General Studies I

Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, secularism

Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism, secularism

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

• Ayodhya Dispute
• Sabarimala Case
• Section 377
• Triple Talaq
• Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
• Communal & Ethnic Violence
• Communalism
• Disability Rights
• Empowerment of Women
• Gender & Caste Issues
• Manual Scavenging
• Regionalism
• Safai Karamcharis
• Sexual Harassment
• Social Exclusion
• Transgender Rights
• Tribal Development
• Tribal Issues
• Tribal Rights
• Social Issues

• Supreme Court notice on appeal process for Assam NRC excluded persons 7/10
• 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
• Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India 06
• Role of women and women’s organizations, population issues, poverty 07
• 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