IPMAT Indore - A study of the social and cultural context of Indian poetry in English reveals several important insights into its origin. Indian poetry in English began in Bengal, the province where the British first gained a stronghold. In addition, this poetry was a largely urban phenomenon, centered in Calcutta. ___________. Then, gradually, it moved to other urban centres such as Madras and Bombay. Even today, Indian poetry in English remains largely urban. Moreover, because English was an elite language, Indian poets writing in English came from the upper classes. | PYQs + Solutions

IPMAT Indore

Medium

The British had decided that poetry about India could reach a larger audience if written in Calcutta

The rulers encouraged the natives to write poetry about India only if their mother tongue was English

English was seen as an elite language and so the British felt that only they could use it for poetry

In fact, poetry writing for the first fifty years was confined to a few families who were residents of Calcutta

✅ Correct Option: 4

Related questions:

IPMAT Indore 2025

As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live in relative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they parted with their own language and adopted a new lingua franca. The loss of language, however, does not merely mean the loss of a mode of communication or the loss of a few thousand words. __________________________. So, when a language dies, a way of thinking dies with it.

IPMAT Indore 2022

The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in Mesopotamia hope to find a text that has scripts from both the Indus valley and Mesopotamia, the second of which has already been deciphered. __________________.

IPMAT Indore 2023

_____________. Conflicts are now brewing over rivers and river basins shared by many countries around the world. This is not unexpected, given the fact that more than two hundred water bodies are shared by two or more countries. Strife over water, for example, is erupting throughout the Middle East, from the watersheds of the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

IPMAT Indore (VA) PYQs

Keyboard Shortcuts