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GS Paper- I (2013-2022)
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GENERAL STUDIES – 1
General Studies 1: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society.
1. INDIAN CULTURE WILL COVER THE SALIENT ASPECTS OF ART FORMS, LITERATURE AND
ARCHITECTURE FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES.
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Q 03 04 02 02 01 03 01 04 01 03
1. How will you explain the medieval Indian temple sculptures represent the social life of those days? 2022
2. Discuss the main contributions of Gupta period and Chola period to Indian heritage and culture. 2022
3. Discuss the significance of the lion and bull figures in Indian mythology, art and architecture. 2022
4. Evaluate the nature of the Bhakti Literature and its contribution to Indian culture. 2021
5. Indian Philosophy and tradition played a significant role in conceiving and shaping the monuments 2020
and their art in India. Discuss.
6. Persian literary sources of medieval India reflect the spirit of the age. Comment 2020
7. The rock-cut architecture represents one of the most important sources of our knowledge of early 2020
Indian art and history. Discuss.
8. Pala period is the most significant phase in the history of Buddhism in India. Enumerate. 2020
9. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco -Bactrian elements in Gandhara art. 2019
10. Safeguarding the Indian art heritage is the need of the moment. Discuss 2018
11. Assess the importance of the accounts of the Chinese and Arab travelers in the reconstruction of 2018
the history of India.
12. The Bhakti movement received a remarkable re-orientation with the advent of Sri Chaitanya 2018
Mahaprabhu. Discuss.
13. How do you justify the view that the level of excellence of Gupta numismatic art is not at all 2017
noticeable in later times?
14. Early Buddhist Stupa-art, while depicting folk motifs and narratives successfully expounds 2016
Buddhist ideals. Elucidate.
15. Krishnadeva Raya, the King of Vijayanagar, was not only an accomplished scholar himself but was 2016
also a great patron of learning and literature. Discuss.
16. The ancient civilization in Indian sub-continent differed from those of Egypt, Mesopotamia and 2015
Greece in that its culture and traditions have been preserved without a breakdown to the present
day. Comment.
17. Mesolithic rock cut architecture of India not only reflects the cultural life of the times but also a tine 2015
aesthetic sense comparable to modem painting. Critically evaluate this comment.
18. To what extent has the urban planning and culture of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs 2014
to the present-day urbanization? Discuss.
19. Gandhara sculpture owed as much to the Romans as to the Greeks. Explain. 2014
20. Taxila university was one of the oldest universities of the world with which were associated a 2014
number of renowned learned personalities of different disciplines. Its strategic location caused its
fame to flourish, but unlike Nalanda, it is not considered as a university in the modern sense.
Discuss.
21. Sufis and medieval mystic saints failed to modify either the religious ideas and practices or the 2014
2. MODERN INDIAN HISTORY FROM ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL
THE PRESENT- SIGNIFICANT EVENTS, PERSONALITIES, ISSUES; THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE – ITS
VARIOUS STAGES AND IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTORS /CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT PARTS
OF THE COUNTRY.
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Q 03 03 02 03 05 01 04 02 03 02
1. Why did the armies of the British East India Company – mostly comprising of Indian soldiers – win 2022
consistently against the more numerous and better equipped armies of the Indian rulers? Give
reasons.
2. Why was there a sudden spurt in famines in colonial India since the mid-eighteenth century? Give 2022
reasons.
3. Trace the rise and growth of socio-religious reform movements with special reference to Young 2021
Bengal and Brahmo Samaj.
4. To what extent did the role of the moderates prepare a base for the wider freedom movement? 2021
Comment.
5. Bring out the constructive programmes of Mahatma Gandhi during Non-Cooperation Movement 2021
and Civil Disobedience Movement.
6. Evaluate the policies of Lord Curzon and their long-term implications on the national movements. 2020
7. Since the decade of the 1920s, the national movement acquired various ideological strands and 2020
thereby expanded its social base. Discuss.
8. The 1857 Uprising was the culmination the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had 2019
occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.
9. Examine the linkages between 19th centuries ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national 2019
identity.
10. Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. 2019
Elaborate.
11. Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during 2019
the 1940s.
12. Throw light on the significance of the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi in the present times. 2018
13. Clarify how mid-eighteenth-century India was beset with the spectre of a fragmented polity. 2017
14. Why did the ‘Moderates’ fail to carry conviction with the nation about their proclaimed ideology 2017
and political goals by the end of the nineteenth century?
