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BANKURA UNIVERSITY

B.A. (Honours) End Semester Examination, 2026

ENGLISH — MJC 13: Indian Literature in Translation (SET B)

Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

The figures in the margin indicate full marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group A (From Unit I)

Answer any one of the following questions from Unit I (Drama): 10 × 1 = 10

  • 1. Analyze how Utpal Dutt portrays the failure and moral compromise of the liberal intellectual class in Barricade when facing authoritarian state control.
    • OR
  • 2. Examine the conflict between compliance and revolutionary resistance as embodied by the primary characters in Utpal Dutt's Barricade.
    • OR
  • 3. "Benare's concluding monologue acts as a powerful trial against society itself." Evaluate Vijay Tendulkar's Silence! The Court Is In Session in light of this statement.
    • OR
  • 4. Discuss the structural significance of the courtroom environment and its props in dramatizing institutional victimization in Silence! The Court Is In Session.
Group B (From Unit II)

Answer any one of the following questions from Unit II (Poetry): 10 × 1 = 10

  • 5. Trace the transition from sweet childhood companionship to mature cosmic submission in Rabindranath Tagore's devotional poem "When My Play was with Thee".
    • OR
  • 6. Critically analyze Thangjam Ibopishak Singh's "The Land of the Half-Humans" as a biting socio-political satire on state terror and insurgency-torn environments.
Group C (From Unit III)

Answer any one of the following questions from Unit III (Short Fiction): 10 × 1 = 10

  • 7. Examine Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati" as an early literary critique highlighting the conservative anxieties and superstitions surrounding women's education.
    • OR
  • 8. Discuss how the central motif of the "quilt" functions as a layered space of isolation, concealment, and self-liberation in Ismat Chugtai's "The Quilt".
Group D (From Units I & II)

Answer any five of the following short questions selected from Units I and II: 2 × 5 = 10

  • 9. Identify the specific historical event that inspired the structural landscape of Utpal Dutt’s Barricade.
  • 10. Name two characters from Barricade who represent diametrically opposing political ideologies.
  • 11. What socio-economic accusation is formally brought against Miss Benare during the mock-trial sequence?
  • 12. How do Mr. and Mrs. Kashikar collectively mirror institutional domestic patriarchy in Tendulkar’s play?
  • 13. Explain the line: "The lamp is not ignited, and the life is spent in vain" from Tagore's selection.
  • 14. What does the term "Lila" or divine play imply about human interaction with God in "When My Play was with Thee"?
  • 15. Provide one example of a grotesque or surreal image used by G. M. Muktibodh in "The Void".
  • 16. What sensory concept is challenged by the phrase "Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind" in Thangjam Ibopishak Singh's poetry?
  • 17. What severe loss of human identity characterizes the inhabitants in "The Land of the Half-Humans"?
  • 18. Name the translator who rendered G. M. Muktibodh's "The Void" from Hindi into English.

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