Survey of development in Indian writing in English over the last few decades; exhaustive readings in all genres of writing; postcolonial novel, poetry and drama in English; Indian writing in translation into English; fresh reading and interpretive strategies; Postcolonial theory; historical background; readings of various postcolonial theorists; postcolonial issues and debates: representation and resistance; postmodernism and postcolonialism; nationalism; nation and narration; culture and identity; hybridity; location and liminality; ethnicity and indigeneity; the subaltern; feminism and postcolonialism; language and identity; history and education.
