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PHASE-1: FOUNDATIONAL TESTS (BASIC LEVEL)

PAPER-1: ANCIENT INDIA

TEST 

DATE

SYLLABUS

NO OF QUESTIONS

1

27-07-2024

PRE-HISTORY AND PROTO-HISTORY

  • Geographical factors, hunting and gathering (paleolithic and mesolithic)
  • Beginning of agriculture (neolithic and chalcolithic)

INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION

  • Origin, date, extent, characteristics-decline, survival and significance, art and architecture

MEGALITHIC CULTURE

  • Distribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements, Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry.

10 QUESTIONS

2

03-08-2024

ARYANS AND VEDIC PERIOD

  • Expansions of Aryans,  Religious and philosophic literature; Transformation from Rig Vedic period to the later Vedic period
  • Political, social, and economical life; Significance of the Vedic Age; Evolution of Monarchy and Varna system.

 

PERIOD OF MAHAJANAPADAS

  • Republics and monarchies; Rise of urban centres; Trade routes; Economic growth; Introduction of coinage
  • Spread of Jainism and Buddism; Rise of Magadha and Nandas. 
  • Iranian and Macedonian invasions and their impact.

10 QUESTIONS

3

10-08-2024

MAURYAN EMPIRE

  • Foundation of the Mauryan Empire, Chandragupta, Kautilya, and Arthashastra; Ashoka; Concept of Dharma; Edicts
  • Polity, Administration, Economy
  • Art, architecture, and sculpture
  • Religion; Spread of religion; Literature. 
  • Disintegration of the empire; Sungas and Kanvas

 

POST-MAURYAN PERIOD (INDO-GREEKS, SAKAS, KUSHANAS, WESTERN KSHATRAPAS)

  • Contact with outside world; growth of urban centres, economy, coinage, development of religions
  • Mahayana, social conditions, art, architecture, culture, literature, and science

 

EARLY STATE AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN INDIA, DECCAN, AND SOUTH INDIA

  • Kharavela, Satavahanas, Tamil States of the Sangam Age
  • Administration, Economy, land grants, coinage, trade guilds, and urban centres
  • Buddhist centres; Sangam literature and culture; Art and architecture.

10 QUESTIONS

4

17-08-2024

GUPTAS, VAKATAKAS AND VARDHANAS

  • Polity and administration, Economic conditions, Coinage of the Guptas, Land grants, Decline of urban centres
  • Indian feudalism
  • Caste system, Position of women
  • Education and educational institutions; Nalanda, Vikramshila and Vallabhi
  • Literature, scientific literature, art, and architecture.

 

REGIONAL STATES DURING GUPTA ERA

  • The Kadambas, Pallavas, Chalukyas of Badami
  • Polity and Administration, Trade guilds, Literature; growth of Vaishnava and Saiva religions. 
  • Tamil Bhakti movement, Shankaracharya; Vedanta; Institutions of temple and temple architecture
  • Palas, Senas, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, Polity, and administration; Cultural aspects. 
  • Arab conquest of Sind; Alberuni, 
  • The Chaluky as of Kalyana, Cholas, Hoysalas, Pandyas
  • Polity and Administration; Local Government; Growth of art and architecture, religious sects, Institution of temple and Mathas, Agraharas, education and literature, economy and society.

10 QUESTIONS

5

24-08-2024

THEMES IN EARLY INDIAN CULTURAL HISTORY

  • Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and schools, ideas in Science and Mathematics. 

10 QUESTIONS

 

PAPER-2: MEDIEVAL INDIA

TEST

DATE

SYLLABUS

NO OF QUESTIONS

6

31-08-2024

EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA, 750-1200

  • Polity: Major political developments in Northern India and the peninsula, origin, and the rise of Rajputs. 
  • The Cholas: administration, village economy and society “Indian Feudalism”.
  • Agrarian economy and urban settlements.
  • Trade and commerce. 
  • Society: the status of the Brahman and the new social order.
  • Condition of women. 
  • Indian science and technology. 

CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN INDIA, 750-1200:

  • Philosophy: Skankaracharya and Vedanta, Ramanuja and Vishishtadvaita, Madhva and Brahma Mimansa.
  • Religion: Forms and features of religion, Tamil devotional cult, growth of Bhakti, Islam and its arrival in India, Sufism.
  • Literature: Literature in Sanskrit, growth of Tamil literature, literature in the newly developing languages, Kalhan's Rajtarangini, Alberuni's India.
  • Art and Architecture: Temple architecture, sculpture, painting.

10 QUESTIONS

7

07-09-2024

THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

  • Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate: The Ghurian invasions - factors behind Ghurian success. 
  • Economic, Social and cultural consequences.  
  • Foundation of Delhi Sultanate and early Turkish Sultans.  
  • Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban

 

THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

  • “The Khalji Revolution”.
  • Alauddin Khalji: Conquests and territorial expansion, agrarian and economic measure.
  • Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures, bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq. 
  • Firuz Tugluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil engineering and public works, decline of the Sultanate, foreign contacts and Ibn Battuta's account. 

SOCIETY, CULTURE AND ECONOMY IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES

  • Society: composition of rural society, ruling classes, town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste and slavery under the Sultanate, Bhakti movement, Sufi movement. 
  • Culture: Persian literature, literature in the regional languages of North India, literature in the languages of South India, Sultanate architecture and new structural forms, painting, evolution of a composite culture.
  • Economy: Agricultural Production, rise of urban economy and non-agricultural production, trade, and commerce.

10 QUESTIONS

8

14-09-2024

FIFTEENTH AND EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY-POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND ECONOMY

  • Rise of Provincial Dynasties: Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul Abedin), Gujarat.
  • Malwa, Bahmanids.
  • The Vijayanagara Empire. 
  • Lodis. — Mughal Empire, First phase: Babur, Humayun. 
  • The Sur Empire: Sher Shah’s administration. 
  • Akbar: Conquests and consolidation of empire, Jagir and Mansab system, Religious policy
  • Portuguese colonial enterprise, Bhakti, and Sufi Movements. 

FIFTEENTH AND EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY- SOCIETY AND CULTURE

  • Regional cultures specificities.
  • Literary traditions. 
  • Provincial architectural. 
  • Society, culture, literature, and the arts in Vijayanagara Empire.

10 QUESTIONS

9

21-09-2024

MUGHAL EMPIRE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY:

  • Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb. 
  • The Empire and the Zamindars. 
  • Religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb. 
  • Nature of the Mughal State. 
  • Late Seventeenth-Century crisis and the revolts.
  • The Ahom kingdom.
  • Shivaji and the early Maratha Kingdom.

 

ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES:

  • Population Agricultural and craft production. 
  • Towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English and French companies: a trade revolution.
  • Indian mercantile classes. Banking, insurance, and credit systems. 
  • Conditions of peasants, Condition of Women. 
  • Evolution of the Sikh community and the Khalsa Panth. 

CULTURE DURING MUGHAL EMPIRE

  • Persian histories and other literature. 
  • Hindi and religious literatures. 
  • Mughal architecture. 
  • Mughal painting. 
  • Provincial architecture and painting. 
  • Classical music. 
  • Science and technology. 

10 QUESTIONS

10

28-09-2024

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

  • Factors for the decline of the Mughal Empire.  
  • The regional principalities: Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal, Awadh.  
  • Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas.  
  • The Maratha fiscal and financial system. 
  • Emergence of Afghan power Battle of Panipat, 1761.  
  • State of, political, cultural, and economic, on eve of the British conquest

10 QUESTIONS

 

PAPER-3: MODERN INDIA AND POST INDEPENDENCE

TEST

DATE

SYLLABUS

NO OF QUESTIONS

11

05-10-2024

EUROPEAN PENETRATION INTO INDIA

  • The Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and the Dutch; The English and the French East India Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic Wars
  • Bengal-The conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English; The Battle of Plassey; Significance of Plassey

 

BRITISH EXPANSION IN INDIA

  • Bengal-Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; The Battle of Buxar; Mysore; The Marathas; The three AngloMaratha Wars; The Punjab.

