English Literature Curricula in India
A large data study of English Literature syllabi
of top Indian universities
to measure the extent of decolinization.
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
Data analysis
- Corroborate the names of authors with Wikidata
- Analyse them according to Geographic Location and Time
Data visualization
- Publish the results of the analysis to charts for easy comprehension
Tools used
- Spreadsheet: Libreoffice Calc
- Palladio