Syllabus

Course Code: BH-ENG 603    Course Name: Modern Indian Writing in English Translation

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Premchand: ‘The Shroud’, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006).
IsmatChugtai: ‘The Quilt’, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai, tr. M. Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009).
Gurdial Singh: ‘A Season of No Return in Earthy Tones’, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi: Fiction House, 2002).
Fakir Mohan Senapati: ‘Rebati’, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. KishoriCharan Das (Delhi: Srishti Publishers, 2000).
2 Rabindra Nath Tagore: ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My Play was with thee', in Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by William Radice (New Delhi: Penguin India, 2011).
G.M. Muktibodh: ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and ‘So Very Far’, (Tr. Vishnu Khare and Adil Jussawala), in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, ed. Vinay Dharwadker and A.K. Ramanujam (New Delhi: OUP, 2000).
Amrita Pritam: ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern Indian Literature: An Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M. George, vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Academy, 1992).
ThangjamIbopishak Singh: ‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind’ and ‘The Land of the Half-Humans’, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in The Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).
3 Dharamveer Bharati: AndhaYug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009)
4 G. Kalyan Rao: Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2010).
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