General Studies I

Modern Indian history

Modern Indian history: 18th century to present, significant events, personalities, issues

Reading pays off. Part standard text, part current affairs.

• Indian culture 01
• The Freedom Struggle: stages and important contributors/contributions 03
• Post-independence consolidation and reorganization 04
• World history 05
• Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India 06
• Role of women and women’s organizations, population issues, poverty 07
• Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, secularism 08
• Salient features of world’s physical geography 09
• Distribution of natural resources (global and Indian subcontinent) 10
• Factors for primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries 11
• Geophysical phenomena 12