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Preliminary Examination

8 topics · 1 sections — from the official OPSC syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.

General Studies + CSAT (Preliminary)

  1. 1
    Current Events of National and International Importance
  2. 2
    History of India and Indian National Movement
    1. 1.Medieval India — Political, Administrative and Military History18 min
    2. 2.Three Phases of the Indian Freedom Struggle, 1885-194727 min
    3. 3.Odisha: Dynasties, Culture and Heritage22 min
    4. 4.Odisha: Freedom Struggle and Society19 min
    5. 5.History Optional Paper I — Item 1: Sources22 min
    6. 6.Pre-history and Proto-history15 min
    + 41 more chapters
    1. 7.History Optional Paper I — Item 3: Indus Valley Civilization13 min
    2. 8.Megalithic Cultures20 min
    3. 9.Aryans and Vedic Period18 min
    4. 10.Period of the Mahajanapadas17 min
    5. 11.Mauryan Empire23 min
    6. 12.Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas)22 min
    7. 13.Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas35 min
    8. 14.Regional States during Gupta Era25 min
    9. 15.Themes in Early Indian Cultural History30 min
    10. 16.Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India22 min
    11. 17.Early Medieval India, 750–120031 min
    12. 18.Cultural Traditions in India, 750-120031 min
    13. 19.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy28 min
    14. 20.Decline of the Mughal Empire24 min min
    15. 21.Rise of Regional States14 min
    16. 22.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)14 min
    17. 23.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)8 min
    18. 24.British Conquest of Bengal17 min
    19. 25.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars23 min
    20. 26.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems14 min
    21. 27.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)17 min
    22. 28.The Revolt of 185765 min
    23. 29.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 185717 min
    24. 30.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)24 min
    25. 31.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India15 min
    26. 32.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)11 min
    27. 33.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)16 min min
    28. 34.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)18 min
    29. 35.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)18 min
    30. 36.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)26 min min
    31. 37.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)19 min
    32. 38.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)20 min
    33. 39.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)16 min
    34. 40.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)34 min
    35. 41.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)32 min
    36. 42.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)26 min
    37. 43.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)10 min
    38. 44.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)9 min
    39. 45.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture9 min
    40. 46.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)36 min
    41. 47.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)26 min
  3. 3
    Indian and World Geography — Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the World
    1. 1.Odisha: Geography and Natural Resources14 min
    2. 2.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
    3. 3.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
    4. 4.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
    5. 5.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
    6. 6.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
    + 8 more chapters
    1. 7.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
    2. 8.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
    3. 9.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
    4. 10.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
    5. 11.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min
    6. 12.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
    7. 13.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
    8. 14.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
  4. 4
    Indian Polity and Governance — Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues
    1. 1.Union Governance Machinery and Constitutional Bodies20 min
    2. 2.State and District Governance18 min
    3. 3.Odisha: Polity and Governance14 min
    4. 4.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic15 min
    5. 5.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter15 min
    6. 6.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution14 min
    + 35 more chapters
    1. 7.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India15 min
    2. 8.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution15 min
    3. 9.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy20 min
    4. 10.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution16 min
    5. 11.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project14 min
    6. 12.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived15 min
    7. 13.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism16 min
    8. 14.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power18 min
    9. 15.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation14 min
    10. 16.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States16 min
    11. 17.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution22 min
    12. 18.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy22 min
    13. 19.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility15 min
    14. 20.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad16 min
    15. 21.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union23 min
    16. 22.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity13 min
    17. 23.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive18 min
    18. 24.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor15 min
    19. 25.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link17 min
    20. 26.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction23 min
    21. 27.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court21 min
    22. 28.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's5 min
    23. 29.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure8 min
    24. 30.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself17 min
    25. 31.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA24 min
    26. 32.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment20 min
    27. 33.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 32417 min
    28. 34.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-15115 min
    29. 35.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism14 min
    30. 36.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-32314 min
    31. 37.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times11 min
    32. 38.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation9 min
    33. 39.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template14 min
    34. 40.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-32315 min
    35. 41.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes13 min
  5. 5
    Economic and Social Development — Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives
    1. 1.Five Year Planning and NITI Aayog18 min
    2. 2.Money, Banking and RBI11 min
    3. 3.National Agriculture, Industry and Services Sectors20 min
    4. 4.Demography, Population and Policy13 min
    5. 5.Growth, Development and Regional Disparities23 min
    6. 6.Odisha: Economy, Infrastructure and Security16 min
  6. 6
    General Issues on Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change
  7. 7
    General Science
    1. 1.General and Applied Science for Civil Services21 min
    2. 2.Space Technology Applications and Disaster Management20 min
  8. 8
    CSAT (Prelims Paper II, aptitude -- qualifying, out of scope)

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