IGNOU BEGC-132 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Explain with reference to the context any four of the following : 4×5=20

(a) I have coloured myself in the colour of the dark hued one [ 2 ] BEGC–132 Adorning myself and putting ghungharoos on my feet I gave up all the worldly rules and danced …...

(b) So my lord, white as jasmine, is my husband. Take these husbands who die, decay, and feed them to your kitchen fires.

(c) Two magic eyes with a hundred charms Have put my sad heart's rest to flight; Now who would care to go and tell Dear love my sad and lonely plight ?

(d) The sugarcane my be crooked but its juice is not Why are you deceived by the way things look ? ……. [ 3 ] BEGC–132 Chokha may be ill-shaped, but not his God Vitthal, Why are you deceived by the way things look ?

(e) Once you are used to it even the sorrow that visits you sometimes, in dreams, melts away, embarrassed.

(f) You need no book, Rasha Sundari no paper or pen either you have the black, smudgy kitchen wall for your magical scribbles lines, ellipses, curves all of them your secret codes for a whole new world. [ 4 ]

Q2.Enumerate the similarities between Bhakti and Sufi poetry giving examples from your texts.

Q3.Elaborate on N. K. Naik's views on the relevance of Indian English Literature.

Q4.“In most Dalit poetry, the tone and language is direct, unfiltered and hard hitting. ” Discuss.

Q5.What does Raghuvir Sahay hint at by saying that, " The question of Hindi is no longer simply a question of Hindi" ?

Q6.What do you understand by oral tradition ?

Q7.How is it linked to the issue of identity of the people of the North-East ? 20 [ 5 ]

Q8.Why is Chandrabati Ramayan referred to as a 'silenced text' ?

Q9.What do you understand by 'diversity of literature' in the context of Indian Literature ?