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SYLLABUS FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE
PAPER-I
BACKGROUND
1. Chaucer to Shakespeare
2. 18th Century Literature
3. Romantic Period
4. Victorian Period
5. Modern Period
6. Contemporary Period

POETRY
William Shakes Peare : Sonnets 16,17,19,20,27,30,73,80,116,130
George Herbert : The Collar
John Donne : The Sunne Rising
John Milton : 1. Paradise Lost, 2. On His Blindness
Lord Tennyson : The Lotus Eaters
Robert Browning : My Last Duchess
William Blake : 1. The Lamb 2. Chimney Sweeper
Wordsworth : 1. The Solitary Reaper
2. Daffodils
P.B. Shelley : Ode To The West Wind (2) Adonais
John Keats : Ode On A Grecian Urn
W.B.Yeats : Easter 1916
Dickenson : Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Robert Frost : Mending Wall

FICTION
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver’s Travels
Mark Twain : Adventures Of Huckelberry Finn
Thomas Hardy : The Return Of The Native
Charles Dickens : Great Expectations
Jane Austen : Emma
Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
Oliver Goldsmith : The Citizen Of The World
Daniel Defoe : Moll Flanders
Oscar Wilde : The Pictures Of Dorian Gray
African Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka : The Lion And The Jewel
N Gugi : Decolonising The Mind
Nadine Gardimer : A City Of The Dead
West India
V S Naipaul : A House For Mr. Biswas

DRAMA
William Shakespeare : (1)The Tempest (2)Macbeth
Arthur Miller : Death Of A Salesman
Marlowe : Doctor Faustus
J M Synge : Riders To The Sea
Sophocles : Oedipus Rex
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH:
Tagore : Selections From Gitanjali
Aurobindo : Savitri
Amitav Ghosh : In An Antique Land
Mulk Raj Anand : The Untouchable
Raja Rao : Kantapura
R K Narayan : The Guide
Shashi Deshpande : The Binding Vine
Kamala Das : The Old Playhouse
Vivekananda : The Chicago Address
Ambedkar : On The Way To Goregaon
Amartya Sen : More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing
A Revathi : Extracts From A Self Narrative
Basheer : The Card Sharper’s Daughter

GRAMMAR
1. Subject Verb Agreement
2. Correct Use Of Tenses
3. Framing Grammatically Correct Sentences
4. Use Of Prepositions/Use Of Articles
5. Question Forms
6. Cohesive Devices
7. Modals
8. Conjuctions/Sentence Linkers
9. Pronouns
10. Reported Speech
11. Voice Of The Verb

VOCABULARY
12. Synonyms/Homonyms/Antonyms
13. Affixes – Prefix/Suffix
14. One Word Substitutes
15. Idioms And Phrases
16. Error Identification

PAPER-II
SENTENCE TYPES AND SENTENCE FUNCTIONS BASIC SENTENCE PATTERN.
WRITING SKILLS
1. Comprehension Of Passages/Poems/Texts
2. Paragraph Writing
3. Letter Writing
4. Speech/Report Writing
5. Note Making/Taking
6. Reference Skills
7. Memos, Notes, Circulars
8. E-mail

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Communicative Skills
READING SKILLS
Skimming, Scanning, Intensive Reading, Reading Poetry, Fiction, Drama.

SYLLABUS FOR HISTORY http://www.syllabus.gen.in/uploads/145-history.pdf
PAPER-l
SECTION I — HISTORICAL METHOD
Chapter-1
Definitions – Nature of History – Whether History is a Science or Art
Chapter- 2
History and other Social Sciences – Relationship with Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy and Literature
Chapter-3
History and its ancillaries – Archaeology, Epigraphy and Numismatics
Chapter-4
Internal Criticism – Job of Internal Criticism – External Criticism

SECTION II –HISTORIOGRAPHY
Chapter-1
Western Historiography- Greeco-Roman -Church Historiography –
St. Augustine – Modern Historiography –Ranke, Comte and Karl Marx
Chapter-2
Indian Historiography – Colonial-Nationalist-Leftist School-Subaltern School

SECTION III — ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY
Chapter- 1
Sources – Harappa Civilization and Culture – Economy – Agriculture – Crafts
Chapter -2
Vedic Age – Sources – Vedic Society and Economy – Transition to money and Market
Chapter- 3
The Rise of new Religions – Jainism – Buddhism – The Material Background.
Chapter -4
The age of Mauryas – Rise of The Kingdom of Magadha – Chandragupta Maurya – Ashoka and His successors. The Arthashastra, Indica and Ashokan Edicts – Importance of the Edicts – Economy and Society – Ashokan Policy of Dharma.
Chapter- 5
Decline of the Mauryas – Kushanas – Kanishka – Trade – Inland – Foreign – Gandhara – Mathura School of Arts.
Chapter- 6
The rise of the Guptas – Samudragupta – Achievements – Chandragupta II – Disintegration of Empire – Huna Invasions. Economy and Society – Agriculture – Land grants – Decline of Trade and decay of towns – The Debate of Indian Feudalism, Cultural Contributions – Religion , Literature, Science and Art and Architecture
Chapter- 7
Harshavardana of Kanauj – Education – Buddhism
Chapter- 8
Age of Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Pallavas and Cholas – The Rise of Chalukyas – Pulakeshin II – Relations with Kanauj and Pallavas – The rise of the Pallavas – Mahendravarman and Narshimhavarman – Relations with Chalukyas and Other Tamil Powers – The Rashtrakutas – Govinda III – Amoghavarsha – Relations with North – Expedition of South
Chapter -9
The Rise of Cholas – Rajaraja I – Rajendra I –Economy and Society – Trade and Agriculture – Administration of the Cholas – Central – Local Governments
Chapter -10
Art and Architecture – Salient features of Chalukyan and Rashtrakuta Style – Badami, Aihole, Pattadakallu, Ellora, Ajanta and Elephanta