Civil Service Mains Optional ASSAMESE LANGUAGE

ASSAMESE LANGUAGE

ASSAMESE

PAPER-I

(Answers must be written in Assamese)
Section-A
Language

(a) History of the origin and development
of the Assamese language-its position
among the Indo-Aryan Languages-periods in its history.

(b) Developments of Assamese prose.

(c) Vowels and consonants of the Assa-mese languages-rules of phonetic
changes with stress on Assamese
coming down from Old Indo-Aryan.

(d) Assamese vocabulary-and its
sources.

(e) Morphology of the language-conjuga-tion-enclitic definitives and pleonastic
suffixes.

(f) Dilectical divergences-the standard
colloquial and the Kamrupi dialect in
particulars.

(g) Assamese scripts-its evolution through
the ages till 19th century A.D.
Section-B

Literary Criticism and Literary History

(a) Principles of Literary criticism upto New
criticism.

(b) Different literary genres.

(c) Development of literary forms in
Assamese.

(d) Development of literary criticism in
Assamese.

(e) Periods of the literary history of Assam
from the earliest beginnings, i.e. from
the period of the charyyageets with
their socio-cultural background : the
proto Assamese-Pre-Sankaradeva-Sankaradeva-post Sankaradeva-Modern period (from the coming of the
Britishers)-Post-Independence pe-riod. Special emphasis is to be given
on the Vaisnavite period, the gonaki
and the post-Independence period.

PAPER-II


This paper will require first-hand reading
of the texts prescribed and will be designed
to test the candidates’ critical ability. An-swers must be written in Assamese

Section-A
Rãmãyana (Ayodhya Kãnda only)-by
Madhava Kandali.
Pãrijãt-Harana-by Sankaradeva.
Rãsakrïdã-by Sankaradeva (From Kirtana
Ghosa).
Bargeet-by Madhavadeva
Rãjasûya-by Madhavadeva.
Kãthã-Bhãgavata (Books I and II)-by
Baikunthanath Bhattacharyya.
Gurucarit-Kathã (Sankaradeva’s Part only)-ed. by Maheswar Neog.
Section-B
Mor Jeevan Soñwaran-by Lakshminath
Bezbaroa.
Kripãbar Barbaruãr Kãkatar Topola-by
Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Pratimã-by Chandra Kumar Agarwalla.
Gãoñburhã-by Padmanath Gohain Barua.
Monamatî-by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.
Purani Asamîyã Sãhitya-by Banikanta
Kakati.
Kãrengar Ligirî-by Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
Jeevanar Bãtat-by Bina Barwa (Birinchi
Kumar Barua)
Mrityunjoy-by Birendrakumar
Bhattachary-ya
Samrãt-by Navakanta Barua