Odisha Civil Services Examination

General Studies + CSAT (Preliminary)

• Current Events of National and International Importance
• History of India and Indian National Movement
  1. 1.Medieval India — Political, Administrative and Military History
  2. 2.Three Phases of the Indian Freedom Struggle, 1885-1947
  3. 3.Odisha: Dynasties, Culture and Heritage
  4. 4.Odisha: Freedom Struggle and Society
  5. 5.History Optional Paper I — Item 1: Sources
  6. 6.Pre-history and Proto-history
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  1. 7.History Optional Paper I — Item 3: Indus Valley Civilization
  2. 8.Megalithic Cultures
  3. 9.Aryans and Vedic Period
  4. 10.Period of the Mahajanapadas
  5. 11.Mauryan Empire
  6. 12.Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas)
  7. 13.Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
  8. 14.Regional States during Gupta Era
  9. 15.Themes in Early Indian Cultural History
  10. 16.Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
  11. 17.Early Medieval India, 750–1200
  12. 18.Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
  13. 19.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  14. 20.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  15. 21.Rise of Regional States
  16. 22.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  17. 23.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
  18. 24.British Conquest of Bengal
  19. 25.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  20. 26.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  21. 27.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  22. 28.The Revolt of 1857
  23. 29.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  24. 30.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  25. 31.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  26. 32.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  27. 33.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  28. 34.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  29. 35.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  30. 36.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  31. 37.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  32. 38.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  33. 39.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  34. 40.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  35. 41.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  36. 42.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  37. 43.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  38. 44.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  39. 45.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  40. 46.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  41. 47.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
• Indian and World Geography — Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the World
  1. 1.Odisha: Geography and Natural Resources
  2. 2.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  3. 3.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  4. 4.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  5. 5.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  6. 6.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
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  1. 7.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  2. 8.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  3. 9.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  4. 10.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  5. 11.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
  6. 12.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  7. 13.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  8. 14.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
• Indian Polity and Governance — Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues
  1. 1.Union Governance Machinery and Constitutional Bodies
  2. 2.State and District Governance
  3. 3.Odisha: Polity and Governance
  4. 4.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  5. 5.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  6. 6.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
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  1. 7.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
  2. 8.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  3. 9.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  4. 10.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  5. 11.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  6. 12.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  7. 13.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism
  8. 14.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power
  9. 15.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation
  10. 16.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  11. 17.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution
  12. 18.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy
  13. 19.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility
  14. 20.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad
  15. 21.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union
  16. 22.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity
  17. 23.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive
  18. 24.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor
  19. 25.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link
  20. 26.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction
  21. 27.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court
  22. 28.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's
  23. 29.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure
  24. 30.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself
  25. 31.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA
  26. 32.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment
  27. 33.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 324
  28. 34.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-151
  29. 35.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism
  30. 36.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-323
  31. 37.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times
  32. 38.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation
  33. 39.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template
  34. 40.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-323
  35. 41.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes
• Economic and Social Development — Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives
  1. 1.Five Year Planning and NITI Aayog
  2. 2.Money, Banking and RBI
  3. 3.National Agriculture, Industry and Services Sectors
  4. 4.Demography, Population and Policy
  5. 5.Growth, Development and Regional Disparities
  6. 6.Odisha: Economy, Infrastructure and Security
• General Issues on Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change
• General Science
  1. 1.General and Applied Science for Civil Services
  2. 2.Space Technology Applications and Disaster Management
• CSAT (Prelims Paper II, aptitude -- qualifying, out of scope)

Essay (Paper I)

• Essay

General Studies I: Indian Heritage & Culture, Odisha Heritage & Culture, History and Geography of the World & Society (Paper II)

