In the syllabus of two papers on English Literature for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) main examination there are only five plays against fourteen novels. This makes it imperative to know the place of drama in English studies in India. Here is an attempt in that direction. An elective course in English offered only to the students from the Faculty of Arts at the undergraduate level is known by different names like English (Honours), English (Major), Principal English, English (Entire), English (Special) and Special English. Based on the syllabi documents, this paper is a modest attempt to study the titles, objectives, course content, teaching methods and evaluation procedures of the papers on drama offered mainly in the first decade of twenty-first century in the B.A. (English) courses in six universities in Maharashtra viz. University of Mumbai, University of Pune, Shivaji University, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University and Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University. In the universities under study, apart from similarity in the objectives of teaching drama and the recurrence of certain texts, a shift is noticed from the study of British plays to non-British plays. Though fiction and drama are considered as equivalent genres, the later is relegated to a secondary place in the BA (English) course. For instance, whenever there is need to delete any prescribed text or introduce a new paper, drama has been the first choice of the policy makers. Paradoxically, it is found that in the B.A. (English) course the students prefer to study plays over other forms of literature