PROGRAMME FOR 22ND JUNE, 2019

11.00 -1.00 P.M.
INAUGURATION FOLLOWED BY INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH DHRUVAJYOTI DE, IPS, JOYOSHI DASGUPTA, SWETA AGARWAL AND DHIMAN BARAI ALL IAS AND ICSA ALUMNI.

1.00-2.30 P.M.
R E C E S S

2.30-3.30 P.M.
ORIENTATION PROGRAMME BY DR. PAL CHAUDHURI

INAUGURATION OF NEW SESSION

ICSA'S NEXT SESSION FOR ALL CATEGORIES OF STUDENTS BEGINS ON SATURDAY, 22 JUNE, 2019 at 11:00 A.M. IN THE PREMISES OF THE INSTITUTE.  YOU ARE REQUESTED TO ASSEMBLE AT 10.50 A.M.


DIRECTOR

ADMISSION NOTICE

THIS IS TO INFORM THAT ICSA WILL BEGIN ITS NEW SESSION FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES FROM MID JUNE, 2019:

- WEEK-DAY CLASSES
 - WEEK-END CLASSES

MAINS - FULL SYLLABUS : OPTIONAL SUBJECT + GENERAL STUDIES + ESSAY + INDIAN LANGUAGE + TESTS.

- MAINS ONLY : PARTIAL SYLLABUS
   - OPTIONAL SUBJECT ONLY
   - GENERAL STUDIES AND ESSAY ONLY
   - TESTS ONLY

- MAINS AND PRELIMS COMBINED :
   MAINS FULL SYLLABUS AND PRELIMS FULL SYLLABUS

INTERESTED CANDIDATES MAY GET IN TOUCH WITH THE OFFICE FOR DETAILS.



 

SYLLABUS FOR OPTIONAL SUBJECTS TEST - 27/4/19

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY-

PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

HUMAN GENETICS – METHODS OF HUMAN GENETICS, INHERITANCE AUTOSOMAL AND LINKED, DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE, DEVIATIONS OF MENDEL.  SEX LIMITED AND CONTROLLED CHARACTERS, CHROMOSOMAL ABBERATIONS, SYNDROMES LETHAL, SELECTION ETC.

GEOGRAPHY –

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION CYCLES, INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY, ATMOSPHERIC LAYER, LATITUDINAL HEAT BALANCE, GENERAL CIRCULATION, JET STREAM, FRONTS AND AIR MANES, CLOUD FORMATION.

HISTORY –      

SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION – WITH REVIEW OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA, ORIGINS OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1861-1905, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION – 1905-17, FEBRUARY RESOLUTION AND OCTOBER RESOLUTION.

WEST ASIA AND THE ARABS – ARAB –ISRAELI CONFLICT; OIL-MIDDLE EAST AND COLD WAR POLITICS; ARAB NATIONALISM.

BENGALI LITERATURE –

RAKTAKARABI, MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BENGALI LANGUAGE, VOCABULARY, DIALECT.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTL. RELATIONS-  

THOMAS HOBBES,

ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION.

COMPARATIVE POLITICS –NATURE AND MAJOR APPROACHES, STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND SOCIALIST ECONOMICS, DEVELOPING AND DEVELOPED SOCIETIES.

SOCIOLOGY-

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND KINSHIP, POLITICS AND SOCIETY.

IT IS EXPECTED THAT SOME QUESTIONS WILL COME FROM THE EARLIER SYLLABUS

SYLLABUS FOR TEST - VI 13.04.19

GENERAL STUDIES -

HERITAGE AND CULTURE

Colonial Architecture, Indian Coinage, Paintings, Music, Dance in reference to ancient India.

HISTORY
Growth of Political Consciousness, Bengal Renaissance – Rammohan Roy.

ECONOMICS

Money, Banking and Capital Market.

Beginning of Reforms in 1980- Industrial Delicensing and Trade Reforms, Reforms since 1985- Trade, Fiscal Telecom, BOP Crisis in 1991. Stabilization and Structural Reforms, Exchange Rate Reforms in 1991, FDI Reforms.  Reforms Since 1995: WTO, Tax Reforms, Post Reform Performance.

CURRENT EVENTS

BRI, Forest Rights Act and relevant Controversies, South China Sea and East China Sea.

Geo Politics of Indian Ocean, Indian Diaspora.

GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT

Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, India-Regional Geography-Physiographic Divisions and Locational Attributes,  India-Climate, Monsoon Characteristics, Soils, Vegetation, World Regional Geography, Regionalization,  Physiography of Asia, Geography of North America.

INDIAN POLITY

Emergency provisions, Elections,  Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental Duties. 

GOVERNANCE
Issues of Poverty, Hunger and Health, Education in India.

C S A T  -
ENGLISH COMPREHENSION
Comprehension

GMAT, LOGICAL REASONING ETC

General Mental Ability

Problems : Time and Work, Time and Distance, Probability  and Statistics, Pipes and Cisterns, Allegation, Profit.