15. Examine how the decline of traditional artisanal industry in colonial India crippled the rural 2017
economy.
16. The women’s questions arose in modern India as a part of the 19th century social reform 2017
movement. What were the major issues and debates concerning women in that period?
17. Highlight the importance of the new objectives that got added to the vision of Indian independence 2017
since twenties of the last century.
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4. HISTORY OF THE WORLD WILL INCLUDE EVENTS FROM 18TH CENTURY SUCH AS
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, WORLD WARS, REDRAW OF NATIONAL BOUNDARIES,
COLONIZATION, DECOLONIZATION, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES LIKE COMMUNISM, CAPITALISM,
SOCIALISM ETC.- THEIR FORMS AND EFFECT ON THE SOCIETY.
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Q 04 03 02 01 01 01 01 - 01 -
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12. DISTRIBUTION OF KEY NATURAL RESOURCES ACROSS THE WORLD (INCLUDING SOUTH
ASIA AND THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT)
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Q 02 02 03 05 - 01 01 01 01 03
1. Discuss the natural resource potentials of ‘Deccan trap’. 2022
2. Examine the potential of wind energy in India and explain the reasons for their limited spatial 2022
spread.
3. Describing the distribution of rubber-producing countries indicate the major environmental 2022
issues faced by them.
4. Discuss the multi-dimensional implications of uneven distribution of mineral oil in the world. 2021
5. India has immense potential of solar energy though there are regional variations in its 2020
developments. Elaborate.
6. Can the strategy of regional-resource based manufacturing help in promoting employment in 2019
India?
7. Why is India taking keen interest in resources of Arctic Region? 2018
8. The effective management of land and water resources will drastically reduce the human 2016
miseries. Explain
9. South China Sea has assumed great geopolitical significance in the present context. Comment. 2016
10. Present an account of the Indus Water Treaty and examine its ecological, economic and 2016
political implications in the context of changing bilateral relations.
11. Enumerate the problems and prospects of inland water transport in India. 2016
12. In what way micro-watershed Development projects help in water conservation in drought 2016
prone and semi-arid regions of India.
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13. What are the economic significances of discovery of oil in Arctic Sea and its possible 2015
environmental consequences?
14. India is well endowed with fresh water resources. Critically examine why it still suffers from 2015
water scarcity.
15. The states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand reaching the limits of 2015
their ecological carrying capacity due to tourism. Critically evaluate.
16. Critically evaluate the various resources of the oceans which can be harnessed to meet the 2014
resource crisis in the world.
17. How does India see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource rich Africa? 2014
18. With growing scarcity of fossil fuels, the atomic energy is gaining more and more significance 2013
in India. Discuss the availability of raw material required for the generation of atomic energy in
India and in the world.
19. It is said the India has substantial reserves of shale oil and gas, which can feed the needs of 2013
country for quarter century. However, tapping of the resources doesn’t appear to be high on
the agenda. Discuss critically the availability and issues involved.
13. FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOCATION OF PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY
SECTOR INDUSTRIES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING INDIA)
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Total Q 02 03 - - 01 02 01 01 01 -
1. Despite India being one of the countries of the Gondwanaland, its mining industry contributes 2021
much less to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in percentage. Discuss.
2. Account for the present location of iron and steel industries away from the source of raw 2020
material, by giving examples.
3. Discuss the factors for localization of agro-based food processing industries of North-West 2019
India.
4. Define blue revolution, explain the problems and strategies for pisciculture development in 2018
India.
5. What is the significance of Industrial Corridors in India? Identify industrial corridors, explain 2018
their main characteristics.
6. Petroleum refineries are not necessarily located nearer to crude oil producing areas, 2017
particularly in many of the developing countries. Explain its implications.
7. Whereas the British planters had developed tea gardens all along the Shivaliks and Lesser 2014
Himalayas from Assam to Himachal Pradesh, in effect they did not succeed beyond the
Darjeeling area. Explain.
8. Account for the change in the spatial pattern of the Iron and Steel industry in the world. 2014
9. Why did the Green Revolution in India virtually by-pass the eastern region despite fertile soil 2014
and good availability of water?
10. Do you agree that there is a growing trend of opening new sugar mills in the Southern states of 2013
India? Discuss with justification
11. Analyze the factors for highly decentralized cotton textile industry in India 2013