WorksheetsThe Subaltern Paradigm (NUANCES- MOD 6)
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 32mins
What is the author “not ashamed of”?
According to Pradeepan Pampirikunnu, “The notion of a human hierarchy is merely an ____”
interpretation of power
illusion of power
object of power
interlocution of power
'Intertextuality' is a term coined by ____
Homi Bhabha
Ranajit Guha
Antonio Gramsci
Julia Kristeva
_____ by Potheri Kunhambu contextualises the injustice of caste hierarchy in northern Kerala and the liberation of the lower strata of society through education.
Saraswathivijayam
Jaathikummi
Bhagavad-Gita
Kerala Sahitya Charithram
_____ belittled Malayalam poet Pandit K P Karuppan by calling him “a poet who cannot lay claim to any greatness though he has more than 10-20 works to his credit”
Ulloor
M Leelavathy
K Ramakrishna Pillai
P Govinda Pillai
Who made fun of Karuppan’s poetry by saying it ‘smelt of fish’?
M Leelavathy
K Ramakrishna Pillai
P Govinda Pillai
Ulloor
Who says “history writing is also marketing”?
Ellis Cashmore
K Ramakrishna Pillai
Pradeepan Pampirikunnu
Poikayil Appachan
“The blue-print of _____ are the literary histories”
‘upper’-caste markets
lower class markets
‘lower’-caste markets
upper-class markets
Who is regarded as the father of Malayalam literature/ father of Modern Malayalam?
Kunchan Nambiar
Cherusseri Namboothiri
N V P Unnithiri
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
"The ____ aesthetic came to be lauded as the literary mainstream"
dalit
savarna
sanskrit
folk
How many 17th- 19th century ‘lower’-caste writers are mentioned in the five volume Kerala Sahitya Charithram ?
3
2
13
7
Which descriptions are considered signs of marginalisation? (more than one correct answer)
Sanskrit/prakrit
classic/ folk
literate/illiterate
employed/unemployed
Who coined the term “subaltern”?
Ranajit Guha
Homi Bhabha
Antonio Gramsci
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Who coined and popularised the term “hegemony”?
Antonio Gramsci
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Julia Kristeva
Ranajit Guha
The term _____ refers to all sections of society who are marginalised
othering
subaltern
lacuna
hegemony
In the Indian context, the word subaltern refers to?
Adivasis, Dalit, those perceived as ‘backward’
Uppercaste hindus and landowners
the newly rich
people of all religions and castes
Pradeepan calls for a (a) to compensate the disturbing imbalance of literary historiography which is savarna elitist and duplicitous
Name the posthumously published widely acclaimed novel by Pradeepan Pampirikunnu.
(a)
What was the chiravathadisambhavam?
What is the relevance of the line “I see no alphabet about my race”?
3. Name the organisation founded by Poikayil Appachan
(a)
