MEG 16 Important questions based on previous year’s question Papers

MEG 16 Important questions based on previous year’s question Papers

Attempt a critical essay on the growth of folklore studies in India.  Attempt a critical essay on the beginning and growth of folklore studies, in India in particular, and in other parts of the world in general.Comment on 'Folklore as an expression of life.' Why do you consider folklore as an expression of social existence ?"Folklore is an expression of our existence." Elucidate. What do you understand by the term `Folklore' ? Do you think that the study of folklore changed after World War II ? Discuss two pioneer folklorists of India. Write about Ramanujan and his growth as a folklorist.Elucidate A. K. Ramanujan as a pioneer folklorist of India. Attempt a critical essay on two academic approaches and the schools of thought they belongs to, centered on the study of folklore. 

What are the thematic and the narrative concern of folk literature ? 

 Do you consider folk narrative poems as an essential part in the social and cultural life of India ?  Discuss any two folk narrative poems which are extensively used in folktales.  

Discuss the issues of identity and hybridity of folk forms in ‘Kshetra’ and ‘Desha’

Define 'myths' and analyse the characteristics of myths with examples.

‘Folk literature may or may not be realistic literature; sometimes it may be an amalgamation of reality and myth.’ Comment.


 Give your views on the future of oral epics in India. Discuss ‘Oral Epics of India’ by Stuart H. Blackburn as compendium of myths of various regions of India.  Enumerate and explain the differences between the 'oral' and the 'written' cultures


Give a critical overview of the prehistoric rockart or cave painting to the living tradition of folk painting at present.


Discuss folk theatre practised across the various states of India. What are the characteristic features of folk theatre in India ? Discuss with reference to Pala and Nautanki.


Discuss, how folk forms voice or constitute `protest'. Give examples from folk ballads and folk songs. What do you understand by the term ‘Protest’ ? How is it expressed through folk riddles ?

Discuss the critical debates related to the innate wisdom of the tribal communities, with special reference to 'When the World Was Young' by Verrier . Why and how did Verrier Elwin collect and document tribal tales ? DiScuss with reference to 'When the World Was Young'. Critically appreciate the rich imaginative faculty of the tribal communities with special reference to 'When the World was Young'. Bring out the themes and motifs of the text, ‘When the World Was Young’

Critically analyze Ramayana in Modern South India' by Paula Richman. With reference to the conflict between individual interest and the public good. Discuss the dynamism of the epic, ‘Ramayana’, with reference to Paula Richman’s ‘Ramayana in Modern South India.’


Discuss the critical debate in Sitakant Mahapatra's `The Awakened Wind : The Oral Poetry of the Indian Tribes'.  “The Awakened Wind : The Oral Poetry of the Indian Tribes” by Sitakant Mahapatra is his major contribution to Indian folk literature. Comment.

Critically examine 'The Legend of Pensam' as a modern response to an ancient and traditional culture. 

Critically appreciate `Pather Panchali' and the idea of folk in it.  Discuss Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay's engagement with myth and history with reference to Pather Panchali'. Discuss the ideas of the folk in the novel ‘Pather Panchali’.  Identify/Discuss the ‘folk’ and ‘popular’ in Satyajeet Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’.


Attempt a critical note on eco-systems of the `Paraja' tribe with reference to the novel `Paraja'. 

Discuss the idea of ‘folk’ from the perspective of Habib Tanvir and his body of theatre work.


Discuss 'The Dilemma' as a contemporary novel, bringing out the folk elements in it.“Folk is a form of resistance, a critique of the prevelant norms of the society.” Discuss with reference to ‘The Dilemma’ by Vijayadan Detha. 


Charandas Chor' is a benchmark for theatre practitioners, scholars and folklorists. Discuss. ‘Charandas Chor is a sort of modern proverbial Robin Hood’ – Comment


How does caste hierarchy operate in the novel ‘Chemmeen’ ?

Discuss `Maila Anche as a Bhasha novel, bringing out the folk elements in it. 

Discuss Girish Karnad's engagement with myth, history and folklore with reference to 'Naga Mandala'. 

10. Attempt short notes on any two of the following : 10x2=20 

  • Folk Theatre 

  • 'The Oral Poetry of Indian Tribes' by Sitakant Mahapatra 

  •  Folk elements in Kanthapura' 

  •  Brahminization vs. Sanskritization

  • Hayavadana Jatra, Kathakali, Tamasha, Nautanki, Pala 

  •  Palace Paradigm and Epic Discourse 

  •  Songs of love and wedding songs in Indian Folklore 

  • Jatra and Kathakali 

  •  The folk and film 

  • Naga Mandala 

  •  Charandas Chor

  •  Sanskritization 

  • Growth of Folklore Studies in India 

  • Folklore : A Counter Discourse 

  • Palace Paradigm

  • Myths and rituals 

  • Folklore of North East India

  • Jatka and Pala

 

 




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