Saturday 16 March 2013
Thursday 14 March 2013
Modern India Lectures
Modern India - Part 1
Modern India - Part 2
Modern India - Part 3
Modern India - Part 4
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Monday 11 March 2013
Book List for History Optional
Well here are the books you can refer for History Main Optional paper.
Paper 1 : Ancient and Medieval India.
Ancient India : RS Sharma(old ncert) or DN JHA. Follow any one as most of the contents are same.
Medieval India : Satish Chandra (or)
An advanced study in the history of medieval India : JL Mehta
Paper 2: Modern India and World History.
Modern India by Bipan Chandra(covers almost the entire syllabus)
Indias struggle for Independance : Bipan chandra et al. (A more elaborate book focussing on freedom struggle alone)
Modern Indian History by grover (A guide kind of book prepared with Civil service in mind)
A history of Modern World : Jain and Mathur can be supplemented with Mastering world history by Norman Lowe
The above books are more than sufficient for the exams.
Paper 1 : Ancient and Medieval India.
Ancient India : RS Sharma(old ncert) or DN JHA. Follow any one as most of the contents are same.
Medieval India : Satish Chandra (or)
An advanced study in the history of medieval India : JL Mehta
Paper 2: Modern India and World History.
Modern India by Bipan Chandra(covers almost the entire syllabus)
Indias struggle for Independance : Bipan chandra et al. (A more elaborate book focussing on freedom struggle alone)
Modern Indian History by grover (A guide kind of book prepared with Civil service in mind)
A history of Modern World : Jain and Mathur can be supplemented with Mastering world history by Norman Lowe
The above books are more than sufficient for the exams.
How to prepare for Geography
For the last few years, UPSC is notorious among aspirants for not asking direct questions in almost all optional papers and GS. This is certainly true if one looks at the Geography Questions for 2012. So how to prepare? the key here is understanding the concepts thoroughly and correlating the same with news articles.
e.g) nuclear energy : Comes under the energy. In this case you should be able to environment, allied industries, pros and cons of nuclear energy, opposition to nuclear energy etc.
Consider the following question asked in 2012.
Comment on the viability of Malwa region to develop as a hub for food processing industries.
In this case you will have to correlate climate, existing industries, transport, agriculture of surrounding areas etc and NO BOOK teaches you this. you would have learnt all these vegetation , rainfall, industries etc but under separate topics. you couls answer this question only if you are thorough with your concets and rote learning will never help you and UPSC is keen on "Never give an edge to coaching institutes" and the Questions asked are vey dynamic.
So here are the book list:
paper 1:
physical geography : Savindra Singh.
Human geograhy, Models and theories : Majid Hussein.
Paper 2:
India : DR Khullar or RC Tiwari or any other book that you find it easy as the questions here are all almost dynamic.
Above all as a rule, have an atlas by your side while you prepare geography .
e.g) nuclear energy : Comes under the energy. In this case you should be able to environment, allied industries, pros and cons of nuclear energy, opposition to nuclear energy etc.
Consider the following question asked in 2012.
Comment on the viability of Malwa region to develop as a hub for food processing industries.
In this case you will have to correlate climate, existing industries, transport, agriculture of surrounding areas etc and NO BOOK teaches you this. you would have learnt all these vegetation , rainfall, industries etc but under separate topics. you couls answer this question only if you are thorough with your concets and rote learning will never help you and UPSC is keen on "Never give an edge to coaching institutes" and the Questions asked are vey dynamic.
So here are the book list:
paper 1:
physical geography : Savindra Singh.
Human geograhy, Models and theories : Majid Hussein.
Paper 2:
India : DR Khullar or RC Tiwari or any other book that you find it easy as the questions here are all almost dynamic.
Above all as a rule, have an atlas by your side while you prepare geography .
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