Civil Services (Main) Examination General Studies- I : Syllabus
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Last Update on: 29 Jun 2020
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Paper II of Civil Services (Main) Examination is General Studies-I. It has 250 Marks attached to it.
Be it any examination, before you take a plunge, you need to know the process of the examination, its requirements and the examination standards. As you begin your journey to the dream career in ‘Civil Services’, you need to be acquainted with what all you need to read.
The care should be taken during preparation as it has a vast and vague syllabus and requires your intelligence, observation and a constant eye of the developments taking place around us.
The frame work of the syllabus gives you the information and idea about the structure, course outline and the requirements.
General Studies- I: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society.
- Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
- Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues
- The Freedom Struggle - its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
- Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.
- History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society.
- 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.
- Salient features of world’s physical geography.
- 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).
- Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location- changes in critical geographical features (including water bodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.