• Heritage and Culture: Indian Art Forms/Literature/Architecture, Temple Architecture of Odisha, Socio-Cultural Development, Bhakti Movement in Odisha, Evolution of Odia Language and Literature, Regional Festival Traditions
  1. 1.Odisha: Dynasties, Culture and Heritage
  2. 2.Indian Art and Culture: Classical Schools, Bhakti-Sufi Traditions and the Making of a Composite Culture
  3. 3.15. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Ancient India)
  4. 4.25. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Medieval India)
  5. 5.Themes in Early Indian Cultural History
  6. 6.Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
  7. 7.History Optional Paper I — Item 23: Culture during Mughal Empire
• History: Modern Indian History, Freedom Struggle, Post-Independence Consolidation, Kalinga War, Dynastic History of Odisha (Kharavela, Bhauma Karas, Somavamsis, Gangas, Gajapatis), Paik Rebellion, Vir Surendra Sai, Revolt of 1857, Creation of Odisha Province, Praja Mandal Movements
  1. 1.Three Phases of the Indian Freedom Struggle, 1885-1947
  2. 2.Odisha: Freedom Struggle and Society
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  5. 5.Rise of Regional States
  6. 6.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
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  1. 7.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
  2. 8.British Conquest of Bengal
  3. 9.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  4. 10.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.The Revolt of 1857
  7. 13.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  8. 14.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  9. 15.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  10. 16.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  11. 17.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  12. 18.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  13. 19.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  14. 20.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  15. 21.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  16. 22.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  17. 23.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  18. 24.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  19. 25.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  20. 26.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  21. 27.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  22. 28.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  23. 29.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  24. 30.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  25. 31.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
• Geography of India with Special Reference to Odisha: Physical/Economic/Social Geography, Geophysical Phenomena, Odisha's Natural Resources and Riverine System
  1. 1.Odisha: Geography and Natural Resources
  2. 2.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  3. 3.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  4. 4.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  5. 5.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  6. 6.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
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  1. 7.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  2. 8.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  3. 9.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  4. 10.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  5. 11.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
  6. 12.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  7. 13.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  8. 14.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
• Society: Salient Features of Indian Society, Diversity, Women's Role, Population Issues, Globalization's Effects, Tribal Population and Urbanization in Odisha
  1. 1.Odisha: Freedom Struggle and Society

General Studies II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and Inter-State Relations (Paper III)

• Governance, Constitution, Polity and Inter-State Relations, including Odisha Right to Public Services Act, Odisha Lokayukta Act, Panchayati Raj Institutions in Odisha, Odisha's Neighborhood Relations
  1. 1.Union Governance Machinery and Constitutional Bodies
  2. 2.State and District Governance
  3. 3.Odisha: Polity and Governance
  4. 4.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  5. 5.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  6. 6.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
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  1. 7.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
  2. 8.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  3. 9.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  4. 10.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  5. 11.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  6. 12.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  7. 13.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism
  8. 14.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power
  9. 15.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation
  10. 16.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  11. 17.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution
  12. 18.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy
  13. 19.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility
  14. 20.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad
  15. 21.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union
  16. 22.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity
  17. 23.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive
  18. 24.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor
  19. 25.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link
  20. 26.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction
  21. 27.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court
  22. 28.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's
  23. 29.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure
  24. 30.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself
  25. 31.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA
  26. 32.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment
  27. 33.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 324
  28. 34.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-151
  29. 35.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism
  30. 36.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-323
  31. 37.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times
  32. 38.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation
  33. 39.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template
  34. 40.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-323
  35. 41.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes
• Social Justice: Government Policies, Welfare Schemes and Development Issues for India and Odisha

General Studies III: Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management (Paper IV)

• Science and Technology
  1. 1.General and Applied Science for Civil Services
• Economic Development, including Government Budgeting, Land Reforms, Infrastructure and Industrialisation in Odisha
  1. 1.Five Year Planning and NITI Aayog
  2. 2.Money, Banking and RBI
  3. 3.Growth, Development and Regional Disparities
  4. 4.Odisha: Economy, Infrastructure and Security
• Agriculture: Cropping Patterns, Food Security, Farm Subsidies in India and Odisha
  1. 1.National Agriculture, Industry and Services Sectors
• Biodiversity, Environment, Disaster Management and Left Wing Extremism in Odisha
  1. 1.Space Technology Applications and Disaster Management
  2. 2.Odisha: Economy, Infrastructure and Security
• Security: Internal Security, Cyber Security, Border Security, Security Forces and Agencies of Odisha
  1. 1.Odisha: Economy, Infrastructure and Security

General Studies IV: Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude (Paper V)

• Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude
  1. 1.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Foundations of Ethics
  2. 2.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Attitude
  3. 3.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Aptitude and Foundational Values for Civil Service
  4. 4.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Emotional Intelligence
  5. 5.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Moral Thinkers and Philosophers — Indian Traditions
  6. 6.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Moral Thinkers and Philosophers — Western Traditions
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  1. 7.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Public Service Values and Ethics in Public Administration
  2. 8.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Probity in Governance
  3. 9.GS Paper IV — Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude: Case Studies — Applying the Ethical Toolkit

