Sindhi : Devanagari or Arabic Syllabus for upsc civil services examination

SINDHI

PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Sindhi)
(Arabic or Devanagari script)
Section-A
1. (a) Origin and evolution of Sindhi lan-guage-views of different scholars.
(b) Significant linguistic features of Sindhi
language, including those pertaining to its
phonology, morphology and syntax.
(c) Major dialects of the Sindhi language.
(d) Sindhi vocabularly-stages of its growth,
including those in the pre-partition and
post-partition periods.
(e) Historical study of various Writing Sys-tems (Scripts) of Sindhi.
(f) Changes in the structure of Sindhi lan-guage in India, after partition, due to influ-
ence of other languages and social condi-tions.
Section-B
2. Sindhi literature through the ages in con-text of socio-cultural conditions in the re-spective periods :
a. Early medieval literature upto 1350 A.D.
including folk literature.
b. Late medicval period from 1350 A.D. to
1850 A.D.
c. Renaissance period from 1850 A.D. to
1947 A.D.
d. Modern period from 1947 and onwards.
(Literary genres in Modern Sindhi litera-ture and experiments in poetry, drama,
novel, short story, essay, literary criticism,
biography, autobiography, memoirs, and
travelogues.)
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Sindhi)
(Arabic or Devanagari script).
This paper will require the first-hand read-ing of the texts prescribed and will be de-signed to test the candidates’ critical abil-ity.
Section-A
References to context and critical appre-ciation of the texts included in this section.
(1) Poetry
a. “Shah Jo Choond Shair” : ed. H.I.
Sadarangani, Published by Sahitya
Akademi (First 100 pages)
b. “Sachal Jo Choond Kalam” : ed. Kalyan
B. Advani Published by Sahitya Akademi
(Kafis only)
c. “Sami-a-ja Choond Sloka” : ed. B.H.
Nagrani Published by Sahitya Akademi
(First 100 pages)
d. “Shair-e-Bewas” : by Kishinchand
Bewas
(“Saamoondi Sipoon” portion only)
e. “Roshan Chhanvro” : Narayan Shyam
f. “Virhange Khanpoije Sindhi Shair jee
Choond” : ed. H.I. Sadarangani Published
by Sahitya Akademi
(2) Drama
g. “Behtareen Sindhi Natak” (One-act
Plays) : Edited by M. Kamal Published by
Gujarat Sindhi Academy.
h. “Kako Kaloomal” (Full-length Play) : by
Madan Jumani
Section-B
References to context and critical appre-ciation of the texts included in this section.
a. ‘Pakheeara Valar Khan Vichhrya’
(Novel): by Gobind Malhi
b. ‘Sat Deenhan’ (Novel) : by Krishan
Khatwani
c. ‘Choond Sindhi Kahanyoon’ (Short Sto-ries) Vol. III. : Edited by Prem Prakash, Pub-lished by Sahitya Akademi.
d. ‘Bandhan’ (Short Stories) : Sundari
Uttamchandani
e. ‘Behtareen Sindhi Mazmoon’ (Essays):
Edited by Hiro Thakur, published by
Gujarat Sindhi Akademi.
f. ‘Sindhi Tanqeed’ (Criticism) : Edited by
Harish Vaswani : Published by Sahitya
Akademi.
g. ‘Mumhinjee Hayati-a ja Sona Ropa
varqa’ (Autobiography) : by Popati
Hiranandani
h. “Dr. Choithram Gidwani” (Biography) :
by Vishnu Sharma