General Studies I

Heritage, history, geography and society

Indian culture

Reading pays off heavily

Modern Indian history

Reading pays off

The Freedom Struggle: stages and important contributors/contributions

Reading pays off

Post-independence consolidation and reorganization

Reading pays off

World history

Mostly standard text

Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India

Reading pays off

Role of women and women’s organizations, population issues, poverty

Reading pays off

Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, secularism

Reading pays off

Salient features of world’s physical geography

Reading pays off heavily

Distribution of natural resources (global and Indian subcontinent)

Reading pays off heavily

Factors for primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries

Reading pays off

Geophysical phenomena

Reading pays off heavily