Optional Subject (Papers VI-VII)

• Agriculture
• Agricultural Engineering
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Anthropology
  1. 1.Human Evolution, Primates, Hominid Fossils and Prehistoric Archaeology
  2. 2.Nature of Culture and Society; Marriage, Family and Kinship
  3. 3.Economic Organization: Economic Anthropology, the Formalist-Substantivist Debate, and Modes of Exchange
  4. 4.Political Organization and Social Control
  5. 5.Anthropological Approaches to Religion
  6. 6.Anthropological Theories
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  1. 7.Culture, Language and Communication
  2. 8.Research Methods in Anthropology
  3. 9.Human Genetics: Methods and Application
  4. 10.Concept of Human Growth and Development
  5. 11.Fertility, Bioevents, and Demographic Theories
  6. 12.Applications of Anthropology
  7. 13.Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization
  8. 14.Demographic Profile of India: Ethnic-Linguistic Elements and the Structure and Growth of Population
  9. 15.Traditional Social System, Caste, Sacred Complexes and Religious Impact in India
  10. 16.Emergence, Growth and Development of Anthropology in India
  11. 17.Indian Village, Minorities, and Processes of Social Change
  12. 18.Tribal Situation in India: Distribution, Characteristics, and the Problems of Tribal Communities
  13. 19.Development, Displacement and the Rights of Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes
  14. 20.Religion, Tribal Societies, and the Tribe–Nation-State Relationship
  15. 21.Tribal Administration, PTGs, NGOs, and Anthropology's Role in Development and Ethnic Understanding
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Commerce and Accountancy
• Economics
  1. 1.Advanced Micro Economics
  2. 2.Advanced Macro Economics: Approaches to Employment, Income and Interest Rate Determination
  3. 3.Money, Banking and Public Finance
  4. 4.International Economics
  5. 5.Growth and Development
  6. 6.Indian Economy in the Pre-Independence Era
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  1. 7.Pre-Liberalization Economic Thought and the Agrarian Transformation
  2. 8.Industry, National Income and Poverty in the Pre-Liberalization Economy
  3. 9.The Post-Liberalization Era: Agriculture, WTO and Trade Policy Reform
  4. 10.New Economic Policy: Industry and the Exchange Rate Regime
  5. 11.Fiscal Rules, Monetary Reform and the Retreat of Central Planning after 1991
  6. 12.New Economic Policy and Employment
• Education
• Electrical Engineering
• Fishery Science
• Forestry
• Geography
  1. 1.Geography Optional: Geography of Odisha
  2. 2.Geomorphology
  3. 3.Climatology
  4. 4.Oceanography
  5. 5.Biogeography
  6. 6.Paper I, Unit 5 — Environmental Geography
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  1. 7.Paper I, Unit 6 — Perspectives in Human Geography
  2. 8.Paper I, Unit 7 — Economic Geography
  3. 9.Population and Settlement Geography
  4. 10.Regional Planning
  5. 11.Paper I, Unit 10 — Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography
  6. 12.Paper II — Geography of India
  7. 13.Resources
  8. 14.Agriculture — Geography of India (Paper II)
  9. 15.Paper II · Geography of India — Module 4: Industry
  10. 16.Transport, Communication and Trade — Geography of India (Paper II)
  11. 17.Cultural Setting
  12. 18.Settlements
  13. 19.Regional Development and Planning
  14. 20.Paper II, Unit 9 — Political Aspects
  15. 21.Paper II, Unit 10 — Contemporary Issues
• Geology
• History
  1. 1.History Optional: Medieval and Colonial Odisha
  2. 2.History Optional Paper I — Item 1: Sources
  3. 3.Pre-history and Proto-history
  4. 4.History Optional Paper I — Item 3: Indus Valley Civilization
  5. 5.Megalithic Cultures
  6. 6.Aryans and Vedic Period
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  1. 7.Period of the Mahajanapadas
  2. 8.Mauryan Empire
  3. 9.Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas)
  4. 10.Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
  5. 11.Regional States during Gupta Era
  6. 12.Themes in Early Indian Cultural History
  7. 13.Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
  8. 14.Early Medieval India, 750–1200
  9. 15.Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
  10. 16.History Optional Paper I — Item 15: The Thirteenth Century
  11. 17.History Optional Paper I — Item 16: The Fourteenth Century
  12. 18.History Optional Paper I — Item 18: The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century - Political Developments and Economy
  13. 19.History Optional Paper I — Item 19: The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century - Society and Culture
  14. 20.History Optional Paper I — Item 20: Akbar
