Elective · 01/ENG/DSE/404T · 2026–27 intake
Travel Literature
Semester VII · 4 credits · 5 units
Examination scheme & source discrepancies
The source lists 3 hours, 80 end-semester marks and 20 sessional marks.
Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.
See source PDF for the printed marking instructions.
Not present in the owner-supplied 2026–27 PDF (jnvu_ba.pdf), which covers English Major papers only; this paper is retained from the G.D. Memorial College full syllabus copy.
Unit IDefinition of travel literature / Academic travel and more
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- Definition of travel literatureComing soon
- Academic travelComing soon
- Eco travelComing soon
- Heritage travelComing soon
- Business travelComing soon
- Pleasure travelComing soon
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Definition, types (academic, eco, heritage, business and pleasure) of Travel literature.
Source syllabus · page 130Unit IIHistorical overview of travel literature
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Historical overview of Travel Literature
Source syllabus · page 130Unit IIIKim
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Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Source syllabus · page 130Unit IVRoads to Mussoorie
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Roads to Mussoorie by Ruskin Bond
Source syllabus · page 130Unit VTravel / Song of the Open Road and more
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Travel poems: R L Stevenson’s “Travel” Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”
Source syllabus · page 130Recommended readings in the source
- Youngs Tim. Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Nayar, Pramod K. Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire: 1830-1940. Bloomsbury India, 2022.
- Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, Create space Independent Publishing, 2009.
- Bond, Ruskin. Roads to Mussoorie, Rupa Publications, 2005.