UPSC Combined Defence Services

General Knowledge (objective, two-part structure per Appendix-I)

1. 1
   General Knowledge including current events and such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific subject
2. 2
   History of India and Geography of a nature which candidate should be able to answer without special study

   1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire24 min min
   2. 2.Rise of Regional States14 min
   3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy28 min
   4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal17 min
   5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)14 min
   6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)8 min

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   1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars23 min
   2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems14 min
   3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 185717 min
   4. 10.The Revolt of 185765 min
   5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)17 min
   6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India15 min
   7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)11 min
   8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)16 min min
   9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)24 min
   10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)18 min
   11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)18 min
   12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)26 min min
   13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)19 min
   14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)20 min
   15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)16 min
   16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)32 min
   17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)34 min
   18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)26 min
   19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)36 min
   20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)10 min
   21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)9 min
   22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture9 min
   23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)26 min
   24. 30.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
   25. 31.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is90 min
   26. 32.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
   27. 33.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them78 min
   28. 34.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth113 min
   29. 35.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts109 min
   30. 36.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
   31. 37.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
   32. 38.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
   33. 39.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
   34. 40.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
   35. 41.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
   36. 42.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went97 min
   37. 43.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
   38. 44.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
   39. 45.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
   40. 46.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
   41. 47.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min