  15. 21.History Optional Paper I — Item 21: Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century
  16. 22.History Optional Paper I — Item 22: Economy and Society, in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  17. 23.History Optional Paper I — Item 23: Culture during Mughal Empire
  18. 24.History Optional Paper I — Item 24: The Eighteenth Century
  19. 25.History Optional Paper I — Item 17: Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
• Home Science
• Law
  1. 1.Constitution and Constitutionalism; Fundamental Rights; Directive Principles of State Policy
  2. 2.Constitutional Position of the President and Relation with the Council of Ministers; Governor and His Powers
  3. 3.The Supreme Court and High Courts; Centre, States and Local Bodies
  4. 4.Legislative Powers, Privileges and Immunities; Services Under the Union and the States
  5. 5.Emergency Provisions; Amendment of the Constitution; Principle of Natural Justice
  6. 6.Delegated Legislation, Separation of Powers, Judicial Review of Administrative Action, and the Ombudsman
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  1. 7.International Law: Nature, Municipal Law, State Recognition/Succession, and the Law of the Sea
  2. 8.Individuals as Subjects of International Law; Jurisdiction; Extradition and Asylum; Treaties
  3. 9.The United Nations — Organs, Powers, Reform; Peaceful Settlement of Disputes; Lawful Recourse to Force; International Humanitarian Law
  4. 10.Nuclear Weapons, International Terrorism and the ICC, the New International Economic Order, and the Human Environment
  5. 11.General Principles of Criminal Liability: Mens Rea, Punishment, Attempt, and General Exceptions
  6. 12.Joint and Constructive Liability, Abetment, and Criminal Conspiracy
  7. 13.Offences Against the State, Public Tranquility, Human Body, Property, Women, and Defamation
  8. 14.Prevention of Corruption Act 1988; Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 and Subsequent Legislative Developments; Plea Bargaining
  9. 15.Nature of Tort, Fault and Strict/Absolute Liability, Vicarious Liability, General Defences
  10. 16.Joint Tortfeasors, Remedies, Negligence, Defamation and Nuisance
  11. 17.Conspiracy, False Imprisonment, Malicious Prosecution and the Consumer Protection Act
  12. 18.Paper II — Law of Contracts and Mercantile Law: Nature and Formation of Contract / E-Contract; Factors Vitiating Free Consent; Void, Voidable, Illegal and Unenforceable Agreements; Performance and Discharge of Contracts
  13. 19.Quasi-Contracts; Consequences of Breach of Contract; Contract of Indemnity, Guarantee and Insurance; Contract of Agency
  14. 20.Sale of Goods and Hire Purchase; Partnership; the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881; the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996; Standard Form Contracts
  15. 21.Paper II — Contemporary Legal Developments (I): Public Interest Litigation, Intellectual Property Rights, Information Technology Law, Competition Law
  16. 22.Contemporary Legal Developments — ADR, Environmental Law Statutes, RTI Act, Trial by Media
• English Language and Literature
• Bengali Language and Literature
• Hindi Language and Literature
• Odia Language and Literature
• Persian Language and Literature
• Sanskrit Language and Literature
• Urdu Language and Literature
• Management
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Philosophy
  1. 1.Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality
  2. 2.Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz)
  3. 3.Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)
  4. 4.Kant
  5. 5.Hegel: Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism
  6. 6.Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein
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  1. 7.Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and Use; Language-Games; Critique of Private Language
  2. 8.Logical Positivism
  3. 9.Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism
  4. 10.Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre [printed in the syllabus as "Sarte"], Heidegger)
  5. 11.Quine and Strawson
  6. 12.Carvaka: Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent Entities
  7. 13.Jainism: Theory of Reality; Saptabhanginaya; Bondage and Liberation
  8. 14.Schools of Buddhism: Pratītyasamutpāda, Kṣaṇikavāda, Nairātmyavāda
  9. 15.Nyaya-Vaisesika
  10. 16.Samkhya
  11. 17.Yoga: Citta, Cittavṛtti, Kleśas, Samādhi, Kaivalya
  12. 18.Mimamsa: Theory of Knowledge
  13. 19.Schools of Vedanta: Brahman, Isvara, Atman, Jiva, Jagat, Maya, Avidya, Adhyasa, Moksa, Aprthaksiddhi, Pancavidhabheda
  14. 20.Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga
