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Paper II · General Studies, Essay and Comprehension (200 marks)

2 topics · 2 sections — from the official UPSC syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.

Part-A · Essay (80 marks, English or Hindi)

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    Essay (80 marks, English or Hindi) — modern Indian history especially freedom struggle, geography, polity and economy, security/human rights issues, analytical ability
    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.Making of the Constitution — The Constituent Assembly and the Birth of the Republic15 min
    25. 31.Salient Features of the Constitution — The Design Choices That Define India's Founding Charter15 min
    26. 32.The Preamble — Identity, Authority and the Conscience of the Constitution14 min
    27. 33.Union and its Territory — The Indestructible Union and the Reorganisation of States16 min
    28. 34.Citizenship — Membership, the Single-Citizenship Design and the Democratic Project14 min
    29. 35.Fundamental Rights — The Magna Carta of India15 min
    30. 36.Directive Principles of State Policy — The Conscience of the Constitution15 min
    31. 37.Fundamental Duties — The Code the Constitution Forgot and the Courts Revived15 min
    32. 38.Basic Structure Doctrine — The Unamendable Core of the Constitution16 min
    33. 39.Amendment of the Constitution — The Power to Mend, Not to Destroy20 min
    34. 40.Federal System — 'Union of States', the Quasi-Federal Debate, and Cooperative Federalism16 min
    35. 41.Centre-State Relations — The Three-Dimensional Machinery of Divided Power18 min
    36. 42.Inter-State Relations — The Horizontal Machinery of a Single Nation14 min
    37. 43.Emergency Provisions — A Constitution That Can Suspend Itself17 min
    38. 44.Panchayati Raj — From Article 40 to the 73rd Amendment and PESA24 min
    39. 45.Municipalities — Urban Local Self-Government Under the 74th Amendment20 min
    40. 46.Union Territories — A Deliberate Unitary Exception in a Federal Constitution22 min
    41. 47.Parliamentary System — Responsible Government, Article 74 and the Logic of Collective Responsibility15 min
    42. 48.Parliament — The Union Legislature and the Heart of Indian Democracy22 min
    43. 49.State Legislature -- Organisation, Composition and Legislative Procedure of the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad16 min
    44. 50.The President — Head of the Indian State and Nominal Executive of the Union23 min
    45. 51.The Vice-President — India's Second-Highest Office and the Guarantee of Continuity13 min
    46. 52.The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers — India's Real Executive18 min
    47. 53.The Governor — Nominal Head of the State Executive and the Centre's Constitutional Link17 min
    48. 54.Chief Minister and State Council of Ministers — The Real Executive Behind the Governor15 min
    49. 55.The Supreme Court of India — Composition, Independence and Jurisdiction23 min
    50. 56.High Court and Subordinate Courts — The State Judiciary Beneath the Supreme Court21 min
    51. 57.The Attorney-General of India — Chief Law Officer Held at the President's Pleasure8 min
    52. 58.Advocate General of the State — The Governor's Law Officer, Not the State's5 min
    53. 59.The Election Commission — Guardian of Free and Fair Elections Under Article 32417 min
    54. 60.The Union Public Service Commission — Recruiting the Civil Services Under Articles 315-32314 min
    55. 61.The State Public Service Commission — A Calibrated Mirror of the UPSC Under Articles 315-32315 min
    56. 62.The Finance Commission — Article 280 and the Balancing Wheel of Fiscal Federalism14 min
    57. 63.The Comptroller and Auditor-General — Guardian of the Public Purse Under Articles 148-15115 min
    58. 64.The National Commission for Scheduled Castes — A Constitutional Template Extended Three Times11 min
    59. 65.The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes — A Constitutional Safeguard Born of Bifurcation9 min
    60. 66.The National Commission for Backward Classes — Completing a Constitutional Template14 min
    61. 67.The Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities — the Half of Part XVII That Protects, Not Promotes13 min
    62. 68.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Economic Planning, Resource Mobilization and Employment186 min
    63. 69.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Growth and Development — Concepts, Measurement and Contemporary Debates157 min
    64. 70.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Monetary Policy & Banking110 min
    65. 71.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inflation89 min
    66. 72.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: External Sector102 min
    67. 73.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Capital Markets102 min
    68. 74.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Inclusive Growth167 min
    69. 75.GS Paper III — Economy, Tech & Security: Government Budgeting — Process, Instruments and Fiscal Policy146 min
    70. 76.Geomorphology — The Two Forces That Build the Land and Wear It Down92 min
    71. 77.World Regional Physiography — Where the Earth's Relief Actually Is90 min
    72. 78.Climatology — What the Air Does, and Why Water Is the Reason103 min
    73. 79.World Climatic Regions — The Types, and Two Ways of Sorting Them78 min
    74. 80.Oceanography — The Relief, the Salt, the Heat and the Currents of the Water Half of the Earth113 min
    75. 81.Biogeography and the Natural Vegetation of the World — How an Ecosystem Works, and Why the Living Cover of the Earth Lies in Belts109 min
    76. 82.India: Physiography — A Shield, a Rising Wall, a Filled Trough, and Two Kinds of Island96 min
    77. 83.Drainage Systems of India — How the Rivers Are Arranged, and Why They Behave As They Do67 min
    78. 84.India: Climate and the Monsoon — One Rhythm, and the Variety Inside It49 min
    79. 85.Soils of India — Formation, the Profile, the Groups, and the Erosion That Takes Them68 min
    80. 86.India's Natural Vegetation and Wildlife — The Forest Types, the Belts Up the Himalaya, and What Has Been Done to Them64 min
    81. 87.Water Resources of India — Four Per Cent of the World's Water for Seventeen Per Cent of Its People42 min
    82. 88.World Resources and Industry — Where the Minerals Lie and Where the Factories Went97 min
    83. 89.Minerals and Energy Resources of India — What the Rock Decides, and How Old Every Number Here Is79 min
    84. 90.Industries of India — Why a Factory Stands Where It Does, and Which of These Sentences Has Expired69 min
    85. 91.Economic Geography and Human Activities — Why an Activity Is Where It Is127 min
    86. 92.India's Agriculture — Where the Crops Are, in Which Season, and Why the Yields Divide101 min
    87. 93.Transport, Communication and Trade in India — The Network That Carries the Economy, and the Date on Every Number79 min
    88. 94.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Pakistan Relations178 min
    89. 95.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-China Relations172 min
    90. 96.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India's Immediate Neighbourhood — Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and the Maldives107 min
    91. 97.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Afghanistan Relations and Central Asia34 min
    92. 98.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-United States Relations64 min
    93. 99.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India-Russia Relations105 min
    94. 100.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: India, the European Union, and Other Major Powers127 min
    95. 101.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Regional Groupings — SAARC, BIMSTEC, ASEAN and SCO53 min
    96. 102.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Global Groupings: G20, BRICS, QUAD, IBSA55 min
    97. 103.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Indian Diaspora and Its Role in India's Foreign Policy76 min
    98. 104.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: International Institutions: the UN, UNSC Reform, and Global Governance Bodies (WTO, IMF, World Bank, WHO)109 min
    99. 105.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Governance, Transparency, and Accountability: E-Governance, RTI, and Citizens' Charters106 min
    100. 106.GS Paper II — Governance & International Relations: Role of Civil Services in a Democracy110 min

Part-B · Comprehension, Precis and Language Skills (120 marks, English only)

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    Comprehension, Precis Writing, Developing Counter-Arguments, Grammar and Language Testing (120 marks, English only)

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