COMMERCE DEPARTMENT - Maitreyi College,University of Delhi

COMMERCE DEPARTMENT

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B. Com (P) Sem. III Paper Name: Income Tax Law and Practice

Duration: 2.5 Hrs (Theory) + 1 Hr. (Practical) Marks : 100 Lesson Plan

Teacher name: Dr. Sonal Babbar July 2019 to November 2019

Unit I: Introduction Basic Concepts That one must know Residential stand and Its Effect on tax incidence Income that is exempt from tax

Lectures/ Months July and August

Income under the head ‘Salaries’ and its computation August

Income under the head ‘Income from House Property’ and its computation

September

Income under the head ‘Capital Gains’ and its computation Income under the head ‘Income from other sources’ and its computation

September and October

Income under the head ‘Profits or gains from Business or Profession’ and its computation Clubbing of Income Set Off and Carry forward of Losses Permissible deductions from Gross Total Income Meaning of Agricultural income and its tax treatment

October and November

E Filing of Income Tax return October and November

Continuous Assessment in form of Presentations August onwards

Class Tests September and October

Mock Test for ITR filing November

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ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

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MAITREYI COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

LESSON PLAN FOR ISSUES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

GE COURSE 1 (b) FOR BA(Prog)

[UNIQUE PAPER CODE -62275505] SEMESTER 5, CREDITS – 6,

LECTURES - 65

NAME OF THE TEACHER- ARUNA SALUJA

ACADEMIC SESSION: 2019-20 | ODD SEMESTER – JULY – DECEMBER 2019

OBJECTIVES/ STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME

Course Objective

This course exposes students to some of the key ideas and concepts in the areas of

economic growth, human development and globalisation.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will develop a critical understanding of the contemporary issues in Indian

economic development. Students will thus be better prepared to face the professional

world and can use this knowledge base in a variety of jobs, including in the corporate,

civil service and NGO sectors.

UNIT-WISE DETAILS OF THE COURSE AND READINGS

Unit 1

Development and underdevelopment

READINGS :

Unit 2

Development goals and indicators, poverty and inequality

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Unit 3

Capabilities, human development and sustainable development

Unit 4

Globalisation and development

References

1. Dasgupta, P. (2007). Economics: A very short introduction. Prologue,

Chapters 1, 7. Oxford University Press.

2. Dutt, A. (2014). Pathways to economic development. Chapters 1, 6. Oxford

University Press.

3. Nayyar,D. (2003).Globalization and development InH. Chang(ed.): Rethinking development

economics. Anthem Press.

4. Nayyar, D. (2013). Catch up: Developing countries in the world economy.

Chapters 2, 4. Oxford University Press.

5. Omkarnath, G. (2013). Economics: A primer for India. Chapter 5. Orient

Blackswan.

6. Prabhu, K. (2012). Human development index. In K. Basu, A. Maertens

(ed.): Oxford companion to economics in India. Oxford University Press.

7. Rodrik, D. (2011). The globalization paradox: Why global markets, states

and democracy can't coexist. Chapters 1, 7. Oxford University Press.

8. Sen, A. (2000). Development as freedom. Chapter 4. Oxford University Press.

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9. Thun, E. (2011). The globalization of production. In J. Ravenhill (ed.): Global

political economy. Oxford University Press.

10. Todaro, M., Smith, S. (2015). Economic development, 12th ed. Chapters 1, 2,5. Pearson.

LECTURE WISE DETAILS OF THE COURSE

S.NO. UNIT TENTATIVE NUMBER Of LECTURES

1. 1

22

2. 2 16

3. 3 16

4. 4 11

TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

Lectures and tutorials, doubt clearing sessions

ASSESSMENT

1. End semester university examination [75 marks] will be held in November- December 2019

2. Internal assessment [25marks = 5marks attendance + 10 marks class test + 10 marks assignment]

Assessments will be held every fortnight. Dates of submissions will be final, with late submissions

warranting penalties or non-acceptance.

