Subject: List of Prescribed Textbooks

ENGLISH (Compulsory)

Paper 1. Language

No specific book is being recommended for background reading.

Paper 2. Prescribed Texts (For Classes XI & XII)

Candidates will be required to answer five questions as follows:
One textual question (compulsory) on Macbeth or on Pygmalion, together with four other questions on at least three texts, which may include Macbeth or Pygmalion.

I. Macbeth: Shakespeare OR Pygmalion: Bernard Shaw

II. The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy

III. Footprints (A Collection of Essays): Edited by Stephen DaCosta

1. On Saying “Please”: A. G. Gardiner
2. A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People: Charles Lamb
3. Of Studies: Francis Bacon
4. Principles of Good Writing: L. A. Hill
5. Albert Einstein at School: Patrick Pringle
6. The Future is Now: A Zest for Living: Walter F. Stromer
7. What India can teach Us: F. Max Muller
8. Environmental Crisis: Edward O. Wilson
9. Ideas that have helped Mankind: Bertrand Russell
10. Prayer – The Essence of Religion: M. K. Gandhi
11. Work in the Sun and in the Light: Jawaharlal Nehru
12. The Awakening of Women: K. M. Panikkar
13. Youth and the Tasks Ahead: Dr. Karan Singh
14. My Struggle for an Education: Booker T. Washington
15. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role: Nani Palkhivala

IV. Hues: An Anthology of Short Stories: Barry Antunis, Anupam Banerjee, S. Thomas & Sumana Saha The following stories are to be studied:

1. The Portrait of a Lady: Khushwant Singh
2. Growing Up: Joyce Cary
3. The Rattrap: Selma Lagerlof
4. Going Places: A. R. Barton
5. A Devoted Son: Anita Desai
6. What Men Live By: Leo Tolstoy
7. Talking of Space: Report on Planet Three: Arthur C. Clarke
8. A Village Cricket Match: A. G. Macdonell
9. The Fortune-Teller: Karel Capek
10. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment: Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. Third Thought: E. V. Lucas
12. The Fly: Katherine Mansfield
13. The Night Train at Deoli: Ruskin Bond
14. Love Across the Salt Desert: K. N. Daruwala
15. The Castaway: Rabindranath Tagore

V. Star Light: Edited by Guy Kenneth Dantes Only the following poems are to be studied:

1. Tintern Abbey: William Wordsworth
2. Frost at Midnight: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. A Prayer for My Daughter: William Butler Yeats
4. The Shield of Achilles: W. H. Auden
5. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe
6. Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats
7. The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson
8. Preludes: T. S. Eliot
9. An Old Woman: Arun Kolatkar
10. Church Going: Philip Larkin
11. I’m getting Old Now: Robert Kroetsch
12. I Sit and Look Out: Walt Whitman
13. Ode to the West Wind: Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. Anthem for Doomed Youth: Wilfred Owen
15. Telephone Conversation: Wole Soyinka

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (Optional)

CLASS XI

Prescribed Books (Any three of the following):
1. Lord of the Flies: William Golding
2. Hard Times: Charles Dickens
3. The Play Boy of the Western World: J.M. Synge
4. Arms and the Man: George Bernard Shaw
5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (An anthology of sixteen poets. Edited by Chris Woodhead) (OUP)
3. Gaonburha by Padamanath Gohainbarua
The following poets are to be studied:
Ted Hughes, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, Philip Larkin, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Wilfred Owen.

CLASS XII

Prescribed Textbooks (Any three of the following):
1. To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee
2. Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
3. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
4. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (An anthology of sixteen poets. Edited by Chris Woodhead) (OUP)
The following poets are to be studied:
John Keats, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, Robert Browning, William Blake, Seamus Heaney.

HINDI (805)

Recommended for background work: Vyakaran Manjusha (I.U.P.)

Any three of the following books are to be studied:

1. Kavya Tarang Ed: R.P. Vishvendu (Evergreen Publications)

(i) Saakhi – Kabirdas
(ii) Vinay Aur Bhakti – Surdas
(iii) Sachchi Mitrta - Tulsidas
(iv) Doha-Ekadash – Rahim
(v) Vishwa-Rajyya – Maithilisharan Gupt
(vi) Bharat-Mahima – Jaishankar Prasad
(vii) Priyatam – Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
(viii) Maun Nimantran – Sumitranandan Pant
(ix) Haldighati – Sohan Lal Dwivedi
(x) Suman Ke Prathi – Mahadevi Verma
(xi) Mein Hun Unke Sath – Harivansh Rai Bachchan
(xii) Manush Aur Sarp – Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
(xiii) Oh Nabh Mein Mandratein Badal – Rameshwar Shukla ‘Anchal’
(xiv) Toofanon ki Aur – Shivmangal Singh ‘Suman’
(xv) Insan Bankar Aa Raha Savera Hei – Girija Kumar Mathur

2. Nirmala: Munshi Premchand (Evergreen Publications)

3. Katha Surbhi (Janta Book Depot. Pvt.Ltd)

4. Jwala Mukhi Ke Phool: Sushil Kumar (Inter University Press)

Note: Essay-type questions will be set on all books.

SANSKRIT (838)

1. Chandrapid Katha by Pandit V. Anantacharya, Published by Ram Narayana Lal Beni Madhava, Publisher and Book-seller, Allahabad-211002

2. Raghuvamsa by Kalidasa, Canto I Text with English Translation and Notes by M.R. Kale Published by Moti Lal Banarsi Das, Delhi, Patna & Varanasi.

3. PERSIAN (Classical) (839) Available from Anjuman Tarrqie Urdu

Courtesy: cisce.org

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