English Literature Curricula in India

A large data study of English Literature syllabi
of top Indian universities
to measure the extent of decolinization.

From Canon to Covid

Published in
Arjun Ghosh, Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha and Albeena Shakil eds.
From Canon to Covid: Transforming Literary Studies in India.
Routledge India, 2023.

Publicly available Curriculum Data

  • UGC-NET (2004-2020)
  • University of Delhi
  • Calcutta University
  • University of Hyderabad
  • Aligarh Muslim University
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  • University of Mumbai
  • Pondicherry University
  • Jadavpur University
  • Pune University
  • Jamia Millia Islamia
  • Panjab University, Chandigarh
Listed according to the QS World University Rankings 2021-22

Research Workflow

  • Data acquisition
  • Data cleaning
  • Data analysis
  • Data visualiztion
Listed according to the QS World University Rankings 2021-22

Data acquisition

  • Most public universities make available a record of syllabi for various programmes offered by them.

Data cleaning

  • The syllabi files are mostly PDFs.
  • They need to be converted to tidy structured data

Tools used

  • Manual
  • Wikidata Query
  • R
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Data analysis

  • Corroborate the names of authors with Wikidata
  • Analyse them according to Geographic Location and Time
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Data visualization

  • Publish the results of the analysis to charts for easy comprehension

Tools used

  • Spreadsheet: Libreoffice Calc
  • Palladio
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