M.A. (Semester IV) (CBCS) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER VIII)
CULTURAL STUDIES
Day Date: Thursday, 18-05-2017 Max. Marks: 70
Time: 02.30 PM to 05.00 PM
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Choose the correct alternative: 14
The essay Can the Subaltern Speak? is written by
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Tearbai Shinde
U. R. Ananthamurthy Hall, Stuart
In the short story Draupadi the age of DOPDI MEJHEN is
mentioned as years.
27 37 47 17
According to diabetes has 12 husbands.
Dopadi Mejhen Dulana Mejhen
Mr. Senanayak Captain Arjan singh
The name of Surja Sahu's brother is
Rotoni Sahu Bharma Sahu
Mada Sahu Kariya Sahu
is the pilgrim guide in the short story Breast Giver by
Mahasweta Devi.
Nabin Venkatraya
Shyem Pundit Seetaramaiah
is an old maid servant of the Haldar family
Radharani Basini Shital Gangauri
Motherhood is a great addiction to
Mrs. Haldar Jashoda
Basini Radhrani
is supposed to be two people, violent and aggressive as
well as calm and soft.
Basini Jashoda
Upin Shital
According to Tarabai Shinde menas always obeying
orders from husband and doing everything he wants.
Pativrita Sativarta
Stridharma Savetri
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10) The country girl Gangor is arrested by police.
Shimoga Heshegora Seopura Lamdi
11) According to Stuart Hall is a thought of seizing the
authority of authenticity.
Theoretical legacy Culture
Biography Autobiography
12) In the novel Bharathipura all the village residents are devotees of

Lord Rama Lord Shiva
Lord Manjunatha Lord Shankara
13) made Pilla as the leader of Holeyaru people.
Chandrashekhar Janardhan Shetty
Jagannatha Kariya
14) is the daily newspaper in the Bharathipura.
Times of India Jagruthi
Dainik Bhasker The Indian Express
Q.2 Answer any Seven of the following questions in two or three
sentences each.
14
Why does Senanayak afraid to stand before an unarmed target?
How dose holy doctor cure Gopla's typhoid?
Give the name of the doctor, who gave the treatment to Jashoda.
Who did the last ritual of Jashoda?
What is the disguised name of Dulana?
Give is the name of Upin's wife
Who is the famous photographer in the short story Behind the
Bodice?
Where does The Gangor festival take place?
Q.3 Answer any two of the following questions in brief 08
Write a note on Indian Feminism.
Give the significance of Dalit Literature.
What is Cyberculture?
Write short notes on any two of the following. 06
Write short contributors of Dalit Literature.
Define are the Indigenous Culture.
What are the features of rural writings?
Q.4 Answer any one of the following question. 14
Critically comment on the position of woman in the essay A
Comparison between Woman and Men.
OR
Give the different perceptions of culture in the essay Cultural
Studies and its Theoretical Legacies.
Q.5 Answer the following question.
Discus in details jagannatha's self discovery in U.R.
Ananthamurthy's novel Bharathipura.