NPTEL : NOC:Indian Fiction in English (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Merin Simi Raj


Lecture 1 - Indian Fiction in English - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Rushdie and Indian Writing

Lecture 3 - Situating 'fiction' in the history of Indian Writing in English

Lecture 4 - Indian Writing in English: A Background

Lecture 5 - Introducing Indian Fiction in English

Lecture 6 - The Critical Tradition of Indian Fiction in English

Lecture 7 - The rise of novel in regional languages: Indulekha

Lecture 8 - Rajmohan's Wife to Kanthapura

Lecture 9 - Kanthapura, Mythmaking and Gandhi

Lecture 10 - Mahatma and Indian novels in English

Lecture 11 - Waiting for the Mahatma - Part I

Lecture 12 - Waiting for the Mahatma - Part II

Lecture 13 - Indian Fiction in English: 1950s and 1960s

Lecture 14 - Heat and Dust

Lecture 15 - The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

Lecture 16 - Cry, the Peacock

Lecture 17 - Midnight's children: An introduction

Lecture 18 - Reading Midnight's Children

Lecture 19 - Salman Rushdie in Indian Fiction in English

Lecture 20 - Midnight's Children

Lecture 21 - Zelaldinus: A Masque

Lecture 22 - Trotter Nama

Lecture 23 - Shadow Lines

Lecture 24 - Reading the Shadow Lines

Lecture 25 - Caste in Indian English Fiction

Lecture 26 - Caste in Untouchable

Lecture 27 - Reading The God of Small Things - I

Lecture 28 - Reading The God of Small Things - II

Lecture 29 - Other Representations of Caste in IE fiction

Lecture 30 - All About H.Hatterr

Lecture 31 - Rich Like Us

Lecture 32 - Partition novels

Lecture 33 - White Tiger

Lecture 34 - Notes on the New Indian Novel in English

Lecture 35 - Riot: A Novel by Shashi Tharoor

Lecture 36 - English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee

Lecture 37 - The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Lecture 38 - Remains of the Feast

Lecture 39 - Writings in English from the Northeast: Reading Temsula Ao

Lecture 40 - The writings of Ruskin Bond

Lecture 41 - Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Lecture 42 - Indian Fiction in English - Positioning Literary Studies

Lecture 43 - New Writings in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

Lecture 44 - Graphic Novel in India

Lecture 45 - The city in Indian English Fiction

Lecture 46 - Postcoloniality and its Challenges

Lecture 47 - Commomwealth literature does not exist