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APPENDIX I will consist of 9 papers of conventional essay type in the


SECTION I subjects set out in sub-section (B) of Section II out of which
two papers will be of qualifying in nature. Also see Note (ii)
PLAN OF EXAMINATION under Para I of Section II (B) Marks obtained for all the
The competitive examination comprises two successive compulsory papers (Paper-I to Paper-VII) and Marks obtained
stages : in Interview for Personality Test will be counted for ranking.
(i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective 4.1 Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying
Type) for the selection of candidates for Main marks in the written part of the Main Examination as may be
Examination; and fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be summoned
(ii) Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written and by them for an interview for a Personality Test, vide sub-
Interview) for the selection of candidates for the section ‘C’ of Section II. The number of candidates to be
various Services and posts. summouned for interview will be about twice of the number of
vacancies to be filled. The interview will carry 275 marks (with
2. The Preliminary Examination will consist of two no minimum qualifying marks).
papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry
a maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in sub-section 4.2 Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main
(A) of Section II. This examination is meant to serve as a Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine
screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary their final ranking. Candidates will be allotted to the various
Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for Services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and
admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for the preferences expressed by them for the various Services
determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates and posts.
to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to SECTION II
thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be Scheme and subjects for the Preliminary and Main
filled in the year through this examination. Only those Examination.
candidates who are declared by the Commission to have
qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be A. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION :
eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year The Examination shall comprise of two compulsory
provided they are otherwise eligible for admission, to the Main Papers of 200 marks each.
Examination. Note :
Note I : The Commission will draw a list of candidates to be (i) Both the question papers will be of the objective
qualified for Civil Services (Main) Examination based on the type (multiple choice questions).
criterion of minimum qualifying marks of 33% in General Studies
Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and total (ii) The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services
qualifying marks of General Studies Paper-I of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with
(Preliminary) Examination as may be determined by the minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
Commission. (iii) The question papers will be set both in Hindi and
Note II : There will be negative marking for incorrect answers English.
(as detailed below) for all questions except some of the (iv) Details of the syllabi are indicated in Part A of
questions where the negative marking will be inbuilt in the Section III.
form of different marks being awarded to the most appropriate (v) Each paper will be of two hours duration. Blind
and not so appropriate answer for such questions. candidates and the candidates with Locomotor Disability
(i) There are four alternatives for the answers to every and Cerebral Palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is
question. For each question for which a wrong answer has affected to the extent of slowing the performance of function
been given by the candidate, one-third (0.33) of the marks (minimum of 40% impairment) will; however, be allowed an
assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. extra time of twenty minutes per hour for each paper.
(ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be B. MAIN EXAMINATION :
treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers The written examination will consist of the following
happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above papers :—
for that question.
Qualifying Papers :
(iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by
the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question. Paper-A
3. The Main Examination will consist of written (One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate
examination and an interview test. The written examination from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the
Constitution). 300 Marks
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Paper-B (iv) The paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be
English 300 Marks compulsory for Candidates belonging to Persons with
Benchmark Disability (only Hearing Impairment sub-category)
Papers to be counted for merit provided that they have been granted such exemption from
Paper-I 2nd or 3rd language courses by the concerned education
Essay 250 Marks Board/University. The candidate needs to provide an
undertaking/self declaration in this regard in order to claim
Paper-II such exemption to the Commission.
General Studies-I 250 Marks (v) Marks obtained by the candidates for the Paper I-VII
(Indian Heritage and Culture, History and only will be counted for merit ranking. However, the Commis-
Geography of the World and Society) sion will have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or
Paper-III all of these papers.
General Studies -II 250 Marks (vi) For the Language medium/literature of languages, the
scripts to be used by the candidates will be as under :—
(Governance, Constitution, Polity,
Social Justice and International relations) Language Script
Assamese Assamese
Paper-IV
Bengali Bengali
General Studies -III 250 Marks Gujarati Gujarati
(Technology, Economic Development, Hindi Devanagari
Bio-diversity, Environment, Security Kannada Kannada
and Disaster Management) Kashmiri Persian
Paper-V Konkani Devanagari
General Studies -IV 250 Marks Malayalam Malayalam
(Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) Manipuri Bengali
Marathi Devanagari
Paper-VI
Nepali Devanagari
Optional Subject - Paper 1 250 Marks Odia Odia
Paper-VII Punjabi Gurumukhi
Optional Subject - Paper 2 250 Marks Sanskrit Devanagari
Sub Total (Written test) 1750 Marks Sindhi Devanagari or Arabic
Tamil Tamil
Personality Test 275 Marks
Telugu Telugu
Grand Total 2025 Marks Urdu Persian
Candidates may choose any one of the optional subjects from Bodo Devanagari
amongst the list of subjects given in para 2 below :— Dogri Devanagari
NOTE : Maithilli Devanagari
(i) The papers on Indian languages and English (Paper A Santhali Devanagari or Olchiki
and paper B) will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard Note : For Santhali language, question paper will be printed
and will be of qualifying nature. The marks obtained in these in Devanagari script; but candidates will be free to
papers will not be counted for ranking. answer either in Devanagari script or in Olchiki.
(ii) Evaluation of the papers, namely, 'Essay', 'General 2. List of optional subjects for Main Examination :
Studies' and Optional Subject of all the candidates would be (i) Agriculture
done simultaneously along with evaluation of their qualifying
(ii) Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
papers on ‘Indian Languages’ and ‘English’ but the papers on
Éssay', General Studies and Optional Subject of only such (iii) Anthropology
candidates will be taken cognizance who attain 25% marks in (iv) Botany
‘Indian Language’ and 25% in English as minimum qualifying (v) Chemistry
standards in these qualifying papers. (vi) Civil Engineering
(iii) The paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be (vii) Commerce and Accountancy
compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal (viii) Economics
Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim. (ix) Electrical Engineering
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(x) Geography (vii) The details of the syllabi are set out in Part B of
(xi) Geology Section III.
(xii) History General Instructions (Preliminary as well as Main
(xiii) Law Examination) :
(xiv) Management (i) Candidates must write the papers in their own hand.
(xv) Mathematics In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe
(xvi) Mechanical Engineering to write the answers for them. However, blind candidates and
candidates with Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy
(xvii) Medical Science
where dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of
(xviii) Philosophy slowing the performance of function (minimum of 40%
(xix) Physics impairment) will be allowed to write the examination with the
(xx) Political Science and International Relations help of a scribe in both the Civil Services (Preliminary) as well
(xxi) Psychology as in the Civil Services (Main) Examination.
(xxii) Public Administration (ii) Compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour shall
(xxiii) Sociology be permitted for the Blind candidates and the candidates
(xxiv) Statistics with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where dominant
(writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the
(xxv) Zoology
performance of function (minimum of 40% impairment) in both
(xxvi) Literature of any one of the following languages: the Civil Services (Preliminary) as well as in the Civil Services
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, (Main) Examination.
Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Note (1) : The eligibility conditions of a scribe, his/
Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, her conduct inside the examination hall and the manner in
Telugu, Urdu and English. which and extent to which he/she can help the blind candidate
NOTE : in writing the Civil Services Examination shall be governed by
(i) The question papers for the examination will be of the instructions issued by the UPSC in this regard. Violation of
conventional (essay) type. all or any of the said instructions shall entail the cancellation
of the candidature of the blind candidate in addition to any
(ii) Each paper will be of three hours duration. other action that the UPSC may take against the scribe.
(iii) Candidates will have the option to answer all the Note (2) : For purpose of these rules the candidate
question papers, except the Qualifying Language shall be deemed to be a blind candidate if the percentage of
Papers, Paper-A and Paper-B, in any one of the visual impairment is Forty per cent (40%) or more. The criteria
languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the for determining the percentage of visual impairment shall be
Constitution of India or in English. Notwithstanding as follows :—
this, the Candidate will have the choice to write the
Optional Papers in English also if candidates opt to All with corrections Percentage
write Paper I-V except the Qualifying Language Better eye Worse eye
Papers, Paper-A and Paper-B, in any one of the
language included in the Eighth Schedule to the 1 2 3 4
Constitution of India.
Category O 6/9—6/18 6/24 to 6/36 20%
(iv) Candidates exercising the option to answer Papers
Category I 6/18—6/36 6/60 to nil 40%
in any one of the languages included in the Eight
Schedule to the Constitution of India mentioned Category II 6/60—4/60 3/60 to nil 75%
above may, if they so desire, give English version or field of
within brackets of only the description of the vision 10°—20°
technical terms, if any, in addition to the version in Category III 3/60—1/60 F.C. at 1 ft 100%
the language opted by them. Candidates should, or field of to nil
however, note that if they misuse the above rule, a vision 10°
deduction will be made on this account from the
Category IV F.C. at 1 ft to F.C. at 1 ft to 100%
total marks otherwise accruing to them and in
nil nil
extreme cases; their script(s) will not be valued for
field of field of
being in an unauthorized medium.
vision 100° vision 100°
(vi) The question papers (other than the literature of
One eyed 6/6 F.C. at 1 ft to 30%
language papers) will be set in Hindi and English
person nil
only.
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Note (3) : For availing of the concession admissible to a which has been already tested through their written papers.
blind candidate, the candidate concerned shall produce a Candidates are expected to have taken an intelligent interest
certificate in the prescribed proforma from a Medical Board not only in their special subjects of academic study but also
constituted by the Central/State Governments along with their in the events which are happening around them both within
application for the Main Examination. and outside their own State or Country as well as in modern
Note (4) : The concession admissible to blind candidates currents of thought and in new discoveries which should
shall not be admissible to those suffering from Myopia. rouse the curiosity of well educated youth.
(ii) The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying SECTION III
marks in any or all the subjects of the examination. SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION
(iii) If a candidate’s handwriting is not easily legible, a NOTE : Candidates are advised to go through the
deduction will be made on this account from the total marks Syllabus published in this Section for the Preliminary
otherwise accruing to him. Examination and the Main Examination, as periodic revision
(iv) Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial of syllabus has been done in several subjects.
knowledge.
Part A—Preliminary Examination
(v) Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact
expression combined with due economy of words in all Paper I - (200 marks) Duration : Two hours
subjects of the examination. • Current events of national and international importance.
(vi) In the question papers, wherever required, SI • History of India and Indian National Movement.
units will be used. • Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic
(vii) Candidates should use only International form of Geography of India and the World.
Indian numerals (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.) while answering question
• Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political
papers.
System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues,
(viii) Candidates will be allowed the use of Scientific etc.
(Non-Programmable type) Calculators at the conventional
(Essay) type examination of UPSC. Programmable type • Economic and Social Development-Sustainable
calculators will however not be allowed and the use of such Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social
calculators shall tantamount to resorting to unfair means by Sector Initiatives, etc.
the candidates. Loaning or interchanging of calculators in the • General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity
Examination Hall is not permitted. and Climate Change - that do not require subject
It is also important to note that candidates are not specialization.
permitted to use calculators for answering objective type • General Science.
papers (Test Booklets). They should not therefore bring the Paper II-(200 marks) Duration : Two hours
same inside the Examination Hall.
• Comprehension;
C. Interview Test
The candidate will be interviewed by a Board who will • Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
have before them a record of his career. He will be asked • Logical reasoning and analytical ability;
questions on matters of general interest. The object of the • Decision making and problem solving;
interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate
• General mental ability;
for a career in public service by a Board of competent and
unbiased observers. The test is intended to judge the mental • Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of
calibre of a candidate. In broad terms this is really an magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation
assessment of not only his intellectual qualities but also social (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X
traits and his interest in current affairs. Some of the qualities level);
to be judged are mental alertness, critical powers of Note 1 : Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examina-
assimilation, clear and logical exposition, balance of tion will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualify-
judgement, variety and depth of interest, ability for social ing marks fixed at 33%.
cohesion and leadership, intellectual and moral integrity.
Note 2 : The questions will be of multiple choice, objective
2. The technique of the interview is not that of a strict type.
cross-examination but of a natural, though directed and
purposive conversation which is intended to reveal the mental Note 3 : It is mandatory for the candidate to appear in both
qualities of the candidate. the Papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination for
the purpose of evaluation. Therefore a candidate will
3. The interview test is not intended to be a test either
be disqualified in case he/she does not appear in
of the specialised or general knowledge of the candidates
both the papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination.
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Part B—Main Examination PAPER-I
The main Examination is intended to assess the overall Essay : Candidates may be required to write essays on multiple
intellectual traits and depth of understanding of candidates topics. They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of
rather than merely the range of their information and memory. the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion, and to
write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact
The nature and standard of questions in the General
expression.
Studies papers (Paper II to Paper V) will be such that a well-
educated person will be able to answer them without any PAPER-II
specialized study. The questions will be such as to test a General Studies-I : Indian Heritage and Culture, History and
candidate’s general awareness of a variety of subjects, which Geography of the World and Society.
will have relevance for a career in Civil Services. The questions
• Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms,
are likely to test the candidate’s basic understanding of all
literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
relevant issues, and ability to analyze, and take a view on
conflicting socio-economic goals, objectives and demands. • Modern Indian history from about the middle of the
The candidates must give relevant, meaningful and succinct eighteenth century until the present- significant events,
answers. personalities, issues.
The scope of the syllabus for optional subject papers • The Freedom Struggle — its various stages and
(Paper VI and Paper VII) for the examination is broadly of the important contributors/contributions from different
honours degree 1evel i.e. a level higher than the bachelors’ parts of the country.
degree and lower than the masters’ degree. In the case of • Post-independence consolidation and reorganization
Engineering, Medical Science and law, the level corresponds within the country.
to the bachelors’ degree. • History of the world will include events from 18th century
Syllabi of the papers included in the scheme of Civil such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of
Services (Main) Examination are given as follows :— national boundaries, colonization, decolonization,
political philosophies like communism, capitalism,
QUALIFYING PAPERS ON INDIAN LANGUAGES AND
socialism etc.— their forms and effect on the society.
ENGLISH
• Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
The aim of the paper is to test the candidates's ability to
read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express • Role of women and women’s organization, population
his ideas clearly and correctly, in English and Indian language and associated issues, poverty and developmental
concerned. issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
The pattern of questions would be broadly as follows : • Effects of globalization on Indian society.
• Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism &
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
secularism.
(ii) Precis Writing.
• Salient features of world’s physical geography.
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary. • Distribution of key natural resources across the world
(iv) Short Essays. (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent);
factors responsible for the location of primary,
Indian Languages :—
secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts
(i) comprehension of given passages. of the world (including India).
(ii) Precis Writing. • Important Geophysical phenomena such as
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary. earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc.,
geographical features and their location-changes in
(iv) Short Essays. critical geographical features (including water-bodies
(v) Translation from English to the Indian Language and and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of
vice-versa. such changes.
Note 1 : The papers on Indian Languages and English will be PAPER-III
of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of General Studies- II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social
qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in these papers Justice and International relations.
will not be counted for ranking.
• Indian Constitution—historical underpinnings,
Note 2 : The candidates will have to answer the English and evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions
Indian Languages papers in English and the respective Indian and basic structure.
language (except where translation is involved).
• Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the

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PAPER-IV
States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal General Studies-III: Technology, Economic Development, Bio
structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management
levels and challenges therein.
• Indian Economy and issues relating to planning,
• Separation of powers between various organs dispute mobilization, of resources, growth, development and
redressal mechanisms and institutions. employment.
• Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme with • Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
that of other countries.
• Government Budgeting.
• Parliament and State legislatures—structure,
functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges • Major crops-cropping patterns in various parts of the
and issues arising out of these. country, - different types of irrigation and irrigation
systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural
• Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive produce and issues and related constraints; e-
and the Judiciary—Ministries and Departments of the technology in the aid of farmers.
Government; pressure groups and formal/informal
associations and their role in the Polity. • Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and
minimum support prices; Public Distribution System-
• Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act. objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues
• Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, of buffer stocks and food security; Technology
functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional missions; economics of animal-rearing.
Bodies. • Food processing and related industries in India- scope’
• Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies. and significance, location, upstream and downstream
• Government policies and interventions for development requirements, supply chain management.
in various sectors and issues arising out of their design • Land reforms in India.
and implementation. • Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in
• Development processes and the development industry industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.
—the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and • Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways
associations, donors, charities, institutional and other etc.
stakeholders.
• Investment models.
• Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the
population by the Centre and States and the performance • Science and Technology- developments and their
of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and applications and effects in everyday life.
Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of • Achievements of Indians in science & technology;
these vulnerable sections. indigenization of technology and developing new
• Issues relating to development and management of technology.
Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, • Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers,
Human Resources. robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues
• Issues relating to poverty and hunger. relating to intellectual property rights.
• Important aspects of governance, transparency and • Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation,
accountability, e-governance- applications, models, environmental impact assessment.
successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, • Disaster and disaster management.
transparency & accountability and institutional and • Linkages between development and spread of
other measures. extremism.
• Role of civil services in a democracy. • Role of external state and non-state actors in creating
• India and its neighborhood- relations. challenges to internal security.
• Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements • Challenges to internal security through communication
involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. networks, role of media and social networking sites in
• Effect of policies and politics of developed and internal security challenges, basics of cyber security;
developing countries on India’s interests, Indian money-laundering and its prevention.
diaspora. • Security challenges and their management in border
• Important International institutions, agencies and fora- areas - linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
their structure, mandate. • Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.
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PAPER-V social environment as factors of crop distribution and
General Studies- IV: Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude production. Agro ecology; cropping pattern as indicators of
environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards
This paper will include questions to test the candidates’ to crops, animals and humans. Climate change—International
attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity conventions and global initiatives. Green house effect and
in public life and his problem solving approach to various global warming. Advance tools for ecosystem analysis—
issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing with society. Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems
Questions may utilise the case study approach to determine (GIS).
these aspects. The following broad areas will be covered :
Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of
• Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and the country. Impact of high-yielding and short-duration
consequences of Ethics in-human actions; dimensions varieties on shifts in cropping patterns. Concepts of various
of ethics; ethics - in private and public relationships. cropping, and farming systems. Organic and Precision farming.
Human Values - lessons from the lives and teachings of Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses,
great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of family oil seeds, fibres, sugar, commercial and fodder crops.
society and educational institutions in inculcating
Important features, and scope of various types of
values.
forestry plantations such as social forestry, agro-forestry, and
• Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and natural forests : Propagation of forest plants. Forest products.
relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political Agro-forestry and value addition. Conservation of forest flora
attitudes; social influence and persuasion. and fauna.
• Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Service, Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and
integrity, impartiality and non-partisanship, objectivity, association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural,
dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and biological, and chemical control of weeds.
compassion towards the weaker-sections. Soil—physical, chemical and biological properties.
• Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and Processes and factors of soil formation. Soils of India. Mineral
application in administration and governance. and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining
• Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from soil productivity. Essential plant nutrients and other beneficial
India and world. elements in soils and plants. Principles of soil fertility, soil
testing and fertiliser recommendations, integrated nutrient
• Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public management Biofertilizers. Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-
administration: Status and problems; ethical concerns use efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in
and dilemmas in government and private institutions; soils. Efficient phosphoruse and potassium use. Problem soils
laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of and their reclamation. Soil factors affecting green house gas
ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance; emission.
strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance;
Soil conservation, integrated watershed management.
ethical issues in international relations and funding;
Soil erosion and its management. Dry land agriculture and its
corporate governance.
problems. Technology for stabilising agriculture production
• Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; in rainfed areas.
Philosophical basis of governance and probity;
Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production,
Information sharing and transparency in government,
criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of reducing
Right to Information, Codes of Ethics, Codes of Conduct,
run-off losses of irrigation water. Rainwater harvesting. Drip
Citizen’s Charters, Work culture, Quality of service
and sprinkler irrigation. Drainage of water-logged soils, quality
delivery, Utilization of public funds, challenges of
of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and
corruption.
water pollution. Irrigation projects in India.
• Case Studies on above issues.
Farm management, scope, importance and
PAPER-VI & PAPER VII characteristics, farm planning. Optimum resource use and
Optional Subject Papers I & II budgeting. Economics of different types of farming systems.
Marketing management strategies for development, market
Candidate may choose any optional subject from
intelligence. Price fluctuations and their cost; role of co-
amongst the List of Optional Subjects given in Para 2.
operatives in agricultural economy; types and systems of
AGRICULTURE farming and factors affecting them. Agricultural price policy.
PAPER-I Crop Insurance.
Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, Agricultural extension, its importance and role, methods
their sustainable management and conservation. Physical and of evaluation of extension programmes, socio-economic
survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers and
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landless agricultural labourers; Training programmes for importance. Classification of pests and diseases and their
extension workers. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in management. Intergrated pest and diseases management.
dissemination of Agricultural technologies. Non-Government Storage pests and their management. Biological control of
Organisation (NGO) and self-help group approach for rural pests and diseases. Epidemiology and forecasting of major
development. crop pests and diseases. Plant quarantine measures. Pesticides,
PAPER-II their formulation and modes of action.

Cell structure, function and cell cycle. Synthesis, Food production and consumption trends in India. Food
structure and function of genetic material. Laws of heredity. security and growing population—vision 2020. Reasons for
Chromosome structure, chromosomal aberrations, linkage and grain surplus. National and International food policies.
cross-over, and their significance in recombination breeding. Production, procurement, distribution constraints. Availability
Polyploidy, euploids and aneuploids. Mutation—and their of foodgtrains, per capita expenditure on food. Trends in
role in crop improvement. Heritability, sterility and poverty, Public Distribution System and Below Poverty Line
incompatibility, classification and their application in crop population, Targeted Public Distribution System (PDS), policy
improvement. Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex- implementation in context to globalization. Processing
influenced and sex-limited characters. constraints. Relation of food production to National Dietary
Guidelines and food consumption pattern. Food based dietary
History of plant breeding. Modes of reproduction, approaches to eliminate hunger. Nutrient deficiency—Micro
selfing and crossing techniques. Origin, evolution and nutrient deficiency : Protein Energy Malnutrition or Protein
domestication of crop plants, center of origin, law of Calorie Malnutrition (PEM or PCM), Micro nutrient deficiency
homologous series, crop genetic resources—conservation and HRD in context of work capacity of women and children.
and utilization. Application of principles of plant breeding, Food grain productivity and food security.
improvement of crop plants. Molecular markers and their
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mass and recurrent selections, combining ability, its PAPER-I
significance in plant breeding. Heterosis and its exploitation. 1. Animal Nutrition :
Somatic hybridization. Breeding for disease and pest
resistance. Role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization. 1.1 Partitioning of food energy within the animal. Direct
Role of genetic engineering and biotechnology in crop and indirect calorimetry. Carbon—nitrogen balance
improvement Gernetically modified crop plants. and comparative slaughter methods. Systems for
expressing energy value of foods in ruminants, pigs
Seed production and processing technologies. Seed and poultry. Energy requirements for maintenance,
certification, Seed testing and storage. DNA finger printing growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat
and seed registration. Role of public and private sectors in production.
seed production, and marketing. Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) issues, WTO issues and its impact on Agriculture. 1.2 Latest advances in protein nutrition. Energy protein
inter-relationships. Evaluation of protein quality. Use
Principles of Plant Physiology with reference to plant of NPN compounds in ruminant diets. Protein
nutrition, absorption, translocation and metabolism of requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy,
nutrients. Soil-water-plant relationship. lactation, egg, wool and meat production.
Enzymes and plant pigments; photosynthesis—modern 1.3 Major and trace minerals—Their sources,
concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and physiological functions and deficiency symptoms.
anaerobic respiration; C 3, C4 and CAM mechanisms. Toxic minerals. Mineral interactions. Role of
Carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. Growth and fatsoluble and water—soluble vitamins in the body,
development; photoperiodism and vernalization. Plant growth their sources and deficiency symptoms.
substances and their role in crop production. Physiology of
seed development and germination; dormancy. Stress 1.4 Feed additives—methane inhibitors, probiotics,
physiology—draught, salt and water stress. enzymes, antibiotics, hormones, oligosaccharides,
antioxidants, emulsifiers, mould inhibitors, buffers
Major fruits, plantation crops, vegetables, spices and etc. Use and abuse of growth promoters like
flower crops. Package practices of major horticultural crops. harmones and antibiotics—latest concepts.
Protected cultivation and high tech horticulture. Post-harvest
technology and value addition of fruits and vegetables. 1.5 Conservation of fodders. Storage of feeds and feed
Landscaping and commercial floriculture. Medicinal and ingredients. Recent advances in feed technology and
aromatic plants. Role of fruits and vegetables in human feed processing. Anti-nutritional and toxic factors
nutrition. present in livestock feeds. Feed analysis and quality
control. Digestibility trials—direct, indirect and
Diagnosis of pests and diseases of field crops, indicator methods. Predicting feed intake in grazing
vegetables, orchard and plantation crops and their economic animals.
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1.6 Advances in ruminant nutrition. Nutrient 2.8 Physiology of Milk Production, Reproduction and
requirements. Balanced rations. Feeding of calves, Digestion.—Current status of hormonal control of
pregnant, work animals and breeding bulls. Strategies mammary development, milk secretion and milk
for feeding milch animals during different stages of ejection. Male and Female reproductive organs, their
lactation cycle. Effect of feeding on milk composition. components and functions. Digestive organs and
Feeding of goats for meat and milk production. their functions.
Feeding of sheep for meat and wool production. 2.9 Environmental Physiology.—Physiological relations
1.7 Swine Nutrition. Nutrient requirements. Creep, starter, and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation,
grower and finisher rations. Feeding of pigs for lean environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms
meat production. Low cost rations for swine. involved in animal behaviour, climatology—various
1.8 Poultry nutrition. Special features of poultry nutrition. parameters and their importance. Animal ecology.
Nutrient requirements for meat and egg production. Physiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health
Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and production.
and broilers. 3. Animal Reproduction :
2. Animal Physiology : Semen quality.—Preservation and Artificial
2.1 Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration; Insemination—Components of semen, composition
excretion. Endocrine glands in health and disease. of spermatozoa, chemical and physical properties of
ejaculated semen, factors affecting semen in vivo
2.2 Blood constituents.—Properties and functions-blood and in vitro. Factors affecting semen production and
cell formation—Haemoglobin synthesis and quality, preservation, composition of diluents, sperm
chemistry-plasma proteins production, classification concentration, transport of diluted semen. Deep
and properties, coagulation of blood; Haemorrhagic freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine and
disorders—anti-coagulants—blood groups—Blood poultry. Detection of oestrus and time of insemination
volume—Plasma expanders-Buffer systems in blood. for better conception. Anoestrus and repeat
Biochemical tests and their significance in disease breeding.
diagnosis.
4. Livestock Production and Management :
2.3 Circulation.—Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle,
heart sounds, heart beat, electrocardiograms. Work 4.1 Commercial Dairy Farming.—Comparison of dairy
and efficiency of heart—effect of ions on heart farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying
function-metabolism of cardiac muscle, nervous and under mixed farming and as specialized farming,
chemical regulation of heart, effect of temperature economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm,
and stress on heart, blood pressuer and Capital and land requirement, organization of the
hypertension, osmotic regulation, arterial pulse, dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors
vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary determining the efficiency of dairy animal. Heard
and pulmonary circulation, Blood-Brain barrier recording, budgeting cost of milk production, pricing
Cerebrospinal fluid-circulation in birds. policy; Personnel Management. Developing Practical
and Economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of
2.4 Respiration.—Mechanism of respiration, Transport greens throughout the year, feed and fodder
and exchange of gases-neural control of respiration- requirements of Dairy Farm. Feeding regimes for
Chemo-receptors-hypoxia-respiration in birds. young stock and bulls, heifers and breeding animals;
2.5 Excretion.—Structure and function of kidney- new trends in feeding young and adult stock; Feeding
formation of urine-methods of studying renal records.
function-renal regulation of acid-base balance : 4.2 Commercial meat, egg and wool production.—
physiological constituents of urine-renal failure- Development of practical and economic rations for
passive venous congestion-Urinary secretion in sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry. Supply of
chicken-Sweat glands and their function. Bio- greens, fodder, feeding regimes for young and mature
chemical test for urinary dysfunction. stock. New trends in enhancing production and
2.6 Endocrine glands.—Functional disorders—their management. Capital and land requirements and
symptoms and diagnosis. Synthesis of hormones, socio-economic concept.
mechanism and control of secretion—hormonal 4.3 Feeding and management of animals under drought,
receptors-classification and function. flood and other natural calamities.
2.7 Growth and Animal Production.—Prenatal and 5. Genetics and Animal Breeding :
postnatal growth, maturation, growth curves,
measures of growth, factors affecting growth, 5.1 History of animal genetics. Mitosis and Meiosis :
conformation, body composition, meat quality. Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian
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genetics; Expression of genes; Linkage and crossing histology of organs—Vascular, Nervous, digestive,
over; Sex determination, sex influenced and sex respiratory, musculo-skeletal and urogenital
limited characters; Blood groups and polymorphism; systems—Endocrine glands—Integuments—sense
Chromosome aberrations; Cytoplasmic inheritance, organs.
Gene and its structure; DNA as a genetic material; 1.2 Embryology.—Embryology of vertebrates with
Genetic code and protein synthesis; Recombinant special reference to aves and domestic mammals
DNA technology. Mutations, types of mutations, gametogenesis-fertilization-germ layers-foetal
methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate, membranes and placentation-types of placenta in
Transgenesis. domestic mammals-Teratology-twins and twinning-
5.2 Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding— organogenesis-germ layer derivatives-endodermal,
Quantitative Vs. Qualitative traits; Hardy Weinberg mesodermal and ectodermal derivatives.
Law; Population Vs. Individual; Gene and genotypic 1.3 Bovine Anatomy.—Regional Anatomy : Paranasal
frequency; Forces changing gene frequency; sinuses of OX— surface anatomy of salivary glands.
Random drift and small populations; Theory of path Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandi-
coefficient; Inbreeding, methods of estimating buloalveolar, mental and cornnal nerve block.
inbreeding coefficient, systems of inbreeding; Regional anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudental
Effective population size; Breeding value, estimation nerve, median, ulnar and radial nervestibial, fibular
of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation; and digital nerves—Cranial nerves-structures
Partitioning of variation; Genotype X environment involved in epidural anaesthesia-superficial lymph
correlation and genotype X environment interaction; nodes-surface anatomy of visceral organs of thoracic,
role of multiple measurements; Resemblance between abdominal and pelvic cavities-comparative-features
relatives. of locomotor apparatus and their application in the
5.3 Breeding Systems.—Breeds of livestsock and biomechanics of mammalian body.
Poultry. Heritability, repeatability and genetic and 1.4 Anatomy of Fowl.—Musculo-skeletal system-
phenotypic correlations, their methods of estimation functional anatomy in relation to respiration and
and precision of estimates; Aids to selection and flying, digestion and egg production.
their relative merits; Individual, pedigree, family and 1.5 Pharmacology and therapeutics drugs.—Cellular
within family selection; Pregnency testing; Methods level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.
of selection; Construction of selection indices and Drugs acting on fluids and electrolyte balance. Drugs
their uses; Comparative evaluation of genetic gains acting on Autonomic nervous system. Modern
through various selection methods; Indirect concepts of anaesthesia and dissociative
selection and correlated response; Inbreeding, out anaesthetics. Autocoids. Antimicrobials and
breeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis principles of chemotherapy in microbial infections.
of breeds; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial Use of hormones in therapeutics—chemotherapy of
production; Selection for general and specific parasitic infections. Drug and economic concerns in
combining ability; Breeding for threshold characters. the Edible tissues of animals—chemotherapy of
Sire index. Neoplastic diseases. Toxicity due to “insecticides,
6. Extension : plants, metals, non-metals, zootoxins and
Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles mycotoxins”.
of extension. Different Methods adopted to educate 1.6 Veterinary Hygiene with reference to water, air and
farmers under rural conditions. Generation of habitation.—Assessment of pollution of water, air
technology, its transfer and feedback. Problems and and soil—Importance of climate in animal health—
constraints in transfer of technology. Animal effect of environment on animal function and
husbandry programmes for rural development. performance relationship between industrialisation
and animal agriculture—animal housing requirements
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for specific categories of domestic animals viz.
1. Anatomy, Pharmacology and Hygiene : pregnant cows and sows, milking cows, broiler
1.1 Histology and Histological Techniques : Paraffin birds—stress, strain and productivity in relation to
embedding technique of tissue processing and H.E. animal habitation.
staining—Freezing microtomy—Microscopy Bright 2. Animal Diseases :
field microscope and electron microscope. Cytology-
2.1 Etiology, epidemiology pathogenesis, symptoms,
structure of cell organells and inclusions; cell
post-moretem lesions, diagnosis, and control of
division-cell types—Tissues and their classification-
infectious diseases of cattle, sheep and goat, horses,
embryonic and adult tissues—Comparative
pigs and poultry.
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2.2 Etiology, epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis, marketing milk products such as Cream, Butter, Ghee,
treatment of production diseases of cattle, horse, Khoa, Channa, Cheese, condensed, evaporated, dried
pig and poultry. milk and baby food, lce cream and Kulfi; by-products,
2.3 Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds. whey products, butter milk, lactose and casein.
Testing, grading, judging milk products—BIS and
2.4 Diagnosis and treatment of non-specific conditions Agmark specifications, legal standards, quality
like impaction, Bloat, Diarrhoea, Indigestion, control nutritive properties. Packaging processing
dehydration, stroke, poisioning. and operational control. Costing of dairy products.
2.5 Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. 5. Meat Hygiene and Technology :
2.6 Principles and methods of immunisation of animals 5.1 Meat Hygiene
against specific diseases—hard immunity—disease
free zones—‘zero’ disease concept— 5.1.1 Ante mortem care and management of food animals,
chemoprophylaxis. stunning, slaughter and dressing operations; abattoir
requirements and designs; Meat inspection
2.7 Anaesthesia.—local, regional and general- procedures and judgement of carcass meat cuts—
prenesthetic medication. Symptoms and surgical grading of carcass meat cuts—duties and functions
interference in fractures and dislocation. Hernia, of Veterinarians in wholesome meat production.
choking abomassal displacement—Caesarian
operations. Rumenotomy—Castrations. 5.1.2 Hygienic methods of handling production of meat.—
Spoilage of meat and control measures—Post-
2.8 Disease investigation techniques.—Materials for slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and
laboratory investigation—Establishment. Animal factors that influence them—Quality improvement
Health Centres—Disease free zone. methods—Adulteration of meat and detection—
3. Veterinary Public Health : Regulatory provisions in Meat trade and Industry.
3.1 Zoonoses.—Classification, definition, role of animals 5.2 Meat Technology
and birds in prevalence and transmission of zoonotic 5.2.1 Physical and chemical characteristics of meat.—
diseases—occupational zoonotic diseases. Meat emulsions—Methods of preservation of
3.2 Epidemiology.—Principle, definition of meat—Curing, canning, irradiation, packaging of meat
epidemiological terms, application of epidemiological and meat products, processing and formulations.
measures in the study of diseases and disease control. 5.3 By-products.—Slaughter house by-products and
Epidemiological features of air, water and food borne their utilisation—Edible and inedible by products—
infections. OIE regulation, WTO, sanitary and Social and economic implications of proper utilisation
phytosanitary measures. of slaughter house by-products—Organ products
3.3 Veterinary Jurisprudence.—Rules and Regulations for food and pharmaceuticals.
for improvement of animal quality and prevention of 5.4 Poultry Products Technology.—Chemical
animal diseases—State and Central Rules for composition and nutritive value of poultry meat, pre-
prevention of animal and animal product borne slaughter care and management. Slaughtering
diseases—S.P. C.A.—Veterolegal cases— techniques, inspection, preservation of poultry meat
Certificates—Materials and Methods of collection and products. Legal and BIS standards.
of samples for veterolegal investigation.
Structure composition and nutritive value of eggs
4. Milk and Milk Products Technology : Microbial spoilage. Preservation and maintenance.
4.1 Market Milk.—Quality, testing and grading of raw Marketing of poultry meat, eggs and products.
milk. Processing, packaging, storing, distribution, 5.5 Rabbit/Fur Animal farming.—Rabbit meat
marketing defects and their control. Preparation of production. Disposal and utilization of fur and wool
the following milks : Pasteurized, standardized, toned, and recycling of waste by products. Grading of wool.
double toned, sterilized, homogenized, reconstituted,
recombined and flavoured milks. Preparation of ANTHROPOLOGY
cultured milks, cultures and their management, PAPER-I
yoghurt, Dahi, Lassi and Srikhand. Preparation of 1.1 Meaning, Scope and development of Anthropology.
flavoured and sterilized milks. Legal standards.
Sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and 1.2 Relationships with other disciplines : Social Sciences,
for the milk plant equipment. behavioural Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical
Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities.
4.2 Milk Products Technology.—Selection of raw
materials, processing, storing, distributing and 1.3 Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and
relevance :
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(a) Social-cultural Anthropology. 2.1 The Nature of Culture : The concept and
(b) Biological Anthropology. Characteristics of culture and civilization;
Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis cultural Relativism.
(c) Archaeological Anthropology.
2.2 The Nature of Society : Concept of Society; Society
(d) Linguistic Anthropology. and Culture; Social Institution; Social groups; and
1.4 Human Evolution and emergence of Man : Social stratification.
(a) Biological and Cultural factors in human 2.3 Marriage : Definition and universality; Laws of
evolution. marriage (endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy,
hypogamy, incest taboo); Type of marriage
(b) Theories of Organic Evolution (Pre-Darwinian, (monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage).
Darwinian and Post-Darwinian). Functions of marriage; Marriage regulations
(c) Synthetic theory of evolution; Brief outline of (preferential, prescriptive and proscriptive); Marriage
terms and concepts of evolutionary biology payments (bride wealth and dowry).
(Doll’s rule, Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, 2.4 Family : Definition and universality; Family,
parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, household and domestic groups; functions of family;
and mosaic evolution). Types of family (from the perspectives of structure,
1.5 Characteristics of Primates; Evolutionary Trend and blood relation, marriage, residence and succession);
Primate Taxonomy; Primate Adaptations; (Arboreal Impact of urbanization, industrialization and feminist
and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate movements on family.
Behaviour; Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates; 2.5 Kinship : Consanguinity and Affinity; Principles and
Living Major Primates; Comparative Anatomy of Man types of descent (Unilineal, Double, Bilateral
and Apes; Skeletal changes due to erect posture and Ambilineal); Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan,
its implications. phratry, moiety and kindred); Kinship terminology
1.6 Phylogenetic status, characteristics and (descriptive and classificatory); Descent, Filiation
geographical distribution of the following : and Complimentary Filiation;Decent and Alliance.
(a) Plio-preleistocene hominids in South and East 3. Economic Organization : Meaning, scope and
Africa—Australopithecines. relevance of economic anthropology; Formalist and
Substantivist debate; Principles governing
(b) Homo erectus : Africa (Paranthropus), Europe
production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity,
(Homo erectus (heidelbergensis), Asia (Homo
redistribution and market), in communities, subsisting
erectus javanicus, Homo erectus pekinensis.
on hunting and gathering, fishing, swiddening,
(c) Neanderthal man—La-chapelle-aux-saints pastoralism, horticulture, and agriculture;
(Classical type), Mt. Carmel (Progressive type). globalization and indigenous economic systems.
(d) Rhodesian man. 4. Political Organization and Social Control : Band,
(e) Homo saoiens—Cromagnon, Grimaldi and tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of
Chancelede. power, authority and legitimacy; social control, law
and justice in simple Societies.
1.7 The biological basis of Life : The Cell, DNA structure
5. Religion : Anthropological approaches to the study
and replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation,
of religion (evolutionary, psychological and
Chromosomes, and Cell Division.
functional); monotheism and polytheism; sacred and
1.8 (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. profane; myths and rituals; forms of religion in tribal
Chronology : Relative and Absolute Dating and peasant Societies (animism, animatism, fetishism,
methods. naturism and totemism); religion, magic and science
(b) Cultural Evolution—Broad Outlines of distinguished; magico-religious functionaries (priest,
Prehistoric cultures : shaman, medicine man, sorcerer and witch).
(i) Paleolithic 6. Anthropological theories :
(ii) Mesolithic (a) Classical evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan and
Frazer)
(iii) Neolithic
(b) Historical particularism (Boas) Diffusionism
(iv) Chalcolithic (British, German and American)
(v) Copper-Bronze Age (c) Functionalism (Malinowski); Structural—
(vi) Iron Age Functionlism (Radcliffe-Brown)
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(d) Structuralism (L’evi-Strauss and E. Leach) 9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological
(e) Culture and personality (Benedict, Mead, variation of non-metric and characters. Racial criteria,
Linton, Kardiner and Cora-du Bois) racial traits in relation to heredity and environment;
biological basis of racial classification, racial
(f) Neo—evolutionism (Childe, White, Steward,
differentiation and race crossing in man.
Sahlins and Service)
(g) Cultural materialism (Harris) 9.6 Age, sex and population variation as genetic marker :
ABO, Rh blood groups, HLA Hp, transferring, Gm,
(h) Symbolic and interpretive theories (Turner,
blood enzymes. Physiological characteristics-Hb
Schneider and Geertz)
level, body fat, pulse rate, respiratory functions and
(i) Cognitive theories (Tyler, Conklin) sensory perceptions in different cultural and socio-
(j) Post-modernism in anthropology. ecomomic groups.
7. Culture, Language and Communication : 9.7 Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology :
Nature, origin and characteristics of language; verbal Bio-cultural Adaptations—Genetic and Non-genetic
and non-verbal communication; social contex of factors. Man’s physiological responses to
language use. environmental stresses: hot desert, cold, high altitude
8. Research methods in Anthropology : climate.
(a) Fieldwork tradition in anthropology 9.8 Epidemiological Anthropology : Health and disease.
Infectious and non-infectious diseases, Nutritional
(b) Distinction between technique, method and
deficiency related diseases.
methodology
(c) Tools of data collection : observation, interview, 10. Concept of human growth and Development : Stages
schedules, questionnaire, case study, genealogy, of growth—pre-natal, natal, infant, childhood,
life-history, oral history, secondary sources of adolescence, maturity, senescence.
information, participatory methods. —Factors affecting growth and development genetic,
(d) Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural and
socio-economic.
9.1 Human Genetics : Methods and Application :
Methods for study of genetic principles in man-family —Ageing and senescence. Theories and
study (pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, observations
co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal —Biological and chronological longevity. Human
and karyo-type analysis), biochemical methods, physique and somatotypes. Methodologies for
immunological methods, D.N.A. technology and growth studies.
recombinant technologies. 11.1 Relevance of menarche, menopause and
9.2 Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single other bioevents to fertility. Fertility patterns and
factor, multifactor, lethal, sub-lethal and polygenic differentials.
inheritance in man.
11.2 Demographic theories-biological, social and cultural.
9.3 Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection,
11.3 Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing
Mendelian population, Hardy-Weinberg law; causes
fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality.
and changes which bring down frequency-mutation,
isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding and genetic 12. Applications of Anthropology : Anthropology of
drift. Consanguineous and non-consanguineous sports, Nutritional anthropology, Anthroplogy in
mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous designing of defence and other equipments, Forensic
and cousin marriages. Anthroplogy, Methods and principles of personal
9.4 Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, identification and reconstruction, Applied human
methodology. genetics—Paternity diagnosis, genetic counselling
and eugenics, DNA technology in diseases and
(a) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders). medicine, serogenetics and cytogenetics in
(b) Sex chromosomal aberration- Klinefelter (XXY), reproductive biology.
Turner (XO), Super female (XXX), intersex and
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other syndromic disorders.
1.1 Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization—
(c) Autosomal aberrations- Down syndrome, Patau,
Prehistoric (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and
Edward and Cri-du-chat syndromes.
Neolithic-Chalcolithic), Protohistoric (Indus
(d) Genetic imprints in human disease, genetic Civilization). Pre-Harappan, Harappan and post-
screening, genetic counseling, human DNA Harappan cultures. Contributions of the tribal
profiling, gene mapping and genome study. cultures to Indian civilization.
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1.2 Palaeo—Anthropological evidences from India with 7.1 Problems of exploitation and deprivation of
special reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other
(Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus and Narmada Man). Backward Classes. Constitutional safeguards for
Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes.
1.3. Ethno-archaeology in India: The concept of ethno-
archaeology; Survivals and Parallels among the 7.2 Social change and contemporary tribal societies :
hunting, foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant Impact of modern democratic institutions,
communities including arts and crafts producing development programmes and welfare measures on
communities. tribals and weaker sections.
2. Demographic profile of India—Ethnic and linguistic 7.3 The concept of ethnicity; Ethnic conflicts and
elements in the Indian population and their political developments; Unrest among tribal
distribution. Indian population—factors influencing communities; Regionalism and demand for
its structure and growth. autonomy; Pseudo-tribalism. Social change among
the tribes during colonial and post-Independent India.
3.1 The structure and nature of traditional Indian social
system—Varnashram, Purushartha, Karma, Rina and 8.1 Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
Rebirth. and other religions on tribal societies.

3.2 Caste system in India— Structure and characteristics 8.2 Tribe and nation state—a comparative study of tribal
Varna and caste, Theories of origin of caste system, communities in India and other countries.
Dominant caste, Caste mobility, Future of caste 9.1 History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies,
system, Jajmani system. Tribe-case continuum. plans, programmes of tribal development and their
implementation. The concept of PTGs (Primitive
3.3 Sacred Complex and Nature-Man-Spirit Complex.
Tribal Groups), their distribution, special programmes
3.4. Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity for their development. Role of N.G.O.s in tribal
of Indian society. development.
4. Emergence, growth and development in India— 9.2 Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.
Contributions of the 18th, 19th and early 20th Century
9.3 Contributions of anthropology to the understanding
scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian
of regionalism, communalism and ethnic and political
anthropologists to tribal and caste studies.
movements.
5.1 Indian Village—Significane of village study in India; BOTANY
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relations; Agrarian relations in Indian villages; Impact 1. Microbiology and Plant Pathology :
of globalization on Indian villages. Structure and reproduction/multiplication of
5.2 Linguistic and religious minorities and their social, viruses,viroids, bacteria, fungi and mycoplasma;
political and economic status. Applications of microbiology in agriculture, industry,
medicine and in control of soil and water pollution;
5.3 Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-
Prion and Prion hypothesis.
cultural change in Indian society: Sanskritization,
Westernization, Modernization; Inter-play of little and Important crop diseases caused by viruses, bacteria,
great traditions; Panchayati Raj and social change; mycoplasma, fungi and nematodes; Modes of
Media and Social change. infection and dissemination; Molecular basis of
infection and disease resistance/defence;
6.1 Tribal situation in India—Bio-genetic variability,
Physiology of parasitism and control measures.
linguistic and socio-economic characteristics of the
Fungal toxins. Modelling and disease forecasting;
tribal populations and their distribution.
Plant quarantine.
6.2 Problems of the tribal Communities—Land 2. Cryptogams :
alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor
educational facilities, unemployment, under- Algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes-
employment, health and nutrition. structure and reproduction from evolutionary
viewpoint; Distribution of Cryptogams in India and
6.3 Developmental projects and their impact on tribal their ecological and economic importance.
displacement and problems of rehabilitation.
3. Phanerogams :
Development of forest policy and tribals. Impact of
urbanisation and industrialization on tribal Gymnosperms : Concept of Progymnosperms.
populations. Classification and distribution of gymnosperms.
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Salient features of Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Coniferales transport and vesicular transport; Structure and
and Gnetales, their structure and reproduction. function of cell organelles (chloroplasts,
General account of Cycadofilicales, Bennettitales and mitochondria, ER, dictyosomes ribosomes,
Cordiaitailes; Geological time scale; Type of fossils endosomes,lysosomes, peroxisomes; Cytoskelaton
and their study techniques. and microtubules; Nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear pore
Angiosperms : Systematics, anatomy, embryology, complex; Chromatin and nucleosome; Cell signalling
palynology and phylogency. and cell receptors; Signal transduction Mitosis and
meiosis; molecular basis of cell cycle. Numerical and
Taxonomic hierarchy; International Code of Botanical structural variations in chromosomes and their
Nomenclature; Numerical taxomomy and significance; Chromatin organization and packaging
chemotaxomomy; Evidence from anatomy, of genome; Polytene chromosomes; B-
embryology and palynology. chromosomes—structure, behaviour and
Origin and evolution of angiosperms; Comparative significance.
account of various systems of classification of 2. Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution :
angiosperms; Study of angiospermic families—
Mangnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Brassicaceae, Development of genetics, and gene versus allele
Rosaceae, Fabaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Malvaceae, concepts (Pseudoalleles); Quantitative genetics and
Dipterocarpaceae, Apiaceae, Asclepiadaceae, multiple factors; Incomplete dominance, polygenic
Verbenaceae, Solanaceae, Rubiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, inheritance, multiple alleles; Linkage and crossing
Asteraceae, Poaceae, Arecaceae, Liliaceae, over of gene mapping including molecular maps (idea
Musaceae and Orchidaceae. of mapping, function); Sex chromosomes and sex-
linked inheritance; sex determination and molecular
Stomata and their types; Glandular and non-glandular basis of sex differentiation; Mutations (biochemical
trichomes; Unusual secondary growth; Anatomy of and molecular basis); Cytoplasmic inheritance and
C3 and C4 plants; Xylem and phloem differentiation; cytoplasmic genes (including genetics of male
Wood anatomy. sterility).
Development of male and female gametophytes, Structure and synthesis of nucleic acids and
pollination, fertilization; Endosperm—its proteins; Genetic code and regulation of gene
development and function. Patterns of embryo expression; Gene silencing; Multigene families;
development; Polyembroyony, apomixes; Organic evolution-evidences, mechanism and
Applications of palynology; Experimental theories.
embryology including pollen storage and test-tube
fertilization. Role of RNA in origin and evolution.
4. Plant Resource Development : 3. Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Biostatistics :
Domestication and introduction of plants; Origin of Methods of plant breeding—introduction, selection
cultivated plants, Vavilov’s centres of origin. Plants and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass
as sources for food, fodder, fibres, spices, beverages, selection, bulk method); Mutation, polyploidy, male
edible oils, drugs, narcotics, insecticides, timber, sterility and heterosis breeding. Use of apomixes in
gums, resins and dyes; latex, cellulose, starch and plant breeding; DNA sequencing; Genetic
its products; Perfumery; Importance of Ethnobotany engineering—methods of transfer of genes;
in Indian context; Energy plantations; Botanical Transgenic crops and biosafety aspects;
Gardens and Herbaria. Development and use of molecular markers in plant
breeding; Tools and techniques—probe, southern
5. Morphogenesis : blotting, DNA fingerprinting, PCR and FISH.
Totipotency, polarity, symmetry and differentiation; Standard deviation and coefficient of variation (CV).
Cell, tissue, organ and protoplast culture. Somatic Tests of significance (Z-test, t-test and chi-square
hybrids and Cybrids; Micropropagation; Somaclonal tests). Probability and distributions (normal, binomial
variation and its applications; Pollen haploids, and Poisson). Correlation and regression.
embryo rescue methods and their applications. 4. Physiology and Biochemistry :
PAPER-II Water relations, mineral nutrition and ion transport,
1. Cell Biology : mineral deficiencies. Photosynthesis—photochemical
Techniques of cell biology. Prokaryotic and reactions, photophosphorylation and carbon fixation
eukaryotic cells—structural and ultrastructural pathways; C3, C4 and CAM pathways; Mechanism
details; Structure and function of extracellular matrix of pholem transport, Respiration (anerobic and
(cell wall) and membranes-cell adhesion, membrane aerobic, including fermentation)—electron transport
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chain and oxidative phosphorylation; 3. Solid State :
Photorespiration; Chemiosmotic theory and ATP Crystal systems; Designation of crystal faces, lattice
synthesis; Lipid metabolism; Nitrogen fixation and structures and unit cell; Bragg's law; X-ray diffraction
nitrogen metabolism. Enzymes, coenzymes; Energy by crystals; Close packing, radius ratio rules,
transfer and energy conservation. Importance of calculation of some limiting radius ratio values;
secondary metabolites. Pigments as photoreceptors Structures of NaCl, ZnS, CsCl, CaF2; Stoichiometric
(plastidial pigments and phytochrome). Plant and nonstoichiometric defects, impurity defects,
movements; Photoperiodism and flowering, semi-conductors.
vernalization, senescence; Growth substances—their
chemical nature, role and applications in agri- 4. The Gaseous State and Transport Phenomenon :
horticulture; growth indices, growth movements. Equation of state for real gases, intermolecular
Stress physiology (heat, water, salinity, metal); Fruit interactions, and critical phenomena and liquefaction
and seed physiology. Dormancy, storage and of gases; Maxwell’s distribution of speeds,
germination of seed. Fruit ripening—its molecular intermolecular collisions, collisions on the wall and
basis and manipulation. effusion; Thermal conductivity and viscosity of ideal
5. Ecology and Plant Geography : gases.

Concept of ecosystem; Ecological factors. Concepts 5. Liquid State :


and dynamics of community; Plant succession. Kelvin equation; Surface tension and surface enercy,
Concepts of biosphere; Ecosystems; Conservation; wetting and contact angle, interfacial tension and
Pollution and its control (including phytoreme- capillary action.
diation); Plant indicators; Environment (Protection) 6. Thermodynamics :
Act.
Work, heat and internal energy; first law of
Forest types of India—‘Ecological and ecomomic thermodynamics.
importance of forests, afforestation, deforestation
and social forestry; Endangered plants, endemism Second law of thermodynamics; entropy as a state
IUCN categories, Red Data Books; Biodiversity and function, entropy changes in various processes,
its conservation; Protected Area Network; entropy-reversibility and irreversibility, Free energy
Convention of Biological Diversity, Farmers’ Rights; functions; Thermodynamic equation of state;
and Intellectual Property Rights; Concept of Maxwell relations; Temperature, volume and pressure
Sustainable Development; Biogeochemical cycles. dependence of U, H, A, G, Cp and Cv, α and β ; J-T
Global warming and climatic change; Invasive effect and inversion temperature; criteria for
species; Environmetal Impact Assessment; equilibrium, relation between equilibrium constant
Phytogeographical regions of India. and thermodynamic quantities; Nernst heat theorem,
introductory idea of third law of thermodynamics.
CHEMISTRY
7. Phase Equilibria and Solutions :
PAPER-I
Clausius-Clapeyron equation; phase diagram for a
1. Atomic Structure :
pure substance; phase equilibria in binary systems,
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle Schrodinger wave partially miscible liquids—upper and lower critical
equation (time independent); Interpretation of wave solution temperatures; partial molar quantities, their
function, particle in one- dimensional box, quantum significance and determination; excess
numbers, hydrogen atom wave functions; Shapes of thermodynamic functions and their determination.
s, p and d orbitals.
8. Electrochemistry :
2. Chemical bonding :
Debye-Huckel theory of strong electrolytes and
Ionic bond, characteristics of ionic compounds, Debye-Huckel limiting Law for various equilibrium
lattice energy, Born-Haber cycle; covalent bond and and transport properties.
its general characteristics, polarities of bonds in
Galvanic cells, concentration cells; electrochemical
molecules and their dipole moments; Valence bond
series, measurement of e.m.f. of cells and its
theory, concept of resonance and resonance energy;
applications fuel cells and batteries.
Molecular orbital theory (LCAO method); bonding

H2 +, H2 He2 + to Ne2, NO, CO, HF, CN , Comparison Processes at electrodes; double layer at the interface;
of valence bond and molecular orbital theories, bond rate of charge transfer, current density; overpotential;
order, bond strength and bond length. electroanalytical techniques : amperometry, ion
selective electrodes and their use.
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9. Chemical Kinetics: compounds; Sulphur—nitrogen compounds,
Differential and integral rate equations for zeroth, noble gas compounds.
first, second and fractional order reactions; Rate 15. General Chemistry of ‘f’ Block Element:
equations involving reverse, parallel, consecutive Lanthanides and actinides: separation, oxidation
and chain reactions; Branching chain and states, magnetic and spectral properties;
explosions; effect of temperature and pressure on lanthanide contraction.
rate constant. Study of fast reactions by stop-flow
and relaxation methods. Collisions and transition PAPER-II
state theories. 1. Delocalised Covalent Bonding :
10. Photochemistry: Aromaticity, anti-aromaticity; annulenes, azulenes,
Absorption of light; decay of excited state by tropolones, fulvenes, sydnones.
different routes; photochemical reactions between 2. (i) Reaction mechanisms : General methods (both
hydrogen and halogens and their quantum yields. kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanisms
11. Surface Phenomena and Catalysis: or organic reactions : isotopies, mathod cross-
over experiment, intermediate trapping,
Adsorption from gases and solutions on solid stereochemistry; energy of activation;
adsorbents; Langmuir and B.E.T. adsorption thermodynamic control and kinetic control of
isotherms; determination of surface area, reactions.
characteristics and mechanism of reaction on
heterogeneous catalysts. (ii) Reactive intermediates : Generation, geometry,
stability and reactions of carboniumions and
12. Bio-inorganic Chemistry: carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes and
Metal ions in biological systems and their role in nitrenes.
ion-transport across the membranes (molecular (iii) Substitution reactions :—SN 1, SN 2, and SN i,
mechanism), oxygen-uptake proteins, cytochromes mechanisms ; neighbouring group participation;
and ferrodoxins. electrophilic and nucleophilic reactions of aromatic
13. Coordination Chemistry : compounds including heterocyclic compounds—
(i) Bonding in transition of metal complexes. Valence pyrrole, furan, thiophene and indole.
bond theory, crystal field theory and its (iv) Elimination reactions :—E1, E2 and E1cb
modifications; applications of theories in the mechanisms; orientation in E2 reactions—
explanation of magnetism and elctronic spectra Saytzeff and Hoffmann; pyrolytic syn
of metal complexes. elimination—acetate pyrolysis, Chugaev and
(ii) Isomerism in coordination compounds; IUPAC Cope eliminations.
nomenclature of coordination compounds; (v) Addition reactions :—Electrophilic addition to
stereochemistry of complexes with 4 and 6 C=C and C≡C; nucleophilic addition to C=O, C≡N,
coordination numbers; chelate effect and conjugated olefins and carbonyls.
polynuclear complexes; trans effect and its (vi) Reactions and Rearrangements :—(a) Pinacol-
theories; kinetics of substitution reactions in pinacolone, Hoffmann, Beckmann, Baeyer-Villiger,
square-planar complexes; thermodynamic and Favorskii, Fries, Claisen, Cope, Stevens and
kinetic stability of complexes. Wagner—Meerwein rearrangements.
(iii) EAN rule, Synthesis structure and reactivity of (b) Aldol condensation, Claisen condensation,
metal carbonyls; carboxylate anions, carbonyl Dieckmann, Perkin, Knoevenagel, Witting,
hydrides and metal nitrosyl compounds. Clemmensen, Wolff-Kishner, Cannizzaro and
(iv) Complexes with aromatic systems, synthesis, von Richter reactions; Stobbe, benzoin and
structure and bonding in metal olefin complexes, acyloin condensations; Fischer indole
alkyne complexes and cyclopentadienyl synthesis, Skraup synthesis, Bischler-
complexes; coordinative unsaturation, oxidative Napieralski, Sandmeyer, Reimer-Tiemann and
addition reactions, insertion reactions, fluxional Reformatsky reactions.
molecules and their characterization; Compounds 3. Pericyclic reactions :—Classification and
with metal—metal bonds and metal atom clusters. examples; Woodward-Hoffmann rules—
14. Main Group Chemistry: electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition reactions
Boranes, borazines, phosphazenes and cyclic [2+2 and 4+2] and sigmatropic shifts [1, 3; 3, 3 and
phosphazene, silicates and silicones, Interhalogen 1, 5], FMO approach.
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4. (i) Preparation and Properties of Polymers: Organic 1.2 Strength of Materials :
polymerspolyethylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl Simple Stress and Strain, Elastic constants, axially
chloride, teflon, nylon, terylene, synthetic and loaded compression members, Shear force and
natural rubber. bending moment, theory of simple bending, Shear
(ii) Biopolymers: Structure of proteins, DNA and Stress distribution across cross sections, Beams
RNA. of uniform strength.
5. Synthetic Uses of Reagents: Deflection of beams: Mecaulay’s method, Mohr’s
OsO4, HlO4, CrO3, Pb(OAc)4, SeO2, NBS, B2H6, Na- Moment area method, Conjugate beam method,
Liquid NH3, LiAIH4, NaBH4, n-BuLi, MCPBA. unit load method. Torsion of Shafts, Elastic
stability of columns, Euler’s, Rankine’s and Secant
6. Photochemistry :—Photochemical reactions of
formulae.
simple organic compounds, excited and ground
states, singlet and triplet states, Norrish-Type I 1.3 Structural Analysis :
and Type II reactions. Castiglianio’s theorems I and II, unit load method,
7. Spectroscopy: of consistent deformation applied to beams and
pin jointed trusses. Slope-deflection, moment
Principle and applications in structure
distribution.
elucidation :
Rolling loads and Influences lines : Influences
(i) Rotational—Diatomic molecules; isotopic
lines for Shear Force and Bending moment at a
substitution and rotational constants.
section of a beam. Criteria for maximum shear force
(ii) Vibrational—Diatomic molecules, linear triatomic and bending Moment in beams traversed by a
molecules, specific frequencies of functional system of moving loads. Influences lines for
groups in polyatomic molecules. simply supported plane pin jointed trusses.
(iii) Electronic—Singlet and triplet states. n→π∗ and Arches : Three hinged, two hinged and fixed
π→π∗ transitions; application to conjugated arches, rib shortening and temperature effects.
double bonds and conjugated carbonyls
Matrix mehods of analysis : Force method and
Woodward-Fieser rules; Charge transfer spectra.
displacement method of analysis of indeterminate
(iv) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1HNMR) : Basic beams and rigid frames.
principle; chemical shift and spin-spin interaction
Plastic Analysis of beams and frames : Theory of
and coupling constants.
plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method,
(v) Mass Spectrometry :—Parent peak, base peak, Mechanism method.
metastable peak, McLafferty rearrangement.
Unsymmetrical bending : Moment of inertia,
CIVIL ENGINEERING product of inertia, position of Neutral Axis and
PAPER-I Principal axes, calculation of bending stresses.
1. Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials 2. Design of Structures : Steel, Concrete and
and Structural Analysis. Masonry Structures.
1.1 Engineering Mechanics : 2.1 Structural Steel Design :
Units and Dimensions, SI Units, Vectors, Concept Structural steel : Factors of safety and load
of Force, Concept of particle and rigid body. factors. Riveted, bolted and welded joints and
Concurrent, Non- Concurrent and parallel forces connections. Design of tension and compression
in a plane, moment of force free body diagram, members, beams of built up section, riveted and
conditions of equilibrium, Principle of virtual work, welded plate girders, gantry girders, stancheons
equivalent force system. with battens and lacings.
First and Second Moment of area, Mass moment 2.2 Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures :
of Inertia. Concept of mix design. Reinforced Concrete :
Static Friction. Working Stress and Limit State method of design—
Kinematics and Kinetics: Recommendations of I. S. codes. Design of one
way and two way slabs, stair-case slabs, simple
Kinematics in cartesian Co-ordinates, motion
and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L
under uniform and non-uniform acceleration,
sections. Compression members under direct load
motion under gravity. Kinetics of particle :
with or without eccentricity.
Momentum and Energy principles, collision of
elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies. Cantilever and Counter fort type retaining walls.
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Water tanks : Design requirements for Rectangular Water in soil—capillary and structural—effective
and circular tanks resting on ground. stress and pore water pressure—permeability
Prestressed Concrete : Methods and systems of concept—filed and laboratory determination of
prestressing, anchorages, Analysis and design permeability—Seepage pressure—quick sand
of sections for flexure based on working stress, conditions—Shear strength determination—
loss of prestress. Mohr Coulomb concept.
Design of brick masonry as per I. S. Codes Compaction of soil—Laboratory and filed test.
3. Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow and Compressibility and consolidation concept—
Hydraulic Machines : consolidation theory—consolidation settlement
analysis.
3.1 Fluid Mechanics :
Earth pressure theory and analysis for retaining
Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid
walls, Application for sheet piles and Braced
statics including forces acting on plane and curve
excavation.
surfaces.
Bearing capacity of soil—approaches for
Kinematics and Dynamics of Fluid flow : Velocity
analysis- Filed tests—settlement analysis—
and accelerations, stream lines, equation of
stability of slope of earth walk.
continuity, irrotational and rotational flow, velocity
potential and stream functions. Subsuface exploration of soils—methods
Continuity, momentum, energy equation, Navier Foundation—Type and selection criteria for
Stokes equation, Euler’s equation of motion, foundation of structures—Design criteria for
application to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, sluice foundation—Analysis of distribution of stress
gates, weirs. for footings and pile—pile group action—pile
3.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similitude: load test.
Buckingham’s Pi-theorem, dimensionless Ground improvement techniques.
parameters. PAPER—II
3.3 Laminar Flow : 1. Construction Technology, Equipment, Planning
Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and and Management
moving plates, flow through tube. 1.1 Construction Technology
3.4 Boundary layer : Engineering Materials :
Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat Physical properties of construction materials with
plate, laminar sub-layer, smooth and rough respect to their use in construction—Stones,
boundaries, drag and lift. Bricks and Tiles; Lime, Cement, different types of
Turbulent flow through pipes : Characteristics of Mortars and Concrete.
turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation
Specific use of ferro cement, fibre reinforced C.
of pipe friction factor, hydraulic grade line and
C., High stength concrete.
total energy line.
Timber; Properties defects—common
3.5 Open Channel Flow :
preservation treatments.
Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and
Use and selection of materials for specific use like
energy correction factors, specific energy and
Low Cost Housing, Mass Housing, High Rise
specific force, critical depth, rapidly varied flow,
Buildings.
hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow,
classification of surface profiles, control section, 1.2 Construction :
step method of integration of varied flow equation. Masonry principles using Brick, stone, Blocks—
3.6 Hydraulic Machines and Hydropower : construction detailing and strength
characteristics.
Hydraulic turbines, types classification, Choice
of turbines performance parameters, controls, Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roofing
characteristics, specific speed. and construction features.
Principles of hydropower development. Common repairs in buildings.
4. Geotechnical Engineering : Principle of functional planning of building for
Soil Type and Structure—gradation and particle residents and specific use—Building code
size distribution—consistency limits. provisions.
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Basic principles of detailed and approximate 3. Hydrology, Water Resources and Engineering :
estimating—specification writing and rate 3.1 Hydrology :
analysis-principles of valuation of real property.
Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation,
Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their
transpiration, infiltration, overland flow,
specific uses—Factors affecting selection of
hydrograph, flood frequency analyses, flood
equipments—operating cost of equipments.
routing through a reservoir, channel flow
1.3 CONSTRUCTION PLANNING AND routing—Muskingam method.
MANAGEMENT:
3.2 Ground Water flow :
Construction activity—schedules—organization
Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of
for construction industry—Quality assurance
permeability, confined and unconfined aquifers,
principles.
aquifers, aquitards, radial flow into a well under
Use Basic principle of network—analysis in form confined and unconfined conditions.
of CPM and PERT—their use in construction
monitoring, Cost optimization and resource 3.3 Water Resources Engineering :
allocation. Ground and surface water resources, single and
Basic principles of Economic analysis and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of
methods. reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir
sedimentation.
Project profitability—Basic principles of Boot
approach to financial planning-simple toll fixation 3.4 Irrigation Engineering :
criterions. (i) Water requirements of crops : consumptive use,
2. Surveying and Transportation Engineering duty and delta, irrigation methods and their
2.1 Surveying : Common methods and instruments efficiencies.
for distance and angle measurement for CE (ii) Canals : Distribution systems for cannal irrigation,
work—their use in plane table, traverse survey, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main
levelling work, triangulation, contouring and and distributory canals, most efficient section,
topographical map. lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical
Basic principles of photogrammetry and remote shear stress, bed load.
sensing. (iii) Water logging : causes and control, salinity.
2.2 Railways Engineering : Permanent way— (iv) Canal structures : Design of head regulators,
components, types and their function-Functions canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal
and Design constituents of turn and crossing— outlets.
Necessity of geometric design of track—Design
(v) Diversion head work : Principles and design of
of station and yards.
weirs on permeable and impermeable foundation,
2.3 Highway Engineering : Khosla’s theory, energy dissipation.
Principles of Highway alignments—classification (vi) Storage works : Types of dams, design, principles
and geometrical design elements and standards of rigid gravity stability analysis.
for Roads.
(vii) Spillways : Spillway types, energy dissipation.
Pavement structure for flexible and rigid
pavements—Design principles and methodology (viii) River training : Objectives of river training,
of pavements. methods of river training.
Typical construction methods and standards of 4. Environmental Engineering
materials for stabilized soil, WBM, Bituminous 4.1 Water Supply :
works and CC roads.
Predicting demand for water, impurities of water
Surface and sub-surface drainge arrangements for and their significance, physical, chemical and
roads—culvert structures. bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases,
Pavement distresses and strengthening by standards for potable water.
overlays. 4.2 Intake of Water :
Traffic surveys and their application in traffic
Water treatment: principles of coagulation,
planning—Typical design features for
flocculation and sedimentation; slow-, rapid-,
channelized, intersection rotary etc.—signal
pressure-, filters; chlorination, softening, removal
designs—standard Traffic signs and markings.
of taste, odour and salinity.
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4.3 Sewerage Systems : Methods of Costing: Job Costing, Process
Domestic and industrial wastes, store sewage— Costing, Activity Based Costing.
separate and combined systems, flow through Volume-cost-Profit Relationship as a tool of Profit
sewers, design of sewers. Planning.
4.4 Sewage Characterisation : Incremental Analysis/Differential Costing as a
BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen Tool of Pricing Decisions, Product Decisions,
and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal water Make or Buy Decisions, Shut-Down Decisions
course and on land. etc.
4.5 Sewage Treatment : Techniques of Cost Control and Cost Reduction :
Budgeting as a Tool of Planning and Control.
Working principles, units, chambers, Standard Costing and Variance Analysis.
sedimentation tank, trickling filters, oxidation
ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, Responsibility Accounting and Divisional Perfor-
disposal of sludge, recycling of waste water. mance Measurement.
4.6 Solid waste : 3. Taxation :
Collection and disposal in rural and urban Income Tax: Definitions. Basis of charge; Incomes
contexts, management of long-term ill-effects. which do not form part of total income. Simple
problems of Computation of Income (of individuals
5. Environmental pollution : only) under various heads, i.e., Salaries, Income
Sustainable development. Radioactive wastes and from House Property, Profits and Gains from
disposal. Environmental impact assessment for Business or Profession, Capital Gains, Income from
thermal power plants, mines, river valley projects. other sources, Income of other Persons included
Air pollution. Pollution control acts. in Assessee’s Total Income.
COMMERCE AND ACCOUNTANCY Set-off and Carry forward of Loss.
PAPER-I Deductions from Gross Total Income.
Accounting and Finance Salient Features/Provisions Related to VAT and
Accounting, Taxation & Auditing Services Tax.

1. Financing Accounting : 4. Auditing :


Accounting as a financial information system; Company Audit: Audit related to Divisible Profits,
Impact of behavioural sciences. Accounting Dividends, Special investigations, Tax audit.
Standards e.g., Accounting for Depreciation, Audit of Banking, Insurance, Non-Profit
Inventories, Research and Development Costs, Organization and Charitable Societies/Trusts/
Long-term Construction Contracts, Revenue Organizations.
Recognition, Fixed Assets, Contingencies, Financial Management, Financial Institutions
Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments and and Markets
Government Grants, Cash Flow Statement,
Earnings per Share. 1. Financial Management :
Accounting for Share Capital Transactions Finance Function : Nature, Scope and Objectives
including Bonus Shares, Right Shares. of Financial Management : Risk and Return
Relationship.
Emplyees Stock Option and Buy-Back of
Securities. Tools of Financial Analysis: Ratio Analysis,
Funds-Flow and Cash-Flow Statement.
Preparation and Presentation of Company Final
Accounts. Capital Budgeting Decisions: Process, Procedures
and Appraisal Methods. Risk and Uncertainty
Amalgamations, Absorption and Reconstruction Anlysis and Methods.
of Companies.
Cost of Capital : Concept, Computation of Specific
2. Cost Accounting : Costs and Weighted Average Cost of Capital.
Nature and functions of cost accounting. CAPM as aTool of Determining Cost of Equity
Installation of Cost Accounting System. Cost Capital.
Concepts related to Income Measurement, Profit Financing Decisions: Theories of Capital
Planning, Cost Control and Decision Making. Structure—Net Income (NI) Approach.
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Net Operating Income (NOI) Approach, MM Designing Organizational structures—Authority
Approach and Traditional Approach. Designing and Control; Line and Staff Functions,
of Capital structure: Types of Leverages Specialization and Coordination. Types of
(Operating, Financial and Combined), EBIT-EPS Organization Structure—Functional. Matrix
Analysis, and other Factors. Structure, Project Structure. Nature and Basis of
Power, Sources of Power, Power Structure and
Dividend Decisions and Valuation of Firm :
Politics. Impact of Information Technology on
Walter’s Model, MM Thesis, Gordan’s Model
Organizational Design and Structure.
Lintner’s Model. Factors Affecting Dividend
Policy. Managing Organizational Culture.
Working Capital Management: Planning of 2. Organisation Behaviour :
Working Capital. Determinants of Working Meaning and Concept; Individual in organization:
Capital. Components of Working Capital—Cash, Personality, Theories, and Determinants;
Inventory and Receivables. Pereception Meaning and Process.
Corporate Restructuring with focus on Mergers Motivation : Concepts, Theories and Applica-
and Acquisitions (Financial aspect only). tions. Leadership—Theories and Styles. Quality
2. Financial Markets and Institutions : of Work Life (QWL): Meaning and its impact on
Performance, Ways of its Enhancement. Quality
Indian Financial System: An Overview Circles (QC)—Meaning and their Importance.
Money Markets: Participants, Structure and Management of Conflicts in Organizations. Trans-
Instruments. Commercial Banks. Reforms in actional Analysis, Organizational Effectiveness,
Banking Sector. Monetary and Credit Policy of Management of Change.
RBI. RBI as a Regulator. Human Resources Management and Industrial
Capital Market : Primary and Secondary Market. Relations
Financial Market Instruments and Innovative 1. Human Resources Management (HRM) :
Debt Instruments; SEBI as a Regulator.
Meaning Nature and Scope of HRM, Human
Financial Services : Mutual Funds, Venture Capital, Resource Planning, Job Analysis, Job
Credit Rating Agencies, Insurance and IRDA. Description, Job Specification, Recruitment
Process, Selection Process, Orientational and
PAPER-II
Placement, Training and Development Process,
Organisation Theory and Behaviours, Human Resource Performance Appraisal and 360° Feed Back, Salary
Management and Industrial Relations and Wage Administration, Job Evaluation,
Organisation Theory and Behaviour Employee Welfare, Promotions, Transfers and
Separations.
1. Organisation Theory :
2. Industrial Relations (IR) :
Nature and Concept of Organisation; External
Meaning, Nature, Importance and Scope of IR,
Environment of Organisation—Technological,
Formation of Trade Union, Trade Union
Social, Political, Ecomomical and Legal;
Legislation, Trade Union Movement in India.
Organizational Goals Primary and Secondary
Recognition of Trade Unions, Problems of Trade
Goals, Single and Multiple Goals; Management
Unions in India. Impact of Liberalization on Trade
by Objectives.
Union Movement.
Evolution of Organisation theory : Classical Neo-
Nature of Industrial Disputes: Strikes and
classical and system approach.
Lockouts, Causes of Disputes, Prevention and
Modern Concepts of Organisation Theory : Settlement of Disputes.
Organisational Design, Organisational Structure
Worker’s Participation in Management:
and Organisational Culture.
Philosophy, Rationale, Present Day Status and
Organisational Design—Basic Challenges; Future Prospects.
Differentiation and Intergration Process; Adjudication and Collective Bargaining.
Centralization and Decentralization Process;
Standardization/Formalization and Mutual Industrial Relations in Public Enterprises
Adjustment. Coordinating Formal and Informal Absenteeism and Labour Turnover in Indian
Organizations. Mechanistic and Organic Industries and their Causes and Remedies.
Structures. ILO and its Functions.
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154 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART I—SEC. 1]

ECONOMICS (iv) Floating Rates and their Implications for


PAPER—I Developing Countries : Currency Boards.
1. Advanced Micro Economics : (v) Trade Policy and Developing Countries.

(a) Marshallian and Varrasiam Approaches to Price (vi) BOP, adjustments and Policy Coordination in
determination. open economy macromodel.

(b) Alternative Distribution Theories; Ricardo, Kaldor, (vii) Speculative attacks.


Kaleeki. (viii) Trade Blocks and Monetary Unions.
(c) Markets Structure : Monopolistic Competition, (ix) WTO : TRIMS, TRIPS, Domestic Measures,
Duopoly, Oligopoly. Different Rounds of WTO talks.
(d) Modern Welfare Criteria : Pareto Hicks and Scitovsky, 5. Growth and Development :
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, A. K. Sen’s Social
(a) (i) Theories of growth : Harrod’s model;
Welfare Function.
(ii) Lewis model of development with surplus labour.
2. Advance Macro Economics :
(iii) Balanced Unbalanced Growth.
Approaches to Employment Income and Interest Rate
determination : Classical, Keynes (IS)-LM) curve, (iv) Human Capitals and Economic Growth.
Neo-classical synthesis and New classical, Theories (v) Research and Development and Economic Growth.
of Interest Rate determination and Interest Rate
(b) Process of Economic Development of less developed
Structure.
courtries : Myrdal and Kuzments on economic
3. Money-Banking and Finance : development and structural change : Role of Agriculture
(a) Demand for and Supply of Money : Money Multiplier in Economic Development of less developed countries.
Quantity Theory of Money (Fisher, Pique and (c) Economic Development and International Trade and
Friedman) and Keyne’s Theory on Demand for Investment, Role of Multinationals.
Money, Goals and Instruments of Monetary
(d) Planning and Economic Development : changing role of
Management in Closed and Open Economies.
Markets and Planning, Private-Public Partnership.
Relation between the Central Bank and the Treasury.
Proposal for ceiling on growth rate of money. (e) Welfare indicators and measures of growth—Human
Development Indices. The basic needs approach.
(b) Public Finance and its Role in market Economy : In
stabilisation of supply, allocative, of resources and (f) Development and Environmental Sustainability—
in distribution and development. Sources of Renewable and Non-renewable Resources,
Government revenue, forms of Taxes and Subsidies, Environmental Degradation, Intergenerational equity
their incidence and effects. Limits to taxation, loans, development.
crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings. Public PAPER-II
expenditure and its effects.
Indian Economics in Post-Independence Era :
4. International Economics :
Land System and its changes, Commercialization of
(a) Old and New theories of International Trade. agriculture Drain theory, Laissez faire theory and critique.
(i) Comparative advantage, Manufacture and Transport : Jute, Cotton, Railways, Money
(ii) Terms of Trade and Offer Curve. and Credit.
(iii) Product Cycle and Strategic Trade Theories. Indian Economy after Independence :
(iv) Trade as an engine of growth and theories of A. The Pre-Liberalization Era :
underdevelopment in an open economy.
(i) Contribution of Vakil, Gadgil and V.K.R.V. Rao.
(b) Forms of Protection : Tariff and quota.
(ii) Agricultrure : Land Reforms and land tenure system,
(c) Balance of Payments Adjustment : Alternative Green Revolution and capital formation in agriculture.
Approaches.
(iii) Industry Trends in composition and growth, Role of
(i) Price versus income, income adjustments public and private sector, small scale and cottage
under fixed exchange rates. industries.
(ii) Theories of Policy Mix.
(iv) National and Per capita income : Patterns, trends,
(iii) Exchange rate adjustments under capital aggregate and sectoral composition and changes
mobility. therein.
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(v) Broad factors determining National Income and waves. Transmission lines : travelling and standing waves,
distribution, Measures of poverty, Trends in poverty impedance matching, Smith chart.
and inequality.
4. Analog Electronics :
B. The Post-Liberalization Era :
Characteristics and equivalent circuits (large and small-
(i) New Economic Reform and Agriculture : Agriculture signal) of Diode, BJT, JFET and MOSFET. Diode circuits :
and WTO, Food processing, subsidies, Agricultural Clipping, clamping, rectifier. Biasing and bias stability. FET
prices and public distribution system, Impact of public amplifiers. Current mirror; Amplifiers : single and multi-stage,
expenditure on agricultural growth. differential, operational feedback and power. Analysis of
(ii) New Economic Policy and Industry : Strategy of amplifiers; frequency-response of amplifiers. OPAMP circuits.
industrialization, Privatization, Disinvestments, Role Filters; sinusoidal oscillators : criterion for oscillation; single-
of foreign direct investment and multinationals. transistor and OPAMP configurations. Function generators
and wave-shaping circuits. Linear and switching power
(iii) New Economic Policy and Trade : Intellectual supplies.
property rights : Implications of TRIPS, TRIMS, GATS
and new EXIM policy. 5. Digital Electronics :
(iv) New Exchange Rate Regime : Partial and full Boolean algebra; minimisation of Boolean functions;
convertibility, Capital account convertibility. logic gates; digital IC families (DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS).
Combinational circuits : arithmetic circuits, code converters,
(v) New Economic Policy and Public Finance : Fiscal multiplexers and decoders. Sequential circuits: latches and
Responsibility Act, Twelfth Finance Commission and flip-flops, counters and shift-registers. Comparators, timers,
Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Consolidation. multivibrators. Sample and hold circuits, ADCs and DACs.
(vi) New Economic Policy and Monetary System. Role Semiconductor memories. Logic implementation using
of RBI under the new regime. programmable devices (ROM, PLA, FPGA).
(vii) Planning : From central Planning to indivative 6. Energy Conversion :
planning, Relation between planning and markets
Principles of electromechanical energy conversion :
for growth and decentralized planning : 73rd and 74th
Torque and emf in rotating machines. DC machines :
Constitutional amendments.
characteristics and performance analysis; starting and speed
(viii) New Economic Policy and Employment : Employment control of motors. Transformers : principles of operation and
and poverty, Rural wages, Employment Generation, analysis; regulation, efficiency; 3-phase transformers.
Poverty alleviation schemes, New Rural, Employment 3-phase induction machines and synchronous machines :
Guarantee Scheme. characteristics and performance analysis; speed control.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 7. Power Electronics and Electric Drives :
PAPER-I Semi-conductor power devices : diode, transistor,
1. Circuits—Theory : thyristor, triac, GTO and MOSFET-static characteristics and
principles of operation; triggering circuits; phase control
Circuit components; network graphs; KCL, KVL; Circuit rectifiers; bridge converters : fully-controlled and half-
analysis methods : nodal analysis, mesh analysis; basic controlled; principles of thyristor choppers and inverters; DC-
network theorems and applications; transient analysis : RL, DC converters; Switch mode inverter; basic concepts of speed
RC and RLC circuits; sinusoidal steady state analysis; resonant control of dc and ac motor drives applications of variable-
circuits; coupled circuits; balanced 3-phase circuits. Two-port speed drives.
networks.
8. Analog Communication :
2. Signals and Systems :
Random variables : continuous, discrete; probability,
Representation of continuous-time and discrete-time probability functions. Statistical averages; probability models;
signals and systems; LTI systems; convolution; impulse Random signals and noise : white noise, noise equivalent
response; time-domain analysis of LTI systems based on bandwidth; signal transmission with noise; signal to noise
convolution and differential/difference equations. Fourier ratio. Linear CW modulation : Amplitude modulation : DSB,
transform, Laplace transform, Z-transform, Transfer function. DSB-SC and SSB. Modulators and Demodulators; Phase and
Sampling and recovery of signals DFT, FFT Processing of Frequency modulation : PM & FM signals; narrows band
analog signals through discrete-time systems. FM; generation & detection of FM and PM, Deemphasis,
3. E.M. Theory : Preemphasis. CW modulation system : Superhetrodyne
receivers, AM receivers, communication receivers, FM
Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation in bounded receivers, phase locked loop, SSB receiver Signal to noise
media. Boundary conditions, reflection and refraction of plane ratio calculation or AM and FM receivers.
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PAPER II GEOGRAPHY
PAPER I
1. Control Systems :
PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHY
Elements of control systems; block-diagram Physical Geography :
representations; open-loop & closed-loop systems; principles
1. Geomorphology : Factors controlling landform
and applications of feed-back. Control system components. development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces;
LTI systems : time-domain and transform-domain analysis. Origin and evolution of the earth’s crusts;
Stability : Routh Hurwitz criterion, root-loci, Bode-plots and Fundamentals of geomagnetism; Physical conditions
polor plots, Nyquist’s criterion; Design of lead-lad of the earth’s interior; Geosynclines; Continental drift;
compensators. Proportional, PI, PID controllers. State-variable Isostasy; Plate tectonics; Recent views on mountain
representation and analysis of control systems. building; Volcanicity; Earthquakes and Tsunamis;
Concepts of geomorphic cycles and Land scape
2. Microprocessors and Microcomputers :
development; Denudation chronology; Channel
PC organisation; CPU, instruction set, register settiming morphology; Erosion surfaces; Slope development;
diagram, programming, interrupts, memory interfacing, I/O Applied Geomorphology; Geomorphology, economic
interfacing, programmable peripheral devices. geology and environment.
2. Climatology : Temperature and pressure belts of the
3. Measurement and Instrumentation : world; Heat budget of the earth; Atmospheric
circulation; Atmospheric stability and instability.
Error analysis; measurement of current voltage, power, Planetary and local winds; Monsoons and jet
energy, power-factor, resistance, inductance, capacitance and streams; Air masses and fronto; Temperate and
frequency; bridge measurements. Signal conditioning circuit; tropical cyclones; Types and distribution of
Electronic measuring instruments : multimeter, CRO, digital precipitation; Weather and Climate; Koppen’s
voltmeter, frequency counter, Q-meter, spectrum-analyser, Thornthwaite’s and Trewar Tha’s classification of
distoration-meter. Transducers : thermocouple, thermistor, world climate; Hydrological cycle; Global climatic
LVDT, strain-guage, piezo-electric crystal. change, and role and response of man in climatic
changes Applied climatology and Urban climate.
4. Power Systems: Analysis and Control :
3. Oceanography : Bottom topography of the Atlantic,
Steady-state performance of overhead transmission Indian and Pacific Oceans; Temperature and salinity
lines and cables; principles of active and reactive power of the oceans; Heat and salt budgets, Ocean deposits;
transfer and distribution; per-unit quantities; bus admittance Waves, currents and tides; Marine resources; biotic,
and impedance matrices; load flow; voltage control and power mineral and energy resources; Coral reefs coral
factor correction; economic operation; symmetrical bleaching; Sea-level changes; Law of the sea and
components, analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical marine pollution.
faults. Concepts of system stability : swing curves and equal 4. Biogeography : Genesis of soils; Classification and
area criterion. Static VAR system. Basic concepts of HVDC distribution of soils; Soil profile; Soil erosion, Degrada-
transmission. tion and conservation; Factors influencing world
distribution of plants and animals; Problems of
5. Power System Protection : deforestation and conservation measures; Social
forestry, agro-forestry; Wild life; Major gene pool
Principles of overcurrent, differential and distance centres.
protection. Concept of solid state relays. Circuit brakers.
5. Environmental Geography : Principle ecology;
Computer aided protection : introduction; line, bus, generator,
Human ecological adaptations; Influence of man on
transformer protection; numeric relays and application of DSP
ecology and environment; Global and regional
to protection.
ecological changes and imbalances; Ecosystem their
6. Digital Communication : management and conservation; Environmental
degradation, management and conservation;
Pulse code modulation (PCM), defferential pulse code Biodiversity and sustainable development;
modulation (DPCM), delta modulation (DM), Digital Environmental policy; Environmental hazards and
modulation and demodulation schemes : amplitude, phase and remedial measures; Environmental education and
frequency keying schemes (ASK, PSK, FSK). Error control legislation.
coding : error detection and correction, linear block codes, Human Geography :
convolation codes. Information measure and source coding. 1. Perspectives in Human Geography : Areal
Data networks, 7-layer architecture. differentiation; Regional synthesis; Dichotomy and
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dualism; Environmentalism; Quantitative revolution 2. Resources : Land, surface and ground water,
and locational analysis; Radical, behavioural, human energy, minerals, biotic and marine resources, Forest
and welfare approaches; Languages, religions and and wild life resources and their conservation;
secularisation; Cultural regions of the world; Human Energy crisis.
development indix. 3. Agriculture : Infrastructure: irrigation, seeds,
2. Economic Geography : World economic fertilizers, power; Institutional factors; land holdings,
development: measurement and problems; World land tenure and land reforms; Cropping pattern,
resources and their distribution; Energy crisis; the agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop
limits to growth; World agriculture: typology of combination, land capability; Agro and social-
agricultural regions; Agricultural inputs and forestry; Green revolution and its socio-economic
productivity; Food and nutritions problems; Food and ecological implications; Significance of dry
security; famine: causes, effects and remedies; World farming; Livestock resources and white revolution;
industries: location patterns and problems; Patterns Aqua-culture; Sericulture, Agriculture and poultry;
of world trade. Agricultural regionalisation; Agro-climatic zones;
3. Population and Settlement Geography : Growth and Agro-ecological regions.
distribution of world population; Demographic 4. Industry : Evolution of industries; Locational factors
attributes; Causes and consequences of migration; of cotton, jute, textile, iron and steel, aluminium,
Concepts of over-under-and optimum population; fertiliser, paper, chemical and pharmaceutical,
Population theories, world population problems and automobile, cottage and ago-based industries;
policies, Social well-being and quality of life; Industrial houses and complexes including public
Population as social capital. sector underkings; Industrial regionalisation; New
Types and patterns of rural settlements; industrial policy; Multinationals and liberalisation;
Environmental issues in rural settlements; Hierarchy Special Economic Zones; Tourism including
of urban settlements; Urban morphology; Concept ecotourism.
of primate city and rank-size rule; Functional 5. Transport, Communication and Trade : Road, railway,
classification of towns; Sphere of urban influence; waterway, airway and pipeline net works and their
Rural-urban fringe; Satellite towns; Problems and complementary roles in regional development;
remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development Growing importance of ports on national and foreign
of cities. trade; Trade balance; Trade Policy; Export
4. Regional Planning : Concept of a region; Types of processing zones; Developments in communication
regions and methods of regionalisation; Growth and information technology and their impacts on
centres and growth poles; Regional imbalances; economy and society; Indian space programme.
Regional development strategies; Environmental 6. Cultural Setting : Historical Perspective of Indian
issues in regional planning; Planning for sustainable Society; Racial linguistic and ethnic diversities;
development. religious minorities; Major tribes, tribal areas and
5. Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography : their problems; Cultural regions; Growth, distribution
System analysis in Human geography; Malthusian, and density of population; Demographic attributes:
Marxian and demographic transition models; Central sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force,
Place theories of Christaller and Losch; Perroux and dependency ratio, longevity; migration (inter-
Boudeville; Von Thunen’s model of agricultural regional, interaregional and international) and
location; Weber’s model of industrial location; associated problems; Population problems and
Ostov’s model of stages of growth. Heart-land and policies; Health indicators.
Rimland theories; Laws of international boundaries
7. Settlements : Types, patterns and morphology of
and frontiers.
rural settlements; Urban developments; Morphology
PAPER II of Indian cities; Functional classification of Indian
GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA cities; Conurbations and metropolitan regions; Urban
1. Physical Setting : Space relationship of India with sprawl; Slums and asssociated problems; Town
neighbouring countries; Structure and relief; planning; Problems of urbanisation and remedies.
Drainage system and watersheds; Physiographic 8. Regional Development and Planning: Experience of
regions; Mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall regional planning in India; Five Year Plans; Integrated
patterns; Tropical cyclones and western rural development programmes; Panchayati Raj and
disturbances; Floods and droughts; Climatic decentralised planning; Command area development;
regions; Natural vegetation, Soil types and their Watershed management; Planning for backward
distributions. area, desert, drought-prone, hill tribal area
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development; Multi-level planning; Regional Strain markers in deformed rocks. Behaviour of minerals and
planning and development of island territories. rocks under deformation conditions. Folds and faults
9. Political Aspects : Geographical basis of Indian classification and mechanics; Structural analysis of folds,
federalism; State reorganisation; Emergence of new foliations, lineations, joints and faults, unconformities; Time-
states; Regional consciousness and inter-state relationship between crystallization and deformation.
issues; International boundary of India and related 4. Paleontology :
issues; Cross-border terrorism; India’s role in world
Species—definition and nomenclature; Megafossils and
affairs; Geopolitics of South Asia and Indian Ocean
Microfossils. Modes of preservation of fossils; Different kinds
realm.
of microfossils; Application of microfossils in correlation,
10. Contemporary Issues : Ecological issues: petroleum exploration, paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic
Environmental hazards: landslides, earthquakes, studies; Evolutionary trend in Hominidae, Equidae and
Tsunamis, floods and droughts, epidemics; Issues Proboscidae. Siwalik fauna.
related to environmental pollution; Changes in
Gondwana flora and fauna and its importance; Index
patterns of land use; Principles of environmental
fossils and their significance.
impact assessment and environmental management;
Population explosion and food security; 5. Indian Stratigraphy :
Environmental degradation; Deforestation, Classification of stratigraphic sequences: lithostrati-
desertification and soil erosion; Problems of agrarian graphic, biostratigraphic, chrono-stratigraphic and
and industrial unrest; Regional disparities in magnetostratigraphic and their interrelationships; Distribution
economic development; Concept of sustainable and classification of Precambrian rocks of India; Study of
growth and development; Environmental awareness; stratigraphic distribution and lithology of Phanerozoic rocks
Linkage of rivers; Globalisation and Indian economy.
of India with reference to fauna, flora and economic
NOTE : Candidates will be required to answer one importance. Major boundary problems—Cambrian/
compulsory map question pertinent to subjects Precambrian, Permian/Triassic, Cretaceous/Tertiary and
covered by this paper. Pliocene/Pleistocene; Study of climatic conditions,
GEOLOGY paleogeography and igneous activity in the Indian sub-
continent in the geological past. Tectonic framework of India.
PAPER I
Evolution of the Himalayas.
1. General Geology : 6. Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology :
The Solar System, meteorites, origin and interior of the Hydrologic cycle and genetic classification of water;
earth and age of earth; Volcanoes—causes and products, Movement of subsurface water; Springs; Porosity,
Volcanic belts. Earthquakes—causes, effects, seismic of zone
permeability, hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity and
of India; Island arcs, trenches and mid-ocean ridges;
storage coefficient, classification of aquifers; Water-bearing
Continental drift; Seafloor spreading, plate tectonics. Isostasy.
characteristics of rocks; Groundwater chemistry. Salt water
2. Geomorphology and Remote Sensing : intrusion. Types of wells. Drainage basin morphometry;
Basic concepts of geomorphology. Weathering and soil Exploration for groundwater; Groundwater recharge;
formations; Landforms, slopes and drainage. Geomorphic Problems and management of groundwater; Rainwater
cycles and their interpretation. Morphology and its relation harvesting; Engineering properties of rocks; Geological
to structures and lithology; Coastal geomorphology; investigations for dams, tunnels highways, railway and
Applications of geomorphology in mineral prospecting, civil bridges; Rock as construction material; Landslides causes,
engineering; hydrology and environmental studies; prevention and rehabilitation; Earthquake-resistant structures.
Geomorphology of Indian sub-continent. PAPER II
Aerial photographs and their interpretation—merits and 1. Mineralogy :
limitations; The Electromagnetic spectrum. Orbiting
Classification of crystals into systems and classes of
Satellites and Sensor Systems. Indian Remote Sensing
Satellites. Satellite data products; Applications of remote symmetry; International system of crystallographic notation;
sensing in geology; The Geographic Information System Use of projection diagrams to represent crystal symmetry;
(GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS)—its applications. Elements of X-ray crystallography.

3. Structural Geology : Physical and chemical characters of rock forming silicate


mineral groups; Structural classification of silicates; Common
Principles of geologic mapping and map reading, minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks; Minerals of the
projection diagrams, Stress and strain ellipsoid and stress- carbonate, phosphate, sulphide and halide groups; Clay
strain relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials; minerals.
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Optical properties of common rock forming minerals; HISTORY


Pleochroism, extinction angle, double refraction, birefringence, PAPER I
twinning and dispersion in minerals.
1. Sources
2. Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology :
Generation and crystallisation of magmas. Crystallisation Archaeological sources :
of albite—anorthite, diopside—anorthite and diopside— Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, numismatics,
wollastonite—silica systems. Bowen's Reaction Principle; monuments.
Magmatic differentiation and assimilation. Petrogenetic
significance of the textures and structures of igneous rocks. Literary sources:
Petrography and petrogenesis of granite, syenite, diorite, basic Indigenous: Primary and secondary; poetry, scientific
and ultrabasic groups, charnockite, anorthosite and alkaline literature, literature, literature in regional languages, religious
rocks. Carbonatites. Deccan volcanic province. literature.
Types and agents of metamorphism. Metamorphic
Foreign account: Greek, Chinese and Arab writers.
grades and zones; Phase rule. Facies of regional and contact
metamorphism; ACF and AKF diagrams; Textures and 2. Pre-history and Proto-history :
structures of metamorphic rocks. Metamorphism of Geographical factors; hunting and gathering (paleolithic
arenaceous, argillaceous and basic rocks; Minerals
and mesolithic); Beginning of agriculture (neolithic and
assemblages. Retrograde metamorphism; Metasomatism and
chalcolithic).
granitisation, migmatites. Granulite terrains of India.
3. Sedimenary Petrology : 3. Indus Valley Civilization :
Sedimentas and Sedimentary rocks: Processes of Origin, date, extent, characteristics-decline, survival and
formation; digenesis and lithification; Clastic and non-clastic significance, art and architecture.
rocks-their classification, petrography and depositional
environment; Sedimentary facies and provenance. Sedimentary 4. Megalithic Cultures :
structures and their significance. Heavy minerals and their Distribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside
significance. Sedimentary basins of India. the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements,
4. Economic Geology : Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry.
Ore, ore mineral and gangue, tenor of ore. Classification 5. Aryans and Vedic Period :
of ore deposits; Processes of formation of mineral deposits;
Controls of ore localisation; Ore texures and structures; Expansions of Aryans in India :
Metallogenic epochs and provinces; Geology of the important Vedic Period: Religious and philosophic literature;
Indian deposits of aluminium, chromium, copper, gold, iron, Transformation from Rig Vedic period to the later Vedic period;
lead, zinc, manganese, titanium, uranium and thorium and Political, social and economical life; Significance of the Vedic
industrial minerals; Deposits of coal and petroleum in India, Age; Evolution of Monarchy and Varna system.
National Mineral Policy; Conservation and utilization of mineral
resources. Marine mineral resources and Law of Sea. 6. Period of Mahajanapadas :
5. Mining Geology : Formation of States (Mahajanapada): Republics and
Methods of prospecting—geological, geophysical, monarchies; Rise of urban centres; Trade routes; Economic
geochemical and geobotanical; Techniques of sampling. growth; Introduction of coinage; Spread of Jainism and
Estimation of reserves of ore; Methods of exploration and Buddism; Rise of Magadha and Nandas.
mining-metallic ores, industrial minerals, marine mineral
Iranian and Mecedonian invasions and their impact.
resources and building stones. Mineral beneficiation and ore
dressing. 7. Mauryan Empire :
6. Geochemistry and Environmental Geology : Foundation of the Mauryan Empire, Chandragupta,
Cosmic abundance of elements. Composition of the Kautilya and Arthashastra; Ashoka; Concept of Dharma;
planets and meteorites. Structure and composition of earth Edicts; Polity, Administration, Economy; Art, architecture and
and distribution of elements. Trace elements. Elements of sculpture; External contacts; Religion; Spread of religion;
crystal chemistry-types of chemical bonds, coordination Literature.
number. Isomorphism and polymorphism. Elementary
thermodynamics. Disintegration of the empire; sungas and Kanvas.
Natural hazards—floods, mass wasting, costal hazards, 8. Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas,
earthquakes and volcanic activity and mitigation; Western Kshatrapas) :
Environmental impact of urbanization, mining, industrial and
radioactive waste disposal, use of fertilizers, dumping of mine Contact with outside world; growth of urban centres,
waste and fly-ash. Pollution of ground and surface water, economy, coinage, development of religions, Mahayana, social
marine pollution. Environment protection—legislative conditions, art, architecture, culture, literature and science.
measures in India; Sea level changes: causes and impact.
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9. Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South 15. The Thirteenth Century:
India: — Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate: The Ghurian
Kharavela, The Satavahanas, Tamil States of the Sangam invasions - factors behind Ghurian success.
Age; Administration, Economy, land grants, coinage, trade
— Economic, Social and cultural consequences.
guilds and urban centres; Buddhist centres; Sangam literature
and culture; Art and architecture. — Foundation of Delhi Sultanate and early Turkish Sultans.
10. Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas: — Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban.
Polity and administration, Economic conditions, Coinage 16. The Fourteenth Century:
of the Guptas, Land grants, Decline of urban centres, Indian — “The Khalji Revolution”.
feudalism, Caste system, Position of women, Education and
educational institutions; Nalanda, Vikramshila and Vallabhi, — Alauddin Khalji: Conquests and territorial expansion,
Literature, scientific literature, art and architecture. agrarian and economic measure.
11. Regional States during Gupta Era: — Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures,
bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq.
The Kadambas, Pallavas, Chalukyas of Badami; Polity
and Administration, Trade guilds, Literature; growth of — Firuz Tugluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil
Vaishnava and Saiva religions. Tamil Bhakit movement, engineering and public works, decline of the Sultanate,
Shankaracharya; Vedanta; Institutions of temple and temple foreign contacts and Ibn Battuta's account.
architecture; Palas, Senas, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, Polity and 17. Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and
administration; Cultural aspects. Arab conquest of Sind; Fourteenth Centuries:
Alberuni, The Chaluky as of Kalyana, Cholas, Hoysalas,
Pandyas; Polity and Administration; Local Government; — Society: composition of rural society, ruling classes,
Growth of art and architecture, religious sects, Institution of town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste and
temple and Mathas, Agraharas, education and literature, slavery under the Sultanate, Bhakti movement, Sufi
economy and society. movement.
12. Themes in Early Indian Cultural History: — Culture: Persian literature, literature in the regional
languages of North India, literaute in the languages of
Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of
art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and schools, South India, Sultanate architecture and new structural
ideas in Science and Mathematics. forms, painting, evolution of a composite culture.

13. Early Medieval India, 750-1200: — Economy: Agricultural Production, rise of urban
economy and non-agricultural production, trade and
— Polity: Major political developments in Northern India commerce.
and the peninsula, origin and the rise of Rajputs.
18. The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century-Political
— The Cholas: administration, village economy and
Developments and Economy:
society “Indian Feudalism”.
— Rise of Provincial Dynasties : Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul
— Agrarian economy and urban settlements.
Abedin), Gujarat.
— Trade and commerce.
— Malwa, Bahmanids.
— Society: the status of the Brahman and the new social
order. — The Vijayanagara Empire.

— Condition of women. — Lodis.

— Indian science and technology. — Mughal Empire, first phase : Babur, Humayun.

14. Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200: — The Sur Empire : Sher Shah’s administration.
— Philosophy: Skankaracharya and Vedanta, Ramanuja and — Portuguese colonial enterprise, Bhakti and Sufi
Vishishtadvaita, Madhva and Brahma-Mimansa. Movements.
— Religion: Forms and features of religion, Tamil devotional 19. The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century- Society and
cult, growth of Bhakti, Islam and its arrival in India, culture:
Sufism. — Regional cultures specificities.
— Literature: Literature in Sanskrit, growth of Tamil — Literary traditions.
literature, literature in the newly developing languages,
Kalhan's Rajtarangini, Alberuni's India . — Provincial architectural.
— Art and Architecture: Temple architecture, sculpture, — Society, culture, literature and the arts in Vijayanagara
painting. Empire.
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20. Akbar: PAPER-II


— Conquests and consolidation of empire. 1. European Penetration into India:
— Establishment of jagir and mansab systems.
The Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and
— Rajput policy. the Dutch; The English and the French East India
— Evolution of religious and social outlook. Theory of Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic
Sulh-i-kul and religious policy. Wars; Bengal-The conflict between the English and the
Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English; The Battle of
— Court patronage of art and technology.
Plassey; Significance of Plassey.
21. Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century:
2. British Expansion in India:
— Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and
Aurangzeb. Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; The Battle of Buxar;
Mysore; The Marathas; The three Anglo-Maratha Wars;
— The Empire and the Zamindars.
The Punjab.
— Religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and
Aurangzeb. 3. Early Structure of the British Raj:

— Nature of the Mughal State. The Early administrative structure; From diarchy to
direct contol; The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt's India
— Late Seventeenth Century crisis and the revolts.
Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); The Voice of free
— The Ahom kingdom. trade and the changing character of British colonial rule;
— Shivaji and the early Maratha Kingdom. The English utilitarian and India.
22. Economy and society, in the 16th and 17th Centuries: 4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule:
— Population Agricultural and craft production. (a) Land revenue settlements in British India; The Permanent
— Towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English Settlement; Ryotwari Settlement; Mahalwari Settlement;
and French companies : a trade revolution. Economic impact of the revenue arrangements;
Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless
— Indian mercantile classes. Banking, insurance and credit
agrarian labourers; Impoverishment of the rural society.
systems.
— Conditions of peasants, Condition of Women. (b) Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; De-
industrialisation; Decline of traditional crafts; Drain of
— Evolution of the Sikh community and the Khalsa Panth wealth; Economic transformation of India; Railroad and
23. Culture during Mughal Empire: communication network including telegraph and postal
services; Famine and poverty in the rural interior;
— Persian histories and other literature
European business enterprise and its limitations.
— Hindi and religious literatures.
5. Social and Cultural Developments:
— Mughal architecture.
The state of indigenous education, its dislocation;
— Mughal painting.
Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, The introduction of
— Provincial architecture and painting. western education in India; The rise of press, literature
— Classical music. and public opinion; The rise of modern vernacular
literature; Progress of Science; Christian missionary
— Science and technology.
activities in India.
24. The Eighteenth Century:
6. Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and
— Factors for the decline of the Mughal Empire. Other Areas:
— The regional principalities: Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal,
Ram Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement;
Awadh.
Devendranath Tagore; Iswarchandra Vidyasagar; The
— Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas. Young Bengal Movement; Dayanada Saraswati; The
— The Maratha fiscal and financial system. social reform movements in India including Sati, widow
remarriage, child marriage etc.; The contribution of
— Emergence of Afghan power Battle of Panipat, 1761. Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India;
— State of, political, cultural and economic, on eve of the Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.
British conquest.
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7. Indian Response to British Rule: 14. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947; Backward Castes and
Tribes in post-colonial electoral politics; Dalit
Peasant movement and tribal uprisings in the 18th and movements.
19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the
Kol Rebellion (1832), the Mopla Rebellion in Malabar 15. Economic development and political change; Land
reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction;
(1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo Rebellion
Ecology and environmental policy in post-colonial
(1859-60), Deccan Uprising (1875) and the Munda
India; Progress of Science.
Ulgulan (1899-1900); The Great Revolt of 1857 —Origin,
character, casuses of failure, the consequences; The 16. Enlightenment and Modern ideas:
shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post- (i) Major Ideas of Enlightenment : Kant, Rousseau.
1857 period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and (ii) Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies.
1930s.
(iii) Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian
8. Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism; Socialism.
Politics of Association; The Foundation of the Indian 17. Origins of Modern Politics :
National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to
(i) European States System
the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of
Early Congress; the social composition of early (ii) American Revolution and the Constitution
Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists; (iii) French Revolution and Aftermath, 1789-1815
The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement (iv) American Civil War with reference to Abraham Lincoln
in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of and the abolition of slavery.
Swadeshi Movement; The beginning of revolutionary
(v) British Democratic politics, 1815-1850 : Parliamentary
extremism in India.
Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists.
9. Rise of Gandhi; Character of Gandhian nationalism; 18. Industrialization :
Gandhi's popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha; the
Khilafat Movement; the Non-cooperation Movement; (i) English Industrial Revolution : Causes and Impact on
National politics from the end of the Non-cooperation Society.
movement to the beginning of the Civil Disobedience (ii) Industrialization in other countries : USA, Germany,
Movement; the two phases of the Civil Disobedience Russia, Japan.
Movement; Simon Commission; The Nehru Report; the (iii) Industrialization and Globalization.
Round Table Conferences; Nationalism and the Peasant
19. Nation-State System :
Movements; Nationalism and Working class
movements; Women and Indian youth and students in (i) Rise of Nationalism in 19th century.
Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the (ii) Nationalism : State-building in Germany and Italy.
formation of ministries; Cripps Mission; the Quit India (iii) Disintegration of Empires in the face of the emergence
Movement; the Wavell Plan; The Cabinet Mission. of nationalities across the World.
10. Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India 20. Imperialism and Colonialism :
between 1858 and 1935. (i) South and South-East Asia.
11. Other strands in the National Movement. (ii) Latin America and South Africa.
The Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, (iii) Australia.
U.P. the Madras Presidency, Outside India. (iv) Imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo-imperialism.
The Left; The Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal 21. Revolution and Counter-Revolution :
Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist
(i) 19th Century European revolutions.
Party; the Communist Party of India, other left parties.
(ii) The Russian Revolution of 1917-1921.
12. Politics of Separatism; the Muslim League; the Hindu
(iii) Fascist Counter-Revolution, Italy and Germany.
Mahasabha; Communalism and the politics of partition;
Transfer of power; Independence. (iv) The Chinese Revolution of 1949.
13. Consolidation as a Nation; Nehru's Foreign Policy; India 22. World Wars :
and her neighbours (1947-1964); The linguistic (i) 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars : Societal
reorganisation of States (1935-1947); Regionalism and implications.
regional inequality; Integration of Princely States; (ii) World War I : Causes and Consequences.
Princes in electoral politics; the Question of National
(iii) World War II : Causes and Consequences.
Language.
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23. The World after World War II: 9. Services under the Union and the States:
(i) Emergence of Two power blocs. (a) Recruitment and conditions of services;
(ii) Emergence of Third World and non-alignment Constitutional safeguards; Administrative
tribunals.
(iii) UNO and the global disputes.
24. Liberation from Colonial Rule : (b) Union Public Service Commission and State
Public Service Commissions—Power and
(i) Latin America-Bolivar.
functions.
(ii) Arab World-Egypt.
(c) Election Commission—Power and functions.
(iii) Africa-Apartheid to Democracy.
10. Emergency provisions.
(iv) South-East Asia-Vietnam.
11. Amendment of the Constitution.
25. Decolonization and Underdevelopment :
12. Principle of Natural Justice—Emerging trends and
(i) Factors constraining Development ; Latin America,
judicial approach.
Africa.
26. Unification of Europe : 13. Delegated legislation and its constitutionality.
(i) Post War Foundations ; NATO and European 14. Separation of powers and constitutional
Community. governance.
(ii) Consolidation and Expansion of European Community 15. Judicial review of administrative action.
(iii) European Union. 16. Ombudsman: Lokayukta, Lokpal etc.
27. Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar International Law :
World : 1. Nature and Definition of International Law.
(i) Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet Communism 2. Relationship between International Law and
and Soviet Union, 1985-1991. Municipal Law.
(ii) Political Changes in East Europe 1989-2001. 3. State Recognition and State Succession.
(iii) End of the Cold War and US Ascendancy in the World 4. Law of the sea: Inland Waters, Territorial Sea,
as the lone superpower. Contiguous Zone, Continental Shelf, Exclusive
Economic Zone and High Seas.
LAW 5. Individuals: Nationality, statelessness; Human
PAPER-I Rights and procedures available for their
Constitutional and administrative Law : enforcement.
1. Constitution and Constitutionalism:The 6. Territorial jurisdiction of States, Extradition and
distinctive features of the Constitution. Asylum.
2. Fundamental Rights—Public interest litigation; 7. Treaties : Formation, application, termination and
Legal Aid; Legal services authority. reservation.
3. Relationship between Fundamental rights, 8. United Nations : Its principal organs, powers
Directive principles and Fundamental duties. and functions and reform.
4. Constitutional Position of the President and 9. Peaceful settlement of disputes—different modes.
relation with the Council of Ministers.
10. Lawful recourse to force : aggressions, self-
5. Governor and his powers. defence, intervention.
6. Supreme Court and the High Courts: 11. Fundamental principles of international
(a) Appointments and transfer. humanitarian law—International conventions and
(b) Powers, functions and jurisdiction. contemporary developments.
7. Centre, States and local bodies: 12. Legality of the use of nuclear weapons; ban on
(a) Distribution of legislative powers between the testing of nuclear weapons; Nuclear non-
Union and the States. proliferation treaty, CTST.
(b) Local Bodies. 13. International Terrorism, State sponsored terrorism,
(c) Administrative relationship among Union, Hijacking, International Criminal Court.
State and Local Bodies. 14. New International Economic Order and Monetary
(d) Eminent domain-State property-common Law : WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank.
property-community property. 15. Protection and Improvement of the Human
8. Legislative powers, privileges and immunities. Environment : International Efforts.
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PAPER II Contemporary Legal Developments


Law of Crimes :— 1. Public Interest Litigation.
1. General principles of Criminal liability : mens rea 2. Intellectual property rights—Concept, types/
and actus reus, mens rea in statutory offences. prospects.
2. Kinds of punishment and emerging trends as to 3. Information Technology Law including Cyber
abolition of capital punishment. Laws—Concept, purpose/prospects.
3. Preparations and criminal attempt. 4. Competition Law—Concept, purpose/prospects.
4. General exceptions. 5. Alternate Dispute Resolution—Concept, types/
prospects.
5. Joint and constructive liability.
6. Abetment. 6. Major statutes concerning environmental law.
7. Criminal conspiracy. 7. Right to Information Act.
8. Offences against the State. 8. Trial by media.
9. Offences against public tranquility. Literature of the following languages :
10. Offences against human body. NOTE (i).—A candidate may be required to answer some
11. Offences against property. or all the Questions in the language concerned.
12. Offences against women. NOTE (ii).—In regard to the languages included in the
13. Defamation. Eighth Schedule to Constitution, the scripts will be the same
as indicated in Section II (B) of Appendix I relating to the
14. Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Main Examination.
15. Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and
NOTE (iii).—Candidates should note that the questions
subsequent legislative developments.
not required to be answered in a specific language will have
16. Plea bargaining.
to be answered in the language medium indicated by them for
Law of Torts answering papers on Essay, General Studies and Optional
1. Nature and definition. Subjects.
2. Liability based upon fault and strict liability; ASSAMESE
Absolute liability.
PAPER I
3. Vicarious liability including State Liability.
4. General defences. [Answers must be written in Assamese]
5. Joint tort fessors. Section A
6. Remedies. Language
7. Negligence.
(a) History of the origin and development of the
8. Defamation.
Assamese Language —its position among the Indo-
9. Nuisance. Aryan language—periods in its history.
10. Conspiracy.
(b) Development of Assamese prose.
11. False imprisonment.
12. Malicious prosecution. (c) Vowels and consonants of the Assamese Language—
13. Consumer Protection Act, 1986. Rules of phonetic changes with stress on Assamese
coming down from Old Indo-Aryan.
Law of Contracts and Mercantile Law
1. Nature and formation of contract/E-contract. (d) Assamese vocabulary—and its sources.
2. Factors vitiating free consent. (e) Morphology of the language—conjugation—enclitic
3. Void, voidable, illegal and unenforceable definitives and pleonastic suffixes.
agreements. (f) Dilectical divergences—the Standard colloquial and
4. Performance and discharge of contracts. the Kamrupi dialect in particular.
5. Quasi-contracts.
(g) Assamese script—its evolution through the ages till
6. Consequences of breach of contract. 19th century A.D.
7. Contract of indemnity, guarantee and insurance.
Section B
8. Contract of agency.
9. Sale of goods and hire purchase. Literary Criticism and Literary History
10. Formation and dissolution of partnership. (a) Principles of literary criticism up to New criticism.
11. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. (b) Different literary genres.
12. Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
(c) Development of literary forms in Assamese.
13. Standard form contracts.
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(d) Development of literary criticism in Assamese. 1. The chronological track from Proto Indo-European to
(e) Periods of the literary history of Assam from the Bangla (Family tree with branches and approximate
earliest beginnings, i.e. from the period of the dates).
charyyageeta with their socio-cultural background : 2. Historical stages of Bangla (Old, Middle, New) and their
the proto Assamese Pre-Sankaradeva— linguistic features.
Sankaradeva—Post-Sankaradeva—Modern period 3. Dialects of Bangla and their distinguishing
(from the coming of the Britishers)—Post- characteristics.
Independence period. Special emphasis is to be given 4. Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.
on the Vaisnavite period, the gonaki and the post- 5. Forms of Bangla Literary Prose—Sadhu and Chalit.
independence periods. 6. Processes of language change relevant for Bangla :
PAPER II Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti (umlaut),
This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts Murdhanyibhavan (cerebralization), Nasikyibhavan
prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s critical (Nasalization), Samibhavan (Assimilation), Sadrishya
ability. (Analogy), Svaragama (Vowel insertion) —Adi
Svaragama, Madhya Svaragama or Svarabhakti, Antya
[Answers must be written in Assamese]
Svaragama, Svarasangati (Vowel harmony), y—shruti
Section A and w—shruti.
Râmâyana (Ayodhyâ Kânda —by Madhava Kandali only) 7. Problems of standardization and reform of alphabet and
Pârijât-Harana —by Sankaradeva. spelling, and those of transliteration and Romanization.
Râsakrîdâ —by Sankaradeva (From 8. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax of Modern Bangla.
Kirtana Ghosa) (Sounds of Modern Bangla, Conjuncts; word formations,
Bârgeet —by Madhavadeva. compounds; basic sentence patterns.)
Râjasûya —by Madhavadeva. Section B : Topics from the History of Bangla Literature.
Kathâ-Bhâgavata —by Baikurthanath 1. Periodization of Bangla Literature : Old Bangla and
(Books I and II) Bhattacharyya. Middle Bangla.
Gurucarit-Kathâ —ed. by Maheswar Neog. 2. Points of difference between modern and pre-modern
(Sankaradeva’s Part only) Bangla Literature.
SECTION B 3. Roots and reasons behind the emergence of modernity
Mor Jeevan Soñwaran —by Lakshminath in Bangla Literature.
Bezbaroa. 4. Evolution of various Middle Bangla forms ; Mangal
Kripâbar Borbaruâr —by Lakshminath Kavyas, Vaishnava lyrics, Adapted narratives
Kakatar Topola Bezbaroa. (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata) and religious
Pratimâ —by Chandra Kumar biographies.
Agarwalla. 5. Secular forms in middle Bangla literature.
Gâonburhâ —by Padmanath Gohain 6. Narrative and lyric trends in the nineteenth century
Barua. Bangla poetry.
Manomatî —by Rajanikanta 7. Development of prose.
Bordoloi. 8. Bangla dramatic literature (nineteenth century, Tagore,
Purani Asamîyâ Sâhitya —by Banikanta Kakati. Post-1944 Bangla drama).
Kârengar Ligirî —by Jyotiprasad 9. Tagore and post-Tagoreans.
Agarwalla 10. Fiction, major authors :
Jeevanar Bâtat —by Bina Barva Bankimchandra, Tagore, Saratchandra, Bibhutibhusan,
(Birinchi Tarasankar, Manik ).
Kumar Barua) 11. Women and Bangla literature : creators and created.
Mrityunjoy —by Birendrakumar PAPER II
Bhattacharyya Prescribed texts for close study
Samrât —by Navakanta Barua [Answers must be written in Bengali]
BENGALI Section A
PAPER 1 1. Vaishnava Padavali (Calcutta University)
History of Language and Literature. Poems of Vidyapati, Chandidas, Jnanadas, Govindadas
and Balaramdas.
[Answers must be written in Bengali]
2. Chandimangal Kalketu episode by Mukunda (Sahitya
Section A : Topics from the History of Bangla language Akademi).
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3. Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya Lila by Krishnadas (Answers must be written in Bodo)


Kaviraj (Sahitya Akademi). Section A
4. Meghnadbadh Kavya by Madhusudan Dutta. (a) Khonthai-Methai
5. Kapalkundala by Bankimchandra Chatterjee. (Edited by Madaram Brahma & Rupnath Brahma.)
6. Samya and Bangadesher Krishak by Bankimchandra (b) Hathorkhi-Hala
Chatterjee. (Edited by Pramod Chandra Brahma)
7. Sonar Tari by Rabindranath Tagore. (c) Boroni Gudi Sibsa Arw Aroz : Madaram Brahma
8. Chhinnapatravali by Rabindranath Tagore. (d) Raja Nilambar : Dwarendra Nath Basumatary
(e) Bibar (prose section)
Section B (Edited by Satish Chandra Basumatary).
9. Raktakarabi by Rabindranath Tagore. Section B
10. Nabajatak by Rabindranath Tagore. (a) Bibi Bithai (Aida Nwi) : Bihuram Boro
11. Grihadaha by Saratchandra Chatterjee. (b) Radab : Samar Brahma Chaudhury
12. Prabandha Samgraha, Vol. 1, by Pramatha Choudhuri. (c) Okhrang Gongse Nangou : Brajendra Kumar Brahma
13. Aranyak by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee. (d) Baisagu Arw Harimu : Laksheswar Brahma
14. Short stories by Manik Bandyopadhyay : Atashi Mami, (e) Gwdan Boro : Manoranjan Lahary
Pragaitihasik, Holud-Pora, Sarisrip, Haraner Natjamai, (f) Jujaini Or : Chittaranjan Muchahary
Chhoto-Bokulpurer Jatri, Kustharogir Bou, Jakey Ghush
(g) Mwihoor : Dharanidhar Wary
Ditey Hoy.
(h) Hor Badi Khwmsi : Kamal Kumar Brahma
15. Shrestha Kavita by Jibanananda Das.
16. Jagori by Satinath Bhaduri. (i) Jaolia Dewan : Mangal Singh Hozowary
17. Ebam Indrajit by Badal Sircar. (j) Hagra Guduni Mwi : Nilkamal Brahma
PAPER I DOGRI
PAPER I
History of Bodo Language and Literature
HISTORY OF DOGRI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
[Answers must be written in Bodo]
(Answers must be written in Dogri)
Section A Section A
History of Bodo Language History of Dogri Language
1. Homeland, language family, its present status and its 1. Dogri language: Origin and development through
mutual contact with Assamese. different stages.
2. (a) phonemes : Vowel and Consonant Phonemes 2. Linguistic boundaries of Dogri and its dialects.
(b) Tones. 3. Characteristic features of Dogri Language.
3. Morphology : Gender, Case and Case endings, Plural
4. Structure of Dogri Langauge:
suffix, Definitives, Verbal suffix.
4. Vocabulary and its sources. (a) Sound Structure:
5. Syntax : Types of sentences, Word Order Segmental : Vowels and Consonants
6. History of scripts used in writing Bodo Language since Non-segmental : Length, Stress, Nasalization, Tone
inception. and Junture.
Section B (b) Morphology of Dogri:
History of Bodo Literature
(i) Inflection Categories: Gender, Number, Case,
1. General introduction of Bodo folk Literature. Person, Tense and Voice.
2. Contribution of the Missionaries.
(ii) Word Formation; use of prefixes, infixes and
3. Periodization of Bodo Literature. suffixes.
4. Critical analysis of different genre (Poetry, Novel, Short
(iii) Vocabulary: tatsam, tadbhav, foreign and
Story and Drama)
regional.
5. Translation Literature.
(c) Sentence Structure; Major Sentence-types and their
Paper II
constituents, agreement and concord in Dogri syntax.
The paper will require first-hand reading of the texts
prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability of 5. Dogri Language and Scripts: Dogre/Dogra Akkhar,
the candidates. Devanagari and Persia.
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Section B 2. Ajakani Dogri Kahani Part-II


History of Dogri Language The following Short Story Writers :
1. A brief account of Pre-independence Dogri Literature: Ved Rahi, Narsingh Dev Jamwal, Om Goswami,
Poetry & Prose. Chahttrapal, Lalit Magotra, Chaman Arora and Ratan
Kesar.
2. Development of modern Dogri Poetry and main trends
in Dogri Poetry. 3. Khatha Kunj Bhag II
The following Story Writers :
3. Development of Dogri short-story, main trends and
prominent short-story writers. Om Vidyarthi, Champa Sharma and Krishan Sharma.
4. Meel Patthar (collection of short stories) by Bandhu
4. Development of Dogri Novel, main trends and
Sharma.
contribution of Dogri Novelists.
5. Kaiddi (Novel) by Desh Bandhu Dogra Nutan.
5. Development of Dogri Drama and contribution of
6. Nanga Rukkh (Novel) by O.P. Sharma Sarathi.
prominent playwrights.
7. Nayaan (Drama) by Mohan Singh.
6. Development of Dogri Prose; Essays, Memoirs and
8. Satrang (A collection of one act plays).
travelogues.
The following play wrights :
7. An introduction to Dogri Folk Literature—Folk songs,
Vishwa Nath Khajuria, Ram Nath Shastri, Jitendra
Folk tales 7 Ballads.
Sharma, Lalit Magotra and Madan Mohan Sharma.
PAPER -II 9. Dogri Lalit Nibandh
TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF DOGRI LITERATURE The following authors:
(Answers must be written in Dogri) Vishwa Nath Khajuria, Narayan Mishra, Balkrishan
Section A Shastri, Shiv Nath, Shyam Lal Sharma, Lakshmi Narayan,
Poetry D.C. Prashant, Ved Ghai, Kunwar Viyogi.
1. Azadi Paihle Di Dogri Kavita ENGLISH
The following poets: The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-
Devi Ditta, Lakkhu, Ganga Ram, Ramdhan, Hardutt, hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following
Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram & Permanand Almast periods in English Literature : Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and Paper 2 :
1900–1990.
2. Modern Dogri Poetry
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A
Azadi Bad Di Dogri Kavita
short-notes question related to the topics for general study,
The following poets : and (b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose
Kishan Smailpuri, Tara Smailpuri, Mohan Lal Sapolia, and verse.
Yash Sharma, K.S. Madhukar, Padma Sachdev, Jitendra PAPER I
Udhampuri, Charan Singh and Prakash Premi (Answers must be written in English)
3. Sheeraza Dogri Number 102, Ghazal Ank Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also
The following poets : be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics
Ram Lal Sharma, Ved Pal Deep, N.D. Jamwal, Shiv Ram and movements :
Deep, Ashwini Magotra and Virendra Kesar The Renaissance; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama;
4. Sheeraza Dogri Number 147, Ghazal Ank Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neo-
classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the
The following poets:
Novel; The Victorian Age.
R.N. Shastri, Jitendra Udhampuri, Champa Sharma and
Darshan Darshi.
Section A
5. Ramayan (Epic) by Shambhu Nath Sharma (up to
Ayodhya Kand) 1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.
6. Veer Gulab (Khand Kavya) by Dinoo Bhai Pant. 2. John Donne. The following poems :
Section B –Canonization;
Prose –Death be not proud;
1. Ajakani Dogri Kahani –The Good Morrow;
The following Short Story Writers : –On his Mistress going to bed;
Madan Mohan Sharma, Narendra Khajuri and B.P. Sathe –The Relic;
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3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX. – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. – Journey of the Magi.
5. William Wordsworth. The following poems : – Burnt Norton.
– Ode on Intimations of Immortality. 3. W.H. Auden. The following poems :
– Partition
– Tintern Abbey.
– Musee des Beaux Arts
– Three years she grew.
– In Memory of W.B. Yeats
– She dwelt among untrodden ways.
– Lay your sleeping head, my love
– Michael. – The Unknown Citizen
– Resolution and Independence. – Consider
– The World is too much with us. – Mundus Et Infans
– Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour. – The Shield of Achilles
– Upon Westminster Bridge. – September 1, 1939
6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam. – Petition
4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.
7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.
Section B
6. Philip Larkin. The following poems :
1. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.
– Next
2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. – Please
3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones. – Deceptions
4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times. – Afternoons
5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. – Days
6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. – Mr. Bleaney
7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems :
– Looking for a Cousin on a Swing
PAPER II
– A River
(Answers must be written in English)
– Of Mothers, among other Things
Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also – Love Poem for a Wife 1
be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics
– Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
and movements :
– Obituary
Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-
(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten
of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by
Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University
Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post- Press, New Delhi).
Modernism. Section B
Section A 1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim.
1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems : 2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
– Easter 1916. 3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.
– The Second Coming. 4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
– A Prayer for my daughter. 5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway.
– Sailing to Byzantium. 6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura.
– The Tower. 7. V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.
– Among School Children. GUJARATI
PAPER I
– Leda and the Swan.
(Answers must be written in Gujarati)
– Meru.
Section A
– Lapis Lazuli.
Gujarati Language : Form and History
– The Second Coming. (1) History of Gujarati Language with special
– Byzantium. reference to New Indo-Aryan i.e. last one
2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems : thousand years.
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(2) Significant features of the Gujarati language : (viii) Saraswatichandra-Part 1—GOVARDHANRAM


phonology, morphology and syntax. TRIPATHI
(3) Major dialects : Surti, pattani, charotari and (ix) Purvalap—‘KANT’ (MANISHANKAR RATNAJI
Saurashtri. BHATT)
History of Gujarati literature (x) Raino Parvat—RAMANBHAI NEELKANTH
Medieval : Section B
4. Jaina tradition
1. Gandhiyug & Anu Gandhiyug
5. Bhakti tradition : Sagun and Nirgun (Jnanmargi)
(i) Hind Swaraj—MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND
6. Non-sectarian tradition (Laukik parampara) GANDHI
Modern :
(ii) Patanni Prabhuta—KANHAIYALAL MUNSHI
7. Sudharak yug
(iii) Kavyani Shakti—RAMNARAYAN VISHWANATH
8. Pandit yug
PATHAK
9. Gandhi yug
(iv) Saurashtrani Rasdhar-Part 1—ZAVERCHAND
10. Anu-Gandhi yug MEGHANI
11. Adhunik yug
(v) Manvini Bhavai—PANNALAL PATEL
Section B
(vi) Dhvani—RAJENDRA SHAH
Literary Forms : (Salient features, history and development 2. Adhunik yug
of the following literary forms :)
(vii) Saptapadi—UMASHANKAR JOSHI
(a) Medieval
(viii) Janantike—SURESH JOSHI
1. Narratives : Rasa, Akhyan and Padyavarta
(ix) Ashwatthama—SITANSHU YASHASCHANDRA.
2. Lyrical: Pada
(b) Folk HINDI
3. Bhavai PAPER I
(c) Modern (Answers must be written in Hindi)
4. Fiction : Novel and Short Story Section A
5. Drama 1. History of Hindi Language and Nagari Lipi
6. Literary Essay I. Grammatical and applied forms of Apbhransh,
7. Lyrical Poetry Awahatta & Arambhik Hindi.
(d) Criticism II. Development of Braj and Awadhi as Literary
8. History of theoretical Gujarati criticism language during medieval period.
9. Recent research in folk tradition. III. Early form of Khari-boli in Siddha-Nath Sahitya,
Khusero, Sant Sahitaya, Rahim etc. and Dakhni
PAPER II
Hindi.
(Answers must be written in Gujarati)
IV. Development of Khari-boli and Nagari Lipi during
The paper will require first-hand reading of the texts
19th Century.
prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability of
the candidate. V. Standardisation of Hindi Bhasha & Nagari Lipi.
Section A VI. Development of Hindi as a National Language
during freedom movement.
1. Medieval
VII. The development of Hindi as a National Language
(i) Vasantvilas phagu—AJNATKRUT
of Union of India.
(ii) Kadambari—BHALAN
VIII. Scientific & Technical Development of Hindi
(iii) Sudamacharitra—PREMANAND Language.
(iv) Chandrachandravatini varta—SHAMAL IX. Prominent dialects of Hindi and their inter-
(v) Akhegeeta—AKHO relationship.
2. Sudharakyug & Pandityug X. Salient features of Nagari Lipi and the efforts for
(vi) Mari Hakikat—NARMADASHA its reform & Standard form of Hindi.
(vii) Farbasveerah—DALPATRAM XI. Grammatical structure of Standard Hindi.
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Section B PAPER II
2. History of Hindi Literature (Answers must be written in Hindi)
I. The relevance and importance of Hindi literature The paper will require first-hand reading of the
and tradition of writing History of Hindi Literature. prescribed texts and will test the critical ability of the
II. Literary trends of the following four periods of candidates.
history of Hindi Literature. Section A
A : Adikal—Sidh, Nath and Raso Sahitya. 1. Kabir : Kabir Granthawali, Ed. Shyam
Prominent poets—Chandvardai, Khusaro, Sundar Das (First hundred Sakhis)
Hemchandra, Vidyapati.
2. Soordas : Bhramar Geetsar, Ed. Ramchandra
B : Bhaktikal—Sant Kavyadhara, Sufi Kavyadhara,
Shukla (First hundred Padas)
Krishna Bhaktidhara and Ram Bhaktidhara.
Prominent Poets—Kabir, Jayasi, Sur & Tulsi. 3. Tulsidas : Ramcharit Manas (Sundar Kand)
C : Ritikal—Ritikavya, Ritibaddhkavya & Riti Mukta Kavitawali (Uttarkand)
Kavya. Prominent Poets—Keshav, Bihari, 4. Jayasi : Padmawat Ed. Shyam Sundar Das
Padmakar and Ghananand. (Sinhal Dwip Khand &
D : Adhunik Kal— Nagmativiyog Khand)
a. Renaissance, the development of Prose, 5. Bihari : Bihari Ratnakar Ed. Jagnnath
Bharatendu Mandal. Prasad Ratnakar (First 100 Dohas)
b. Prominent Writers—Bharatendu, Bal Krishna 6. Maithili Sharan : Bharat Bharati
Bhatt & Pratap Narain Mishra. Gupta
c. Prominent trends of modern Hindi Poetry: 7. Prasad : Kamayani (Chinta and Shraddha
Chhayavad, Pragativad, Prayogvad, Nai Kavita, Sarg)
Navgeet and Contemporary poetry and Janvadi 8. Nirala : Rag-Virag, Ed. Ram Vilas Sharma
Kavita. (Ram Ki Shakti Pooja & Kukurmutta)
Prominent Poets—Maithili Sharan Gupta, 9. Dinkar : Kurukshetra
Prasad, Nirala, Mahadevi, Dinkar, Agyeya,
Muktibodh, Nagarjun. 10. Agyeya : Angan Ke Par Dwar (Asadhya
Veena)
3. Katha Sahitya
11. Muktiboth : Brahm Rakhashas
B
12. Nagarjun : Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai, Akal
A : Upanyas & Realism
Ke Bad, Harijan Gatha.
B : The origin and development of Hindi Novels.
Section B
C : Prominent Novelists—Premchand, Jain-
endra, Yashpal, Renu and Bhism Sahani. 1. Bharatendu : Bharat Durdasha
D : The origin and development of Hindi short story. 2. Mohan Rakesh : Ashadh Ka Ek Din
E : Prominent Short Story Writers—Premchand, 3. Ramchandra : Chintamani (Part I) (Kavita Kya
Prasad, Agyeya, Mohan Rakesh & Krishna Shukla Hai, Shraddha Aur Bhakti)
Sobti. 4. Dr. Satyendra : Nibandh Nilaya—Bal Krishna
4. Drama & Theatre Bhatt, Premchand, Gulab Rai,
Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Ram Vilas
A : The Origin & Development of Hindi Drama. Sharma, Agyeya, Kuber Nath Rai.
B : Prominent Dramatists—Bharatendu, Prasad, 5. Premchand Godan, Premchand ki
Jagdish Chandra Mathur, Ram Kumar Verma, Sarvashreshtha Kahaniyan, Ed.
Mohan Rakesh. Amrit Rai/Manjusha—Prem
C : The development of Hindi Theatre. Chand ki Sarvashreshtha
5. Criticism Kahaniyan. Ed. Amrit Rai.
A : The origin and development of Hindi criticism : 6. Prasad : Skandgupta
Saiddhantik, Vyavharik, Pragativadi. 7. Yashpal : Divya
Manovishleshanvadi & Nai Alochana.
8. Phaniswar Nath : Maila Anchal
B : Prominent critics—Ramchandra Shukla, Hajari Renu
Prasad Dwivedi, Ram Vilas Sharma & Nagendra.
9. Mannu Bhandari : Mahabhoj
6. The other form of Hindi prose—Lalit Nibandh,Rekhachitra,
Sansmaran, Yatra-vrittant. 10. Rajendra Yadav : Ek Dunia Samanantar (All Stories)
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KANNADA Section A
PAPER-I A. Old Kannada Literature
(Answers must be written in Kannada)
1. Vikramaarjuna Vijaya of Pampa (Cantos 12 & 13),
Section A (Mysore University Pub.)
A. History of Kannada Language
2. Vaddaraadhane (Sukumaraswamyia Kathe,
What is Language ? General characteristics of Language. Vidyutchorana Kathe)
Dravidian Family of Languages and its specific features.
Antiquity of Kannada Language. Different phases of B. Medieval Kannada Literature
its Development. 1. Vachana, Kammata, Ed. K. Marulasiddappa K.R.
Dialects of Kannada Language : Regional and Social. Nagaraj (Bangalore University Pub.)
Various aspects of developments of Kannada Language:
phonological and Semantic changes. Language borrowing. 2. Janapriya Kanakasamputa, Ed. D. Javare Gowda
(Kannada and Culture Directorate, Bangalore)
B. History of Kannada Literature
Ancient Kannada literature : Influence and Trends, Poets for 3. Nambiyannana Ragale, Ed., T.N. Sreekantaiah (Ta.
study : Specified poets from Pampa to Ratnakara Varni Vem. Smaraka Grantha Male, Mysore)
are to be studied in the light of contents, form and 4. Kumaravyasa Bharata : Karna Parva (Mysore
expression : Pampa, Janna, Nagachandra.
University)
Medieval Kannada literature : Influence and Trends.
5. Bharatesha Vaibhava Sangraha Ed Ta. Su. Shama Rao
Vachana Literature : Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi.
(Mysore University)
Medieval Poets : Harihara, Raghavanka, Kumara-Vyasa.
Section B
Dasa literature : Purandara and Kanaka.
Sangataya : Ratnakarvarni A. Modern Kannada Literature

C. Modern Kannada literature : Influence, trends and 1. Poetry : Hosagannada Kavite, Ed. G.H. Nayak
ideologies, Navodaya, Pragatishila, Navya, Dalita and (Kannada Saahitya Parishattu,
Bandaya. Bangalore)
Section B 2. Novel : Bettada Jeeva—Shivarama Karanta
A. Poetics and Literary Criticism Madhavi—Anupama Niranjana
Definition and concepts of poetry; Word, Meaning, Odalaala-Deva-nuru Mahadeva
Alankara, Reeti, Rasa, Dhwani, Auchitya.
3. Short Story : Kannada Sanna Kathegalu, Ed. G.H.
Interpretations of Rasa Sutra. Modern Trends of literary
criticism : Formalist, Historical, Marxist, Feminist, Post- Nayak (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi)
colonial criticism. 4. Drama : Shudra Tapaswi—Kuvempu.
B. Cultural History of Karnataka Tughalak—Girish Karnad.
Contribution of Dynasties to the culture of Karnataka: 5. Vichara : Devaru—A.N. Moorty Rao (Pub: D.V.K.
Chalukyas of Badami and Kalyani, Rashtrakutas,
Sahitya : Moorty, Mysore.)
Hoysalas, Vijayanagara rulers, in literary context.
Major religions of Karnataka and their cultural B. Folk Literature :
contribution. 1. Janapada Swaroopa—Dr. H.M. Nayak. (Ta. Vem.
Arts of Karnataka ; Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Smaraka Grantha Male, Mysore.)
Music, Dance—in the literary context.
2. Janpada Geetaanjali—Ed. D. Javare Gowda.
Unification of Karnataka and its impact of Kannada (Pub : Sahitya Academy, New Delhi).
literature.
3. Kannada Janapada Kathegalu—Ed. J.S.
PAPER-II
Paramashiviaah (Mysore University).
(Answers must be written in Kannada)
4. Beedi Makkalu Beledo. Ed. Kalegowda Nagavara
The Paper will require first-hand reading of the Texts (Pub : Bangalore University).
prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability of
the candidates. 5. Savirada Ogatugalu—Ed. S.G. Imrapura.
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KASHMIRI Section B
PAPER-I 1. An analytical study of the short story in Kashmiri.
(Answers must be written in Kashmiri) (i) Afsana Majmu’a, published by the Deptt. of
Section A Kashmiri, University of Kashmir.
1. Genealogical relationship of the Kashmiri language: (ii) Kashur Afsana Az, published by the Sahitya Akademi.
various theories. (iii) Hamasar Kashur Afsana, published by the Sahitya
2. Areas of occurence and dialects (geographical/social) Akademi.
3. Phonology and grammar: The following short story writers only : Akhtar Mohi-ud Din,
i. Vowel and consonant system; Kamil, Hari Krishan Kaul, Hraday Kaul Bharti, Bansi Nirdosh,
ii. Nouns and pronouns with various case inflections; Gulshan Majid.
iii. Verbs: various types and tenses. 2. Novel in Kashmiri :
4. Syntactic structure: (i) Mujrim by G. N. Gowhar
i. Simple, active and declarative statements; (ii) Marun—Ivan Ilyichun, (Kashmiri version of
ii. Coordination; Tolstoy’s) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (published by
Kashmiri Deptt.)
iii. Relativisation.
3. Drama in Kashmiri :
Section B
1. Kashmiri literature in the 14th century (Socio-cultural (i) Natuk Kariv Band by Hari Krishan Kaul
and intellectual background with special reference to (ii) Qk Angy Natuk, ed. Motilal Keemu, published by
Lal Dyad and Sheikhul Alam). the Sahitya Akademi.
2. Nineteenth century Kashmiri literature (development of (iii) Razi Oedipus, tr. Naji Munawar, published by the
various genres : vatsun; ghazal and mathnavi. Sahitya Akademi.
3. Kashmiri literature in the first half of the twentieth century 4. Kashmiri Folk Literature :
(with special reference to Mahjoor and Azad; various (i) Kashur Luki Theatre by Mohammad Subhan Bhagat,
literary influences). published by the Deptt. of Kashmiri, University of
4. Modern Kashmiri literature (with special reference to Kashmir.
the development of the short story, drama, novel and (ii) Kashiry Luki Beeth (all volumes) published by the
nazm).
J&K Cultural Akademy.
KONKANI
PAPER-II
PAPER -I
(Answers must be written in Kashmiri)
(Answers must be written in Konkani)
Section A
Section A
1. Intensive study of Kashmiri poetry up to the nineteenth
History of the Konkani Language :
century :
(i) Origin and development of the language and
(i) Lal Dyad,
influences on it.
(ii) Sheikhul Aalam
(ii) Major variants of Konkani and their linguistic
(iii) Habba Khatoon features.
2. Kashmiri poetry : 19th Century (iii) Grammatical and lexicographic work in Konkani,
(i) Mahmood Gami (Vatsans) including a study of cases, adverbs, indeclinables
(ii) Maqbool shah (Gulrez) and voices.
(iii) Rasool Mir (Ghazals) (iv) Old Standard Konkani, New Standard and
(iv) Abdul Ahad Nadim (N’at) Standardisation problems.
(v) Krishanjoo Razdan (Shiv Lagun) Section B
(vi) Sufi Poets (Test in Sanglaab, published by the Deptt. History of Konkani Literature
of Kashmiri, University of Kashmir) Candidates would be expected to be well-acquainted with
3. Twentieth Century Kashmiri poetry (text in Azich Kashir Konkani literature and its social and cultural background and
Shairi, published by the Deptt. of Kashmiri, University consider the problems and issues arising out of them.
of Kashmir). (i) History of Konkani literature from its probable
4. Literary criticism and research work : development and source to the present times, with emphasis on its
various trends. major works, writers and movements.
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(ii) Social and cultural background of the making of 2. Origin and development of Maithili language. (Sanskrit,
Konkani literature from time to time. Prakrit, Avhatt, Maithili)
(iii) Indian and Western influences on Konkani litera- 3. Periodic division of Maithili Language. (Beginning,
ture, from the earliest to modern times. Middle era, Modern era).
(iv) Modern literary trends in the various genres and 4. Maithili and its different dialects.
regions including a study of Konkani folklore. 5. Relationship between Maithili and other Eastern
PAPER-II languages (Bengali, Asamese, Oriya)
(Answers must be written in Konkani) 6. Origin and Development of Tirhuta Script.
Textual Criticism of Konkani Literature 7. Pronouns and Verbs in Maithili Language.
The paper will be designed to test the candidate’s critical PART B
and analytical abilities. Candidates would be expected to be
History of Maithili Literature
well-acquainted with Konkani Literature and required to have
first-hand reading of the following texts : 1. Background of Maithili Literature (Religious, Economic,
Section A : Prose Social, Cultural).
1. (a) Konkani Mansagangotri (excluding poetry) ed. 2. Periodic division of Maithili literature.
by Prof : Olivinho Gomes. 3. Pre-Vidyapati Literature.
(b) Old Konkani language and literature—the 4. Vidyapati and his tradition.
Portuguese Role 5. Medieval Maithili Drama (Kirtaniya Natak, Ankia Nat,
2. (a) Otmo Denvcharak—a novel by A. V. da Cruz. Maithili dramas written in Nepal).
(b) Vadoll ani Varem—a novel by Antonio Pereira. 6. Maithili Folk Literature (Folk Tales, Folk Drama, Folk
(c) Devache Kurpen—a novel by V.J.P. Saldanha. Stories, Folk Songs).
3. (a) Vajralikhani—Shenoy goem-bab-An anthology- 7. Development of different literary forms in modern era :
ed. by Shantaram Varde Valavalikar. (a) Prabandh-kavya
(b) Konkani Lalit Niband—Essays-ed. by Shyam (b) Muktak-kavya
Verenkar. (c) Novel
(c) Teen Dasakam—An anthology—ed. by
(d) Short Story
Chandrakant Keni.
(e) Drama
4. (a) Demand—Drama-by Pundalik Naik.
(f) Essay
(b) Kadambini: A Miscellany of Modern Prose—ed.
by Prof. O.J.F. Gomes and Smt. P.S. Tadkodkar. (g) Criticism
(c) Ratha Tujeo Ghudieo—by Smt. Jayanti Naik. (h) Memoirs
Section B : Poetry (i) Translation
1. (a) Ev ani Mori : Poetry by Eduardo Bruno de Souza. 8. Development of Maithili Magazines and Journals.
(b) Abravanchem Yadnyadan—by Luis Mascarenhas. PAPER -II
2. (a) Godde Ramayan—ed. by R.K. Rao. (Answers must be written in Maithili)
(b) Ratnahar I and II—collection of poems—ed. R. V. The paper will require first-hand reading of the prescribed
Pandit. texts and will test the critical ability of the candidates.
3. (a) Zayo Zuyo—poems- Manohar L. Sardessai. PART A
(b) Kanadi Mati Konkani Kavi—Anthology of Poetry
Poems—ed. Pratap Naik. 1. Vidyapati Geet-Shati—Publisher : Sahitya Akademi, New
4. (a) Adrushatache Kalle—Poems by Pandurang Delhi (Lyrics— 1 to 50)
Bhangui. 2. Govind Das Bhajanavali—Publisher : Maithili Acadamy,
(b) Yaman—Poems by Madhav Borkar. Patna (Lyrics— 1 to 25)
MAITHILI 3. Krishnajanm—Manbodh
PAPER I 4. Mithilabhasha Ramayana—Chanda Jha (only Sunder-
HISTORY OF MAITHILI LANGUAGE AND Kand)
ITS LITERATURE 5. Rameshwar Charit Mithila Ramayan—Lal Das (only
(Answers must be written in Maithili) Bal-kand)
PART A 6. Keechak-Vadh—Tantra Nath Jha.
History of Maithili Language 7. Datta-Vati—Surendra Jah ‘Suman’ (only 1st and 2nd
1. Place of Maithili in Indo-European Language family. Cantos).
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8. Chitra-Yatri 4.4 Kilippattu, Tullal and Mahakavya.


9. Samakaleen Maithili Kavita—Publisher: Sahitaya 5—Modern Literature—Poetry :
Akademi, New Delhi. 5.1 Venmani poets and contemporaries.
PART-B 5.2 The advent of Romanticism—Poetry of Kavitraya
10. Varna Ratnakar—Jyotirishwar (only 2nd Kallol) i.e., Asan, Ulloor and Vallathol.
11. Khattar Kakak Tarang—Hari Mohan Jha 5.3 Poetry after Kavitraya.
12. Lorik—Vijaya Manipadma 5.4 Modernism in Malayalam Poetry.
13. Prithvi Putra—Lalit 6—Modern Literature—Prose :
14. Bhaphait Chahak Jinagi—Sudhanshu ‘Shekhar’ 6.1 Drama.
Choudhary 6.2 Novel.
15. Kriti Rajkamlak—Publisher: Maithili Acadamy, Patna 6.3 Short story.
(First Ten Stories only) 6.4 Biography, travelogue, essay and criticism.
16. Katha–Sangrah–Publisher: Maithili Acadamy, Patna. PAPER-II
MALAYALAM (Answers must be written in Malayalam)
PAPER-I This paper will require first hand reading of the texts
(Answers must be written in Malayalam) prescribed and is designed to test the candidate’s critical
Section A ability.
1—Early phase of Malayalam Language : Section A
1.1 Various theories : Origin from proto Dravidian, Tamil, Unit 1
Sanskrit. 1.1 Ramacharitam—Patalam 1.
1.2 Relation between Tamil and Malayalam : Six nayas of 1.2 Kannassaramayanam—Balakandam first 25
A. R. Rajarajavarma. stanzas.
1.3 Pattu School—Definition, Ramacharitam, later pattu 1.3 Unnunilisandesam—Purvabhagam 25 slokas
works—Niranam works and Krishnagatha. including Prastavana.
2—Linguistic features of : 1.4 Mahabharatham Kilippattu—Bhishmaparvam.
2.1 Manipravalam—definition. Language of early Unit 2
manipravala works—Champu, Sandesakavya, 2.1 Kumaran Asan—Chintavisthayaya Sita.
Chandrotsava, minor works. Later manipravala
2.2 Vailoppilli—Kutiyozhikkal.
works—medieval Champu and Attakkatha.
2.3 G. Sankara Kurup—Perunthachan.
2.2 Folklore—Southern and Northern ballads, Mappila
songs. 2.4 N. V. Krishna Variar—Tivandiyile pattu.
2.3 Early Malayalam Prose—Bhashakautaliyam, Unit 3
Brahmandapuranam, Attaprakaram, Kramadipika and 3.1 O. N. V.—Bhumikkoru Charamagitam.
Nambiantamil. 3.2 Ayyappa Panicker—Kurukshetram.
3—Standardisation of Malayalam : 3.3 Akkittam—Pandatha Messanthi.
3.1 Peculiarities of the language of Pana, Kilippattu and 3.4 Attur Ravivarma—Megharupan.
Tullal. Section B
3.2 Contributions of indigenous and European mission- Unit 4
aries to Malayalam.
4.1 O. Chanthu Menon—Indulekha.
3.3 Characteristics of contemporary Malayalam;
4.2 Thakazhy—Chemmin.
Malayalam as administrative language. Language of
scientific and technical literature—media language. 4.3 O. V. Vijayan—Khasakkinte Ithihasam.
Section B Unit 5
LITERARY HISTORY 5.1 M. T. Vasudevan Nair—Vanaprastham (Collection).
4—Ancient and Medieval Literature : 5.2 N. S. Madhavan—Higvitta (Collection).
4.1 Pattu—Ramacharitam, Niranam Works and 5.3 C. J. Thomas—1128-il Crime 27.
Krishnagatha. Unit 6
4.2 Manipravalam—early and medieval manipravala 6.1 Kuttikrishna Marar—Bharataparyatanam.
works including attakkatha and champu. 6.2 M. K. Sanu—Nakshatrangalute Snehabhajanam.
4.3 Folk Literature. 6.3 V. T. Bhatttathirippad—Kannirum Kinavum.
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MANIPURI (b) Medieval Manipuri Literature :
PAPER-I 1. M. Chandra Singh (Ed.) : Samsok Ngamba
(Answers must be written in Manipuri) 2. R.K. Snahal Singh (Ed.) : Ramayana Adi Kanda
Section A 3. N. Khelchandra Singh (Ed.) : Dhananjoy Laibu Ningba
Language : 4. O. Bhogeswar Singh (Ed.) : Chandrakirti Jila Changba
(a) General characteristics of Manipuri Language and history Section B
of its development; its importance and status among the
Modern Manipuri Literature :
Tibeto-Burman Languages of North-East India; recent
development in the study of Manipuri Language; (a) Poetry and Epic :
evolution and study of old Manipuri script. (I) Poetry :
(b) Significant features of Manipuri Language : (a) Manipuri Sheireng (Pub) Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, 1998
(i) Phonology : Phoneme-vowels, consonants juncture, (Ed.)
tone, consonant cluster and its occurrence, syllable- Kh. Chaoba Singh : Pi Thadoi, Lamgi Chekla
its structure, pattern and types. Amada, Loktak
(ii) Morphology : Word-class, root and its types; affix
Dr. L. Kamal Singh : Nirjanata, Nirab Rajani
and its types; grammatical categories-gender,
number, person, case, tense and aspects, process of A. Minaketan Singh : Kamalda, Nonggumlalkkhoda.
compounding (samas and sandhi). L. Samarendra Singh : Ingagi Nong, Mamang
(iii) Syntax : Word order; types of sentences, phrase Leikai Thambal Satle
and clause structures. E. Nilakanta Singh : Manipur, Lamangnaba
Section B Shri Biren : Tangkhul Hui
(a) Literary History of Manipuri : Th. Ibopishak : Anouba Thunglaba Jiba.
Early period (up to 17th Century)–Social and cultural (b) Kanchi Sheireng. (Pub) Manipur University 1998 (Ed.)
background; Themes, diction and style of the works. Dr. L. Kamal Singh : Biswa-Prem
Medieval period (18th and 19th Century)-Social, religious Shri Biren : Chaphadraba Laigi Yen
and political background; Themes, diction and style of
the works. Th. Ibopishak : Norok Patal Prithivi
Modern period-Growth of major literary forms; change (II) Epic :
of Themes, diction and style. 1. A. Dorendrajit Singh : Kansa Bodha
(b) Manipuri Folk Literature :
2. H. Anganghal Singh : Khamba-Thoibi Sheireng
Legend, Folktale, Folksong, Ballad, Proverb and Riddle. (San-Senba, Lei Langba,
(c) Aspects of Manipuri Culture : Shamu Khonggi Bichar)
Pre-Hindu Manipuri Faith; Advent of Hinduism and the (III) Drama :
process of syncreticism; 1. S. Lalit Singh : Areppa Marup
Performing arts-Lai Haraoba, Maha Ras; 2. G.C. Tongbra : Matric Pass
Indegenous games-Sagol Kangjei, Khong Kangjei, 3. A. Samarendra : Judge Saheb ki Imung
Kang.
(b) Novel, Short-story and Prose :
PAPER-II (I) Novel :
(Answers must be written in Manipuri) 1. Dr. L. Kamal Singh : Madhabi
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts 2. H. Anganghal Singh : Jahera
prescribed and will be designed to test candidate’s critical
3. H. Guno Singh : Laman
ability to assess them.
4. Pacha Meetei : Imphal Amasung, Magi
Section A
Ishing, Nungsitki Phibam
Old and Medieval Manipuri Literature : (II) Short-story :
(a) Old Manipuri Literature : (a) Kanchi Warimacha (Pub) Manipur University 1997(Ed.)
1. O. Bhogeswar Singh (Ed.) : Numit Kappa R.K. Shitaljit Singh : Kamala Kamala
2. M. Gourachandra Singh (Ed.) : Thawanthaba Hiran M.K. Binodini : Eigi Thahoudraba Heitup
3. N. Khelchandra Singh (Ed.) : Naothingkhong
Phambal Kaba Lalu
4. M. Chandra Singh (Ed.) : Panthoibi Khonggul Kh. Prakash : Wanom Shareng
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(b) Parishadki Khangatlaba Warimacha (Pub) Manipuri Section B
Sahitya Parishad 1994 (Ed.) (History of Literature and Literary Criticism)
S. Nilbir Shastri : Loukhatpa (a) History of Marathi Literature
R.K. Elangba : Karinunggi 1. From beginning to 1818 AD, with special reference to
the following : The Mahanubhava writers, the Varkari
(c) Anouba Manipuri Warimacha (Pub) The Cultural Forum poets, the Pandit poets, the Shahirs, Bakhar Literature.
Manipur 1992 (Ed.)
2. From 1850 to 1990, with special reference to
N. Kunjamohon Singh : Ijat Tanba developments in the following major forms : Poetry,
E. Dinamani : Nongthak Khongnang Fiction (Novel and Short Story), Drama; and major literary
currents and movements, Romantic, Realist, Modernist,
(III) Prose : Dalit, Gramin, Feminist.
(a) Warenggi Saklon [Due Part] (Pub) The Cultural Forum (b) Literary Criticism
Manipur 1992 (Ed.) 1. Nature and function of Literature;
Kh. Chaoba Singh : Khamba-Thoibigi Wari 2. Evaluation of Literature;
Amasung Mahakavya 3. Nature, Objectives and Methods of Criticism;
(b) Kanchi Wareng (Pub) Manipur University, 1998 (Ed.) 4. Literature, Culture and Society.
B. Manisana Shastri : Phajaba PAPER-II
Ch. Manihar Singh : Lai-Haraoba (Answer must be written in Marathi)
(c) Apunba Wareng (Pub) Manipur University, 1986 (Ed.) Textual study of prescribed literary works.
The paper will require first-hand reading of the texts
Ch. Pishak Singh : Samaj Amasung Sanskriti
prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate's critical
M.K. Binodini : Thoibidu Warouhouida ability.
Eric Newton : Kalagi Mahousa (translated Section A
by I.R. Babu) (Prose)
(d) Manipuri Wareng (Pub) The Cultural Forum Manipur (1) ‘Smritisthala’
1999 (Ed.) (2) Mahatma Jotiba Phule
S. Krishnamohan Singh : Lan ‘‘Shetkaryacha Asud’
‘Sarvajanik Satyadharma’
MARATHI
(3) S.V. Ketkar
PAPER-I ‘Brahmankanya’
(Answers must be written in Marathi) (4) P.K. Atre
Section A ‘Sashtang Namaskar’
(5) Sharchchandra Muktibodh
Language and Folk-lore
‘Jana Hey Volatu Jethe’
(a) Nature and Functions of Language
(6) Uddhav Shelke
(with reference to Marathi) ‘Shilan’
Language as a signifying system : Langue and Parole; (7) Baburao Bagul
Basic functions; Poetic Language; Standard Language ‘Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti’
and dialect; Language variations according to social (8) Gouri Deshpande
parameters. ‘Ekek Paan Galavaya’
Linguistic features of Marathi in thirteenth century and (9) P.I. Sonkamble
seventeenth century. ‘Athavaninche Pakshi’
(b) Dialects of Marathi Section B
Ahirani; Varhadi; Dangi. (Poetry)
(c) Marathi Grammar (1) ‘Namadevanchi Abhangawani’
Ed: Inamdar, Relekar, Mirajkar
Parts of Speech; Case-system; Prayog-vichar (Voice).
Modern Book Depot, Pune
(d) Nature and kinds of Folk-lore (2) ‘Painjan’
(with special reference to Marathi) Ed : M.N. Adwant
Lok-Geet, Lok Katha, Lok Natya. Sahitya Prasar Kendra, Nagpur
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(3) ‘Damayanti-Swayamvar’ PAPER-II
By Raghunath Pandit (Answers must be written in Nepali)
(4) ‘Balakvinchi Kavita’
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts
By Balkavi
prescribed below and questions will be designed to test the
(5) ‘Vishakha’ candidate's critical acumen.
By Kusumagraj
(6) ‘Maridgandh’ Section A
By Vinda Karandikar
1. Santa Jnandil Das — Udaya Lahari
(7) ‘Jahirnama’
By Narayan Surve 2. Lekhnath Poudyal — Tarun Tapasi
(Vishrams III, V, VI, XII, XV, XVIII only)
(8) ‘Sandhyakalchya Kavita’
By Grace 3. Agam Sing Giri — Jaleko Pratibimba Royeko
(9) ‘Ya Sattet Jeev Ramat Nahi’ Pratidhwani (The
By Namdev Dhasal following Poems only-
Prasawako
NEPALI Chichyahatsanga
PAPER-I Byunjheko Ek Raat,
(Answers must be written in Nepali) Chhorolai, Jaleko
Pratibimba : Royeko
Section A
Pratidhwani, Hamro
1. History of the origin and development of Nepali Akashmani Pani Hunchha
as one of the new Indo Aryan Languages. Ujyalo, Tihar).
2. Fundamentals of Nepali Grammar and phonology :
4. Haribhakta Katuwal — Yo Zinadagi Khai Ke
(i) Nominal forms and categories :— Zindagi : (The following
Gender, Number, Case, Adjectives, Pronouns, poems only-Jeevan : Ek
Avyayas Dristi, Yo Zindagi Khai
Ke Zindagi, Akashka Tara
(ii) Verbal forms and categories :—
Ke Tara, Hamilai Nirdho
Tense, Aspects, Voice, Roots and Fixes Nasamjha, Khai Manyata
(iii) Nepali Swara and Vyanjana; Yahan Atmahutiko
3. Major Dialects of Nepali Balidan Ko).
4. Standardisation and Modernisation of Nepali with 5. Balkrishna Sama — Prahlad.
special reference to language movements (viz. Halanta
Bahiskar, Jharrovad etc.) 6. Manbahadur Mukhia Andhyaroma
Banchneharu (The
5. Teaching of Nepali language in India—Its history following One-Act only-
and development with special reference to its socio-cultural Andhyaroma
aspects. Banchneharu' ‘Suskera’)
Section B
1. History of Nepali literature with special reference Section B
to its development in India.
2. Fundamental concepts and theories of Literature : 1. Indra Sundas — Sahara.
Kavya/Sahitya, Kavya Prayojan, Literary genres, 2. Lilbahadur Chhetri — Brahmaputra ko
Shabda Shakti, Rasa, Alankara, Tragedy, Comedy, Aesthetics, Chheuchhau
Stylistics. 3. Rupnarayan Sinha — Katha Navaratna
3. Major literary trends and movements— (The following
Swachchhandatavad, Yatharthavad, Astitwavad, stories only—Biteka
Ayamik Movement Contemporary Nepali writings, Kura, Jimmewari Kasko,
Postmodernism. Dhanamatiko Cinema—
Swapna,
4. Nepali folklores (the following folk-form only)— Vidhwasta Jeevan).
Sawai, Jhyaurey, Selo, Sangini, Lahari.
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4. Indrabahadur Rai — Vipana Katipaya (The Section B
following stories only— History of Odia Literature
Raatbhari Huri Chalyo,
(i) Historical backgrounds (social, cultural and
Jayamaya Aphumatra
political) of Odia Literature of different periods.
Lekhapani Aipugi, Bhagi,
Ghosh Babu, Chhutuaiyo). (ii) Ancient epics, ornate kavyas and padavalis.
5. Sanu Lama — Katha Sampaad (The (iii) Typical structural forms of Odia Literature (Koili,
following stories only— Chautisa, Poi, Chaupadi, Champu).
Swasni Manchhey, Khani (iv) Modern trends in poetry, drama short story, novel
Tarma Ekdin, Phurbale essay and literary criticism.
Gaun Chhadyo, Asinapo PAPER-II
Manchhey).
(Answers must be written in Odia)
6. Laxmi Prasad — Laxmi Nibandha
Devkota Sangraha (The following Critical Study of texts—
essays only—Sri The paper will require first hand reading of the text and
Ganeshaya Namha, Nepali test the critical ability of the candidate.
Sahityako Itihasma Section A
Sarvashrestha Purus,
Poetry
Kalpana, Kala Ra
Jeevan, Gadha (Ancient)
Buddhiman ki Guru?) 1. Sãralã Dãs—Shanti Parva from Mahãbhãrata.
7. Ramkrishna Sharma — Das Gorkha (The 2. Jaganãth Dãs—Bhãgabata, XI Skadhã—Jadu
following essays only— Avadhuta Sambãda.
Kavi, Samaj Ra Sahitya, (Medieval)
Sahityama Sapekshata,
3. Dinakrushna Dãs—Raskallola—(Chhãndas—16
Sahityik Ruchiko
& 34)
Praudhata,Nepali
Sahityako Pragati). 4. Upendra Bhanja—Lãvanyabati (Chhãndas—1 &
2).
ODIA
(Modern)
PAPER-I
5. Rãdhãnath Rãy—Chandrabhãgã.
(Answers must be written in Odia)
6. Mãyãdhar Mänasinha—Jeevan—Chitã.
Section A
7. Sãtchidananda Routray—Kabitã—1962.
History of Odia Language
8. Ramãkãnta Ratha—Saptama Ritu.
(i) Origin and development of Odia Language—
Section B
Influence of Austric, Dravidian, Perso— Arabic
and English on Odia Language. Drama :
(ii) Phonetics and Phonemics : Vowels, Consonants 9. Manoranjan Dãs—Kätha-Ghoda.
Principles of changes in Odia sounds. 10. Bijay Mishra—Tata Niranjanä.
(iii) Morphology : Morphemes (free, bound Novel :
compound and complex), derivational and 11. Fakir Mohan Senãpati—Chhamãna
inflectional affixes, case inflection, conjugation Ãthaguntha.
of verb.
12. Gopinãth Mohãnty—Dãnãpani.
(iv) Syntax : Kinds of sentences and their trans-
Short Story :
formation, structure of sentences.
13. Surendra Mohãnty—Marãlara Mrityu.
(v) Semantics—Different types of change in
meaning. Euphemism. 14. Manoj Dãs—Laxmira Abhisãra.
(vi) Common errors in spellings, grammatical uses and Essay :
construction of sentences. 15. Chittaranjan Dãs—Tranga O Tadit (First Five
(vii) Regional variations in Odia Language (Western, essays).
Southern and Northern Odia) and Dialects (Bhatri 16. Chandra Sekhar Rath—Mun Satyadharmã
and Desia). Kahuchhi (First five essays).
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PUNJABI Short Story (Sujan Singh, K. S. Virk, Prem
PAPER-I Parkash, Waryam Sandhu).
(d) Socio-cultural Sanskrit, Persian and Western.
Answers must be written in Punjabi in Gurumukhi script
Literary influences;
Section A Essay (Puran Singh, Teja Singh,
(a) Origin of Punjabi Language; different stages of Gurbaksh Singh).
development and recent development in Punjabi Literary Criticism (S.S. Sekhon, Attar Singh, Kishan
Language; characteristics of Punjabi phonology and Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Najam
the study of its tones; classification of vowels and Hussain Sayyad).
consonants. PAPER-II
(b) Punjabi morphology; the number-gender system Answers must be written in Punjabi in Gurumukhi script
(animate and inanimate), prefixes, affixes and different This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts
categories of Post positions; Punjabi word formation; prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s critical
Tatsam. Tad Bhav. forms; Sentence structure, the notion ability. ~
of subject and object in Punjabi; Noun and verb phrases.
Section A
(c) Language and dialect : the notions of dialect and idiolect: (a) Sheikh Farid The complete Bani as included
major dialects of Punjabi : Pothohari, Majhi, Doabi, in the Adi Granth.
Malwai, Paudhi; the validity of speech variation on the (b) Guru Nanak Japu Ji. Baramah. Asa di Var.
basis of social stratification, the distinctive features of
(c) Bulleh Shah Kafian
various dialects with special reference to tones
Language and script; origin and development of (d) Waris Shah Heer
Gurumukhi; Suitability of Gurumukhi for Punjabi. Section B
(d) Classical background : Nath Jogi Sahit. (a) Shah Mohammad Jangnama (Jang Singhan
te Firangian)
Medieval Literature : Gurmat, Suti, Kissa and Var :
Dhani Ram Chatrik Chandan Vari
janamsakhis.
(Poet) Sufi Khana
Section B Nawan Jahan
(a) Modern trends Mystic, romantic, progressive and (b) Nanak Singh Chitta Lahu
neomystic (Vir Singh, Puran Singh, (Novelist) Pavittar Papi
Mohan Singh, Amrita Pritam, Bawa
Ek Mian Do Talwaran
Balwant, Pritam Singh Safeer, J. S.
Neki). (c) Gurbaksh Singh Zindagi-di-Ras
Experimentalist (Jasbir Singh (Essayist) Nawan Shivala
Ahluwalia, Ravinder Ravi, Ajaib Merian Abhul Yadaan.
Kamal).
~ Balraj Sahni Mera Roosi Safarnama
Aesthetes (Harbhajan Singh, Tara (Travelogue) Mera Pakistani Safarnama
~ Singh). Neo-progressive (Pash, (d) Balwant Gargi Loha Kutt
Jagtar, Patar). (Dramatist) Dhuni-di-Agg
(b) Folk Literature Folk songs, Folk tales, Riddles, Sultan Razia
Proverbs.
Sant Singh Sekhon Sahityarth
Epic (Vir Singh, Avtar Singh Azad,
(Critic) Parsidh Punjabi Kavi
Mohan Singh).
Punjabi Kav Shiromani.
Lyric (Gurus, Sufis and Modern
Lyricists-Mohan Singh, Amrita SANSKRIT
Pritam, Shiv Kumar, Harbhajan PAPER-I
Singh). There will be three questions as indicated in the Question
(c) Drama (I.C. Nanda, Harcharan Singh, Paper which must be answered in Sanskrit. The Remaining
Balwant Gargi, S.S. Sekhon, questions must be answered either in Sanskrit or in the medium
Charan Das Sidhu). of examination opted by the candidate.
Novel (Vir Singh, Nanak Singh, Jaswant Section A
Singh Kanwal, K.S. Duggal, 1. Significant features of the grammar, with particular stress
Sukhbir, Gurdial Singh, Dalip Kaur on Sanjna, Sandhi, Karaka, Samasa, Kartari and Karmani
Tiwana, Swaran Chandan). vacyas (voice usages) (to be answered in Sanskrit).
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2. (a) Main characteristics of Vedic Sanskrit language Group 2 (a) Isãvãsyopanisad
(b) Prominent feature of classical Sanskrit language (b) Bhagavadgitã
(c) Contribution of Sanskrit to linguistic studies (c) Sundarakanda of Valmiki’s
3. General Knowledge of :— Ramayana
(a) Literary history of Sanskrit (d) Arthasastra of Kautilya
(b) Principal trends of literary criticism Group 3 (a) Svapanavasavadattam—Bhasa
(c) Ramayana
(b) Abhijnanasakuntalam—Kalidasa
(d) Mahabharata
(c) Mricchakatikam—Sudraka
(e) The origin and development of literary geners of :
(d) Mudraraksasam—Visakhadatta
Mahakavya
Rupaka (drama) (e) Uttararamacaritam—Bhavbhuti
Katha (f) Ratnavali—Sriharshavardhana
Akhyayika (g) Venisamharam—Bhattanarayana
Campu Group 4 Short notes in Sanskrit on the following :—
Khandakavya (a) Meghadutam—Kalidasa
Muktaka Kavya. (b) Nitisatakam—Bhartrhari
Section B (c) Pancatantra—
4. Essential of Indian Culture with stress on :
(d) Rajatarangini—Kalhana
(a) Purusãrthas
(e) Harsacaritam—Banabhatta
(b) Samskãras
(c) Varnãsramavyavasthã (f) Amarukasatakam—Amaruka
(d) Arts and fine arts (g) Gitagovindam—Jayadeva.
(e) Technical Sciences. Section B
5. Trends of Indian Philosophy This section will require first hand reading of the
(a) Mïmansã following selected texts :— (Questions from Groups 1 & 2 are
(b) Vedãnta to be answered in Sanskrit only) Questions from Groups
3 and 4 are to be answered either in Sanskrit or in the Medium
(c) Nyaya
opted by the candidate.
(d) Vaisesika
Group 1 (a) Raghuvamsam—Canto I, Verses
(e) Sãnkhya
1 to 10
(f) Yoga
(b) Kumarasambhavam—Canto I, Verses
(g) Bauddha
1 to 10
(h) Jaina
(c) Kiratarjuniyaue—Canto I, Verses 1 to 10
(i) Carvãka
6. Short Essay (in Sanskrit) Group 2 (a) Isavasyopanisad—Verses—1, 2, 4,
6, 7, 15 and 18
7. Unseen passage with the questions (to be answered in
Sanskrit). (b) Bhagavatgita II Chapter Verses
PAPER-II 13 to 25
Question from Group 4 is to be answered in Sanskrit (c) Sundarakandam of Valmiki Canto
only. Questions from Groups 1, 2 and 3 are to be answered 15, Verses 15 to 30 (Geeta Press
either in Sanskrit or in the medium opted by the candidate. Edition)
Section A Group 3 (a) Meghadutam—Verses 1 to 10
General study of the following groups :— (b) Nitisatakam—Verses 1 to 10 (Edited
Group 1 (a) Raghuvamsam—Kalidasa by D.D. Kosambi Bharatiya Vidya
(b) Kumarasambhavam—Kalidasa Bhavan Publication)
(c) Kiratarjuniyam—Bharavi (c) Kadambari—Sukanasopadesa (only)
(d) Sisupalavadham—Magha Group 4 (a) Svapnavasavadattam Act VI
(e) Naisadhiyacaritam—Sriharsa (b) Abhijnansakuntalam Act IV Verses
(f) Kadambari—Banabhatta 15 to 30 (M.R. Kale Edition)
(g) Dasakumaracaritam—Dandin (c) Uttararamacaritam Act I Verses 31
(h) Sivarajyodayam—S.B. Varnekar to 47 (M.R. Kale Edition).
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SANTHALI Thakur Prasad Murmu, Hara Prasad Murmu, Uday
PAPER I Nath Majhi, Parimal Hembram, Dhirendra Nath Baske,
Shyam Charan Hembram, Damayanti Beshra,
(Answers must be written in Santhali)
T.K. Rapaj, Boyha Biswanath Tudu.
Section A
Part III
Part I—History of Santhali Language
Cultural Heritage of Santhali tradition, customs, festival
1. Main Austric Language family, population and and rituals (birth, marriage and death).
distribution.
PAPER II
2. Grammatical structure of Santhali Language.
(Answers must be written in Santhali)
3. Important character of Santhali Language: Phonology,
Section A
Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Translation,
Lexicography. This paper will require in-depth reading of the following texts
and the questions will be designed to test the candidates’
4. Impact of other languages of Santhali.
critical ability.
5. Standardization of Santhali Language.
Ancient Literature :
Part II—History of Santhali Literature
Prose
1. Literary trend of the following four periods of history of
(a) Kherwal Bonso Dhorom Puthi—Majhi Ramdas Tudu
Santhali Literature.
“Rasika”.
(a) Ancient Literature before 1854.
(b) Mare Hapramko Reyak Katha—L.O. Scrafsrud.
(b) Missionary period Literature between 1855 to 1889
(c) Jomsim Binti Lita—Mangal Chandra Turkulumang
AD.
Soren.
(c) Medieval period: Literature between 1890 to 1946
(d) Marang Buru Binti—Kanailal Tudu.
AD.
Poetry
(d) Modern period : Literature from 1947 AD to till date.
(a) Karam Sereng—Nunku Soren.
2. Writing tradition in History of Santhali literature.
(b) Devi Dasain Sereng—Manindra Hansda.
Section-B
(c) Horh Sereng—W.G. Archer.
Literary forms—Main characteristics, history and development
of following literary forms. (d) Baha Sereng—Balaram Tudu.
Part I (e) Dong Sereng—Padmashri Bhagwat Murmu ‘Thakur’.
Folk Literature in Santhali—folk song, folk tale, phrase, (f) Hor Sereng—Raghunath Murmu.
idioms puzzles, and Kudum. (g) Soros Sereng—Babulal Murmu “Adivasi”.
Part II (h) More Sin More Ndia—Rup Chand Hansda.
Modern literature in Santhali (i) Judasi Madwa Latar—Tez Narayan Murmu.
1. Development of poetry and prominent poets.
Section B
2. Development of prose and prominent writers.
Modern Literature
(i) Novels and prominent Novelists.
Part I—Poetry
(ii) Stories and prominent story writers.
(a) Onorhen Baha Dhalwak—Paul Jujhar Soren.
(iii) Drama and Prominent Dramatist.
(b) Asar Binti—Narayan Soren “Tore Sutam”.
(iv) Criticism and prominent critics.
(c) Chand Mala—Gora Chand Tudu.
(v) Essay, sketches, memoirs, travelogues and prominent
writers. (d) Onto Baha Mala—Aditya Mitra “Santhali”.
Santhali writers (e) Tiryo Tetang—Hari Har Hansda.
Shyam Sundar Hembram, Pandit Raghunath Murmu, (f) Sisirjon Rar—Thakur Prasad Murmu.
Barha Beshra, Sadhu Ramchand Murmu, Narayan Part II—Novels
Soren ‘Toresutam’, Sarda Prasad Kisku, Raghunath (a) Harmawak Ato—R.Karstiars (Translator—R.K. Kisku
Tudu, Kalipada Soren, Sakla Soren, Digamber Rapaz).
Hansda, Aditya Mitra ‘Santhali’, Babulal Murmu
(b) Manu Mati—Chandra Mohan Hansda.
‘Adivasi’, Jadumani Beshra, Arjun Hembram, Krishna
Chandra Tudu, Rupchand Hansda, Kalendra Nath (c) Ato Orak—Doman Hansdak.
Mandi, Mahadev, Hansda, Gour Chandra Murmu, (d) Ojoy Gada Dhiph re—Nathenial Murmu.
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Part III—Stories (1) Poetry
(a) Jiyon Gada—Rup Chand Hansda and Jadumani Beshra. a. ‘‘Shah Jo Choond Shair’’ : ed. H.I. Sadarangani,
(b) Mayajaal—Doman Sahu ‘Samir’ and Padmashri Bhagwat Published by Sahitya Akademi (First 100 pages).
Murmu ‘Thakur’. b. ‘‘Sachal Jo Choond Kalam’’ : ed. Kalyan B. Advani
Part IV—Drama Published by Sahitya Akademi (Kafis only).
(a) Kherwar Bir—Pandit Raghunath Murmu. c. ‘‘Sami-a-ja Choond Sloka’’ : ed. B.H. Nagrani
Published by Sahitya Akademi (First 100 pages).
(b) Juri Khatir—Dr. K.C. Tudu.
d. ‘‘Shair-e-Bewas’’ : by Kishinchand Bewas
(c) Birsa Bir—Ravi Lal Tudu.
(“Saamoondi Sipoon’’ portion only).
Part V—Biography
e. ‘‘Roshan Chhanvro’’ : Narayan Shyam.
Santal Ko Ren Mayam Gohako—Dr. Biswanath Hansda.
f. ‘‘Virhange Khapoi je Sindhi Shair jee Choond’’ :
SINDHI
ed. H.I. Sadarangani, published by Sahitya
PAPER I Akademi.
Answers must be written in Sindhi (2) Drama
(Arabic or Devanagari Script)
g. ‘‘Behtareen Sindhi Natak’’ (One-act Plays) :
Section A Edited by M. Kamal Published by Gujarat Sindhi
1. (a) Origin and evolution of Sindhi language—views of Academy.
different scholars. h. ‘‘Kako Kaloomal’’ (Full-length Play ) : by Madan
(b) Significant linguistic features of Sindhi language, Jumani.
including those pertaining to its phonology, Section B
morphology and syntax.
References to context and critical appreciation of the
(c) Major dialects of the Sindhi language. texts included in this section.
(d) Sindhi vocabulary—stages of its growth, including a. ‘Pakheeara Valar Khan Vichhrya’ (Novel) : by Gobind
those in the pre-partition and post-partition periods. Malhi.
(e) Historical study of various Writing Systems (Scripts) b. ‘Sat Deenhan’ (Novel) : by Krishin Khatwani.
of Sindhi.
c. ‘Choond Sindhi Kahanyoon’ (Short Stories) Vol.
(f) Changes in the structure of Sindhi language in India, III. : Edited by Prem Prakash, published by Sahitya
after partition, due to influence of other languages Akademi.
and social conditions.
d. ‘Bandhan’ (Short Stories) : Sundari Uttamchandani.
Section B
e. ‘Behtareen Sindhi Mazmoon’ (Essays): Edited
2. Sindhi literature through the ages in context of socio-cultural by Hiro Thakur, published by Gujarat Sindhi
conditions in the respective periods : Academi.
(a) Early medieval literature upto 1350 A.D. including f. ‘Sindhi Tanqeed’ (Criticism) : Edited by Harish
folk literature. Vaswani : Published by Sahitya Akademi.
(b) Late medieval period from 1350 A.D. to 1850 A.D. g. ‘Mumhinjee Hayati-a-ja Sona Ropa varqa’
(c) Renaissance period from 1850 A.D. to 1947 A.D. (Autobiography) : by Popati Hiranandani.
(d) Modern period from 1947 and onwards. h. ‘‘Dr. Choithram Gidwani’’ (Biography) : by Vishnu
(Literary genres in Modern Sindhi literature and Sharma.
experiments in poetry, drama, novel, short story, TAMIL
essay, literary criticism, biography, autobiography, PAPER I
memoirs and travelogues.)
Answers must be written in Tamil
PAPER II
Section A
Answer must be written in Sindhi
Part 1: History of Tamil Language
(Arabic or Devanagari script)
Major Indian Language Families—The place of
This paper will require the first-hand reading of the
Tamil among Indian Languages in general and Dravidian in
texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s
particular—Enumeration and Distribution of Dravidian
critical ability.
languages.
Section A
The language of Sangam Literature—The language of
References to context and critical appreciation of the
medieval Tamil : Pallava Period only—Historical study of
texts included in this section.
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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs—Tense markers and case (3) Tirukkural Porutpal : Arasiyalum Amaichiyalum
markers in Tamil. (from Iraimatchi to Avaianjamai).
Borrowing of words from other languages into Tamil— Part 2 : Epic Literature
Regional and social dialects—difference between literary and (1) Silappadikaram : Madhurai Kandam only.
spoken Tamil.
(2) Kambaramayanam : Kumbakarunan Vadhai
Part 2 : History of Tamil Literature Padalam.
Tolkappiyam-Sangam Literature—The division of Akam Part 3 : Devotional Literature
and Puram—The secular characteristics of Sangam
(1) Tiruvasagam : Neetthal Vinnappam
Literature—The development of Ethical literature—
Silappadikaram and Manimekalai. (2) Tiruppavai : (Full Text).
Part 3 : Devotional Literature (Alwars and Nayanamars) Section B
The bridal mysticism in Alwar hymns—Minor literary Modern Literature
forms (Tutu, Ula, Parani, Kuravanji). Part 1 : Poetry
Social factors for the development of Modern Tamil (1) Bharathiar : Kannan Pattu
Literature; Novel, Short Story and New Poetry—The impact (2) Bharathidasan : Kudumba Vilakku
of various political ideologies on modern writings.
(3) Naa. Kamarasan : Karappu Malarkal
Section B
Prose
Part 1 : Recent trends in Tamil Studies
(1) Mu. Varadharajanar : Aramum Arasiyalum
Approaches to criticism : Social, psychological,
(2) C. N. Annadurai : Ye! Thazhntha Tamilagame.
historical and moralistic—the use of criticism—the various
techniques in literature; Ullurai, Iraicchi, Thonmam (Myth) Part 2 : Novel, Short Story and Drama
Otturuvagam (allegory), Angadam (Satire), Meyappadu, (1) Akilon ; Chittairappavai
Padimam (image), Kuriyeedu (Symbol), Irunmai (Ambiguity)— (2) Jayakanthan : Gurupeedam
The concept of comparative literature-the principle of
(3) Cho : Yaurkkum Vetkamillai
comparative literature.
Part 3 : Folk Literature
Part 2 : Folk literature in Tamil
(1) Muthuppattan kathai Edited by Na. Vanamamalai,
Ballads, Songs, proverbs and riddles—Sociological
(Publication : Madurai Kamaraj University).
study of Tamil folklore. Uses of translation—Translation of
Tamil works into other languages-Development of journalism (2) Malaiyaruvi, Edited by Ki. Va Jagannathan
in Tamil. (Publication : Saraswathi Mahal, Thanjavur).
Part 3 : Cultural Heritage of the Tamils TELUGU
Concept of Love and War—Concept of Aram-the ethical PAPER I
codes adopted by the ancient Tamils in their warfare-customs Answer must be written in Telugu
beliefs, rituals, modes of worship in the five Thinais. Section A : Language
The Cultural changes as revealed in post sangam 1. Place of Telugu among Dravidian languages and its
literature—cultural fusion in the medieval period (Janism and antiquity—Etymological History of Telugu,Tenugu and
Buddhism). The development of arts and architecture through Andhra.
the ages (Pallavas, later Cholas, and Nayaks). The impact of
2. Major linguistic changes in phonological,
various political, social, religious and cultural movements on
morphological, grammatical and syntactical levels, from
Tamil Society. The role of mass media in the cultural change
Proto-Dravidian to old Telugu and from old Telugu to
of contemporary Tamil society.
Modern Telugu.
PAPER II
3. Evolution of spoken Telugu when compared to classical
Answers must be written in Tamil Telugu-Formal and functional view of Telugu
The paper will require first-hand reading of the text language.
prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability of 4. Influence of other languages and its impact on Telugu.
the candidate.
5. Modernization of Telugu language :
Section A
(a) Linguistic and literary movements and their role in
Part 1 : Ancient Literature modernization of Telugu.
(1) Kuruntokai (1—25 poems) (b) Role of media in modernization of Telugu (News-
(2) Purananuru (182—200 poems) papers, Radio, TV etc.)
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(c) Problems of terminology and mechanisms in 2. Tikkana-Sri Krishna Rayabaramu (Udyoga parva-3rd
coining new terms in Telugu in various discourses Canto verses 1—144).
including scientific and technical. 3. Srinath-Guna Nidhi Katha (Kasikhandam, 4th Canto,
6. Dialects of Telugu—Regional and social variations and verses 76—133).
problems of Standardization. 4. Pingali Surana-sugatri Salinulakatha (Kalapurno-
7. Syntax—Major divisions of Telugu sentences—simple, dayamu 4 Canto verses, 60—142).
complex and compound sentences—Noun and verb 5. Molla-Ramayanamu (Balakanda including avatarika).
predications—Processes of nominalization and 6. Kasula Purushothama Kavi—Andhra Nayaka Satakamu.
relativization—Direct and indirect reporting-conversion
Section B
processes.
7. Gurajada Appa Rao—Animutyalu (Short stories).
8. Translation—Problems of translation, cultural, social
and idiomatic—Methods of translation—Approaches 8. Viswanatha Satyanarayana—Andhra prasasti.
to translation—Literary and other kinds of translation— 9. Devulapalli Krishna Sastry—Krishnapaksham
Various uses of translation. (excluding Uravsi and Pravasam).
Section B : Literature 10. Sri Sri-Maha prastanam.
1. Literature in Pre-Nannaya Period—Marga and Desi poetry. 11. Jashuva-Gabbilam (Part I).
2. Nannaya Period—Historical and literary background of 12. C. Narayana Reddy—Karpuravasanta rayalu.
Andhra Mahabharata. 13. Kanuparti Varalakshmamma—Sarada lekhalu (Part I).
3. Saiva poets and their contribution—Dwipada, Sataka, 14. Atreya—N.G.O.
Ragada, Udaharana. 15. Racha Konda Viswanatha Sastry—Alpajaeevi.
4. Tikkana and his place in Telugu literature. URDU
5. Errana and his literary works—Nachana Somana and PAPER I
his new approach to poetry. Answer must be written in Urdu
6. Srinatha and Potana—Their works and contribution. Section A
7. Bhakti poets in Telugu literature—Tallapaka Annamayya, Development of Urdu Language
ramadasu, tyagayya. (a) Development of Indo-Aryan
8. Evolution of prabandhas—Kavya and prabandha. (i) Old Indo-Aryan
9. Southern school of Telugu literature-raghunatha (ii) Middle Indo-Aryan
Nayaka, chemakura vankatakavi and women poets- (iii) New Indo-Aryan.
Literary forms like yakshagana, prose and padakavita. (b) Western Hindi and its dialects Brij Bhasha Khadi
10. Modern Telugu Literature and literary forms—Novel, Boli, Haryanavi, Kannauji, Bundeli—
Short Story, Drama, Playlet and poetic forms. Theories about the origin of Urdu language.
11. Literary Movements : Reformation, Nationalism, (c) Dakhani Urdu—origin and development, its
Neo-classisicism, Romanticism and Progressive, significant linguistic features.
Revolutionary movements. (d) Social and Cultural roots of Urdu language— and its
12. Digambarakavulu, feminist and dalit Literature. distinctive features.
13. Main divisions of folk literature—Performing folk arts. Script, Phonology, Morphology, Vocabulary.
PAPER II Section B
Answer must be written in Telugu (a) Genres and their development :
This paper will require first hand reading of the (i) Poetry: Ghazal, Masnavi, Qasida, Marsia, Rubai
prescribed texts and will be designed to test the candidate’s Jadid Nazm.
critical ability, which will be in relation to the following (ii) Prose : Novel, Short Story, Dastan, Drama, Inshaiya,
approaches :— Khutoot, Biography.
(i) Aesthetic approach—Rassa, Dhawani, Vakroti and (b) Significant feaures of : (i) Deccani, Delhi and Lucknow
Auchitya—Formal and Structural-Imagery and schools, (ii) Sir Syed movement, Romantic movement,
Symbolism. Progressive movement, Modernism.
(ii) Sociological, Historical, Ideological, Psychological (c) Literary Criticism and its development with reference
approaches. to Hali, Shibli, Kaleemuddin Ahmad, Ehtisham Hussain,
Section A Ale-Ahmad Suroor.
1. Nannaya-Dushyanta Chritra (Adiparva 4th Canto (d) Essay writing (covering literary and imaginative
verses 5—109). topics).
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PAPER II Organizational culture, managing cultural diversity, learning
Answer must be written in Urdu Organization; Organizational change and development;
Knowledge Based Enterprise—systems and processes;
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts
Networked and virtual organizations.
prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate's critical
ability. 3. Human Resource Management :
Section A HR challenges; HRM functions; The future challenges
1. Mir Amman Bagho-Babar of HRM; Strategic Management of human resources; Human
resource planning; Job analysis; Job evaluation, Recruitment
2. Ghalib Intikhab-e-Khutoot-e and selection; Training and development; Promotion and
Ghalib
transfer; Performance management; Compensation
3. Mohd. Husain Azad Nairang-e-Khayal management and bnenefits; Employee morale and
4. Prem Chand Godan productivity; Management of Organizational climate and
5. Rajendra Singh Bedi Apne Dukh Mujhe Dedo Industrial relations; Human resources accounting and audit;
Human resource information system; International human
6. Abul Kalam Azad Ghubar-e-Khatir
resource management.
Section B
4. Accounting for Managers :
1. Mir Intikhab-e-Kalam-e-Mir
(Ed. Abdul Haq.) Financial accounting—concept, importance and scope,
generally accepted accounting principles, preparation of
2. Mir Hasan Sahrul Bayan financial statements with special reference to analysis of a
3. Ghalib Diwan-e-Ghalib balance sheet and measurment of business income, inventory
4. Iqbal Bal-e-Jibrail valuation and depreciation, financial statement analysis, fund
5. Firaq Gul-e-Naghma flow analysis, the statement of cash flows; Management
accounting concept, need, imporance and scope; Cost
6. Faiz Dast-e-Saba accounting—records and processes, cost ledger and control
7. Akhtruliman Bint-e-Lamhat accounts, reconciliation and integration bwtween financial
MANAGEMENT and cost accounts; Overhead cost and control, Job and
The candidate should make a study of the concept of process costing, Budget and budgetary control, Performance
development of Management as science and art drawing budgeting, Zero-base budgeting, relevant costing and costing
upon the contributions of leading thinkers of management for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis,
and apply the concepts to the real life of government and marginal costing and absorption costing.
business decision-making keeping in view the changes in 5. Financial Management :
the strategic and operative environment. Goal of Finance Function. Concepts of value and return.
PAPER I Valuation of bonds and Shares; Management of working
1. Managerial Function and Process : capital : Estimation and Financing; Management of cash,
receivables, inventory and current liabilities; Cost of
Concept and foundations of management, Evolution of capital ; Capital budgeting; Financial and operating leverage;
Management Thoughts; Managerial Functions—Planning, Design of capital structure: theories and practices;
Organizing, Controlling; Decision-making; Role of Manager, Shareholder value creation: dividend policy, corporate
Managerial skills; Entrepreneurship; Management of financial policy and strategy, management of corporate
innovation; Managing in a global environment, Flexible distress and restructuring strategy; Capital and money
Systems Management; Social responsibility and managerial markets: institutions and instruments; Leasing hire purchase
ethics; Process and customer orientation; Managerial and venture capital; Regulation of capital market; Risk and
processes on direct and indirect value chain. return: portfolio theory; CAPM; APT; Financial derivatives:
2. Organisational Behaviour and Design : option, futures, swap; Recent reforms in financial sector.
Conceptual model of organization behaviour; The 6. Marketing Management :
individual processes—personality, values and attitude, Concept, evolution and scope; Marketing strategy
perception, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work formulation and components of marketing plan; Segmenting
stress and stress management; The dynamics of Organization and targeting the market; Positioning and differentiating the
behaviour—power and politics, conflict and negotiation, market offering; Analyzing competition; Analyzing consumer
leadership process and styles, communication; The markets; Industrial buyer behaviour; Market research;
Organizational Processes—decision-making, job design; Product strategy; Pricing strategies; Designing and managing
Classical, Neoclassical and Contingency approaches to Marketing channels; Integrated marketing communications;
organizational design; Organizational theory and design— Building customer staisfaction, Value and retention; Services
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and non-profit marketing; Ethics in marketing; Consumer 5. Strategic Cost Management :
protection; Internet marketing; Retail management; Customer Business policy as a field of study; Nature and scope
relationship management; Concept of holistic marketing. of strategic management, Strategic intent, vision, objectives
PAPER-II and policies; Process of strategic planning and implementa-
1. Quantitative Techniques in Decision-making : tion; Environmental analysis and internal analysis; SWOT
analysis; Tools and techniques for strategic analysis—Impact
Descriptive statistics—tabular, graphical and numerical
matrix: The experience curve, BCG matrix, GEC mode, Industry
methods, introduction to probability, discrete and continuous
analysis, Concept of value chain; Strategic profile of a firm;
probability distributions, inferential statistics-sampling
Framework for analysing competition; Competitive advantage
distributions, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing for
of a firm; Generic competitive strategies; Growth strategies—
differences between means and proportions, inference about
expansion, integration and diversification; Concept of core
population variances, Chisquare and ANOVA, simple
competence, Strategic flexibility; Reinventing strategy;
correlation and regression, time series and forecasting,
Strategy and structure; chief Executive and Board;
decision theory, index numbers; Linear programming—
turnaround management; Management of strategic change;
problem formulation, simplex method and graphical solution,
Strategic alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy and
sensitivity analysis.
corporate evolution in the Indian context.
2. Production and Operations Management : 6. International Business :
Fundamentals of operations management; Organizing International Business Environment : Changing
for production; Aggregate production planning, capacity composition of trade in goods and services; India’s Foreign
planning, plant design: process planning, plant size and scale Trade: Policy and trends; Financing of International trade;
of operations, Management of facilities; Line balancing; Regional Economic Cooperation; FTAs; Internationalisation
Equipment replacement and maintenance; Production control; of service firms; International production; Operation
Supply, chain management—vendor evaluation and audit; Management in International companies; International
Quality management; Statistical process control, Six Sigma; Taxation; Global competitiveness and technological
Flexibility and agility in manufacturing systems; World class developments; Global E-Business; Designing global
manufaturing; Project management concepts, R&D organisational structure and control; Multicultural
management, Management of service operations; Role and management; Global business strategy; Global marketing
importance of materials management, value analysis, make or strategies; Export Management; Export-Import procedures;
buy decision; Inventory control, MRP; Waste management. Joint Ventures; Foreign Investment: Foreign direct investment
3. Management Information System : and foreign portfolio investment; Cross-border Mergers and
Conceptual foundations of information systems; Acquisitions; Foreign Exchange Risk Exposure Management;
Information theory; Information resource management; Types World Financial Markets and International Banking; External
of information Systems; Systems Development—Overview Debt Management; Country Risk Analysis.
of Systems and Design; System Development management MATHEMATICS
life-cycle, Designing online and distributed environments; PAPER I
Implementation and control of project; Trends in information (1) Linear Algebra :
technology; Managing data resources—Organising data.
Vector spaces over R and C, linear dependence and
DSS and RDBMS; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Expert
independence, subspaces, bases, dimensions, Linear
systems, e-Business architecture, e-Governance; Information
transformations, rank and nullity, matrix of a linear transformation.
systems planning, Flexibility in information systems; User
involvement; Evaluation of information systems. Algebra of Matrices; Row and column reduction,
Echelon form, congruence’s and similarity; Rankof a matrix;
4. Government Business Interface :
Inverse of a matrix; Solution of system of linear equations;
State participation in business, Interaction between Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial,
Government, Business and different Chambers of Commerce Cayley-Hamilton theorem, Symmetric, skew-symmetric,
and Industry in India; Government’s ploicy with regard to Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, orthogonal and unitary matrices
Small Scale Industries; Government clearances for and their eigenvalues.
establishing a new enterprise; Public Distribution System;
(2) Calculus :
Government control over price and distribution; Consumer
Protection Act (CPA) and The Role of Voluntary Organizations Real numbers, functions of a real variable, limits,
in protecting consumers’ rights; New Industrial Policy of the continuity, differentiability, mean-value theorem, Taylor’s
Government : liberalization, deregulation and privatisation; theorem with remainders, indeterminate forms, maxima and
Indian planning system; Government policy concerning minima, asymptotes; Curve tracing; Functions of two or
development of Backward areas/regions; The Responsibilities three variables; Limits, continuity, partial derivatives,
of the business as well as the Government to protect the maxima and minima, Lagrange’s method of multipliers,
environment; Corporate Governance; Cyber Laws. Jacobian.
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Riemann’s definition of definite integrals; Indefinite Rings, subrings and ideals, homomorphisms of rings;
integrals; Infinite and improper integral; Double and triple Integral domains, principal ideal domains, Euclidean domains
integrals (evaluation techniques only); Areas, surface and and unique factorization domains; Fields, quotient fields.
volumes. (2) Real Analysis :
(3) Analytic Geometry : Real number system as an ordered field with least upper
Cartesian and polar coordinates in three dimensions, bound property; Sequences, limit of a sequence, Cauchy
second degree equations in three variables, reduction to sequence, completeness of real line; Series and its
Canonical forms; straight lines, shortest distance between convergence, absolute and conditional convergence of series
two skew lines, Plane, sphere, cone, cylinder, paraboloid, of real and complex terms, rearrangement of series. Continuity
ellipsoid, hyperboloid of one and two sheets and their and uniform continuity of functions, properties of continuous
properties. functions on compact sets.
(4) Ordinary Differential Equations : Riemann integral, improper integrals; Fundamental
theorems of integral calculus.
Formulation of differential equations; Equations of
first order and first degree, integrating factor; Orthogonal Uniform convergence, continuity, differentiability and
trajectory; Equations of first order but not of first degree, integrability for sequences and series of functions; Partial
Clairaut’s equation, singular solution. derivatives of functions of several (two or three) variables,
maxima and minima.
Second and higher order liner equations with constant
(3) Complex Analysis :
coefficients, complementary function, particular integral and
general solution. Analytic function, Cauchy-Riemann equations,
Cauchy's theorem, Cauchy's integral formula, power series,
Section order linear equations with variable coefficients,
representation of an analytic function, Taylor’s series;
Euler-Cauchy equation; Determination of complete solution
Singularities; Laurent’s series; Cauchy’s residue theorem;
when one solution is known using method of variation of
Contour integration.
parameters.
(4) Linear Programming :
Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms and their
properties, Laplace transforms of elementary functions. Linear programming problems, basic solution, basic
Application to initial value problems for 2nd order linear feasible solution and optimal solution; Graphical method and
equations with constant coefficients. simplex method of solutions; Duality.
(5) Dynamics and Statics : Transportation and assignment problems.
Rectilinear motion, simple harmonic motion, motion in (5) Partial Differential Equations :
a plane, projectiles; Constrained motion; Work and energy, Family of surfaces in three dimensions and formulation
conservation of energy; Kepler’s laws, orbits under central of partial differential equations; Solution of quasilinear partial
forces. differential equations of the first order, Cauchy’s method of
Equilibrium of a system of particles; Work and characteristics; Linear partial differential equations of the
potential energy, friction, Common catenary; Principle of second order with constant coefficients, canonical form;
virtual work; Stability of equilibrium, equilibrium of forces Equation of a vibrating string, heat equation, Laplace
in three dimensions. equation and their solutions.
(6) Numerical Analysis and Computer Programming :
(6) Vector Analysis :
Numerical methods: Solution of algebraic and
Scalar and vector fields, differentiation of vector field
transcendental equations of one variable by bisection, Regula-
of a scalar variable; Gradient, divergence and curl in
Falsi and Newton-Raphson methods, solution of system of
cartesian and cylindrical coordinates; Higher order
linear equations by Gaussian Elimination and Gauss-Jorden
derivatives; Vector identities and vector equation.
(direct), Gauss-Seidel (iterative) methods. Newton’s (forward
Application to geometry : Curves in space, curvature and backward) and interpolation, Lagrange’s interpolation.
and torsion; Serret-Furenet's formulae.
Numerical integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s rule,
Gauss and Stokes’ theorems, Green's indentities. Gaussian quadrature formula.
PAPER II Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations :
(1) Algebra : Eular and Runga Kutta methods.
Groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, cosets, Lagrange’s Computer Programming : Binary system; Arithmetic and
Theorem, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphism logical operations on numbers; Octal and Hexadecimal
of groups, basic isomorphism theorems, permutation groups, Systems; Conversion to and from decimal Systems; Algebra
Cayley’s theorem. of binary numbers.
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Elements of computer systems and concept of memory; Non-conventional machining-EDM, ECM, ultrasonic,
Basic logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra, normal water jet machining etc.; application of lasers and plasmas;
forms. energy rate calculations.
Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers Forming and welding processes-standard processes.
and reals, double precision reals and long integers. Metrology-concept of fits and tolerances; tools and
Algorithms and flow charts for solving numerical guages; comparators; inspection of length; position; profile
analysis problems. and surface finish.
(7) Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics : 4.2 Manufacturing Management :
Generalised coordinates; D’Alembert’s principle and System design: factory location—simple OR models;
Lagrange’s equations; Hamilton equations; Moment of inertia; plant layout-methods based; applications of engineering
Motion of rigid bodies in two dimensions. economic analysis and break-even analysis for product
selection, process selection and capacity planning;
Equation of continuity; Euler’s equation of motion for
predetermined time standards.
inviscid flow; Stream-lines, path of a particle; Potential flow;
Two-dimensional and axisymmetric motion; Sources and sinks, System planning; forecasting methods based on
vortex motion; Navier-Stokes equation for a viscous fluid. regression and decomposition, design and blancing of multi
model and stochastic assembly lines; inventory management-
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
probablistic inventory models for order time and order
PAPER I quanitity determination; JIT systems; strategic sourcing;
1. Mechanics : managing inter plant logistics.
1.1 Mechanics of Rigid Bodies : System operations and control: Scheduling algorithms
for job shops; applications of statistical methods for product
Equations of equilibrium in space and its application;
and process quality control applications of control charts for
first and second moments of area; simple problems on friction;
mean, range, percent defective, number of defectives and
kinematics of particles for plane motion; elementary particle
defects per unit; quality cost systems; management of
dynamics.
resources, organizations and risks in projects.
1.2 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies :
System improvement: Implementation of systems, such
Generalized Hooke’s law and its application; design as total quality management, developing and managing
problems on axial stress, shear stress and bearing stress; flexible, lean and agile Organizations.
material properties for dynamic loading; bending shear and
PAPER II
stresses in beams; determination of principle stresses and
strains-analytical and graphical; compound and combined 1. Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics Turbine :
stresses; bi-axial stresses-thin walled pressure vessel; 1.1 Basic concept of First-law and Second law of
material behaviour and design factors for dynamic load; Thermodynamics; concept of entropy and reversibility;
design of circular shafts for bending and torsional load only; availability and unavailability and irreversibility.
deflection of beam for statically determinate problems; theories
1.2 Classification and properties of fluids;
of failure.
incompressible and compressible fluids flows; effect of Mach
2. Engineering Materials : number and compressibility; continuity momentum and
Basic concepts on structure of solids, common ferrous energy equations; normal and oblique shocks; one
and non-ferrous materials and their applications; heat- dimensional isentropic flow; flow or fluids in duct with
treatment of steels; non-metalsplastics, cermics, composite frictions that transfer.
materials and nano-materials. 1.3 Flow through fans, blowers and compressors; axial
3. Theory of Machines : and centrifugal flow configuration; design of fans and
compressors; single problems compresses and turbine
Kinematic and dynamic analysis of plane mechanisms. cascade; open and closed cycle gas turbines; work done in
Cams, Gears and empicyclie gear trains, flywheels, governors, the gas turbine; reheat and regenerators.
balancing of rigid rotors, balancing of single and multicy-
linder engines, linear vibration analysis of mechanical systems 2. Heat Transfer :
(single degree of freedom), Critical speeds and whirling of 2.1 Conduction heat transfer—general conduction
shafts. equation-Laplace, Poisson and Fourier equations; Fourier
law of conduction; one dimensional steady state heat
4. Manufacturing Science :
conduction applied to simple wall, solid and hollow cylinder
4.1 Manufacturing Process: and spheres.
Machine tool engineering - Merhant’s force analysis: 2.2 Convection heat transfer—Newton’s law of
Taylor’s tool life equation; conventional machining; NC and convection; free and forces convection; heat transfer during
CNC machining process; jigs and fixtures. laminar and turbulent flow of an incompressible fluid over a
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flat plate; concepts of Nusselt number, hydrodynamic and MEDICAL SCIENCE
thermal boundary layer their thickness; Prandtl number; PAPER I
analogy between heat and momentum transfer—Reynolds,
1. Human Anatomy :
Colbum, Prandtl analogies; heat transfer during laminar and
turbulent flow through horizontal tubes; free convection from Applied anatomy including blood and nerve supply of
horizontal and vertical plates. upper and lower limbs and joints of shoulder, hip and knee.
2.3 Black body radiation—basic radiation laws such as Gross anatomy, blood supply and lymphatic drainage
Stefan-boltzman, Planck distribution, Wein’s displacement of tongue, thyroid, mammary gland, stomach, liver, prostate,
etc. gonads and uterus.
2.4 Basic heat exchanger analysis; classification of Applied anatomy of diaphragm, perineum and inguinal
heat exchangers. region.
3. Engines : Clinical anatomy of kidney, urinary bladder, uterine
tubes, vas deferens.
3.1 Classification, themodynamic cycles of operation;
Embryology : Placenta and placental barrier.
determination of break power, indicated power, mechanical
Development of heart, gut, kidney. uterus, ovary, testis and
efficiency, heat balance sheet, interpretation of performance
their common congenital abnormalities.
characteristics, petrol, gas and diesel engines.
Central and Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System :
3.2 Combustion in SI and CI engines, normal and
Gross and clinical anatomy of ventricles of brain, circulation
abnormal combustion; effect of working parameters on
of cerebrospinal fluid; Neural pathways and lesions of
knocking, reduction of knocking; Forms of combustion
cutaneous sensations, hearing and vision; Cranial nerves
chamber for SI and CI engines; rating of fuels; additives;
distribution and clinical significance; Components of
emission.
autonomic nervous system.
3.3 Different systems of IC engines-fuels; lubricating;
2. Human Physiology :
cooling and transmission systems. Alternate fuels in IC
engines. Conduction and transmission of impulse, mechanism
of contraction, neuromuscular transmission, reflexes, control
4. Steam Engineering : of equilibrium, posture and muscle tone, descending
4.1 Steam generation—modified Ranking cycle analysis; pathways, functions of cerebellum, basal ganglia, Physiology
Modern steam boilers; steam at critical and supercritical of sleep and consciousness.
pressures; draught equipment; natural and artificial draught; Endocrine System : Mechanism of action of hormones;
boiler fuels solid, liquid and gaseous fuels. Steam turbines— formation, secretion, transport, metabolism, function and
Principle; types; compounding; impulse and reaction turbines; regulation of secretion of pancreas and pituitary gland.
axial thrust.
Physiology of Reproductive System : Pregnancy
4.2 Steam nozzles—flow of steam in convergent and menstrual cycle, lactation, pregnancy.
divergent nozzle pressure at throat for maximum discharge Blood : Development, regulation and fate of blood
with different initial steam conditions such as wet, saturated cells.
and superheated, effect of variation of back pressure;
Cardio-vascular, cardiac output, blood pressure,
supersaturated flow of steam in nozzles, Wilson line.
regulation of cardiovascular functions.
4.3 Rankine cycle with internal and external
3. Biochemistry :
irreversibility; reheat factor; reheating and regeneration,
methods of governing; back pressure and pass out turbines. Organ function tests—liver, kidney, thyroid Protein
synthesis.
4.4 Steam power plants—combined cycle power
generation; heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) fired and Vitamins and minerals.
unfired, co-generation plants. Restriction fragment length.
5. Refrigeration and Air-conditioning : polymorphism (RFLP).
5.1 Vapour compression refrigeration cycle—cycle on Polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
p-H & T-s diagrams; ecofriendly refrigerants—R 134a. 123; Radio-immunoassays (RIA).
Systems like evaporators, condensers, compressor, expansion 4. Pathology :
devices. Simple vapour absorption systems.
Inflammation and repair, disturbances of growth and
5.2 Psychrometry—properties; processes; charts; cancer, Pathogenesis and histopathology of rheumatic and
sensible heating and cooling; humidification and ischaemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus. Differentiation
dehumidification effective temperature; air-conditioning load between benign, malignant, primary and metastatic
calculation; simple duct design. malignancies, Pathogenesis and histopathology of
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bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoma breast, oral cancer, broncho— pneumonias, kernicterus. IMNCI classification
cancer cervix, leukemia, Etiology, pathogenesis and and management, PEM grading and management. ARI and
histopathology of—cirrhosis liver, glomerulonephritis, Diarrhea of under five and their management.
tuberculosis, acute osteomyelitis. 3. Dermatology
5. Microbiology : Psoriasis, Allergic dermatitis, scabies, eczema, vitiligo,
Humoral and cell mediated immunity. Stevan Johnson’s syndrome, Lichen Planus.
Diseases caused by and laboratory diagnosis of — 4. General Surgery
* Meningococcus, Saimonella Clinical features, causes, diagnosis and principles
* Shigella, Herpes, Dengue, Polio of management of cleft palate, harelip.
* HIV/AIDS, Malaria, E. Histolytica, Giardia Laryngeal tumour, oral and esophageal tumours.
* Candida, Cryptococcus, Aspergillus. Peripheral arterial diseases, varicose veins, coarctation
6. Pharmacology : of aorta.
Mechanism of action and side effects of the following Tumours of Thyroid, Adrenal, Glands.
drugs : Abscess cancer, fibroadenoma and adenosis of breast.
* Antipyretics and analgesics, Antibiotics, Bleeding peptic ulcer, tuberculosis of bowel, ulcerative
* Antimalaria, Antikala-azar, Antidiabetics, colitis, cancer stomach.
* Antihypertensive, Antidiuretics, General and cardiac Renal mass, cancer prostatie.
vasodilators, Antiviral, Antiparasitic, Antifungal, Haemothorax, stones of Gall bladder, Kidney, Ureter
Immunosuppressants, and Urinary Bladder.
* Anticancer. Management of surgical conditions of Rectum, Anus
7. Forensic Medicine and Toxicology and Anal canal, Gall bladder and Bile ducts.
Forensic examination of injuries and wounds; Splenomegaly, cholecystitis, portal hypertension, liver
Examination of blood and seminal stains; Poisoning, sedative abscess, peritonitis, carcinoma head of pancreas.
overdose, hanging, drowning, burns, DNA and finger print Fractures of spine, Colles’ fracture and bone tumors.
study. Endoscopy.
PAPER-II Laprascopic Surgery.
1. General Medicine 5. Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Family
Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of Planning
management (including prevention) of—Typhoid, Rabies, Diagnosis of pregnancy.
AIDS, Dengue, Kala-azar, Japanese Encephalitis.
Labour management, complications of 3rd stage,
Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of Antepartum and postpartum hemorrhage, resuscitation of the
management of : newborn, Management of abnormal life and difficult labour.
Ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary embolism. Management of small for date or premature newborn.
Bronchial asthma. Diagnosis and management of anemia. Preeclampsia
Pleural effusion, tuberculosis, Malabsorption and Toxaemias of pregnancy, Management of Post-
syndromes; acid peptic diseases, Viral hepatitis and cirrhosis menopausal Syndrome.
of liver. Intra-uterine devices, pills, tubectomy and vasectomy.
Glomerulonephritis and pyelonephritis, renal failure, Medical termination of pregnancy including legal aspects.
nephrotic syndrome, renovascular hypertension, Cancer cervix.
complications of diabetes mellitus, coagulation disorders, Leucorrhoea, pelvic pain; infertility, dysfunctional
leukaemia, Hypo and hyper thyrodism, meningitis and uterine bleeding (DUB), amenorrhoea, Fibroid and prolapse
encephalitis. of uterus.
Imaging in medical problems, ultrasound, echo- 6. Community Medicine (Preventive and Social Medicine)
cardiogram, CT scan, MRI.
Principles, methods approach and measurements of
Anxiety and Depressive Psychosis and schizophrenia Epidemiology.
and ECT.
Nutrition, nutritional diseases/diorders and Nutrition
2. Paediatrics Programmes.
Immunization, Baby friendly hospital, congenital Health information Collection, Analysis and
cyanotic heart disease, respiratory distress syndrome, Presentation.
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Objectives, components and critical analysis of 14. Schools of Buddhism : Prat Ityasamutpada;
National programmes for control/eradication of : Ksanikavada, Nairatmyavada.
Malaria, Kala-azar, Filaria and Tuberculosis, 15. Nyaya—Vaiesesika : Theory of Categories; Theory
HIV/AIDS, STDs and Dengue. of Appearance; Theory of Pramana; Self, Liberation;
God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of
Critical appraisal of Health care delivery system. Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
Health management and administration; Techniques, 16. Samkhya; Prakrit; Purusa; Causation; Liberation.
Tools, Programme Implementation and Evaluation.
17. Yoga; Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.
Objectives, Components, Goals and Status of
18. Mimamsa: Theory of Knowlegde.
Reproductive and Child Health, National Rural Health Mission
and Millennium Development Goals. 19. Schools of Vedanta : Brahman; Isvara; Atman; Jiva;
Management of hospital and industrial waste. Jagat; Maya; Avida; Adhyasa; Moksa;
Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda.
PHILOSOPHY
20. Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.
PAPER-I
PAPER-II
History and Problems of Philosophy
Socio-Political Philosophy
1. Plato and Aristotle : Ideas; Substance; Form and
Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality. 1. Social and Political ldeals : Equality, Justice, Liberty.
2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz); Cartesian 2. Sovereignty : Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.
Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; 3. Individual and State : Rights; Duties and
Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom. Accountability.
3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) : Theory of 4. Forms of Government : Monarchy; Theocracy and
Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God; Democracy.
Scepticism.
5. Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and
4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Socialism.
Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason;
6. Humanism; Secularism; Multi-culturalism.
Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of
God. 7. Crime and Punishment : Corruption, Mass Violence,
5. Hegel : Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism. Genocide, Capital Punishment.

6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein : Defence of 8. Development and Social Progress.
Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical 9. Gender Discrimination : Female Foeticide, Land and
Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Property Rights; Empowerment.
Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Sying and 10. Caste Discrimination : Gandhi and Ambedkar.
Showing.
Philosophy of Religion
7. Logical Positivism : Verification Theory of Meaning;
Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of 1. Notions of God : Attributes; Relation to Man and
Necessary Propositions. the World. (Indian and Western).
8. Later Wittgenstein : Meaning and Use; Language- 2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique
games; Critique of Private Language. (Indian and Western).
9. Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of 3. Problem of Evil.
Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism. 4. Soul : Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sarte, Heidegger): 5. Reason, Revelation and Faith.
Existence and Essence; Choice, Responsibility and
6. Religious Experience : Nature and Object (Indian
Authentic Existence; Being-in-the-world and
and Western).
Temporality.
7. Religion without God.
11. Quine and Strawson : Critique of Empiricism; Theory
of Basic Particulars and Persons. 8. Religion and Morality.
12. Carvaka : Theory of Knowlegde; Rejection of 9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute
Transcendent Entities. Truth.
13. Jainism : Theory of Reality; Saptabhanginaya; 10. Nature of Religious Language : Analogical and
Bondage and Liberation. Symbolic; Cognitivist and Non-cognitive.
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PHYSICS the Airy pattern; Fresnel diffraction: half-period zones and


PAPER-I zone plates, circular aperture.

1. (a) Mechanics of Particles : (e) Polarisation and Modern Optics :

Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, Production and detection of linearly and circularly
polarized light; Double refraction, quarter wave plate; Optical
applications to rotating frames, centripetal and Coriolis
activity; Principles of fibre optics, attenuation; Pulse
accelerations; Motion under a central force; Conservation of
dispersion in step index and parabolic index fibres; Material
angular momentum, Kepler’s laws; Fields and potentials;
dispersion, single mode fibers; Lasers-Einstein A and B
Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss
coefficients. Ruby and He-Ne lasers. Characteristics of laser
and Poisson equations, gravitational self-energy; Two-body
light-spatial and temporal coherence; Focusing of laser beams.
problem; Reduced mass; Rutherford scattering; Centre of mass
Three-level scheme for laser operation; Holography and simple
and laboratory reference frames. applications.
(b) Mechanics of Rigid Bodies : 3. Electricity and Magnetism :
System of particles; Centre of mass, angular momentum, (a) Electrostatics and Magnetostatics :
equations of motion; Conservation theorems for energy,
momentum and angular momentum; Elastic and inelastic Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and
their applications; Energy of a system of charges, multipole
collisions; Rigid Body; Degrees of freedom, Euler’s theorem,
expansion of scalar potential; Method of images and its
angular velocity, angular momentum, moments of inertia,
applications. Potential and field due to a dipole, force and
theorems of parallel and perpendicular axes, equation of motion
torque on a dipole in an external field; Dielectrics, polarisation.
for rotation; Molecular rotations (as rigid bodies); Di and tri-
Solutions to boundary-value problems-conducting and
atomic molecules; Precessional motion; top, gyroscope.
dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field; Magnetic shell,
(c) Mechanics of Continuous Media : uniformly magnetised sphere; Ferromagnetic materials,
Elasticity, Hooke’s law and elastic constants of isotropic hysteresis, energy loss.
solids and their inter-relation; Streamline (Laminar) flow, (b) Current Electricity :
viscosity, Poiseuille’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Stokes’ Kirchhoff's laws and their applications. Biot-Savart law,
law and applications. Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’ law. Self-and mutual-
(d) Special Relativity : inductances; Mean and rms values in AC circuits; DC and AC
circuits with R, L and C components; Series and parallel
Michelson-Morely experiment and its implications;
resonance; Quality factor; Principle of transformer.
Lorentz transformations length contraction, time dilation,
addition of relativistic velocities, aberration and Doppler effect, 4. Electromagnetic Waves and Blackbody Radiation :
mass-energy relation, simple applications to a decay process. Displacement current and Maxwell’s equations; Wave
Four dimensional momentum vector; Covariance of equations equations in vacuum, Poynting theorem; Vector and scalar
of physics. potentials; Electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of
2. Waves and Optics : Maxwell’s equations; Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics,
reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics;
(a) Waves : Fresnel’s relations; Total internal reflection; Normal and
Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering; Blackbody
oscillation and resonance; Beats; Stationary waves in a string; radiation and Planck ’s radiation law- Stefan-Boltzmann law,
Pulses and wave packets; Phase and group velocities; Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans law.
Reflection and refraction from Huygens’ principle. 5. Thermal and Statistical Physics :
(b) Geometrial Optics : (a) Thermodynamics :
Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat’s principle; Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible
Matrix method in paraxial optic-thin lens formula, nodal planes, processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric
system of two thin lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations. processes and entropy changes; Otto and Diesel engines,
(c) Interference : Gibbs’ phase rule and chemical potential; Van der Waals
equation of state of a real gas, critical constants; Maxwell-
Interference of light -Young’s experiment, Newton’s
Boltzmann distribution of molecular velocities, transport
rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer;
phenomena, equipartition and virial theorems; Dulong-Petit,
Multiple beam interference and Fabry Perot interferometer. Einstein, and Debye’s theories of specific heat of solids;
(d) Diffraction : Maxwell relations and application; Clausius-Clapeyron
Fraunhofer diffraction - single slit, double slit, diffraction equation. Adiabatic demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and
grating, resolving power; Diffraction by a circular aperture and liquefaction of gases.
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(b) Statistical Physics : effect, Josephson junctions and applications; Elementary ideas
Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, about high temperature super-conductivity.
Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Intrinsic and extrinsic semi-conductors- p-n-p and n-p-n
Distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and transistors; Amplifiers and oscillators. Op-amps; FET, JFET
blackbody radiation; Concept of negative temperatures. and MOSFET; Digital electronics-Boolean identities, De
PAPER-II Morgan’s laws, Logic gates and truth tables. Simple logic
circuits; Thermistors, solar cells; Fundamentals of
1. Quantum Mechanics : microprocessors and digital computers.
Wave-particle duality; Schroedinger equation and POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL
expectation values; Uncertainty principle; Solutions of the
RELATIONS
one-dimensional Schroedinger equation for free particle
(Gaussian wave-packet), particle in a box, particle in a finite PAPER- I
well, linear harmonic oscillator; Reflection and transmission Political Theory and Indian Politics :
by a step potential and by a rectangular barrier; Particle in a
1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches.
three dimensional box, density of states, free electron theory
of metals; Angular momentum; Hydrogen atom; Spin half 2. Theories of state : Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluiralist,
particles, properties of Pauli spin matrices. post-colonial and Feminist.
2. Atomic and Molecular Physics : 3. Justice : Conceptions of justice with special reference
to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian
Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin, fine structure
critiques.
of hydrozen atom; L-S coupling, J-J coupling; Spectroscopic
notation of atomic states; Zeeman effect; Franck-Condon 4. Equality : Social, political and economic; relationship
principle and applications; Elementary theory of rotational, between equality and freedom; Affirmative action.
vibrational and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules; Raman 5. Rights : Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights;
effect and molecular structure; Laser Raman spectroscopy; Concept of Human Rights.
Importance of neutral hydrogen atom, molecular hydrogen
6. Democracy : Classical and contemporary theories;
and molecular hydrogen ion in astronomy. Fluorescence and
different models of democracy—representative,
Phosphorescence; Elementary theory and applications of
participatory and deliberative.
NMR and EPR; Elementary ideas about Lamb shift and its
significance. 7. Concept of power : hegemony, ideology and legitimacy.
3. Nuclear and Particle Physics : 8. Political Ideologies : Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism,
Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism.
Basic nuclear properties-size, binding energy, angular
momentum, parity, magnetic moment; Semi-empirical mass 9. Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra
formula and applications. Mass parabolas; Ground state of a and Buddhist Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri
deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central forces; Meson Aurobindo, M. K. Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar, M. N. Roy.
theory of nuclear forces; Salient features of nuclear forces; 10. Western Political Thought : Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli,
Shell model of the nucleus - success and limitations; Violation Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah
of parity in beta decay; Gamma decay and internal conversion; Arendt.
Elementary ideas about Mossbauer spectroscopy; Q-value Indian Government and Politics
of nuclear reactions; Nuclear fission and fusion, energy
production in stars. Nuclear reactors. 1. Indian Nationalism :
Classification of elementary particles and their (a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle :
interactions; Conservation laws; Quark structure of hadrons : Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-
Field quanta of electroweak and strong interactions; cooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and
Elementary ideas about unification of forces; Physics of Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers
neutrinos. Movements.
4. Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics : (b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Liberal,
Socialist and Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit.
Crystalline and amorphous structure of matter; Different
crystal systems, space groups; Methods of determination of 2. Making of the Indian Constitution : Legacies of the
crystal structure; X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission British rule; different social and political perspectives.
electron microscopies; Band theory of solids—conductors, 3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution : The Preamble,
insulators and semi-conductors; Thermal properties of solids, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive Principles;
specific heat, Debye theory; Magnetism: dia, para and Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures;
ferromagnetism; Elements of super-conductivity, Meissner Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine.
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4. (a) Principal Organs of the Union Government : Envisaged 5. Approaches to the Study of International Relations :
role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems
and Supreme Court. theory.
(b) Principal Organs of the State Government : Envisaged 6. Key Concepts in International Relations : National
role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature interest, security and power; Balance of power and
and High Courts. deterrence; Transational actors and collective security;
World capitalist economy and globalisation.
5. Grassroots Democracy : Panchayati Raj and Municipal
Government; Significance of 73rd and 74th 7. Changing International Political Order :
Amendments; Grassroot movements. (a) Rise of super powers; Strategic and ideological
6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions : Election Bipolarity, arms race and cold war; Nuclear threat;
Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance (b) Non-aligned Movement : Aims and achievements.
Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National
(c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and
Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Commission
American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment
for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women;
in the contemporary world.
National Human Rights Commission, National
Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes 8. Evolution of the International Economic System : From
Commission. Brettonwoods to WTO; Socialist economies and the
CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); Third
7. Federalism : Constitutional provisions; changing nature
World demand for new international economic order;
of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and
Globalisation of the world economy.
regional aspirations; inter-state disputes.
9. United Nations : Envisaged role and actual record;
8. Planning and Economic development : Nehruvian and
Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; need
Gandhian perspectives; Role of planning and public
for UN reforms.
sector; Green Revolution, land reforms and agrarian
relations; liberalization and economic reforms. 10. Regionalisation of World Politics : EU, ASEAN, APEC,
AARC, NAFTA.
9. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
11. Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, human
10. Party System : National and regional political parties, rights, environment, gender justice terrorism, nuclear
ideological and social bases of parties; Patterns of proliferation.
coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral
behaviour; changing socio-economic profile of India and the World
Legislators. 1. Indian Foreign Policy : Determinants of foreign policy;
11. Social Movement : Civil liberties and human rights the institutions of policy-making; Continuity and
movements; women’s movements; environmentalist change.
movements. 2. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement
PAPER-II Different phases; Current role.
Comparative Politics and International Relations 3. India and South Asia :
Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics : (a) Regional Co-operation : SAARC-past performance
1. Comparative Politics : Nature and major approaches; and future prospects.
Political economy and political sociology perspectives; (b) South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
Limitations of the comparative method.
(c) India’s “Look East” policy.
2. State in Comparative Perspective : Characteristics and
changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist (d) Impediments to regional co-operation : River water
economies, and advanced industrial and developing disputes; illegal cross border migration; Ethnic
societies. conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes.

3. Politics of Representation and Participation : Political 4. India and the Global South : Relations with Africa and
parties, pressure groups and social movements in Latin America; Leadership role in the demand for NIEO
advanced industrial and developing societies. and WTO negotiations.

4. Globalisation : Responses from developed and 5. India and the Global Centres of Power : USA, EU, Japan,
developing societies. China and Russia.
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6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; 6. Learning : Concepts and theories of learning
Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council. (Behaviourists, Gestaltalist and Information processing
models). The processes of extinction, discrimination and
7. India and the Nuclear Question : Changing perceptions generalisation. Programmed learning, probability learning, self
and policy. instructional learning, concepts, types and the schedules of
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy : India’s reinforcement, escape, avoidance and punishment, modelling
position on the recent crises in Afghanistan, Iraq and and social learning.
West Asia, growing relations with US and Isreal; Vision 7. Memory : Encoding and remembering; Shot-term
of a new world order. memory, Long-term memory, Sensory memory, Iconic memory,
Echoic memory: The Multistore model, levels of processing;
PSYCHOLOGY Organization and Mnemonic techniques to improve memory;
PAPER-I Theories of forgetting: decay, interference and retrieval failure:
Metamemory; Amnesia: Anterograde and retrograde.
Foundations of Psychology
8. Thinking and Problem Solving : Piaget’s theory of
1. Introduction : Definition of Psychology; Historical cognitive development; Concept formation processes;
antecedents of Psychology and trends in the 21st centrury; Information processing, Reasoning and problem solving,
Psychology and scientific methods; Psychology in relation Facilitating and hindering factors in problem solving, Methods
to other social sciences and natural sciences; Application of of problem solving: Creative thinking and fostering creativity;
Psychology to societal problems. Factors influencing decision making and judgement; Recent
trends.
2. Methods of Psychology : Types of research :
Descriptive, evaluative, diagnostic and prognostic; Methods 9. Motivation and Emotion : Psychological and
physiological basis of motivation and emotion; Measurement
of Research : Survey, observation, case-study and
of motivation and emotion; Effects of motivation and emotion
experiments; Characteristics of experimental design and non-
on behaviour; Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation; Factors
experimental designs; quasi-experimental designs; Focussed influencing intrinsic motivation; Emotional competence and
group discussions, brain storming, grounded theory approach. the related issues.
3. Research methods : Major steps in psychological 10. Intelligence and Aptitude : Concept of intelligence
research (problem statement, hypothesis formulation, research and aptitude, Nature and theories of intelligence-Spearman,
design, sampling, tools of data collection, analysis and Thurstone, Gulford Vernon, Sternberg and J.P. Das; Emotional
interpretation and report writing); Fundamental versus applied Intelligence, Social intelligence, measurement of intelligence
research; Methods of data collection (interview, observation, and aptitudes, concept of I Q deviation I Q, constancy of I Q;
questionnaire and case study). Research Designs (Ex-post Measurement of multiple intelligence; Fluid intelligence and
facto and experimental). Application of statistical techniques crystallized intelligence.
(t-test, two-way ANOVA, correlation and regression and factor 11. Personality : Definition and concept of personality;
analysis) item response theory. Theories of personality (psychoanalytical, socio-cultural,
interpersonal, developmental, humanistic, behaviouristic, trait
4. Development of Human Behaviour : Growth and
and type approaches); Measurement of personality (projective
development; Principles of development, Role of genetic and tests, pencil-paper test); The Indian approach to personality;
environmental factors in determining human behaviour; Training for personality development; Latest approaches like
Influence of cultural factors in socialization; Life span big 5 factor theory; The notion of self in different traditions.
development—Characteristics, development tasks, promoting
12. Attitudes, Values and Interests : Definitions of
psychological well-being across major stages of the life span.
attitudes, values and interests; Components of attitudes;
5. Sensation, Attention and Perception : Sensation: Formation and maintenance of attitudes. Measurement of
concepts of threshold, absolute and difference thresholds, attitudes, values and interests. Theories of attitude changes,
signal-detection and vigilance; Factors influencing attention strategies for fostering values. Formation of stereotypes and
including set and characteristics of stimulus; Definition and prejudices; Changing other’s behaviour, Theories of
concept of perception, biological factors in perception; attribution; Recent trends.
Perceptual organization-influence of past experiences, 13. Language and Communication : Human language—
perceptual defence-factor influencing space and depth Properties, structure and linguistic hierarchy, Language
perception, size estimation and perceptual readiness; The acquisition—predispotion, critical period hypothesis;
plasticity of perception; Extrasensory perception; Culture and Theories of Language development—Skinner and Chomsky;
perception, Subliminal perception. Process and types of communication—effective commu-
nication training.
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14. Issues and Perspectives in Modern Contemporary challenged persons including old persons. Rehabilitation of
Psychology : Computer application in the psychological persons suffering from substance abuse, juvenile delinquency,
laboratory and psychological testing; Artificial intelligence; criminal behaviours. Rehabilitation of victims of violence.
Psychocybernetics; Study of consciousnessleep-wak Rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS victims, the role of social agencies.
schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation, meditation, hypnotic/ 8. Application of Psychology to disadvantaged groups :
drug induced states; Extrasensory perception; Intersensory
perception; Simulation studies. The concepts of disadvantaged, deprivation social,
physical, cultural and economic consequences of
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disadvantaged and deprived groups. Educating and
Psychology : Issues and applications
motivating the disadvantaged towards development; Relative
1. Psychological Measurement of Individual and prolonged deprivation.
Differences :
9. Psychological problem of social integration :
The nature of individual differences. Characteristics
and construction of standardized psychological tests. Types The concept of social integration. The problem of caste,
of psychological tests. Use, misuse and limitation of class, religion and language conflicts and prejudice. Nature
psychological tests. Ethical issues in the use of psychological and manifestation of prejudice between the ingroup and
tests. outgroup. Casual factors of such conflicts and prejudices.
2. Psychological well being and Mental Disorders : Psychological strategies for handling the conflicts and
Concept of health-ill health positive health, well being prejudices. Measures to achieve social integration.
casual factores in Mental disorders (Anxiety disorders, mood 10. Application of Psychology in Information Technology
disorders; schizophrenia and delusional disorders; personality and Mass Media :
disorders, substance abuse disorders). Factors influencing The present scenario of information technology and
positive health, well being; lifestyle and quality of life; the mass media boom and the role of psychologists. Selection
Happiness disposition
and training of Psychology professionals to work in the field
3. Therapeutic Approaches : of IT and mass media. Distance learning through IT and mass
Psychodynamic therapies. Behaviour therapies. Client media. Entrepreneurship through e-commerce. Multilevel
centered therapy. Cognitive therapies. Indigenous therapies marketing. Impact of TV and fostering value through IT and
(Yoga, Meditation). Biofeedback therapy. Prevention and mass media. Psychological consequences of recent
rehabilitation of the mentally ill; Fostering mental health. developments in Information Technology.
4. Work Psychology and Organisational Behaviour :
11. Psychology and Economic development :
Personnel selection and training. Use of Psychological
tests in the industry. Training and human resource Achievement motivation and economic development.
development. Theories of work motivation. Herzberg, Maslow, Characteristics of entrepreneurial behaviour. Motivating and
Adam Equity theory, Porter and Lawler, Vroom; Leadership Training people for entrepreneurship and economic
and participatory management; Advertising and marketing; development; Consumer rights and consumer awareness,
Stress and its management; Ergonomics; consumer Government policies for promotion of entrepreneurship among
psychology; Managerial effectiveness; Transformational youth including women entreprenures.
leadersip; Senitivity training; Power and politics in 12. Application of Psychology to environment and related
organizations.
fields :
5. Application of Psychology to Educational Field :
Environmental Psychology effects of noise, pollution
Psychological principles underlying effective teaching-
and crowding. Population Psychology : Psychological
learning process. Learning styles. Gifted, retarded, learning
disabled and their training. Training for improving memory consequence of population explosion and high population
and better academic achievement. Personality development density. Motivating for small family norms. Impact of rapid
and value education. Educational, vocational guidance and scientific and technological growth on degradation of
Career counselling. Use of Psychological tests in educational environment.
institutions; Effective strategies in guidance programmes. 13. Application of psychology in other fields :
6. Community Psychology : (a) Military Psychology
Definition and concept of Community Psychology. Use Devising psycological tests for defence personnel for
of small groups in social action. Arousing Community
use in selection, Training, counseling; training psychologists
consciousness and action for handling social problems. Group
decision making and leadership for social change. Effective to work , with defence personnel in promoting positive health;
strategies for social change. Human engineering in defence.
7. Rehabilitation Psychology : (b) Sports Psychology
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention Psychological interventions in improving performance
programmes—role of psychologists. Organising of services of athletes and sports. Persons participating in Individual and
for rehabilitation of physically, mentally and socially Team Games.
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(c) Media influences on pro and anti-social behaviour. Ecology and administration; Riggsian models and their
(d) Psychology of Terrorism. critique.
14. Psychology of Gender : 8. Development Dynamics :

Issues of discrimination, Management of diversity; Concept of development; Changing profile of develop-


Glass ceiling effect, Self-fulfilling prophesy, Women and Indian ment administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’; Bureaucracy
society. and development; Strong state versus the market debate;
Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION countries; Women and development the self-help group
PAPER-I movement.
Administration Theory 9. Personnel Administration :
1. Introduction : Importance of human resource development;
Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administra- Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classifi-
tion, Wilson’s vision of Public Administration, Evolution of cation, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pray and
the discipline and its present status. New Public Administra- service conditions; employer-employee relations, grievance
tion, Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative
Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: concept and ethics.
application; New Public Management. 10. Public Policy :
2. Administrative Thought : Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes
Scientific Management and Scientific Management of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring,
movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model its evaluation and review and their limitations; State theories and
critique and post-Weberian Developments; Dynamic Admi- public policy formulation.
nistration (Mary Parker Follett); Human Relations School 11. Techniques of Adminstrative Improvement :
(Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive (C.I.
Organisation and methods, Work study and work man-
Barnard); Simon’s decision-making theory; Participative Man-
agement; e-governance and information technology; Man-
agement (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor.)
agement aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
3. Administrative Behaviour :
12. Financial Administration :
Process and techniques of decision-making; Communi-
cation; Morale; Motivation Theories content, process and Monetary and fiscal policies: Public borrowings and
contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Mo- public debt Budgets types and forms; Budgetary process;
dem: Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.

4. Organisations :
PAPER-II
Theories systems, contingency; Structure and forms:
Indian Administration
Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies; Boards 1. Evolution of Indian Administration :
and Commissions; Ad hoc, and advisory bodies; Headquar- Kautilya Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy
ters and Field relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public- of British rule in politics and administration Indianization of
Private Partnerships. Public services, revenue administration, district Administra-
5. Accountability and Control : tion, local self Government. .
Concepts of accountability and control; Legislative, 2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of
Executive and judicial control over administration; Citizen and Government :
Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary or- Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism;
ganizations; Civil society; Citizen’s Charters; Right to Infor- Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy
and development.
mation; Social audit.
3. Public Sector Undertakings :
6. Administrative Law : Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector
Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and con-
Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tri- trol; Impact of liberalization and privatization.
bunals. 4. Union Government and Administration :
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions,
7. Comparative Public Administration :
work processes; Recent trends; Intra-governmental relations;
Historical and sociological factors affecting administra- Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secre-
tive systems; Administration and politics in different coun- tariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions;
tries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Attached offices; Field organizations.
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5. Plans and Priorities : SOCIOLOGY


Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions PAPER– I
of the Planning Commission and the National Development
Council; ‘Indicative’ planning; Process of plan formulation at FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
Union and State levels; Constitutional Amendments (1992) 1. Sociology - The Discipline:
and decentralized planning for economic development and
(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and
social justice.
emergence of Sociology.
6. State Government and Administration :
Union-State administrative, legislative and financial (b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social
relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief sciences.
Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State (c) Sociology and common sense.
Secretariat; Directorates.
7. District Administration since Independence : 2. Sociology as Science:
Changing role of the Collector; Union-State-local (a) Science, scientific method and critique.
relations; Imperatives of development management and law
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
and order administration; District administration and
democratic decentralization. (c) Positivism and its critique.
8. Civil Services : (d) Fact value and objectivity.
Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training
and capacity building; Good governance initiatives; Code of ( e) Non-positivist methodologies.
conduct and discipline; Staff associations; Political rights; 3. Research Methods and Analysis:
Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil service neutrality; Civil (a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
service activism.
9. Financial Management : (b) Techniques of data collection.
Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control (c ) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.
of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary
4. Sociological Thinkers:
and fiscal area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of
Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor (a) Karl Marx - Historical materialism, mode of production,
General of India. alienation, class struggle.
10. Administrative Reforms since Independence : (b) Emile Durkhteim - Division of labour, social fact,
Major concerns; Important Committees and suicide, religion and society.
Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human
resource development; Problems of implementation. (c) Max Weber - Social action, ideal types, authority,
11. Rural Development : bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of
Institutions and agencies since Independence; Rural capitalism.
development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization (d) Talcolt Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.
and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.
(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions,
12. Urban Local Government :
conformity and deviance, reference groups.
Municipal governance: main features, structures,
finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; (f) Mead - Self and identity.
Global-local debate; New localism; Development dynamics, 5. Stratification and Mobility :
politics and administration with special reference to city
management. (a) Concepts - equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion,
13. Law and Order Administration: poverty and deprivation.
British legacy; National Police Commission; (b) Theories of social stratification - Structural func
Investigative agencies; Role of Central and State Agencies tionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
including para military forces in maintenance of law and order
(c) Dimensions - Social stratification of class, status
and countering insurgency and terrorism; Criminalisation of
groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms
in Police. (d) Social mobility - open and closed systems, types of
14. Significant issues in Indian Administration: mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; 6. Works and Economic Life :
National Human Rights Commission; Problems of
administration in coalition regimes; Citizen administration (a) Social organization of work in different types of
interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster society - slave society, feudal society, industrial
management. capitalist society.
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(b) Formal and informal organization of work. (ii) Caste System:


(c) Labour and society. (a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: G. S.
7. Politics and Society: Ghurye, M. N. Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre
(a) Sociological theories of power. Beteille.
(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups and (b) Features of caste system.
political parties. (c) Untouchability-forms and perspectives
(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, (iii) Tribal Communities in India:
ideology.
(a) Definitional problems.
(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective
action, revolution. (b) Geographical spread.
8. Religion and Society : (c) Colonial policies and tribes.
(a) Sociological theories of religion. (d) Issues of integration and autonomy.
(b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, (iv) Social Classes in India:
pluralism, sects, cults. (a) Agrarian class structure.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science,
(b) Industrial class structure.
secularization, religious revivalism, fundamen
talism. (c) Middle classes in India.
9. Systems of Kinship: (v) Systems of Kinship in India:
(a) Family, household, marriage. (a) Lineage and descent in India.
(b) Types and forms of family. (b) Types of kinship systems.
(c) Lineage and descent. (c) Family and marriage in India.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
(d) Household dimensions of the family.
(e) Contemporary trends.
(e) Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of
10. Social Change in Modern Society : labour.
(a) Sociological theories of social change.
(vi) Religion and Society :
(b) Development and dependency.
(a) Religious communities in India.
(c) Agents of social change.
(b) Problems of religious minorities.
(d) Education and social change.
C. Social Changes in India:
(e) Science, technology and social change.
PAPER–II (i) Visions of Social Change in India:
INDIAN SOCIETY : STRUCTURE AND CHANGE (a) Idea of development planning and mixed economy.
A. Introducing Indian Society : (b) Constitution, law and social change.
(i) Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society : (c) Education and social change.
(a) Indology (G.S. Ghure). (ii) Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India:
(b) Structural functionalism (M. N. Srinivas). (a) Programmes of rural development, Community
(c) Marxist sociology (A. R. Desai). Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty
(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society : alleviation schemes.
(a) Social background of Indian nationalism. (b) Green revolution and social change.
(b) Modernization of Indian tradition. (c) Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture.
(c) Protests and movements during the colonial (d) Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.
period.
(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
(d) Social reforms.
(a) Evolution of modern industry in India.
B. Social Structure:
(b) Growth of urban settlements in India.
(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of Indian village and village studies. (c) Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.
(b) Agrarian social structure— (d) Informal sector, child labour.
evolution of land tenure system, land reforms. (e) Slums and deprivation in urban areas.
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(iv) Politics and Society : moment generating function, characteristic function, inver-
sion theorem, Linderberg and Levy forms of central limit theo-
(a) Nation, democracy and citizenship.
rem, standard discrete and continuous probability distribu-
(b) Political parties, pressure groups, social and political tions.
elite.
2. Statistical Inference:
(c) Regionalism and decentralization of power. Consistency, unbiasedness, efficiency, sufficiency, com-
(d) Secularization. pleteness, ancillary statistics, factorization theorem, exponen-
tial family of distribution and its properties, uniformly mini-
(v) Social Movements in Modern India :
mum variance unbiased (UMVU) estimation, Rao Blackwell
(a) Peasants and farmers movements. and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems, Cramer-Rao inequality for
single Parameter. Estimation by methods of moments, maxi-
(b) Women’s movement.
mum likelihood, least squares, minimum chisquare and modi-
(c) Backward classes & Dalit movements. fied minimum chisquare, properties of maximum likelihood and
other estimators, asymptotic efficiency, prior and posterior
(d) Environmental movements.
distributions, loss function, risk function, and minimax esti-
(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements. mator. Bayes estimators.
(vi) Population Dynamics : Non-randomised and randomised tests, critical function,
MP tests, Neyman-Pearson lemma, UMP tests, monotone like-
(a) Population size, growth, composition and
lihood ratio: similar and unbiased tests, UMPU tests for single
distribution. paramet likelihood ratio test and its asymptotic distribution.
(b) Components of population growth: birth, death, Confidence bounds and its relation with tests.
migration. Kolmogorov’s test for goodness of fit and its consis-
(c) Population Policy and family planning. tency, sign test and its optimality. Wilcoxon signedranks test
and its consistency, Kolmogorov-Smirnov two sample test,
(d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant run test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test and median test, their
mortality, reproductive health. consistency and asymptotic normality.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation :
Wald’s SPRT and its properties, Oc and ASN
(a) Crisis of development : displacement, environmental functions for tests regarding parameters for Bernoulli, Pois-
problems and sustainability. son, normal and exponential distributions. Wald’s fundamen-
(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities. tal identity.
3. Linear Inference and Multivariate Analysis :
(c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts. Linear statistical models, theory of least squares and
analysis of variance, Gauss-Markoff theory, normal equations,
(e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism. least squares estimates and their precision, test of signifi-
(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education. cance and interval estimates based on least squares theory in
oneway, two-way and three-way classified data, regression
STATISTICS analysis, linear regression, curvilinear regression and orthogo-
PAPER–I nal polynomials, multiple regression, multiple and partial cor-
relations, estimation of variance and covariance components,
1. Probability : multivariate normal distribution, Mahalanobis’s D2 and
Sample space and events, probability measure and Hotelling’s T2 statistics and their applications and properties,
probability space, random variable as a measurable function. discriminant analysis, canonical correlations, principal com-
distribution function of a random variable, discrete and con- ponent analysis.
tinuous-type random variable, probability mass function, prob- 4. Sampling Theory and Design of Experiments :
ability density function, vector-valued random variable, mar-
ginal and conditional distributions, stochastic independence An outline of fixed-population and super-population
of events and of random variables, expectation and moments approaches, distinctive features of finite population sampling,
of a random variable, conditional expectation, convergence of propability sampling designs, simple random sampling with
a sequence of random variable in distribution, in probability, and without replacement, stratified random sampling, sys-
in path mean and almost everywhere, their criteria and inter- tematic sampling and its efficacy, cluster sampling, twostage
relations, Chebyshev’s inequality and Khintchine’s weak law and multi-stage sampling, ratio and regression methods of
of large numbers, strong law of large numbers and estimation involving one or more auxiliary variables, two-phase
Kolmogoroffs theorems, probability generating function, sampling, probability proportional to size sampling with and
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without replacement, the Hansen-Hurwitz and the Horvitz- 3. Quantitative Economics and Official Statistics:
Thompson estimators, non-negative variance estimation with
reference to the Horvitz-Thompson estimator, non-sampling Determination of trend, seasonal and cyclical
errors. components, Box-Jenkins method, tests for stationary series,
ARIMA models and determination of orders of autoregressive
Fixed effects model (two-way classification) random and and moving average components, fore-casting.
mixed effects models (two-way classification with equal ob-
servation per cell), CRD, RBD, LSD and their analyses, incom- Commonly used index numbers - Laspeyre’s, Paasche’s
plete block designs, concepts of orthogonality and balance, and Fisher’s ideal index numbers, cham-base index number,
BIBD, missing plot technique, factorial experiments and 24 uses and limitations of index numbers, index number of
and 32, confounding in factorial experiments, split-plot and wholesale prices, consumer price, agricultural production and
simple lattice designs, transformation of data Duncan’s industrial production, test fot index numbers -proportionality,
multiple range test. time-reversal, factor-reversal and circular.
PAPER II General linear model, ordinary least square and
generalized least squares methods of estimation, problem of
1. Industrial Statistics multi-collinearity, consequences and solutions of multi-
Process and product control, general theory of control collinearity, autocorrelation and its consequences,
charts, different types of control charts for variables and heteroscedasticity of disturbances and its testing, test for
attributes, X, R, s, p, np and charts, cumulative sum chart. independence of disturbances concept of structure and model
Single, double, multiple and sequential sampling plans for for simultaneous equations, problem of identification-rank and
attributes, OC, ASN, AOQ and ATI curves, concepts of order conditions of identifiability, two-stage least sauare
producer’s and consumer’s risks, AQL, LTPD and AOQL, method of estimation.
Sampling plans for variables, Use of Dodge-Romin tables. Present official statistical system in India relating to
population, agriculture, industrial production, trade and prices,
Concept of reliability, failure rate and reliability functions,
methods of collection of official statistics, their reliability and
reliability of series and parallel systems and other simple
limitations, principal publications containing such statistics,
configurations, renewal density and renewal function,
various official agencies responsible for data collection and
Failure models: exponential, Weibull, normal, lognormal.
their main functions.
Problems in life testing, censored and truncated experiments
for exponential models. 4. Demography and Psychometry :
2. Optimization Techniques : Demographic data from census, registration, NSS other
surveys, their limitations. and uses, definition, construction
Different types of models in Operations Research, their
and uses of vital rates and ratios, measures of fertility,
construction and general methods of solution,
reproduction rates, morbidity rate, standardized death rate,
simulation and Monte-Carlo methods formulation of
complete and abridged life tables, construction of life tables
Linear Programming (LP) problem, simple LP model and its
from vital statistics and census returns, uses of life tables,
graphical solution, the simplex procedure, the two-phase
logistic and other population growth curves, fitting a logistic
metbod and the M-technique with artificial variables, the du-
curve, population projection, stable population, quasi-stable
ality theory of LP and its economic interpretation, sensitivity
population, techniques in estimation of demographic
analysis, transpotation and assignment problems, rectangu-
parameters, standard classification by cause of death, health
lar games, two-person zerosum games, methods of solution
surveys and use of hospital statistics.
(graphical and algebraic).
Replacement of failing or deteriorating items, group and Methods of standardisation of scales and tests,
individual replacement policies, concept of scientific inven- Z-scores, standard scores, T-scores, percentile scores,
tory management and analytical structure of inventory prob- intelligence quotient and its measurement and uses, validity
lems, simple models with deterministic and stochastic demand and reliability of test scores and its determination, use of factor
with and without lead time, storage models with particular analysis and path analysis in psychometry.
reference to dam type. ZOOLOGY
Homogeneous discrete-time Markov chains, transition PAPER–I
probability matrix, classification of states and ergodic theo- 1. Non-chordata and Chordata :
rems, homogeneous continuous-time Markov chains, Pois-
(a) Classification and relationship of various phyla up
son process, elements of queuing theory, M/MI, M/M/K, G/
to subclasses: Acoelomate and Coelomate,
M/l and M/G/1 queues.
Protostomes and Deuterostomes, Bilateria and
Solution of statistical problems on computers using well- Radiata; Status of Protista, Parazoa, Onychophora
known statistical software packages like SPSS. and Hemichordata; Symmetry.
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(b) Protozoa: Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction, sex; 2. Ecology :


General features and life history of Paramaecium, (a) Biosphere: concept of biosphere; biomes,
Monocystis. Plasmodium and Leishmania. Biogeochemical cycles, Human induced changes
(c) Porifera: Skeleton, canal system and reproduction. in atmosphere including green house effect,
ecological succession, biomes and ecotones,
(d) Cnidaria: Polymorphism, defensive structures and
community ecology.
their mechanism; coral reefs and their formation;
metagenesis; general features and life history of (b) Concept of ecosystem; structure and function of
Obelia and Aurelia. ecosystem, types of ecosystem, ecological
succession, ecological adaptation.
(e) Platyhelminthes: Parasitic adaptation; general
features and life history of Fasciola and Taenia and (c) Population; characteristics, population dynamics,
their-Pathogenic symptoms. population stabilization.
(f) Nemathelminthes: General features, life history, (d) Biodiversity and diversity conservation of natural
parasitic adaptation of Ascaris and Wuchereria. resources.
(e) Wildlife of India.
(g) Annelida: Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in
polychaetes; general features and life history of (f) Remote sensing for sustainable development.
Nereis, earthworm and leach. (g) Environmental biodegradation; pollution and its
(h) Arthropoda: Larval forms and parasitism in impact on biosphere and its prevention.
Crustacea; vision and respiration in arthropods 3. Ethology :
(Prawn, cockroach and scorpion); modification.
(a) Behaviour: Sensory filtering, responsiveness, sign
of mouth, parts in insects (cockroach, mosquito,
stimuli, learning, and memory, instinct, habituation,
housefly, honey bee and butterfly), metapmor
conditioning, imprinting.
phosis in insect and its hormonal regulation,
socialbehaviour ofApis and termites. (b) Role of hormones in drive; role of pheromones in
alarm spreading; crypsis, predator detection,
(i) Molluscs: Feeding, respiration, locomotion, general
predator tactics, social hierarchies in primates, social
features and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and
organization in insects;
Sepia. Torsion and detorsion in gastropods.
(c) Orientation, navigation, homing; biological rhythms:
(j) Echinodermata: Feeding, respiration, locomotion, biological clock, tidal, seasonal and circadian rhythms.
larval forms, general features and life history of
Asterias. (d) Methods of studying animal behaviour including
sexual conflict, selfishness, kinship and altruism.
(k) Protochordata: Origin of chordates; general features
4. Economic Zoology :
and life history of Branchiostoma and Herdmania.
(a) Apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl
(l) Pisces: Respiration, locomotion and migration.
culture, prawn culture, vermiculture.
(m) Amphibia: Origin of tetrapods, parental care,
(b) Major infectious and communicable diseases
paedomorphosis.
(malaria, filaria, tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their
(n) Reptilia; Origin of reptiles, skull types, status of vectors, pathogens and prevention.
Sphenodon and crocodiles. (c) Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogen
(o) Aves: Origin of birds, flight adaptation, (helminths) and vectors (ticks, mites, Tabanus,
migration. Stomoxys).
(p) Mammalia: Origin of mammals, dentition, general (d) Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella), oil seed
features of egg laying mammals, pouchedmammals, (Achaeajanata) and rice (Sitophilus oryzae).
aquatic mammals and primates, endocrine glands (e) Transgenic animals.
(pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas,
(f) Medical biotechnology, human genetic disease and
gonads) and their interrelationships.
genetic counselling, gene therapy.
(q) Comparative functional anatomy of various
(g) Forensic biotechnology.
systems of vertebrates. (integument and its
derivatives, endoskeleton, locomotory organs, 5. Biostatistics :
digestive system,. respiratory system, circulatory Designing of experiments; null hypothesis; correlation,
system including heart and aortic arches, regression, distribution and measure of central
urinogenital system, brain and sense organs (eye tendency, chi square, student-test, F-test (one-way
and ear). & two-way F-test).
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6. Instrumentation methods : 5. Biochemistry :


(a) Spectrophotometer, phase contrast and fluorescence (a) Structure and role of carbohydrates, fats, fatty acids,
microscopy, radioactive tracer, ultra centrifuge, gel . cholesterol, proteins and amino-acids, nucleic acids.
electrophoresis, PCR, ELISA, FISH and chromosome Bioenergetics.
painting.
(b) Glycolysis and Krebs cycle, oxidation and reduc-
(b) Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM). tion, oxidative phosphorylation; energy conserva-
PAPER II tion and release, ATP, cycl cyclic AMP-its structure
1. Cell Biology : and role.
(a) Structure and function of cell and its organelles (c) Hormone classification (steroid and peptide hor-
(nucleus, plasma membrane, mitochondria, Golgi mones), biosynthesis and functions.
bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes and (d) Enzymes: types and mechanisms of action.
lysosomes), cell division (mitosis and meiosis),
(e) Vitamins and co-enzymes.
mitotic spindle and mitotic apparatus, chromosome
movement chromosome type ploytene and lambrush, (f) Immunoglobulin and immunity.
organization of chromatin, heterochromatin, Cell 6. Physiology (with special reference to mammals) :
cycle regulation.
(a) Composition and constituents of blood; blood
(b) Nucleic acid topology, DNA motif, DNA replication, groups and Rh factor in man; factors and mechanism
transcription, RNA processing, translation, protein of coagulation; iron metabolism, acid-base balance,
foldings and transport. thermo regulation, anticoagulants.
2. Genetics :
(b) Haemoglobin: Composition, types and role in trans-
(a) Modern concept of gene, split gene, genetic port of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
regulation, genetic, code.
(c) Digestion and absorption: Role of salivary glands,
(b) Sex chromosomes and their evolution, sex liver, pancreas and intestinal glands.
determination in Drosophila and man.
(d) Excretion: nephron and regulation of urine forma-
(c) Mendel’s laws of inheritance, recombination,
tion; osmo-regulation and excretory product.
linkage, multiple alleles, genetics of blood groups,
pedigree analysis, hereditary diseases in man. (e) Muscles: Types, mechanism of contraction of skel-
(d) Mutations and mutagenesis. etal muscles, effects of exercise on muscles.
(e) Recombinant DNA technology, plasmid, cosmid, (f) Neuron: nerve impulse—its conduction and synap-
artificial chromosomes as vectors, transgenics, DNA tic transmission; neurotransmitters.
cloning and whole animal cloning (principles and (g) Vision, hearing and olfaction in man.
methods). (h) Physiology of reproduction puberty and menopause
(f) Gene regulation and expression in prokaryotes and in human.
eukaryotes.
7. Developmental Biology :
(g) Signal molecules, cell death, defects in signaling
pathway and consequences. (a) Gametogenesis; spermatogenesis, composition of
semen, in vitro and in vivo capacitation of mammalian
(h) RFLP, RAPD and AFLF and application of RFLP in
sperm, Oogenesis, totipotency; fertilization,
DNA finger-printing, ribozyme technologies, human morphogenesis and morphogen; blastogeneis,
genome project, genomics and protomics.
establishment of body axes formation, fate map,
3. Evolution : gestulation in frog and chick; genes in development
(a) Theories of origin of life. in chick homeotic genes, development of eye and
(b) Theories of evolution; Natural selection, role of heart, placenta in mammals.
mutation in evolution, evolutionary patterns, (b) Cell lineage, cell to cell interaction, Genetic and in-
molecular drive, mimicry, variation, isolation and duced teratogenesis, role of thyroxine in control of
speciation. metamorphosisin amphibia, paedogenesis and neo-
(c) Evolution of horse, elephant and man using fossil data. teny, cell death, aging.
(d) Hardy-Weinberg Law. (c) Developmental genes in man, in vitro fertilization;
(e) Continental drift and distribution of animals. and embryo transfer; cloning.
4. Systematics : (d) Stem cells: Sources, types and their use in human
Zoological nomenclature, international code, cladistics, welfare.
molecular taxonomy and biodiversity. (e) Biogenetic law.

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