(Extra-12)Quizzing English Lit-5(374)

351. Concept of rhizomic narrative was formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattori. 

352. Plato's allegory of the cave is Republic.

353. In his definition of tragedy, Aristotle uses the phrase, pleasurable accessories which means Grandeur of Speech.

354. Fredric Jameson wrote National Allegories. To him, post colonial writings are national allegories.

355. Tabish Khair work of literary critisicm is Babu Fictions.

356.R. K. Narayan is associated with Toasted English. Here, he compares American English with UK English. It's an essay by Narayan.

357.Chutnification is associated with Salman Rushdie. It's Indian way of English.

358. Amitav Ghosh wrote his first novel named The Circle of Reason. Countdown shows Ghosh's visit to the nuclear testing site Pokhran. In an Antique Land is his non fictional work when Ghosh went to Egypt. The Imam and the Indian is his essay collection. Amitav Ghosh is basically also an anthropologist.

359. English as a medium of instruction was introduced in India by Macaulay's Minute on Education in 1835. Minutes is an Orientalist text by Macaulay.

360. Charter Act of 1813 gave money only for education in India.

360. After Independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was accorded the status of an-
Associate language

361. Gauri Vishwanathan's Masks of Conquest, Alok Mukherjee's This Gift of English: English Education and the formation of Alternative Hegemonies, and Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan's The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies are books on English studies in India.

362. Aijaz Ahmed's In Theory is critique on post colonialism.

363. Lord Curzon was a supporter of the vernacular languages as medium of instruction. He used to intermingle with a lot of Indian writers.

364. Gauri Vishwanathan's Masks of Conquest shows that English was introduced for ulterior motives only.

365. Braj Kachru identifies 3 phases in the introduction of bilingualism in English in India. Missionary phase(proselytizing), demand from locals, scholars or South Asian public (Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Rajunath Hari Navalkar wanted English) phase and implied need one are the 3 phases of bilingualism. This was how English got acceptance too.

366. Butler English is a pidgin which is also known as kitchen English spoken by South Asians in Europe. Pidgin is grammatically incorrect.

367. Butler English  known as kitchen English was spoken in Madras by cooks and househelds who lived in and around Englishmen.

368. Braj Kachru is the author of The Indianness in English, The Alchemy of English:The Spread, Functions and Models of Non Native Englishes and World Englishes. He considered Indian English as very hybrid. He did extensive research on kashmiri language.

369.  The university education commission of 1948 was appointed under the chairmanship of Dr Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan. He was the second President of the country and vice chancellor of BHU .Report was submitted in August 1949. It guided future University education of the country.

370. The first Indian National Policy on Education was introduced in 1968 under Indira Gandhi and later in 1986 under Rajiv Gandhi and in 2020 under Narendra Modi.

371. The Young Bengal or Derozians came from Hindu College of Kolkata was a group of Bengali free thinkers who carried on the legacy of their leader teacher Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. They were also inspired by Brahmo Samaj.

372. The Education Commission 1964-66 made a distinction between the teaching of English as a skill and the teaching of English literature. It was also called Kothari Commission. 

373. The Education Commission (1948) was of the view that "use of English...divides the people into two nations, the few who govern and the many who are governed." It was chaired by Dr Radhakrishnan.

374. English is still largely the language of administrative and jurisprudence in India.

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