General Studies-1 (for UPSC)

History:

• Art & Culture:
  • • Syllabus: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms; Architecture from ancient to modern times.
      • Elaboration:
        • Prehistoric arts: Mesolithic rock painting
        • Indus Valley Civilization Arts and Architecture-I.
        • Indus Valley Civilization Arts and Architecture-II.
        • Arts & Architecture in Vedic period.
        • Mauryan arts: Pillar, Stupa, caves, sculpture, Terracotta.
        • Post Mauryan period: Three major school of sculptural arts, Besnagar pillar, stupas, Viharas.
        • Gupta period: Sculpture, painting, Numismatic art, Free-standing temples, Rock-cut Cave architecture.
        • Pallavas: Sculptural, Painting and Temple architecture.
        • Chalukya architectures
          • Cave architecture at Aihole and Badami
          • Temple architecture- at Aihole, Badami, Pattadakal
        • Rashtrakutas: Cave architectures; contents (e.g. paintings & sculptures) inside these caves.
        • Palas: Painting, sculptures and temples.
        • Hoyasala art and architecture.
        • Sultanate period: architecture and new structural forms, painting and music during sultanate period.
        • Vijayanagara: Architectures, Paintings, Music.
        • Mughal: Arts and architecture
        • Georgian architecture in India
        • Music, drama throughout the history.
  • Syllabus: Literature from ancient to modern times.
• Modern Indian history: From about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present-
  • Significant events, personalities, issues.
  • The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors, contributions from different parts of the country.
  • Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.
• History of the world: will include events from 18th century such as
  • Industrial revolution:
    • industrial revolution
    • Industrial revolution: Expected Questions with solutions 
  • World wars:
    • World War-I:
      • Circumstances and events leading to war
      • Causes of The World War I
      • Course of the World War-I
      • Impact of the World War-I
      • The Versailles Settlement
    • International order between the two world wars:
      • The league of nations
      • International Relations Between Two World Wars-I
      • International Relations Between Two World Wars-II
      • International Relations Between Two World Wars-III
    • World War-II:
      • World War-II- Part-1
      • World War-II-Part-2
  • Redrawal of national boundaries,
  • colonization, decolonization,
  • political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society.
• Find solutions of mains Previous Years Questions asked in History.

Society:

• Salient features of Indian Society.
• Diversity of India.
• Role of women and women’s organization.
• 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.

Geography:

• Introductory topics:
  • Origin of earth
• Salient features of world’s physical geography.
  • Introduction
• Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent);
• 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.