Civil Service Mains Optional MAITHILI

MAITHILI

PAPER-I

History of Maithili Language and its
Literature

(Answer to be written in Maithili)

PART-A

History of Maithili Language

1. Place of Maithili in Indo-European lan-guage family.

2. Origin and development of Maithili lan-guage. (Sanskrit, Prakrit, Avhatt,
Maithili)

3. Periodic division of Maithili Language.
(Beginning, Middle era, Modern era)

4. Maithili and its different dialects.

5. Relationship between Maithili and
other Eastern languages (Bengali,
Assamese, Oriya).

6. Origin and development of Tirhuta
Script.

7. Pronouns and Verbs in Maithili Lan-guage.

PART-B

History of Maithili Literature

1. Background of Maithili Literature (Re-ligious, economic, social, cultural).

2. Periodic division of Maithili literature.

3. Pre-Vidyapati Literature.

4. Vidyapati and his tradition.

5. Medieval Maithili Drama (Kirtaniya
Natak, Ankai Nat, Maithili dramas writ-ten in Nepal).

6. Maithili Folk Literature (Folk Tales, Folk
Drama, Folk Stories, Folk Songs).

7. Development of different literary forms
in modern era.
(a) Prabandh-kavya
(b) Muktak-kavya
(c) Novel
(d) Short Story
(e) Drama
(f) Essay
(g) Criticism
(h) Memoirs
(i) Translation

8. Development of Maithili Magazines
and Journals.

PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Maithili)
The paper will require first-hand reading
of the prescribed texts and will test the criti-cal ability of the candidates.

PART-A
1. Vidyapati Geet-Shati-Publisher : Sahitya
Akademi, New Delhi (Lyrics- 1 to 50)

2. Govind Das Bhajanavali-Publisher :
Maithili Academy, Patna (Lyrics - 1 to
25).

3. Krishnajanm - Manbodh

4. Mithilabhasha Ramayana - Chanda
Jha (only Sunder-Kand)

5. Rameshwar Charit Mithila Ramayan -Lal Das (only Bal-kand)

6. Keechak-Vadh-Tantra Nath Jha.


7. Datta-Vati-Surendra Jha 'Suman' (only
1st and 2nd Cantos).

8. Chitra-Yatri

9. Samakaleen Maithili Kavita - Publisher
: Sahitaya Akademi, New Delhi.

PART-B

10. Varna Ratnakar - Jyotirishwar (only
2nd Kallol)

11. Khattar Kakak Tarang - Hari Mohan
Jha.

12. Lorik-Vijaya-Manipadma

13. Prithvi Putra-Lalit

14. Bhaphait Chahak Jinagi-Sudhanshu
'Shekar' Choudhary.

15. Kirti Rajkamlak-Publisher : Maithili
Academy, Patna (First Ten Stories
only).

16. Katha-Sangrah-Publisher : Maithili
Academy, Patna.