Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Civil Services Examination 2007

Paper-I Answers must be written in Assamese

• (a) History of the origin and development of the Assamese language-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.

• (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 Assamese.
• (e) 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.

Paper-II: This paper will require fist-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates’ critical ability. Answers must be written in Assamese

• 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 Part only)-ed. by Maheswar Neog.

• 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 Bhattachary-ya
• Samrãt-by Navakanta Barua.

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) - Civil Services Examination 2007