Candidate may choose any optional subject from amongst the List of Optional Subjects given below:

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Commerce and Accountancy, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geography, Geology, History, Law, Management, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, and International Relations, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Zoology.

SINDHI

PAPER-I

 (Answer must be written in sindhi Arabic or Devanagri Script)

Section A

1. (a) Origin and evolution of Sindhi language—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 vocabulary—stages of its growth, including those in the pre-partition and post-partition periods.

(e) Historical study of various Writing Systems (Scripts) of Sindhi.

(f) Changesin the structure of  Sindhi language in India, after  partition, due to  influence of other languages and social conditions.

Section B

2. Sindhi literature through the ages in context of socio-cultural   conditions in the respective periods :

(a) Early medieval literature upto 1350 A.D. including folk literature.

(b) Late medieval 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 literature andexperiments in poetry, drama, novel, short  story, essay, literary criticism, biography, autobiography, memoirs and travelogues.)