  15. 21.Part A — Rights: What the Individual Is Entitled to Hold Against the State
  16. 22.Forms of Government — Monarchy, Theocracy, Democracy
  17. 23.Political Ideologies — Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism
  18. 24.Sovereignty — Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya
  19. 25.Development and Social Progress
  20. 26.Humanism, Secularism and Multiculturalism
  21. 27.Caste Discrimination — Gandhi and Ambedkar
  22. 28.Gender Discrimination — Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights, Empowerment
  23. 29.Crime and Punishment — Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment
  24. 30.Social and Political Ideals — Equality, Justice, Liberty
  25. 31.Notions of God — Attributes, Relation to Man and the World (Indian and Western)
  26. 32.Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western)
  27. 33.Problem of Evil
  28. 34.Soul — Immortality, Rebirth and Liberation
  29. 35.Religion without God
  30. 36.Reason, Revelation and Faith
  31. 37.Religious Experience — Nature and Object (Indian and Western)
  32. 38.Nature of Religious Language — Analogical and Symbolic, Cognitivist and Non-cognitive
  33. 39.Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth
  34. 40.Religion and Morality
• Physics
• Political Science and International Relations
  1. 1.OPSC Political Science Optional: State Politics in Odisha
  2. 2.Political Theory — Meaning and the Contest of Approaches
  3. 3.Six Theories of the Modern State — Liberal to Feminist
  4. 4.Justice: Rawls's Theory and the Communitarian Challenge
  5. 5.Equality: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions, its Relationship with Freedom, and Affirmative Action
  6. 6.Rights — Meaning, Theories, Kinds, and the Concept of Human Rights
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  1. 7.Democracy: Classical and Contemporary Theories, and the Representative, Participatory and Deliberative Models
  2. 8.Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy in Political Theory
  3. 9.Political Ideologies — Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism
  4. 10.Indian Political Thought — From Dharmashastra to Radical Humanism
  5. 11.Western Political Thought: From the Polis to the Public Realm — Plato to Arendt
  6. 12.Salient Features of the Indian Constitution — Preamble, Rights, Parliamentary Government and the Basic Structure
  7. 13.Making of the Indian Constitution: Colonial Legacies and Contested Perspectives
  8. 14.Union and State Organs: Envisaged Role and Actual Working
  9. 15.India's Fourth Branch: The Constitutional and Statutory Watchdog Commissions
  10. 16.Federalism: Constitutional Design, Centre-State Change, and the Politics of Regional Aspiration
  11. 17.Party System in India: Parties, Coalitions, Pressure Groups and Electoral Change
  12. 18.Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj, Municipal Government and the Politics of Decentralisation
  13. 19.Identity and Democracy: Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics
  14. 20.Planning, Development and Economic Reform in Indian Politics
  15. 21.Rights, Gender and Ecology: Social Movements in Indian Politics
  16. 22.Comparative Politics: Nature, Approaches, and the Limits of Comparison
  17. 23.The State in Comparative Perspective: Capitalist, Socialist, Advanced-Industrial and Developing Formations
  18. 24.Globalisation: Comparative Responses of Developed and Developing Societies
  19. 25.Approaches to the Study of International Relations — Idealism, Realism, Marxism, Functionalism, Systems Theory
  20. 26.Key Concepts in International Relations — National Interest, Power, Balance of Power, Deterrence, Transnational Actors, Collective Security and the World Capitalist Economy
  21. 27.Bipolarity to Unipolarity: The Cold War, Non-Alignment, and the Post-Soviet Order
  22. 28.The International Economic System: Bretton Woods, CMEA, the NIEO Demand, and Globalisation
  23. 29.The United Nations: Envisaged Role, Actual Record, and the Politics of Reform
  24. 30.Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA
  25. 31.Indian Foreign Policy — Determinants, Institutions of Policy-Making, and the Politics of Continuity and Change
  26. 32.Indian Nationalism — Strategies and Historiographical Perspectives
  27. 33.India's Contribution to the Non-Aligned Movement — Phases and Current Role
  28. 34.India and South Asia: SAARC, SAFTA, Look East and the Politics of Regional Non-Cooperation
  29. 35.India and the UN System — Peacekeeping and the Permanent-Seat Demand
  30. 36.India and the Nuclear Question — From Ambiguity to Overt Deterrent
