Prelims
8 topics · 1 sections — from the official NPSC syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.
Preliminary Paper
- 1General Science
- 2History (National, Broad General Understanding)
- 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire24 min min
- 2.Rise of Regional States14 min
- 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy28 min
- 4.British Conquest of Bengal17 min
- 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)14 min
- 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)8 min
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- 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars23 min
- 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems14 min
- 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 185717 min
- 10.The Revolt of 185765 min
- 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)17 min
- 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India15 min
- 3Nagaland: Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and Heritage of Its People
- 4Geography of India
- 1.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
- 2.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is90 min
- 3.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
- 4.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them78 min
- 5.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth113 min
- 6.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts109 min
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- 7.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
- 8.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
- 9.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
- 10.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
- 11.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
- 12.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
- 13.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went97 min
- 14.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
- 15.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
- 16.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
- 17.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
- 18.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min
- 5Indian Polity and Economy
- 1.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic15 min
- 2.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter15 min
- 3.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution14 min
- 4.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States16 min
- 5.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project14 min
- 6.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India15 min
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- 7.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution15 min
- 8.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived15 min
- 9.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution16 min
- 10.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy20 min
- 11.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment186 min
- 12.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates157 min
- 13.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking110 min
- 14.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation89 min
- 15.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector102 min
- 16.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets102 min
- 6Indian National Movement
- 1.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)11 min
- 2.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)16 min min
- 3.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)24 min
- 4.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)18 min
- 5.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)18 min
- 6.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)26 min min
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- 7.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)19 min
- 8.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)20 min
- 9.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)16 min
- 10.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)32 min
- 11.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)34 min
- 12.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)26 min
- 13.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)36 min
- 14.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)10 min
- 15.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)9 min
- 16.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture9 min
- 17.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)26 min
- 7General Mental Ability Test
- 8Current Events