Sunday 15 July 2012

Civil Service Mains Optional BENGALI

BENGALI



PAPER-I
History of Language and Literature.
Answers must be written in Bengali.

Section-A
Topics from the History of Bangla language

1. The chronological track from Proto
Indo-European to Bangla (Family tree
with branches and approximate dates).

2. Historical stages of Bangla (Old,
Middle, New) and their linguistic fea-tures.

3. Dialects of Bangla and their distin-guishing characteristics.

4. Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.

5. Forms of Bangla Literary Prose-Sadhu
and Chalit.

6. Processes of language change rel-evant for Bangla.
Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti (um-laut), Murdhanyibhavan
(cerebralization), Nasikyibhavan (Na-salization), Samibhavan (Assimila-tion), Sadrishya (Analogy),
Svaragama (Vowel insertion)-Adi
Svaragama, Madhya Svaragama or
Svarabhakti, Antya Svaragama,
Svarasangati (Vowel hormony), y-shruti and w-shruti.

7. Problems of standardization and re-form of alphabet and spelling, and
those of transliteration and
Romanization.

8. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
of Modern Bangla.
(Sounds of Modern Bangla, Conjuncts;
word formations, compounds; basic sen-tence patterns.)

Section-B
Topics from the History of Bangla Literature.

1. Periodization of Bangla Literature :
Old Bangla and Middle Bangla.

2. Points of difference between modern
and pre-modern Bangla Literature.

3. Roots and reasons behind the emer-gence of modernity in Bangla Literature.

4. Evolution of various Middle Bangla
forms : Mangal kavyas, Vaishnava lyr-ics, Adapted narratives (Ramayana,
Mahabharata, Bhagavata) and reli-gious biographies.

5. Secular forms in middle Bangla litera-ture.

6. Narrative and lyric trends in the nine-teenth century Bangla poetry.

7. Development of prose.

8. Bangla dramatic literature (nineteenth
century, Tagore, Post-1944 Bangla
drama).

9. Tagore and post-Tagoreans.


10. Fiction, major authors :
(Bankimchandra, Tagore,
Saratchandra, Bibhutibusan,
Tarasankar, Manik).

11. Women and Bangla literature : cre-ators and created.


PAPER-II

Prescribed texts for close study.
Answers must be written in Bengali.

Section-A
1.  Vaishnava Padavali  (Calcutta Univer-sity)
Poems of Vidyapati, Chandidas,

Jnanadas, Govindadas and Balaramdas.
2.  Chandimangal  Kalketu episode by
Mukunda (Sahitya Akademi).

3. Chaitanya Charitamrita Madya Lila, by
Krishnadas Kaviraj (Sahitya Akademi).

4. Meghnadbadh Kavyaby Madhusudan
Dutta.

5. Kapalkundalaby Bankimchandra
Chattarjee.

6.  Samyaand  Bangadesher Krishakby
Bankimchandra Chatterjee.

7.  Sonar Tariby Rabindranath Tagore.

8.  Chhinnapatravaliby Rabindranath
Tagore.

Section-B

9.  Raktakarabiby Rabindranath Tagore.

10.  Nabajatakby Rabindranath Tagore.

11.  Grihadahaby Saratchandra Chatter-jee.

12.  Prabandha Samgraha  Vol. 1, by
Pramatha Choudhuri.

13.  Aranyak  by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee

14. Short stories  by Manik Bandyo-padhyay : Atashi Mami, Pragaitihasik,
Holud-Pora, Sarisrip, Haraner Natjamai,
Chhoto-Bokulpurer Jatri, Kustharogir Bou,
Jakey Ghush Ditey Hoy.
15. Shrestha Kavitaby Jibanananda Das.
16.  Jagori by Satinath Bhaduri.
17. Ebam Indrajitby Badal Sircar

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