Syllabus

• (Answers must be written in Assamese) Section-A
• Language
• History of the origin and development of the Assamese language-its position among the Indo-Aryan Languages - periods in its history.
• Developments of Assamese prose.
• Vowels and consonants of the Assamese languages-rules of phonetic changes with stress on Assamese coming down from Old Indo-Aryan.
• Assamese vocabulary-and its sources.
• Morphology of the language-conjugation-enclitic definitives and pleonastic suffixes.
• Dilectical divergences-the standard colloquial and the Kamrupi dialect in particulars.
• Assamese scripts-its evolution through the ages till 19th century A.D.

Section-B

• Literary Criticism and Literary History
• Principles of Literary criticism upto New criticism.
• Different literary genres.
• Development of literary forms in Assamese.
• Development of literary criticism in Assamese.
• 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 period. Special emphasis is to be given on the Vaisnavite period, the gonaki and the post-Independence period.

Syllabus

• This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates' critical ability.
• [Answers 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 - ed. by Maheswar Neog

Part only)

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 Bhattacharyya
• Samrãt - by Navakanta Barua.