Civil Service Mains Exam
Paper - II
General Studies-I
Total Marks - 250
Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society.
Indian culture will
cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, literature and Architecture 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, world
wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political
philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.— their forms and effect
on the 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.
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.
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