Events as reported by national dailies over the period  March 28  to April 11 , 2019 must be thoroughly read.

It is expected that some questions will be set from the previous syllabus.

SYLLABUS FOR OPTIONAL SUBJECTS TEST - 30.03.19

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY-

MARRIAGE. FAMILY, KINSHIP, FIELDWORK : METHODS AND TECHNIQUES, ANTHROPOLOGY AND SUPERNATURALISM, ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

LIVING PRIMATES: DEFINITION, FEATURES AND CLASSIFICATION, FEATURES OF DIFFERENT CLASSES, NWM AND OWM, APES – HUMAN SKELETON, BONES – FEATURES, CHANGES DUE TO ASSUMPTION OF ERECT POSTURE AND BIPEDAL GAIT IN MAN.  HUMAN GENETICS – METHODS, PROBLEMS, MENDEL’S LAWS.

GEOGRAPHY –

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF GEOMORPHOLOGY, LANDFORMS FROM DIFFERENT EROSION AGENTS, LANDSCAPES AND LANDFORMS FROM FLUVIAL PROCESSES, APPLIED GEOMORPHOLOGY.

HISTORY –      

FRENCH REVOLUTION, DEBATES, CAUSES ETC, EVENTS.  SOCIALISM, PRE-MARXIAN SOCIALIST THINKERS, KARL MARX , POST REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE – LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, SOCIALISM – 1830 REVOLUTIONS, 1848 REVOLUTIONS.  ITALIAN UNIFICATION AND GERMAN UNIFICATION.

BENGALI LITERATURE –

RAKTAKARABI, MORPHOLOGY AND PHONOLOGY.

ENGLISH LITERATURE –

JOHN DONNE – ‘THE RELIC’, ‘CANONIZATION’.  ‘THE GOOD MORROW’.  ‘TO HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED’. W.B. YEATS – ‘THE TOWER’, ‘MERU’ AND OTHER POEMS. W.H. ANDEN – POEMS.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTL. RELATIONS-  

ARISTOTLE’S POLITICAL THOUGHT, SYED AHMED KHAN’S POLITICAL IDEAS, MACHIEVELLI’S POLITICAL THOUGHT, FEDERALISM IN INDIA.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC  SYSTEM, REGIONALISM, UNITED NATIONS-IMPORTANT FEATURES, ISSUES OF GLOBAL CONCERNS, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS.

SOCIOLOGY-

DURKHEIM, MARX, WEBER, PARSONS, MERTON AND MEAD.

SYLLABUS FOR OPTIONAL SUBJECT TEST - 16.02.19

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:

ANTHROPOLOGY-

INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY, METHODS, SUB-DISCIPLINES AND OTHER ISSUES.  BASIC CONCEPT OF SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY – MARRIAGE.  ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES.

DEFINITION OF ANTHROPOLOGY – ITS BRANCHES : BIOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND LINGUISTICS.  DEFINITION OF SUB DISCIPLINES OF BIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY.  RELATIONSHIP OF ANTHROPOLOGY WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES. CONCEPTS OF ORIGINS OF LIFE, THEORIES OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION LAMARCKISM AND DARWINISM. SYNTHETIC THORY OF EVOLUTION, COPES LAW, DOLL’S LAW, ADAPTIVE RADIATION.

GEOGRAPHY –

FACTORS CONTROLLING AND FORM DEVELOPMENT, ENDOGENETIC AND EXOGENETIC FORCES, MARINE RESOURCES, MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND SEDIMENTS, LAWS OF THE SEA, EE2, CR2, CORAL REEFS.  MARINE PROVINES, SUBMARINE TOPOGRAPHY OF INDIAN, ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, MAJOR BOTTOM RELIEF FEATURES, MARINE SEDIMENTATION, MARINE BROMES AND PHYLUM TIDES.

HISTORY –      

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, GERMAN AND RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, ENLIGHTENMENT – MAIN IDEAS, THINKERS, COLONIES ETC.

BENGALI LITERATURE –

ORIGINS OF BENGALI LANGUAGE, PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY, CHANGE OF SOUND AND BOISHNAVAPADABALI, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BENGALI LITERATURE, EMERGENCE OF BENGALI LITERATURE.

POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTL. RELATIONS-  

WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT : GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT, PLATO’S POLITICAL THOUGHT:

NATIONAL INTEREST; POWER; BALANCE OF POWER.  SECURITY, DETERRENCE; TRANSNATIONAL ACTORS (NON STATE); GLOBALIZATION ; COLD WAR; BIPOLARITY; ARMS RACE; NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT TILL END OF COLD WAR.

SOCIOLOGY-

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY – WHAT IS SOCIETY? WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? HOW TO STUDY SOCIETY? DIFFERENT WAYS OF CONCEIVING OF SOCIETY, POSITIVISM – INTERPRETIVISM – SOCIOLOGY AND COMMON SENSE, SOCIOLOGY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS.