UPSC Civil Service Examination 2021 Study Material for General Studies Paper 1 Download.
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Syllabus and Study Material for General Studies Paper 1
General Studies -I: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society
| Topic | Study Material |
| History | |
| Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times. | Indian Art and Culture (NCERT) * |
| Art and Culture Nitin Singhania | |
| Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present significant events, personalities, issues. | NCERT History Spectrum History* |
| The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors or contributions from different parts of the country. | |
| Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country. | |
| The history of the world will include events from the 18th century such as the industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc. – their forms and effect on the society. | World History Notes 1 or |
| World History Notes 2 (try any one) | |
| Sociology | |
| Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India. | |
| Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies. | |
| Effects of globalization on Indian society. | |
| Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism. | |
| Geography | |
| Salient features of the world’s physical geography. | Goh Cheng Leong |
| Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India). | IAS Parliament Magazine
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| Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location – changes in critical geographical features (including waterbodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes. | |
* marked are most important books for the subject
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