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Civil Service Exam Syllabus :

Paper I :
Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santali – Letter writing (within 150 words) / Drafting of Report (within 200 words), Précis Writing, Composition and Translation from English to Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santali

Related : Syllabus for Assistant Director Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan : http://www.syllabus.gen.in/902.html

Paper II :
English – Letter writing (within 150 words) / Drafting of Report (within 200 words), Précis Writing, Composition and Translation from Bengali/Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santali to English

Paper III :
General Studies-I :
(i) Indian History with special emphasis on National Movement and
(ii) Geography of India with special reference to West Bengal.

Paper IV :
General Studies-II : Science and Scientific & Technological advancement, Environment, General Knowledge and Current Affairs.

Paper V : The Constitution of India and Indian Economy including role and functions of Reserve Bank of India.

Paper VI : Arithmetic and Test of Reasoning

Paper I :
Section-A :
1) Topics from the History of Bangla Language.
a) The chronological track from Proto Indo-European to Bangla (Family tree with branches and approximate dates).
b) Historical stages of Bangla (Old, Middle, New) and their linguistic features.

c) Dialects of Bangla and their distinguishing characteristics.
d) Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.
e) Forms of Bangla Literary Prose-Sadhu and Chalit.

2) Process of Phonetic Changes in Bangla Language – Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti (Umlaut), Samibhavan (Assimilation), Svarabhakti / Viprakarsha, Svarasangati (Vowel harmony).

3) Problems of standardization and reform of alphabet and spelling and those of transliteration and Romanization.

Section-B :
4) History of Bangla Literature.
a) Periodization of Bangla Literature : Old Bangla and Middle Bangla.
b) Roots and reasons behind the emergence of modernity in Bangla Literature.

c) Evolution of various Middle Bangla forms : Mangal kavyas, Vaishnava lyrics, Adapted narratives (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata) and religious biographies.

d) Narrative and lyric trends in the nineteenth century Bangla poetry.
e) Development of prose.
f) Bangla dramatic literature (nineteenth century, Tagore, Post-1944 Bangla drama).

5) Tagore and Post Tagoreans (upto the decade of fifties).
6) Fiction, major authors : Bankimchandra, Tagore, Saratchandra, Bibhutibhusan, Tarasankar, Manik.

7) Women and Bangla Literature.
a) Swarna Kumari Devi,
b) Ashapurna Devi,
c) Mahasweta Devi,

d) Rajlakshmi Devi,
e) Kabita Singha,
f) Nabanita Deb Sen