Internal Assessment techniques to be used-

1. Class Test.

2. Viva voice.

3. PowerPoint Presentations by the students.

4. Home assignments.

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MAITREYI COLLEGE - UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

LESSON PLAN FOR INDIAN ECONOMY -1 [UNIQUE PAPER CODE - 12271501]

CORE PAPER 11- ECONOMICS HONOURS SEMESTER 5, CREDITS – 6, LECTURES - 65

NAME OF THE TEACHER- ARUNA SALUJA

ACADEMIC SESSION: 2019-20 | ODD SEMESTER – JULY – DECEMBER 2019

OBJECTIVES/ STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME

Course Objective

Using appropriate analytical frameworks, this course reviews major trendsin economic indicators and policy debates in India in the post-Independence period, with particular emphasis on paradigm shifts and turning points.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, a student should be able to understand the development paradigm adopted in India since independence and evaluate its impact on economic as well as social indicators of progress and well being.

UNIT-WISE DETAILS OF THE COURSE AND READINGS

UNIT 1: Economic Development since Independence

● Major features of the Economy at Independence ● Growth and Development under different policy regimes- Goals,

constraints, institution and Policy framework ● Assessment of Performances- Sustainability and regional contrasts ● Structural change ● Savings and Investments

Readings:

1. Pulapre Balakrishnan, 2007, “The Recovery of India: Economic Growth in the Nehru Era”, Economic and Political Weekly, November.

2. Vijay Joshi, 2016, India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity, Allen Lane, Gurgaon, Ch 2.

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3. Arvind Subramanian, 2012, “Growth Experience” in K Basu and A Maertens, The New Oxford Companion to Economics, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

4. Rakesh Mohan, 2014, Pressing the Indian Growth Accelerator: Policy Imperatives, IMF papers.

5. Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, 2012, India’s Tryst with Destiny, Collins Business, Noida, pp. 4-5, 32-38.

6. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, 2013, India: An Uncertain Glory, Allen Lane, chapters 2, 3 (pp. 72-80)

UNIT 2: Population and Economic Development

a. Demographic trends and issues

b. Education

c. Health and Malnutrition

Readings:

1. David Bloom, 2011, “Population Dynamics in India and Implications for Economic Growth” PGDA, Harvard School of Public Health Working Paper 65 [excluding section 2 (review of technical literature) but including section 2.1 (Comparing China and India)].

2. Rama Baru et al., 2010, “Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste, Class and Region”, Economic and Political Weekly, September 18.

3. Vijay Joshi, 2016, India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity, Allen Lane, Gurgaon, Ch 9.

4. Jean Dreze, 2012, ‘Food and Nutrition’ in Basu, K and A. Maertens (ed), The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, OUP.

5. J V Meenakshi, 2012, ‘Undernutrition’ in Basu, K and A. Maertens (ed), The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, OUP.

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UNIT 3: Growth and Distribution

● Trends in poverty, inequality and unemployment ● Policies for eradicating poverty and generating employment

Readings:

1. Gaurav Datt and M Ravallion, 2010, “Shining for the Poor Too?”Economic and Political Weekly, February 13, 2010 (econometric discussion of biases in elasticity estimates on p.58 to be de-emphasized).

2. Executive Summary, Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Measurement of Poverty (Rangarajan Committee report), GOI, 2014, pp. 1-5.

3. Ajit Mishra and Indranil Dutta, 2012, “Inequality” in Basu, K and A. Maertens (ed), The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India, OUP, 2012.

4. J. J. Thomas, 2012, “India’s Labour Market during the 2000s: Surveying the Changes”, EPW December 22.

UNIT 4: International Comparisons

Readings:

1. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, 2013, India: An Uncertain Glory, Allen Lane, Chapter 3 (pp. 45-72)

2. Pranab Bardhan, 2010, Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India, OUP, Ch. 2.

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LECTURES AND WEEK WISE DETAILS OF THE COURSE

S.NO.

UNIT TENTATIVE NUMBER Of LECTURES

1. 1

22

2. 2 16 3. 3 16 4. 4 11

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR THE COURSE

● Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, 2013, India: An Uncertain Glory, Allen Lane, Chapter 5 and 6.

● Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, 2012, India’s Tryst with Destiny, Collins Business, Noida, Chapter 5.

● Santosh Mehrotra, Jajati Parida, Sharmistha Sinha and Ankita Gandhi, “Explaining Employment Trends in the Indian Economy: 1993-4 to 2011-12,” Economic and Political Weekly, August 9, 2014 as a background reading

● Govt of India, Economic Survey

TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS

Lectures and tutorials, doubt clearing sessions

ASSESSMENT

1. End semester university examination [75 marks] will be held in November- December 2019

2. Internal assessment [25marks = 5marks attendance + 10 marks class test + 10 marks assignment]

Assessments will be held every fortnight. Dates of submissions will be final, with late submissions warranting penalties or non-acceptance.

Internal Assessment techniques to be used-

1. Class Test. 2. Viva voice. 3. PowerPoint Presentations by the students. 4. Home assignments.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

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LESSON PLANS: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (The Lesson Plans are approximate indicators and may be subject to variations on account of each paper being shared by multiple teachers and other related factors like holidays, leaves etc.) PAPER 1: INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

WEEKS TEXT: Sudraka's Mrcchakatika

TEXT: Vyasa, Selections from Mahabharata

TEXT: Kalidasa's Abhijnana Shakuntalam

TEXT: “The Book of Banci” in Cilappatikaram

WEEK: 1 Introduction to the paper, Sanskrit and Prakrit, origin of Sanskrit drama, Natyashastra, Rasa theory

Oral Literature vs written literature, epic - definition and characteristics, discussion on M.M. Bakhtin's "Epic and Novel".

Introduction, Indian Classical Drama - origin, history, characteristics. Kalidasa - biography and social context.

Overview about Indian classical epics and south Indian classical epics

WEEK:2 Deviations from Natyashastra, comparison with Kalidasa's Abhijnana Shakuntalam, discussion of its cinematic adaptation, Utsav

Mahabharata, probable origins. The epic period - date, history, and authorship of the text and its worldview. The status of women in the text.

Special place of comedy and romance in Indian Classical Drama and Kalidasa's oeuvre. Notion of ideal king and ideal heroine in the text and the role of the "vidushaka"

Overview about Adigal

WEEK: 3 Critical analysis of the text

The family tree. Critical analysis of the text.

Critical analysis of the text.

Canto 1

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Canto 2




Canto 3




Canto 4




Canto 4

WEEK:8 Critical analysis of the text



Canto 5




Canto 5




Canto 6




Canto 6

WEEK: 12 Discussion of critical essays and reception

Iravati Karwe's 'Draupadi',and J. A. B. Van Buitenen's 'Dharma and Moksa'.


Canto 7

WEEK: 13 Discussion of major themes and issues

Review of major themes

Review of major themes

Canto 7

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WEEK: 14 Discussion of previous years' question papers and doubts

Previous years' question papers and doubt clarification.

Previous years' question papers and doubt clarification.

Conclusion

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PAPER 2: EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE

WEEKS TEXT: Horace’s satire and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

TEXT: Plautus TEXT: Homer’s

The Iliad

TEXT:

WEEK: 1 Introduction: Canon, Classical literature, history of Rome with emphasis on The Republic and Augustan Age, Hellenisation

Introduction to Latin comedy, Satire vs. comedy, stock characters

About epic, Homer and his time

WEEK:2 Satire, Horatian and Juvenalian satire, Introduction to Horace, Ars Poetica

Introduction to Plautus

About Greek gods and goddesses; overview of Greek civilization


Critical analysis of the text

Chapter 1&2



Chapter 3&4



Chapter 5&6

WEEK: 6 Critical analysis of the text.


Chapter 7&8

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WEEK: 7 Discussion of Satire 1:6 and 1:9 because of their thematic similarity to Satire 1:4


Chapter 9&10

WEEK:8 Introduction to Ovid, Literary culture of Augustan Rome


Chapter 11&12

WEEK: 9 Introduction to Metamorphoses Critical analysis of the text


Chapter 13&14



Chapter 15&16



Chapter 17&18



Chapter 19, 20&21



Chapter 22, 23&24

WEEK: 14 Discussion of previous years’ question papers and clarification of doubts

Discussion of previous years’ question papers and clarification of doubts

Overview of the epic and conclusion

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PAPER 5: AMERICAN LITERATURE

WEEKS TEXT: THE GLASS MENAGERIE

TEXT: BELOVED

TEXT: poems (Bradstreet, Whitman et al)

TEXT: Short Stories ( Poe, Fitzgerald, Faulkner)

WEEK: 1 Introduction: 20th century American writers World War I & II and literature American Dream Mid twentieth century American society Life of Tennessee Williams

Introduction: American colonial history Atlantic slave trade American Revolutionary War Free states and Slave states American Civil War Black experience Toni Morrison and her novels Magical realism

Introduction: religious and political instability in 16/17 century England, Luther's Protestantism, split in the church of England, religious persecutions

Introduction: American colonial history, construction of American identity in19th century, the idea of the American Nation, beginning of the genre of short story and early influences

WEEK:2 Introduction: New trends in American Drama Tennessee Williams’ plays Plastic Theatre Experiments in Stagecraft & Production Notes Expressionism

Critical analysis and selected readings: PART 1 (TEXT)

The Virginia company, the Mayflower, Massachusetts bay colony, Plymouth colony, the Puritans and the pilgrims, the Protestant dogma on literacy and education

Introduction: Edgar Allen Poe, the movement from the tale to the short story, theories around form and its appearances, early detective fiction and its characteristics

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WEEK: 3 Introduction: Autobiography and The Glass Menagerie Social, cultural and psychological trends in the play and the lives of the characters

PART 1(TEXT) Continued

Text Story: A purloined Letter

WEEK: 4 SCENE 1 PART 1(TEXT) Continued

Text Text Continues


Text Text continues


Text Critical analysis, discussion of important textual ideas, discussion of readings and supplementary material


American transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau

Introduction: Fitzgerald. Ideas around autobiography, construction of selfhood; mental health,

WEEK:8 SCENE 5 Critical analysis and selected readings: PART 2 (TEXT)

American civil war, independence, ideals of democracy

Story: The Crack-up

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WEEK: 9 SCENE 6 PART 2 (TEXT) Continued

Text Text Continues


Text Critical analysis, discussion of important textual ideas, readings and supplementary material


Native American folk literature, race, ethnicity, belongingness, marginal voices, stereotypes

Introduction to Faulkner, slavery and racism in 20th century America, sexual violence and its double power bind with race. Begin story: Dry September

WEEK: 12 Discussion of major themes

Critical analysis and selected readings: PART 3 (TEXT)

Text Text Continues

WEEK: 13 Discussion of critical essays

PART 3 (TEXT) Continued

Text Critical analysis, discussion of important textual ideas, readings and supplementary material

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Discussion of major themes and text synthesis

Themes, interrogating the question of nationality and citizenship in North American narratives, conclusion

Discussion of common themes binding the unit and the paper, broad Ideas that emerge with the short story in America, a recapitulation of all ideas discussed during the course of the three stories.

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PAPER 6: POPULAR LITERATURE

WEEKS TEXT: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

TEXT: Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

TEXT: TEXT:

WEEK: 1 Introduction to Popular Literature, Children’s Literature and its history, fantasy, publication and print history

Introduction to definitions and theorisation on Popular Literature, challenging the binaries popular vs classical, high brow vs low brow

WEEK:2 Constructions of childhood in England, the Victorian child, gender and society, background reading discussion

History of crime fiction, brief discussion of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle

WEEK: 3 Chapter 1 - critical analysis

Golden age of Detective Fiction, Detection Club, Ronald Knox’s Commandments of Detective fiction, Agatha Christie

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W.H Auden’s “The Guilty Vicarage”







WEEK:8 Chapter 6 - critical analysis








WEEK: 12 Chapter 10 and 11 - critical analysis


WEEK: 13 Chapter 12 - critical analysis and conclusive remarks. Discussion of major themes.


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PAPER 7: BRITISH POETRY & DRAMA:17th &18th CENTURIES

WEEKS TEXT: DUCHESS OF MALFI

TEXT: The Rover

TEXT: Milton TEXT: Rape of the Lock

WEEK: 1 Introduction to 17th century British history, transitions from the Renaissance to the Jacobean Age, political and social contexts

Introduction to 18th century British History, Restoration Age

Introduction to 17th century British history, the Cromwellian regime, the ideas dominant during and preceding the years of the Protectorate, model army, Rump parliament.

Overview about 17th century

WEEK:2 Introduction to Jacobean theatre, John Webster and his contemporaries, Jacobean tragedy. Discussion of background readings.

