ENGLISH

The syllabus consists of two papers , designed to test a first- hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Leterature – Paper I- 1600-1900 and Paper II- 1900-1990.
There ‘ will be two compulsory questions in each paper- (a) A short- notes question related to the topics for general study , and (b) And critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER-I
Answers must be written in English
Texts for detailed study are listed below, Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements-
The Renaissance – Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock- epic; Neo- classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
SECTION-A
William Shakespeare- King Lear and The Tempest.
John Donne. The following Poems-
Canonization;
Death be not proud;
The Good Morrow;
On his Mistress going to bed;
The Relic;
John Milton – Paradise Lort I,II, IV, IX
Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock.
William Wordsworth. The following poems;
-Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
-Tintern Abbey.
-Three years she grew.
-She dwdlt among untrodden ways.

-Michael .
-Resolution and Independence.
-The world is too much with us.
-Milton , thou shouldst be living at this hour.
-Upon Westminster Bridge.
6.Alfred Tennyson – In Memoriam.
7.Henrik Ibsen- A Doll’s House.
SECTION-B
1.Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels.
2.Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
3.Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.
4.Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
5.George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.
6.Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
7.Mark Twain .The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
PAPER-II
Answers must be written in English
Texts for detailed study are listed below .Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements-
Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream – of –consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post- Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist ,Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post- Modernism.
SECTION-A
William Butler Yeats. The following poems;
- Easter 1916
- The Second Coming
- A Prayer for my daughter.
- Sailing to Byzantium.
- The Tover.Among Sbhool Chhldrdn.
- Leda and the Swan.
- Mdru
- Lapir Lazuli
- The Second Coming
- Byzantium.
2. T.S. Eliot .The following poems-
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Journey of the Magi.
- Burnt Norton.
3.W. H. Auden. The following poems-
- Partition
- Musee des Beaux Arts
- In Memory of W. B Yeats
- Lay your sleeping head , my love
- The Unknown Citizen
- Consider
- Mundus Et Infans
- The Shield of Achilles
- September 1, 1939
- Petition.
4.John Osborne; Look Back in Anger
5.Samuel Backett. Waiting for Godot.
6.Philip Larkin. The following poems :Next , Please, Deceptions, Afternoons, Days, Mr. Bleandy
7.A. K. Ramanujan . The following poems.
Looking for a Causim on a Swing , A River , Of Mothers, among other Things, Love Poem for a Wife 1, Small – Scale Reflections on a Great House, Obituary .
(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy , published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
SECTION-B
1.Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim.
2.James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
3.D.H. Lawrdnce. Sons and Lnverr.
4.E. M. Forrter. A Passage to India.
5.Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway.
6.Raja Rao. Kanthapura.
7.V.S. Naipal . A House for Mr. Biswas.

CHINESE

PAPER-I
This paper will require the candidates of have a good knowledge of standard chinese language and its characteristics so as to test the candidate’s organizational capabilities. All the questions except the question on translation from Chinese to English must be answered in Chinese. All the questions carry equal marks.
SECTION-A
1. Essay writing in about 500 Chinese characters on a topical subject.
2. Translation – (a) Chinese- English. (b) English – Chinese
3. Syntactic and grammatical usage.
SECTION-B
1. Explanation of idioms and phrases in Chinese.
2. Development of Chinese language
3. Comprehension Precis writing.
PAPER-II
This paper will require the candidates to have a good grasp of Chinese studies and will be designed to test the candidate’s critical ability . All the questions must be answered in Chinese. All the question carry equal marks.
SECTION-A
Short notes on topics relate to major events in modern Chinese history (from 1919 till date).
Critical evaluation of major literary works in pre – liberation period (1919-1949)-

(a) Lao She=======Four Generations , Rickshaw-puller.
(b) Ba Jin========Family.
(c) Lu Xul========Medicine , Madman’s Diary. The True Story of Ah Q.
(d) Mao Dun======Midnight
(e) Ai Quing ======Coal’s Reply (Mei de Duihua), Begger (Qigai),I Love This Land (Wo Ai Zhe Tudi), Old Man (Laoren)
(f) Guo Moruo=====The Goddesses.
3. Role of Philosophy and Religion in the Development of Chinese Society.
SECTION-B
Socio- Economic/ Political / Educational / Sports /Science and Technological Development since 1979.
Critical appreciation of major literary works in post – liberation period (1949 till date)-
(a) Gu Hua======= The Town Called Hibiscus (Furonzhen)
(b) Chen Rong===== Till the Middle Age (Ren dao Zhongnian)
(c) Liu Xinwu===== The Class- in – Charge (Ban Zhuren)
(d) Lu Yao======== The Human Existence (Rensheng)
(e) Ai Qing======== Fish Fossil, The Mirror, The Gardener's Dream, The Hunter Who Drew Birds
(f) Shu Ting======= Motherland , My Beloved Motherland.

