ICSA'S SYLLABUS FOR GENERAL STUDIES AND OPTIONAL TEST II - 25.08.19

GENERAL STUDIES:

HISTORY

HOME RULE MOVEMENT,   MONTAGU-CHELMSFORD REFORMS 1919, REVOLUTIONARY ‘TERRORISM’.

GEOGRAPHY

LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE OF INDIA, CASTE, TRIBE, RACE, RELIGION OF INDIA, POPULATION OF THE WORLD – DISTRIBUTION, CASTE, TRIBE, LANGUAGE AND RELIGION.

SOCIETY

WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA, URBANIZATION IN INDIA- CONCEPT AND THEORIES.

CURRENT EVENTS

LOK SABHA ELECTIONS, 2019, US-IRAN CRISIS, KULBHUSAN YADAV AND VIENNA CONVENTIONS, NMC BILL, NIA AND UAPA AMENDMENTS.

 (EVENTS AS REPORTED BY NATIONAL DAILIES OVER THE PERIOD 04-23 AUGUST , 2019 MUST BE THOROUGHLY READ.)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

INDIA’S GROWTH, INDIA’S INFLATION, MPC AND INFLATION TARGETTING, BOP, MANUFACTURING GROWTH AND REFORMS. EXCHANGE RATE.

INDIAN POLITY

CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

BIO-TECHNOLOGY

DEVELOPMENT BIOLOGY AND BIO TECHNOLOGY.

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS, BIO-DIVERSITY AND ACCESS TO BENEFIT SHARING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOREST LAWS/POLICIES, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE.

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY

PALAEO-ANTHROPOLOGY - HOMO SAPIENSE, NEANDERTHALENSIS, CROMOZOMES,  METHODOLOGY IN HUMAN GENETICS. TRENDS OF HOMINID EVOLUTION, METHODOLOGIES OF HUMAN GENETICS.

INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY AND INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY.

GEOGRAPHY

PHILOSOPHY OF GEOGRAPHY , HUMAN GEOGRAPHY – PERSPECTIVES, MODELS, THEORIES AND LAWS, GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA - POLITICAL ASPECTS.

WEBER AND VON THUMEN MODELS, LOSCH AND MYRDAL, SE2 POLICIES- TOURISM AND ECOTOURISM.

HISTORY

SOUTH AFRICA – FROM RACISM TO DEMOCRACY, WEST ASIA AND THE ARABS- ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT; OIL, MIDDLE EAST AND COLD WAR POLITICS, ARAB NATIONALISM.

BENGALI LITERATURE

BAMAN SAMASYA  STANDARIZATION, JAGORI UPANYAS, EBONG INDRAJIT, ARANYAK.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

POLITICS – STATE – THEORIES, FEMINISM INDIA AND THE WORLD – G-20, BRICS, BIMSTEC – NETWORKED DIPLOMACY IN OVERLAPPING ASSOCIATION.

PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEM IN INDIA.

SOCIOLOGY

INTRODUCTION TO THINKERS, APPROACHES TO STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY AND VILLAGE STUDIES, MAJOR ASPECTS OF INDIAN SOCIETY: CASTE, CLASS AND TRIBE.

It is expected that some questions will come from the previous syllabus as well.