Answers must be written in Assamese

Section-A
Language (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.

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 Assamese.

(e) Periods of the literary history of Assam from the earliest beginnings, i.e. from the period ofthe 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.


This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidates's critical ability.

Answers must be written in Assamese

Section-A
R鉳銀ana (Ayodhya K鉵da only)-by Madhava Kandali.
P鉹ij鉻-Harana-by Sankaradeva.
R鉺akr飀�-by Sankaradeva (From Kirtana Ghosa).
Bargeet-by Madhavadeva
R鉰as鹹a-by Madhavadeva.
K鉻h�-Bh鉭avata (Books I and II)-by Baikunthanath Bhattacharyya.
Gurucarit-Kath� (Sankaradeva抯 Part only)-ed. by Maheswar Neog.

Section-B
Mor Jeevan So駑aran-by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Krip鉨ar Barbaru鉹 K鉱atar Topola-by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Pratim�-by Chandra Kumar Agarwalla.
G鉶馼urh�-by Padmanath Gohain Barua.
Monamat�-by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.
Purani Asam顈� S鉮itya-by Banikanta Kakati.
K鉹engar Ligir�-by Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
Jeevanar B鉻at-by Bina Barwa (Birinchi Kumar Barua)
Mrityunjoy-by Birendrakumar Bhattacharyya
Samr鉻-by Navakanta Barua.