.
6. Critically evaluate the link between history and fiction with specific reference to Salman
Rushdie’s Moor’s Last Sigh.
7. Critically comment on "Sarpa Satra" as a poetic meditation on violence.
8. The idea of a nation-state becomes the central discourse in almost all post-independence
Indian texts. Write a critical note by giving instances from at least two prescribed texts you
have studied in this paper.
