| Number of Candidates who Appeared in Civil Services (Main) Examinations with Literature of One of the Indian Languages as an Optional Subject in India (2007 and 2008) | ||||
| Language (Optional Subject) | No. of Candidates who Appeared in | |||
| Literature of an Indian Language as Optional Subject : | ||||
| Assamese | ||||
| Bengali | ||||
| Gujarati | ||||
| Hindi | ||||
| Kannada | ||||
| Kashmiri | ||||
| Konkani | ||||
| Malayalam | ||||
| Manipuri | ||||
| Marathi | ||||
| Nepali | ||||
| Oriya | ||||
| Pali | ||||
| Punjabi | ||||
| Sanskrit | ||||
| Sindhi (Devnagari) | ||||
| Sindhi (Arabic) | ||||
| Tamil | ||||
| Telugu | ||||
| Urdu | ||||
| Dogri | ||||
| Maithili | ||||
| Santali | ||||
| Total No. of Candidates with an Indian language as one of the Optional Subjects (A) | ||||
| English Literature as an Optional Subject : | ||||
| Total No. of Candidates with English as one of the Optional Subjects (B) | ||||
| Literature of one of the Foreign Languages as Optional Subject : | ||||
| Arabic | ||||
| Chinese | ||||
| German | ||||
| Persian | ||||
| French | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Total | ||||
| Total No. of Candidates Opting for Literature of Indian/Foreign languages as an Optional Subject (A+B+C) | ||||
| Percentage of Candidates with an Indian Language as an Optional Subject (A) in Relation to the total No. of Candidates Appeared (8780 in 1998 and 4711 in 2000 in General Studies Paper-I). And (3302 in 2002 and 5748 in 2003 in General Studies (Paper - I) | ||||
