GENERAL STUDIES:
HISTORY
PARTITION OF BENGAL – SWADESHI AND
BOYCOTT MOVEMENT, RISE OF M. K. GANDHI – 1915-1918, CHAMPARAN, KAIRA, AHMEDABAD, KHILAFAT – NON –CO-OPERATION MOVEMENT, SWADESHI MOVEMENT – MORLEY –
MINTO REFORMS.
GEOGRAPHY
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA – EAST
AND WEST
SOCIETY
POVERTY, POPULATION, MIGRATION,
COMMUNALISM, SECULARISM, REGIONALISM AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT.
CURRENT EVENTS
INDIA-AFRICAN RELATIONS;
COLONIZATION AND DE-COLONIZATION OF AFRICA.
AFGHAN PEACE TALKS AND INDIA ART.
370, RTI BILL, AADHAR BILL, POCSO BILL, PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION BILL AND
RELATED ISSUES, TATF AND PAKISTAN, G-7 SUMMIT, DRAFT NEW EDUCATION POLICY.
(EVENTS AS REPORTED BY
NATIONAL DAILIES OVER THE PERIOD 24/8 TO 13/9 , 2019 MUST BE THOROUGHLY READ.)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURE – FOOD SECURITY,
INDUSTRY/INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRY AND FOREIGN TRADE, MONETARY POLICY,
BANKING/NBFC.
ETHICS, INTEGRITY
AND APTITUDE
PROBITY IN GOVERNANCE,
ADMINISTRATION – VALUES AND CHALLENGES.
OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:
ANTHROPOLOGY-
POLYMORPHISM, MOTH
FACTORIAL INHERITANCE, HARDY-WINBERG LAW, FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, ABO-RH INCOMPATIBILITY, GENETIC COUNSELLING.
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
IMPACT OF ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY IN INDIAN SOCIETY, TRADITION AND CULTURE – KARMA,
RANA, VAINASHRAMA, ANUSHARTHA, SOCIAL AND CULTURE CHANGE, TRIBAL CULTURE IN INDIA,
APPLIED ACTION DEVELOPMENT ANTHROPOLOGY – CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS, TRIBAL
PROBLEMS IN INDIA.
GEOGRAPHY –
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY :
REGIONAL PLANNING AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY.
AGRO-CLIMATIC REGIONS,
AGRO-ECOLOGICAL REGIONS, GREEN REVOLUTION, WHITE RESOLUTION, RIVER
INTER-LINKING.
HISTORY –
ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY –
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCES, LITERARY SOURCES – BRAHMANICAL LITERATURE,
ITIHASA-PURANA TRADITION, BUDDHIST AND JAINA LITERATURE, CREATIVE AND
HISTORICAL LITERATURE, FOREIGN TRAVELLERS ACCOUNT.
HISTORY OF NATIONALISM – 1858
ONWARDS – RISE OF MODERN POLITICS, ENLIGHTENMENT – FEATURES, THINKERS, KANT,
ROUSSEAU.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION
AND CIVIL WAR.
BENGALI LITERATURE –
JIBANANANDA DEV’S
POEMS, BAMAN SAMASYA STANDARIZATION, JAGORI UPANYAS,
EBONG INDRAJIT, ARANYAK. KAPAL KUNDALA, MANIK BANDYOPADHYAY’S SHORT STORIES.
POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTL. RELATIONS-
RAWLS THEORY OF JUSTICE, RAWLS AND GRAMSCI.
JOHN STUART MILL, MARXIAN
DIALECTICS.
THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND INDIA –
SOUTH-SOUTH CO-OPERATION, INDIA AFRICA CO-OPERATION, INDIA AND THE BIG POWERS –
CHINA: POST 1962 WAR TILL PRESENT DAY. A RE- LOOK AT BRICS, THE RUSSIAN-CHINA
ANGEL TO INDO PAKISTAN, INDIA AND EU.
POWER / BALANCE OF POWER, CONCEPT OF
SECURITY, NUCLEAR SECURITY AND DOCTRINES.
SOCIOLOGY-
FAMILY, RELIGION,
POLITICS AND ECONOMY.
It
is expected that some questions will come from the previous syllabus as well.
