Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams

Bodo Paper-I

History of Bodo Language and Literature
(Answers must be written in Bodo)

Section- A

• Homeland, language family, its present status and its mutual contact with Assamese.
• (a) Phonemes : Vowel and Consonant Phonemes
  (b) Tones.
• Morphology: Gender, Case & Case endings, Plural suffix, Definitive, Verbal suffix.
• Vocabulary and its sources.
• Syntax: Types of sentences, Word Order
• History of scripts used in writing Bodo Language since inception.

History of Bodo literature

• General introduction of Bodo folk literature.
• Contribution of the Missionaries.
• Periodization of Bodo Literature.
• Critical analysis of different genre
  (Poetry, Novel, Short Story and Drama)
• Translation Literature.

Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams