TCS/TPS Grade-II Combined Competitive Examination (TPSC)

Paper · General Studies

• English Composition
• General Knowledge and Current Events
• History of Modern India and Indian National Movement (1857-1947)
  1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  2. 2.Rise of Regional States
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal
  5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
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  1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  4. 10.The Revolt of 1857
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
• Geography of India
  1. 1.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  2. 2.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is
  3. 3.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  4. 4.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them
  5. 5.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth
  6. 6.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts
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  1. 7.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  2. 8.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  3. 9.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  4. 10.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
  5. 11.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  6. 12.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  7. 13.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went
  8. 14.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  9. 15.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  10. 16.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
  11. 17.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  12. 18.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
• Geography, History and Culture of Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: History and Political Development
  2. 2.Tripura: Culture, Heritage and Geography
  3. 3.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile
• Indian Polity and Economy
  1. 1.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  2. 2.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  3. 3.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
  4. 4.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  5. 5.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  6. 6.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
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  1. 7.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  2. 8.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  3. 9.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  4. 10.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
  5. 11.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  6. 12.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  7. 13.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  8. 14.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  9. 15.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  10. 16.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
• General Science and Environment
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biodiversity and Conservation
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Environmental Pollution, Degradation and Impact Assessment
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Climate Change and International Environmental Governance
• General Mental Ability and Numerical Ability

Language Paper I · English Essay/Report/Precis (Qualifying)

• English Essay, Report Writing and Precis (Qualifying)

Language Paper II · English Composition + Bengali/Kokborok or Alternative English (Qualifying)

• English Composition, Bengali/Kokborok Composition and Translation, or Alternative English (Qualifying)

General Studies Paper I

• General Knowledge and Current Affairs of National and International Importance
• Everyday Science and Technology
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Science and Technology Policy, Achievements and Indigenization
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Space Technology and Digital/IT Technologies
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies
  4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Intellectual Property Rights
• Numerical Ability
• Test of Reasoning / Mental Ability
• Environmental Conservation and Degradation
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Biodiversity and Conservation
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Environmental Pollution, Degradation and Impact Assessment
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Climate Change and International Environmental Governance
• Security and Disaster Management (incl. Hazards and Disaster in Tripura)
  1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Disaster Management Framework and Institutions
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Types of Disasters and Mitigation Strategies
  4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Development and Extremism — Left-Wing Extremism/Naxalism
  5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External State and Non-State Actors — Cross-Border Terrorism Linkages

