BENGALI
PAPER-I
History of Language and Literature.
Answers must be written in Bengali.
Section-A
Topics from the History of Bangla
language
1. The chronological track from
Proto Indo-European to Bangla (Family tree with branches and approximate dates).
2. Historical stages of Bangla (Old,
Middle, New) and their linguistic features.
3. Dialects of Bangla and their
distinguishing characteristics.
4. Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.
5. Forms of Bangla Literary
Prose-Sadhu and Chalit.
6. Processes of language change
relevant for Bangla :
Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti
(umlaut), Murdhanyibhavan (cerebralization), Nasikyibhavan (Nasalization), Samibhavan
(Assimilation), Sadrishya (Analogy), Svaragama (Vowel insertion)-Adi Svaragama,
Madhya Svaragama or Svarabhakti, Antya Svaragama, Svarasangati (Vowel hormony),
y-shruti and w-shruti.
7. Problems of standardization and
reform of alphabet and spelling, and those of transliteration and Romanization.
8. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
of Modern Bangla.
(Sounds of Modern Bangla, Conjuncts;
word formations, 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 Bangla 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.
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