Discussion of Political and Social contexts

Introduction to Milton the writer and poet, brief discussion of his works written and published before the Paradise Lost

Overview about 17th century

WEEK: 3 Act I - critical analysis

Rumination of Restoration Theatre, Drama

Book 1- lines 1-75

Characteristics of epic and mock epic

WEEK: 4 Act I continued Introduction to Aphra Behn and “The Rover

Book 1- lines 75-150

Characteristics and difference between epic and mock epic

WEEK: 5 Act II - critical analysis

Act I- critical interpretation


Canto 1

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WEEK: 6 Act II continued Act II - critical analysis


Canto 1

WEEK: 7 Act III - critical analysis

Act II continued


Canto 2

WEEK:8 Act III continued

Act III-critical analysis

Book 1 -lines 450-550

Canto 2

WEEK: 9 Act IV - critical analysis

Act III- continued


Canto 3

WEEK: 10 Act IV continued

Act IV-critical analysis


Canto 3

WEEK: 11 Act V - critical analysis

Act V- critical interpretation

Book 1- lines 750-795 Summarising the textual readings for the entire text

Discussion of themes

WEEK: 12 Act V continued

Deliberation of Themes

Discussion of various themes, surveying and studying other texts by Milton for contextualizing the text.

Discussion of themes

WEEK: 13 Discussion of key themes and conclusive remarks

Rumination of essays relating to the text

Discussions of different ideas and critical essays

Conclusion

WEEK: 14 Discussion of previous years’ question papers and

Exploration of previous years question

Discussion of previous years’ question

Conclusion

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doubt clarification

papers, conclusion

papers, conclusion

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PAPER 11: WOMEN’S WRITING

WEEKS TEXT: POETRY (DICKINSON, PLATH AND D’SOUZA)

TEXT: (Alice Walker’s The Color Purple)

TEXT: Essays: Mary Wollstonecraft et al

TEXT: Short Stories

WEEK: 1 Introduction to Women’s Writing, gender studies, feminist literary criticism, canonisation, critical questions

Introduction to race, gender, class, sexuality through a discussion of the civil rights movement and 20th century women’s liberation movement

Introduction to women's writing, women and literacy, Anglo-American women's writings, Indian women's writings, differences and commonalities

Introduction to the idea of women’s writing, its brief history- 17th century to contemporary times, important theorists and works relating to women’s writing, ideas of race, class, ethnicity and coloniality

WEEK:2 Introduction to Emily Dickinson - her life and work, publication history and contexts

Discussion of ‘Third World’ feminism, Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s “Under Western Eyes”

Mainstream narratives and literary sub genres, the "cult of domesticity"

Discussion of the ideas around the suffrage movement, tradition of women’s writing or its absence, gender and genre, the genre of short story ad women writers

WEEK: 3 ‘I’m Wife’ - critical analysis

Mohanty and Audre Lorde, Introduction to Alice Walker, epistolary narratives

A vindication of the rights of women- close readings and critical analysis

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An introduction to the writer and her times, the ideas around motherhood, femininity, postpartum depression,

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mental health and women. Begin Text. “The Yellow Wallpaper”

WEEK: 4 ‘I cannot live with you’ - critical analysis


A vindication- critical analysis

Text- critical analysis

WEEK: 5 Introduction to Sylvia Plath - her life and work, publication history and contexts


A vindication- critical analysis


WEEK: 6 ‘Lady Lazarus’ - critical analysis


Literacy movements in colonial Bengal, women's literacy

Text- critical analysis. Conclusion and discussion of critical essays and major themes

WEEK: 7 ‘Lady Lazarus’ continued.


Rassundari Debi- Amar jiban, close readings

Introduction to katherine Mansfield, Modern short story, sexality, queer theory. Begin text: “Bliss”

WEEK:8 ‘Daddy’ - critical analysis


Amar jiban- readings and textual analysis


WEEK: 9 ‘Daddy’ continued


Amar jiban- textual analysis

Text- critical analysis Discussion of themes, critical essays.

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WEEK: 10 Introduction to Eunice D’Souza - her life and work


Women's literary movements and reforms in 19th century India, colonial education in India, gender, caste

Introduction to the naxal movement in India, the discourse around land movements and tribal rights, custodial violence and sexual assault of women prisoners, idess of state, governance and people, concept of the sub altern and the intellectual. Begin text: “Draupadi”

WEEK: 11 ‘Advice to Women’ - critical analysis


Pandita Ramabai- textual analysis


WEEK: 12 ‘Bequest’ - critical analysis


Textual analysis


WEEK: 13 Conclusive comments and discussion of themes, background reading

Discussion of the film, The Color Purple

Interrogating gendered discourses through the tradition of autobiographical women's narratives


WEEK: 14 Discussion of previous years’ question papers

Discussion of previous years’ question papers and clarification of c.

