SYLLABUS FOR TEST - III 15.09.19

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.