M.Phil (Kannada) is a Postgraduate Academic Research Degree course. The course take around two year to complete and its syllabus is divide in four semesters of six month each. The candidates under this degree are required to prepare a detailed thesis on various subjects such as Kannada Poetry, Kannada Drama, Kannada Fiction, Kannada Literary Criticism and Literary History etc. The pupose of this program to offers comparative perspectives of learning by juxtaposing, comparing, contrasting lite