Conclusion Conclusions and Discussion of previous years’ question papers

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PAPER 12: BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

WEEKS TEXT: HEART OF DARKNESS

TEXT: MRS. DALLOWAY

TEXT: poems (yeats and Eliot)

TEXT: Sons and Lovers

WEEK: 1 Introduction: European imperialism and early 20th century Congo Free State and Leopold II Imperialism and the Civilizing Mission Eurocentric view of Central Africa

Introduction: Modernism and literature Gender crisis and issues around social, familial and political roles of women Complexities of human mind Symbolism

Intro: Modernism, industrialisation of britian in late 19 early 20th c, Urbanscapes in modernist literature, the avant garde

Socio-political changes in the early 20th century, Realism to Modernism, features of the movement, experimentation with form and content.

WEEK:2 Life of Joseph Conrad Novels and short stories by Conrad Conrad and imperialism Transtextual treatment of the theme of imperialism Conrad and Impressionism

Introduction: Life of Virginia Woolf Woolf and Modernism Woolf and insanity Woolf and feminism Woolf as an experimentalist Stream of consciousness narrative

Irish symbolism and modernism, Irish folklore, the Irish political problem, Yeats as a modernist poet, Yeats' response to romanticism

The changing face of England, movement from country to the city, Dickens to Lawrence, depiction of the working class in novels.

WEEK: 3 Critical analysis and selected readings: PART: ONE

Critical analysis and selected readings: TEXT

Readings and analysis of Yeats' poems

Bildungsroman and Künstlerroman, genre of autobiography, Oedipus

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complex, Alienation, feminist criticism of the text

WEEK: 4 PART: ONE Continued


Readings and analysis of Yeats' poems




Readings and analysis of poems






WEEK: 7 Critical analysis and selected readings: PART: TWO


Eliot and modernism, american modernism, British modernism, Eliot's response to romanticism, challenges of modernity in modernist poetic techniques, themes and concerns


WEEK:8 PART: TWO Continued


Readings and analysis of poems: Eliot


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WEEK: 9 PART: TWO Continued




WEEK: 10 Critical analysis and selected readings: PART: THREE




WEEK: 11 PART: THREE Continued




WEEK: 12 PART: THREE Continued



Discussion of critical essays and reception

WEEK: 13 Discussion of major themes

Discussion of major themes

thematic modernist structures in yeats and Eliot, looking at other relevant readings

Discussion of major themes and issues


Discussion of critical essays

Conclusion Discussion of previous years' question papers and doubts

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PAPER: DSE 1-A: MODERN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

WEEKS TEXT: The Untouchable Spring by G. K Rao

TEXT: Short Stories

TEXT: Andha Yug

TEXT: Poems

WEEK: 1 History of Dalit Literature.

History of English studies in India, post-colonial perspective on studying indian writing in english classrooms, the question of translation

Introduction about Mahabharata

Introduction to Modern indian writing and poetry across modern indian languages and Indian English. To understand the chronologies and contemporaries.

WEEK:2 Rise of the Dalit Movement

The genre of short story in india, influences from English and regional writings, introduction to Fakir Mohan Senapati, the question of gender and caste in India.

Introduction about Mahabharata

Understanding the politics and philosophies of the poetic trends in indian along a short glimpse into Translation studies

WEEK: 3 Contemporary Dalit Movement

Begin text : “Rebati”-critical analysis of the text.

Mahabharata and Andha Yug

A short background to Rabindranath Tagore and his poetic style considering his imageries, philosophy and politics

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WEEK: 4 Understand Dalit Literature through B.R Ambedkar’s works

Rebati: critical analysis of the text.

Mahabharata and Andha Yug

Close reading of Tagore’s ‘Light, oh where is the light’ and ‘Where my play was with thee’

WEEK: 5 Dalit, Realism, Dalit Feminism, Dalit Consciousness,

Discussion of major themes, critical essays.

About modern Indian literature

Critical analysis of the themes and references in Tagore’s prescribed poetry.

WEEK: 6 Close reading of the text

Introduction to Premchand. Moder indian writing, progressive writer’s association, the village in Premchand, the problematic of caste in Premchand. The question of translation.

About modern Indian literature

A short background to G.M. Muktibodh and his poetic style considering his philosophy and politics of indian existentialism and nihilism.


Qafan/ The Shroud : critical analysis of the text.

Modernism in Hindi literature

Close reading of G.M. Muktibodh’s ‘The void’ and ‘So very far’

WEEK:8 Close reading of the text

Qafan/ the Shroud: critical analysis of the text.

