SYLLABUS FOR OPTIONAL SUBJECTS TEST - 27/4/19

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY-

PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

HUMAN GENETICS – METHODS OF HUMAN GENETICS, INHERITANCE AUTOSOMAL AND LINKED, DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE, DEVIATIONS OF MENDEL.  SEX LIMITED AND CONTROLLED CHARACTERS, CHROMOSOMAL ABBERATIONS, SYNDROMES LETHAL, SELECTION ETC.

GEOGRAPHY –

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION CYCLES, INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY, ATMOSPHERIC LAYER, LATITUDINAL HEAT BALANCE, GENERAL CIRCULATION, JET STREAM, FRONTS AND AIR MANES, CLOUD FORMATION.

HISTORY –      

SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION – WITH REVIEW OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA, ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1861-1905, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 1905-17, FEBRUARY RESOLUTION AND OCTOBER RESOLUTION.

WEST ASIA AND THE ARABS – ARAB –ISRAELI CONFLICT; OIL-MIDDLE EAST AND COLD WAR POLITICS; ARAB NATIONALISM.

BENGALI LITERATURE –

RAKTAKARABI, MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BENGALI LANGUAGE, VOCABULARY, DIALECT.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTL. RELATIONS-  

THOMAS HOBBES,

ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.

COMPARATIVE POLITICS –NATURE AND MAJOR APPROACHES, STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND SOCIALIST ECONOMICS, DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED SOCIETIES.

SOCIOLOGY-

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND KINSHIP, POLITICS AND SOCIETY.

IT IS EXPECTED THAT SOME QUESTIONS WILL COME FROM THE EARLIER SYLLABUS