 

EARLY STRUCTURE OF THE BRITISH RAJ

  • The Early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control; The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt's India Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); The Voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule; The English utilitarian and India.

 

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BRITISH COLONIAL RULE

  • Land revenue settlements in British India; The Permanent Settlement; Ryotwari Settlement; Mahalwari Settlement; Economic impact of the revenue arrangements; Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless agrarian labourers; Impoverishment of the rural society. 
  • Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; De-industrialisation; Decline of traditional crafts; Drain of wealth; Economic transformation of India; Railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services; Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations.

10 QUESTIONS

12

19-10-2024

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS

  • The state of indigenous education, its dislocation; Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, The introduction of western education in India
  • The rise of press, literature, and public opinion; The rise of modern vernacular literature; Progress of science; Christian missionary activities in India.

 

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS IN BENGAL AND OTHER AREAS

  • Ram Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement; Devendranath Tagore; Iswarchandra Vidyasagar; The Young Bengal Movement; Dayanada Saraswati; The social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage, etc.
  • The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic revivalism-the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.

10 QUESTIONS

13

26-10-2024

INDIAN RESPONSE TO BRITISH RULE

  • Peasant movement and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the Kol Rebellion (1832), the Mopla Rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo Rebellion (1859-60), Deccan Uprising (1875) and the Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900)
  • The Great Revolt of 1857 —Origin, character, causes of failure, the consequences; The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s.

 

FACTORS LEADING TO THE BIRTH OF INDIAN NATIONALISM; POLITICS OF ASSOCIATION

  • The Foundation of the Indian National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists; The Partition of Bengal (1905)
  • The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement
  • The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India

10 QUESTIONS

14

09-11-2024

INDIA’S FREEDOM MOVEMENT (FIRST PHASE)

  • Birth of Indian Nationalism and its factors: New Middle Class and the Emergence of Nationalism; Politics of Association
  • The Foundation of the Indian National Congress: The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists
  • The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement
  • Home rule movement
  • The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India.
  • Emergence of Swarajists, Socialist Ideas
  • Minto - Morley Reforms 
  • Montagu - Chelmsford Reforms
  • Muslim Politics and the Foundation of the Muslim League 
  • Developments after 1858 till Independence: Indian Councils Act, 1861, Indian Councils Act, 1892 , Indian Councils Act, 1909

10 QUESTIONS

15

16-11-2024

INDIA’S FREEDOM MOVEMENT (SECOND PHASE): GANDHIAN AGE

  • India’s Freedom Movement (Rise of Gandhi) 
  • Rowlatt satyagraha
  • Non-Co-operation Movement and Khilafat movement
  • Swarajya Party 
  • Simon Commission and Government of India Act, 1935
  • Nehru report
  • Salt Satyagraha 
  • Civil disobedience
  • Round Table Conferences - Gandhi - Irwin Pact 
  • Individual Satyagraha 
  • The election of 1937 and the formation of ministries
  • Cripps Mission 
  • Quit India Movement etc.
  • Wavell Plan
  • Cabinet Mission. 
  • Demand for Pakistan and the INA
  • Independence with partition

10 QUESTIONS

16

23-11-2024

OTHER STRANDS IN THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT.

  • The Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, U.P. the Madras Presidency, Outside India. 
  • The Left; The Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist Party; the Communist Party of India, other left parties. 
  • Politics of Separatism; the Muslim League; the Hindu Mahasabha; Communalism and the politics of partition. 
  • Nationalism and Non-Brahman and Dalit Protest 
  • Nationalism and Peasant movements
  • Nationalism and Business and Politics 
  • Nationalism and Working Class Movements 
  • Nationalism and Women’s Participation 
  • Nationalism and Princely states

10 QUESTIONS

17

07-12-2024

CONSOLIDATION AS A NATION

  • Nehru's Foreign Policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964); The linguistic reorganisation of States (1935-1947)
  • Regionalism and regional inequality; Integration of Princely States; Princes in electoral politics; the Question of National Language.

