SYLLABUS

Section 1: Indian heritage and culture, History of the world.

Art and culture

• Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of following from ancient to modern times
  • Art forms
  • Literature
  • Architecture

Modern History

History of India and Indian national movement.

• Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present-
  • Significant events, personalities, issues.
  • The freedom struggle
    • Its various stages
    • Important contributors/contributions from different parts of the country.
  • Post-independence
    • Consolidation
    • Reorganization

World History

• Events from 18th century such as
  • Industrial revolution
  • World wars
  • Redrawal of national boundaries.
  • Colonization and decolonization.
  • Political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.
    • Their forms and effect on the society.

Section 2: Society

• Salient features of Indian society
• Diversity of India.
• Role of women and women’s organizations.
• Population and associated issues.
• Poverty and developmental issues.
• Urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
• Effects of globalization on Indian society.
• Social empowerment.
• Communalism, regionalism & secularism.

General studies- II: Social justice

• Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
• Development processes and the development industry —the role of NGO’s, SHG’s, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.
• Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the centre and states
  • Performance of these schemes
  • Mechanisms, laws, institutions
  • Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
• Issues relating to development and management of social sector/services relating
  • Health
  • Education
  • Human resources
• Issues relating to poverty and hunger.

Section 3: Geography of India and the world

Indian and world geography-physical, social, economic geography of India and the world.

• Salient features of world’s physical geography.
• Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including south Asia and the Indian sub-continent)
• Factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India).
• Important geophysical phenomena such as
  • Earthquakes
  • Tsunami
  • Volcanic activity
  • Cyclone etc.,
• Geographical features and their location-changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.