Modernism in Hindi literature

Critical analysis of the themes and references in Muktibodh’s prescribed poetry.

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Introduction to Ismat Chugtai. Women’s writing in modern india, female sexuality, same sex desire, begin text.

Act 1 A short background to Amrita Pritam and her poetic style considering her philosophy and politics of feminism and understanding of the Partition of 1947

WEEK: 10 Critical analysis of the theme- Dalit epic and structure

The Quilt: critical analysis of the text.

Act 2 A close reading of Amrita Pritam’s ‘I say unto Waris Shah’

WEEK: 11 The critical analysis of the theme- Religion and the dalit movemnet beyond Hinduism and into Buddhism and Christianity

The Quilt: critical analysis of the text.

Act 3 Critical analysis of the themes and references in Pritam’s prescribed poetry.

WEEK: 12 Critical analysis of the theme- Telugu Dalit literature and translation of the text

Introduction to Gurdayal Singh, regional writing urbanity and gender, the question of Age, body, desire. Begin text.

Act 4 A short background to Thangjam Ibopishak and his poetic style considering his philosophy and politics of land, nature and the dynamics between the North eastern India and Mainland india.

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WEEK: 13 Reception and Market theory of the text and its popularity

Season of no return: critical analysis of the text.

Act 5 Close reading of Thangjam Ibopishak Singh’s ‘Dali. Hussain or odour of dream, color of wind’ and ‘ The land of the half- humans’


Season of no return: critical analysis of the text. Discussion of previous years’ question papers and conclusion

Conclusion Critical analysis of the themes and references in Ibopishak’s prescribed poetry.

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PAPER: DSE 1-B: LITERATURE OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA

WEEKS TEXT: The Namesake

TEXT: The Book Secrets

TEXT: TEXT:

WEEK: 1 Introduction: Diaspora, Diasporic studies and literature

Deliberation of imperialism and indentured migration

WEEK:2 Discussion on Key terms And concepts (inclusive of the Background reading

Introduction to M.G Vassanji and The Book Of Secrets

WEEK: 3 Discussion on Key terms And concepts (inclusive of the Background reading)

Critical Analysis of the text

WEEK: 4 Introduction to Jumpha Lahari and The Namasake


WEEK: 5 Critical Analysis of the text




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WEEK:8 Critical Analysis of the text






WEEK: 11 Exploration of Themes

Exploration of Themes

WEEK: 12 Discussion of essays relating to the text

Discussion of essays relating to the text

WEEK: 13 Discussion of essays relating to the text

Discussion of essays relating to the text

WEEK: 14 Reviewing previous your question paper and conclusion

Reviewing previous your question paper and conclusion

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PAPER: DSE 2-A: SCIENCE FICTION AND DETECTIVE LITERATURE

WEEKS TEXT: Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

TEXT: H.R.F. Keating's Inspector Ghote Goes by Train

TEXT: Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Baskervilles

TEXT: Wilkie Collins The woman in white

WEEK: 1 Introduction to hardboiled crime fiction, distinctive characteristics of the genre, compare and contrast with clue puzzle mysteries

Interrogating notions of art and literature, hierarchy between popular and classical, influence of marketplace, art as commodity

Historiography and evolution of the Detective fiction through various historical development between 18-19th century in Western Europe

Historiography and evolution of sensational novels , gothic novels and erotica along with the history of serializing novels

WEEK:2 Introduction to social, cultural, political preoccupations of 20th century America

Crime and Detective fiction, figure of the "criminal", developments in the legal, political, and forensic field, figure of the detective, crime and society

Formalism of Detective Fiction and the Golden Age of Detective fiction

Formulaic setup and plot as a pattern and identifying them as templates beyond the text.

WEEK: 3 Introduction to Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder”

India in the Western imagination, Police procedural

Rise of Detective fiction and other parallel and contributing literary tradition

Growth and sale of the sensational novel/gothic and the reading habits embedded in other popular and historical factors

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Close reading of the text














WEEK:8 Critical analysis of the text














Critical analysis of the theme- crime, criminology, Englishness, Heredity Science

Critical analysis of the sub genres in the text- Gothic literature, erotica, conduct books for women


Discussion of critical essays and reception

Critical analysis of the theme - Science/ Scientific/ quasi- Science Fiction

Critical analysis of the the theme- Madness and Behavioural Science.

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WEEK: 13 Discussion of the film, The Big Sleep

Discussion of major themes and issues

Reception and Market theory of the text and its popularity

Reception and Market theory of the text and its popularity


Discussion of previous years’ question papers and doubts



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PAPER: DSE 2-B: LITERARY CRITICISM

WEEKS TEXT: SELECTIONS FROM PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM, AND PRACTICAL CRITICISM

TEXT: Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and selections from Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

TEXT: TEXT:

WEEK: 1 Introduction to Literary Criticism, history of criticism and theory in the 20th century

Romanticism, movement and shifts, shift to the print culture, anxiety of reception, mass consumption

WEEK:2 The context of I. A. Richards and the Cambridge School, his influence on theory, basic methods of Practical/New Criticism

Influence of Sidney, theorisation of a new kind of poetics, Wordsworth's contribution, Associationism

WEEK: 3 Principles of Literary Criticism - Chapter 1 - analysis


WEEK: 4 Principles of Literary Criticism Chapter 2 - analysis


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WEEK: 5 Principles of Literary Criticism Chapter 34 - analysis


WEEK: 6 Practical Criticism Chapter 1 - analysis



Coleridge life and works, dialogue with Wordsworth's Preface and its critique

WEEK:8 Practical Criticism Chapter 3 - analysis

Theory of innate ideas versus Associationism, imagination, Primary and Secondary Imagination









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WEEK: 13 Practical Criticism Chapter 8 - analysis and conclusive remarks. Discussion of major themes.

Discussion of the major themes and issues, overview of critical essays

WEEK: 14 Discussion of previous years’ question papers

Discussion of previous years’ question papers and doubts

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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

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Teaching Plan

Ring Theory and Linear Algebra-II(B.Sc (H) Maths SEM VI)

WEEKS TOPICS LECTURES

Week 1Polynomial rings over commutative rings, Di-vision algorithm and consequences, Principalideal domains

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Week 2Factorization of polynomials, Reducibilitytests, Irreducibility tests

5

Week 3Eisensteins criterion, Unique factorization inZ[x]

5

Week 4Divisibility in integral domains, Irreducibles,Primes

5

Week 5Unique factorization domains, Euclidean do-mains

5

Week 6Dual spaces, Double dual, Dual basis, Trans-pose of a linear transformation and its matrixin dual basis, Annihilators

5

Week 7Eigenspaces of a linear operator, Diagonaliz-ability, Invariant subspaces

5

Week 8CayleyHamilton theorem, Minimal polyno-mial for a linear operator

5

Week 9 Inner product spaces and norms. 5

Week 10 GramSchmidt orthogonalization process 5

Week 11 Orthogonal complements, Bessels inequality 5

Week 12Adjoint of a linear operator,Least squares ap-proximation, Minimal solutions to systems oflinear equations

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Week 13 Normal and self-adjoint operators 5

Week 14 Orthogonal projections and Spectral theorem 5

REFERENCES:

1. Joseph A. Gallian, Contemporary Abstract Algebra (4th Ed.), NarosaPublishing House, 1999.

2. Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence, Linear Algebra(4th Ed.), Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.

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Teaching Plan

Analysis (B.A Prog SEM IV)WEEKS TOPICS LECTURES

Week 1 Order Completeness of Real numbers 5

Week 2 Open and Closed sets 5

Week 3Limit point of sets, Bolzano Weiertsrass The-orem

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Week 4 Properties of continuous functions 5

Week 5 Uniform Continuity 5

Week 6 Sequences, convergent and Cauchy sequences 5

Week 7Subsequences, Limit superior and Limit infe-rior of a sequence

5

Week 8Monotonically increasing and decreasing se-quences, infinite series and their convergences

5

Week 9Positive term series, comparison tests,Cauchy’s nth root test

5

Week 10 D. Alembert’s Ratio test, Raabe’s test 5

Week 11 Alternating series and Leibnitz’s test 5

Week 12 Absolute and conditional convergence 5

Week 13 Riemann Integral 5

Week 14Integrability of continuous and monotonicfunctions

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REFERENCES:

1. Bartle, Robert G., Sherbert, Donald R. (2015). Introduction to RealAnalysis (4th ed.). Wiley India Edition.

2. Ross, Kenneth A. (2013). Elementary Analysis: The Theory of Calcu-lus (2nd ed.). Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer. IndianReprint.

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