  31. 37.India and the Global South: Africa, Latin America, and the Struggle for a New Economic Order
  32. 38.India and the Global Centres of Power — USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia
  33. 39.Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy — Afghanistan, Iraq, West Asia, the United States, Israel and the Vision of a New World Order
  34. 40.Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Social Movements Compared
• Psychology
• Public Administration
  1. 1.OPSC Public Administration Optional: Administration in Odisha
  2. 2.Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of Government — Salient Features, Constitutionalism, Political Culture, and the Bureaucracy's Place in a Democracy
  3. 3.Administrative Thought: Scientific Management to Participative Management
  4. 4.Administrative Behaviour: Decision-Making, Communication, Morale, Motivation and Leadership
  5. 5.Accountability and Control
  6. 6.Organisations: Theory, Structure and the Regulatory-PPP State
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  1. 7.Introduction to Public Administration
  2. 8.Evolution of Indian Administration
  3. 9.Union Government and Administration: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary
  4. 10.Plans and Priorities: Machinery of Planning, the Planning Commission and NDC, Indicative Planning, and Decentralized Planning
  5. 11.State Government and Administration: Union-State Relations, Finance Commission, Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers, Chief Secretary, State Secretariat, Directorates
  6. 12.District Administration since Independence
  7. 13.Civil Services: Constitutional Position, Structure, Conduct, Neutrality and Activism
  8. 14.Financial Management: Budget, Parliamentary Control, the Finance Ministry, Accounting and Audit
  9. 15.Law and Order Administration: British Legacy, Police Reform, and the Central-State Security Architecture
  10. 16.Significant Issues in Indian Administration
  11. 17.Personnel Administration
  12. 18.Public Policy: Models of Policy-Making, the Policy Process, and State Theories
  13. 19.Financial Administration: Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Public Debt, Budgets, and Accountability
  14. 20.Administrative Law: Meaning, Scope and Significance; Dicey on Administrative Law; Delegated Legislation; Administrative Tribunals
  15. 21.Comparative Public Administration: Institutional History, Riggs, and the Limits of the Available Record
  16. 22.Development Dynamics
  17. 23.Public Sector Undertakings
  18. 24.Rural Development: Institutions, Programmes, Decentralization and the 73rd Amendment
  19. 25.Urban Local Government: Municipal Governance, the 74th Amendment, and the Limits of Constitutional Design
  20. 26.Techniques of Administrative Improvement
  21. 27.Administrative Reforms since Independence
• Sociology
  1. 1.Sociology – The Discipline
  2. 2.Sociology as Science
  3. 3.Research Methods and Analysis
  4. 4.Sociological Thinkers: Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, Merton, Mead
  5. 5.Stratification and Mobility
  6. 6.Work and Economic Life
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  1. 7.Politics and Society
  2. 8.Religion and Society
  3. 9.Systems of Kinship
  4. 10.Social Change in Modern Society
  5. 11.Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society: Indology, Structural Functionalism, Marxist Sociology
  6. 12.Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society
  7. 13.Rural and Agrarian Social Structure: The Village Idea and the Evolution of Land Tenure
  8. 14.Rural Development, Cooperatives and Agrarian Transformation in India
  9. 15.Caste System: Perspectives, Features, and Untouchability
  10. 16.Tribal Communities in India: Definitional Problems, Geographical Spread, Colonial Policies, and Issues of Integration and Autonomy
  11. 17.Social Classes in India: Agrarian, Industrial and Middle Classes
  12. 18.Systems of Kinship in India: Lineage, Descent, Family, Household and Patriarchy
  13. 19.Religious Communities in India and the Problems of Religious Minorities
  14. 20.Population Dynamics: Size, Composition, Growth and Policy in India
  15. 21.Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
  16. 22.Politics and Society in India: Nation, Parties, Regionalism and Secularization
  17. 23.Social Movements in Modern India: Peasants, Women, Backward Classes and Dalits, Environment, Ethnicity and Identity
  18. 24.Visions of Social Change in India: Planning, Law and Education
  19. 25.Challenges of Social Transformation
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• Zoology
• Medical Science

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