BENGALI

PAPER-I
History of Language and Literature . Answers must be written in Bengali.
SECTION-A
Topics from the History of Bangla language-
The chronological track from Proto Indo- European to Bangla (Family tree with branches and approximate dates).
Historical stages of Bangla (Old, Middle, New) and their linguistic features.
Dialects of Bangla and their distinguishing characteristics.
Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.
Forms of Bangla Literary Prose- Sadhu and Chalit.
Processes of language change relevant for Bangla.
Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti (umlaut), Murdhanyibhavan (cerebralization), Nasikyibhavan (Nasalization), Samibhavan (Assimilation), Sadrishya (Analogy), Svaragama (Vowel insertion )- Adi Svarggama, Madhya Svaragama or Svarabhakti, Antya Svaragama, Svarasangati (Vowel hormny), y- Shruti and w- shruti.
Problems of standardization and reform of alphabet and spelling , and those of transliteration and Romanization.
Phonology, Morphology and Syntax nf Mndern Bangla.
(Snundr nf Mnddrn Bangla, Bonjtnbts; word formathons , compounds; basic sentence 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 emergence of modernity in Bangla Literature.
4. Evolution of various Middle Bangla forms- Mangal kavyas, Vaishnava lyrics , Adapted narratives (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata) and religious biographies.)
5. Secular forms in middle Bangla literature.
6. Narrative and lyric trends in the nineteenth century Bengla 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- creators and created.
PAPER-II
Prescribed texts for close study. Answers must be written in Bengali.
SECTION-A
12. Vaishnava Padavali (Calcutta University)
Poems of Vidyapati, Chandidas , Jnanadas Govindadas and Balaramdas.
13. Chandimangal Kalketu episode by Mukunda (Sahitya Akademi).
14. Chaitanya Charitamrita Madya Lila, by Krishnadas Kaviraj (Sahitya Akademi).
15. Meghnadbadh Kavya by Madhusudan Dutta.
16. Kapalkundala by Bankimchandra Chattarjee.
17. Samya and Bangadesher Krishak by Bankimchandra Chatterjee.
18. Sonar fari by Rabindranath Tagore.
19. Chhinnapatravali by Rabindranath Tagore.
SECTION-B
1. Raktakarabi by Rabindranath Tagore.
2. Nabajatak by Rabindarnath Tagore.
3. Grihadaha by Saratchandra Chatterjee.
4. Prabandha Samgraha Vol.1, by Pramatha Choudhuri.
5. Aranyak by Bidhutibhushan Banerjee
6. Short stories by Manik Bandyopadhyay- Atashi Mami, Pragaitihasik, Holud- Pora, Sarisrip, Haraner Natjamai , Chhoto- Bokulpurer Jatri, Kustharogir Bou, Jakey Ghush Ditey Hoy.
7. Shrestha Kavita by Jibanananda Das.
8. Jagori by Satinath Bhaduri.
9. Ebam Indrajit by Badal Sircar.

ASSAMESE

PAPER-I
Answers must be written in Assamese
SECTION –A
Language
(a) History of the origin and development of the Assamese languages-periods in its position among the Indo- Aryan Languages- periods in its history.
(b) Developments of Assamese prose.
(c) Vowels and consonants of the Assamese 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 – conjugation- 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 Assames.
(e) Periods of the literary history of Assam from the earliest beginnings, i.e from the period of the charyyageets with their socio-cultural back- ground-the proto Assamese- Pre- Sandaradeva- Sankaradeva- post Sankaradeve – Moddrn perind (from the coming of the Britishers), Post – Independence period .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 text prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates’ critical ability. Answers must be written in Assamese.
SECTION-A
Ramayana (Ayodhya Kanda only)-by Madhava Kandali
Parijat – Harana-by Sankaradeva.
Rasakrida-by Sankaradeva (From Kirtana Ghosa).
Bargeet –by Madhavadeva.
Rajasuya-by Madhavadeva.
Katha –Bhagavata (Book I and II)- by Baikunthanath Bhattacharyya.
Gurucarit- Katha (Sankaradeva’s Part only)-ed , by Maheswar Neog.
SECTION-B
Mor Jeevan Sonwaran – by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Kripabar Barbaruar Kakatar Topola- by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Pratima –by Chandra Kumar Agarwalla.
Gaonburha-by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.
Purani Asamiya Sahitya –by Banikanta Kakati.
Karengar Ligri-by Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
Jeevanar Batat- by Bina Barwa (Birinchi Kumar Barya)
Mrityunjoy- by Birendrakuar Bhattacharyxa
Samrat-by Navakanta Barua.