UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam. December 2020/June 2021 ENGLISH-II (Shift-I)

Meenakshi Mukharjee proposes 'A British readership' and 'The Colonial administrator in India' as the possible target readership of early Indian English novel.
Meenakshi Mukharjee's, 'The Anxiety of Indianness: Our Novels in English' first published in the Economic and Political Weekly (1993) and then included in the book, The Perishable Empire : Essay on Indian Writing in English (2000), the essay aptly sums up an important and intriguing question related to cultural identity and post-colonial make-over.
In this book, Meenakshi asks and describes about Post Colonial English novels written by Indian authors.
Thus, option (c) is appropriate answer.

The appropriate match of poets with their language-  A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV

Thus, appropriate answer is option (a)

'Marijuana' and 'Marcus Aurelius' constitute the preoccupations of the protagonist of Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August.
Upamanyu Chatterjee's work 'English, August' is a novel presents the people of rural India and struggle of a civil servant who is posted in a rural area. The protagonist of the novel, Agartya, is a civil servant and he encounters the people of Madna on his first posting. Although he joins India Civil Service to satisfy his father's wish yet he finds himself disinterested in bizarre ways of government and administration. He is directionles and finds solace in marijuana, masturbation and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
Thus, the correct option is (b).

In 1969 the 'Department of Popular Culture' at Bowling Green University launched the "Journal of Popular Culture". The Journal carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, amusement parks, the detective movies and other forms of popular culture. Hence the appropriate answer is option (b).

Funny Boy is a coming of-age novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai published in 1994. Funny Boy is constructed in the form of six poignant stories about a boy coming to age within a wealthy Tamil family in Colombo. He explores his sexual identity and encounters the Sinhala-Tamil tensions leading up to the 1983 riots. Hence, the correct answer is option (c).

Cultural studies seeks to understand how meaning is generated, disseminated, contested, bound up with systems of power and control, and produced from the social, political and economic spheres within a particular social formation or conjuncture.
Hence, it can be inferred that Cultural Studies would be most interested in asking the questions 'who decides what is to produced?', 'who can afford the artifact?' and 'How is the artifact marketed?' Thus, the correct answer is (a).

Pierre Bourdieu played the most significant role in mobilizing concept of cultural Intermediaries... cultural intermediaries may be defined, descriptively, by their occupations, which are largely located in the cultural industries including the media. Bourdieu, a social critique ofthe judgment of Taste (1984), drawing on social survey data and qualitative vignettes from France in the 1960 and early 1970s Bourdieu analyses patterns in the Consumption Practices and Preferences of socio-occupational group. In doing so, he suggests how "taste" is a contested terrain on which battles for legitimacy and distinction are fought.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term 'subaltern' from 'Antonio Gramsci'. She used the term Subaltern in her essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?". shows earliest political historiography shifted the voice of the Subaltern groups (women, tribal peoples, third world). "Subaltern" meaning "of inferior rank" is a term adopted by Antonio Gramsci, an Italina Marxist and communist who was imprisoned for a long time by Mussolini's police (from 1926) until his death at age 46, to refer to those working class people in Soviet Union who are subject to the hegemony of the ruling classes.

Subaltern Studies project contends -
• Traditional history of India's freedom movement celebrates the contribution of select icons.
• Traditional historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.
The Subaltern Studies began in the early 1980s as a critique of the existing historiography which was accused by its initiators for ignoring the voice of the people. The writers associated with the project promised to offer a completely new kind of history in the field of Indian studies. Encompassing six volumes, edited by Ramajit Guha, the Subaltern studies made effort to explore the consciousness and actions of the oppressed group in the Indian society. Subaltern studies began as a revisionist historiography of peasant movements in colonial India.
Hence, option (b) is appropriate answer.

The Wood's Despatch (1854) sought to propagate to impart Western knowledge to Indians and to create a class of public servants in India. Wood's letter played an important role in the spread of English learning and female education in India. The aim of Government's policy was the promotion of western education. In his dispatch, he emphasised on the education of art, Science, Philosophy and literature of Europe. One of most favorable steps taken was to create an English class among Indian people to be used as workforce in the company administration.
Hence option (d) is the most appropriate answer.