General Studies Paper II

• Modern History of India
  1. 1.Decline of the Mughal Empire
  2. 2.Rise of Regional States
  3. 3.Advent of Europeans in India — From Vasco da Gama to British Supremacy
  4. 4.British Conquest of Bengal
  5. 5.Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767-1799)
  6. 6.Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-1818)
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  1. 7.Subsidiary Alliance, Doctrine of Lapse & the Anglo-Sikh Wars
  2. 8.Drain of Wealth, Deindustrialisation, and Land Revenue Systems
  3. 9.Civil Rebellions and Tribal Uprisings Before 1857
  4. 10.The Revolt of 1857
  5. 11.Post-1857 Administration and Crown Rule (1858-1900)
  6. 12.Socio-Religious Reform Movements of 19th Century India
  7. 13.Early Nationalism and the Formation of the Indian National Congress (1858-1905)
  8. 14.Partition of Bengal and the Swadeshi Movement (1905-1911)
  9. 15.The Three Infrastructures of Nationalism: Press, Education and the Peasant Movements (1780-1947)
  10. 16.World War I, Ghadar, Home Rule and the Lucknow Pact (1914-1918)
  11. 17.Gandhi's Emergence: From the South African Laboratory to Jallianwala Bagh (1915-1920)
  12. 18.Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan (1920-1922)
  13. 19.The Years of Stagnation: Swarajists, the New Forces and the Revolutionaries (1922-1931)
  14. 20.The Gathering Storm: Simon Commission, the Nehru Report and Purna Swaraj (1927-1930)
  15. 21.Civil Disobedience Movement and Round Table Conferences (1930-34)
  16. 22.The Constitution They Despised and the Office They Took: GoI Act 1935, Congress Ministries and the Rise of the Left (1935-1939)
  17. 23.The Inclined Plane: Communalism from Syed Ahmad Khan to the Two-Nation Theory (1880s-1947)
  18. 24.Wartime Politics: From the Crisis at Tripuri to the Cripps Mission (1939-1942)
  19. 25.The Two Frontiers: Princely India and the Indian Capitalists in the Freedom Struggle (1920s-1947)
  20. 26.Quit India Movement and the INA (1942-1945)
  21. 27.Post-War National Scenario and the Transfer of Power (1945–47)
  22. 28.Independence with Partition — the Freedom and the Fracture
  23. 29.Post-Independence Consolidation (1947-1964)
• History of Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: History and Political Development
• Indian Socio-Cultural Heritage with Special Reference to Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: Culture, Heritage and Geography
  2. 2.15. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Ancient India)
  3. 3.25. GS-I (Compulsory Paper): Indian Culture — Art Forms, Literature and Architecture (Medieval India)
  4. 4.History Optional Paper I — Item 1: Sources
  5. 5.GS Paper I — Indian Society: Salient Features of Indian Society and the Diversity of India
• Geography of India
  1. 1.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down
  2. 2.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is
  3. 3.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason
  4. 4.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them
  5. 5.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth
  6. 6.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts
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  1. 7.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island
  2. 8.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do
  3. 9.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It
  4. 10.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them
  5. 11.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them
  6. 12.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People
  7. 13.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went
  8. 14.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is
  9. 15.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired
  10. 16.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is
  11. 17.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide
  12. 18.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number
• Geography of Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: Culture, Heritage and Geography

General Studies Paper III

• Constitution of India and Human Rights
  1. 1.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic
  2. 2.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter
  3. 3.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution
  4. 4.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States
  5. 5.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project
  6. 6.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India
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  1. 7.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution
  2. 8.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived
  3. 9.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution
  4. 10.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy
• Indian Political System, Governance, and Ethical/Moral Values in Governance
  1. 1.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism
  2. 2.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power
  3. 3.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation
  4. 4.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself
  5. 5.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA
  6. 6.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment
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  1. 7.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution
  2. 8.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 324
  3. 9.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-323
  4. 10.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-323
  5. 11.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism
  6. 12.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-151
  7. 13.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times
  8. 14.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation
  9. 15.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template
  10. 16.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes
  11. 17.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Governance, Transparency, and Accountability: E-Governance, RTI, and Citizens' Charters
  12. 18.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Role of Civil Services in a Democracy
• Political and Administrative System of Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: History and Political Development
• Indian Foreign Policy
  1. 1.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Pakistan Relations
  2. 2.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-China Relations
  3. 3.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India's Immediate Neighbourhood — Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and the Maldives
  4. 4.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Afghanistan Relations and Central Asia
  5. 5.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-United States Relations
  6. 6.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Russia Relations
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  1. 7.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India, the European Union, and Other Major Powers
  2. 8.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Regional Groupings — SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN and SCO
  3. 9.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Global Groupings: G20, BRICS, QUAD, IBSA
• International Institutions and Their Role in Maintaining World Peace and Order
  1. 1.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: International Institutions: the UN, UNSC Reform, and Global Governance Bodies (WTO, IMF, World Bank, WHO)

General Studies Paper IV

• Indian Economy, Poverty, Unemployment and Inflation
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  6. 6.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
• Budget, Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth
• Banking, Money Supply and Share Market
  1. 1.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment
  2. 2.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates
  3. 3.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking
  4. 4.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation
  5. 5.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector
  6. 6.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets
• Social Security Measures with Special Reference to Tripura
  1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile
  2. 2.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Social Sector Development: Health and Education
  3. 3.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Poverty, Hunger, and Human Resource Development
• Economy of Tripura: Agriculture, Industry and Commerce
  1. 1.Tripura: Economy, Social Development and Disaster Profile

Optional Papers (Choice of One Subject, ~50 Subjects)

• Optional Subject (Candidate's Choice)

Personality Test / Interview

• Personality Test / Interview