10 QUESTIONS

18

14-12-2024

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL CHANGE

  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947; Backward Castes and Tribes in post-colonial electoral politics; Dalit movements. 
  • Economic development and political change; Land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; Ecology and environmental policy in post-colonial India; Progress of Science. 

10 QUESTIONS

 

PAPER 4: WORLD HISTORY

TEST

DATE

SYLLABUS

NO OF QUESTIONS

19

21-12-2024

ENLIGHTENMENT AND MODERN IDEAS

  • Major Ideas of Enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau. 
  • Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies.  
  • Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism.

 

ORIGINS OF MODERN POLITIC

  • European States System. 
  • American Revolution and the Constitution.
  • French Revolution and Aftermath, 1789-1815.
  • American Civil War with reference to Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery.
  • British Democratic politics, 1815-1850: Parliamentary Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists

 

INDUSTRIALIZATION

  • English Industrial Revolution: Causes and Impact on Society.
  • Industrialization in other countries: USA, Germany, Russia, Japan. 
  • Industrialization and Globalization.

10 QUESTIONS

20

28-12-2024

NATION-STATE SYSTEM

  • Rise of Nationalism in 19th century. 
  • Nationalism: State-building in Germany and Italy.  
  • Disintegration of Empires in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the World.

 

IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM

  • South and South-East Asia. 
  • Latin America and South Africa. 
  • Australia. 
  • Imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo-imperialism.

 

REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION

  • 19th Century European revolutions. 
  • The Russian Revolution of 1917-1921.  
  • Fascist Counter-Revolution, Italy and Germany.
  • The Chinese Revolution of 1949.

10 QUESTIONS

21

04-01-2024

WORLD WARS

  • 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: Societal implications.  
  • World War I: Causes and Consequences. 
  • World War II: Causes and Consequences

 

THE WORLD AFTER WORLD WAR II:

  • Emergence of Two power blocs. 
  • Emergence of Third World and non-alignment. 
  • UNO and the global disputes. 

 

LIBERATION FROM COLONIAL RULE: 

  • Latin America-Bolivar. 
  • Arab World-Egypt. 
  • Africa-Apartheid to Democracy.  
  • South-East Asia-Vietnam.  

 

DECOLONIZATION AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT

  • Factors constraining development; Latin America, Africa

10 QUESTIONS

22

11-01-24

UNIFICATION OF EUROPE

  • Post War Foundations; NATO and European Community. 
  • Consolidation and Expansion of European Community  
  • European Union. 

 

DISINTEGRATION OF SOVIET UNION AND THE RISE OF THE UNIPOLAR WORLD

  • Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet Communism and Soviet Union, 1985-1991. 
  • Political Changes in East Europe 1989-2001. 
  • End of the Cold War and US Ascendancy in the World as the lone superpower

10 QUESTIONS

 

PHASE-2: TRANSITIONAL TESTS (INTERMEDIATE LEVEL)

TEST-23

25-01-2025

ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY

AS PER UPSC

PATTERN 

TEST-24

01-02-2025

MEDIVAL INDIAN HISTORY

AS PER UPSC

PATTERN 

TEST-25

08-02-2025

MODERN INDIAN HISTORY

AS PER UPSC

PATTERN 

TEST-26

15-02-2025

WORLD HISTORY

AS PER UPSC

PATTERN 

PHASE-3: ENRICHMENT TESTS (ADVANCE LEVEL)

  • IT WILL BE DESIGNED AS PER THE UPSC CALENDAR OF PRELIMS AND MAINS 2025
  • THERE WILL BE TOTAL 10 TESTS, 8 SECTIONAL AND 2 MOCKS
  • EACH TEST WILL HAVE DISCUSSION IN DETAIL WITH MENTORING, EVALUATION AND MODEL ANSWERS
  • THE SCHEDULE WILL BE UPLOADED ON PORTAL IN FEBRUARY/ MARCH 2025

THE TOTAL NO. OF TESTS: 36 (PHASE-1 + PHASE-2 + PHASE-3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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