The Masters Programme in Comparative Literature is envisioned as an innovative Programme consistent with the vision of Ambedkar University Delhi. It aims to promote engaged and socially responsible scholarship, making students aware of the links between literature and broader questions of identity and difference, language and culture, local/national/global interfaces, culture and politics, authority and authorship, reading and interpretation, and translation as cultural mediation. The Programme is constituted around the principle of integration of various literatures, and interdisciplinary processes between varied practices and disciplines, including historical, theoretical and critical engagements. Thus, the Programme is directed towards finding interdisciplinary paradigms, greater amalgamation between various literatures, theory and practice on one hand, and between music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature, visual arts and so on, on the other. A major focus of the Programme is literature and its relation to the community; in other words, to critically engage with literature in terms of its contemporary relevance, interpretation, socio-political affect, social change and transgression. The Programme seeks to develop the profile of the student as a comparatist capable of thinking beyond boundaries in ways that are creative, innovative, interdisciplinary and socially relevant. Such a scholar is expected to think comparatively about national and cultural plurality, and participate in current debates shaping literary humanities: world literature, universalism, alternative modernities, meanings of the human.