General Studies I

Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India

Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India

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

• Gender & Caste Issues
• Social Issues

• Editorial on changing family structures and youth perspectives based on UNFPA survey 8/10
• Political representation and marginalisation of Dalits in Punjab 6/10

• Indian culture 01
• Modern Indian history 02
• The Freedom Struggle: stages and important contributors/contributions 03
• Post-independence consolidation and reorganization 04
• World history 05
• 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