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INSIGHTSIASOGP-2020CLASSROOMPROGRAM INSIGHTSIASOGP2020

WEEK

DATE

SUBJECT

SYLLABUS/SUB-TOPICS

Week 1

June 17 – June 22

Modern India

Freedom Struggle (1757 -1857):

• Battle of Plassey • Battle of Buxar • Anglo Mysore Wars • Anglo Maratha Wars • Anglo Sikh Wars • Anglo Afghan Wars • Anglo- Burma Wars

Pre Congress Freedom Movement:

• Revolt of 1857 • Revolutionary activities • Pre congress organizations and their

contribution to freedom struggle

Week 2

June 24 – June 29

Modern India

Establishment of Congress and Moderate Phase:

• Moderate Phase and methods of freedom struggle

• Development of Moderates and Extremists ideology

• Partition of Bengal • Swadeshi Movement • Emergence of Muslim League

Extremist Phase:

• Surat Split and Movement under Extremists

• Rise of revolutionary terrorism in different parts of India

• Annulment of partition of Bengal • Revolutionary terrorist activities during

First World War • Nationalist response to the First World

War • Freedom movement – abroad • Home Rule League • Lucknow Pact 1916 • Montagu statement • Montague Chelmsford Reforms

Gandhian Era:


• Rise of Gandhian Leadership • Gandhi in South of Africa • Rowlatt Satyagraha • The Jallianwala Bagh massacre • Khilafat Movement • Non-cooperation movement • Simon Commission • Second Phase of revolutionary

movement • Nehru Report • Karachi session • Civil Disobedience Movement • Round Table Conference • Communal Award

Week 3

July 1 – July 4

Modern India

National Movement towards Freedom and

Partition 1939-1947: • Second World War, • Individual Disobedience Movement, • Pakistan Resolution 1940, • August offer, • Cripps mission, • Quit India Movement • INA • Rajagopalachari formula • Desai- Liaquat Pact • Wavell Plan & Shimla conference • Cabinet Mission • Mountbatten Plan

July 8th Full Length Prelims Mock test on Modern India

July 9th Full Length Mains Mock Test on Modern India

Week 4

July 10- July 13

Ancient +Medieval

Ancient India (Till Post Mauryan):

• Prehistoric period • Harappa / Indus Valley Civilization • Vedic Age • Mahajanapadas & Rise of Magadha • Iranian & Macedonian Invasion • Mauryan Age • Post Mauryan Age


Week 5

July 15– July 20

Ancient + Medieval

Ancient India:

• Satvanahanas • Guptas age • Sangam Age • Regional Kingdoms • PostGuptaAge

(Harshavardhana,Pallava,Chalukya) • Bhakti Movement

Medieval India:

• Tripartite Struggle (Prathiharas, Palas and Rashtrakutas)

• Chola Empire • Rajput states • Delhi sultanate • Mughal empire • Maratha Confederacy • Southern Dynasties • Vijayanagara • Bahmani Kingdom • Sufi Movement

July 23

Full Length Prelims Mock test on Ancient and Medieval India

Week 6

July 24- July 27

Art and Culture

Visual arts:

• Indian Architecture (Ancient,Medival,Modern architecture)

• Indian sculpture • Indian pottery • Indian Paintings

(Ancient,Medival,Modern,Folk)

Performing Arts:

• Indian Music (Classical, Folk Music and other music forms)

• Dance Forms (Classical, Folk and martial Dance)

• Musical instruments • Indian theatre • Indian puppetry • Indian Circus


Week 7 July 29- August 3

Art and Culture Indian Literature

• Sanskrit • Hindi • Telugu • Tamil • Kannada • Urdu

Religion

• Buddhism • Jainism • Islam • Christianity • Sikhism • Zoroastrianism • Judaism

Schools of philosophy:

• Orthodox and heterodox Schools

Other topics:

• Indian cinema • Calendars • Fairs and festivals • Science and technology

(Mathematics,medicine,astronomy) • Policies and programs of art and culture.

August 6 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Art & Culture

August 7 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Art & Culture

Week 8 Aug 8 – Aug 10

Polity and Governance

Constitutionalism, Historical Underpinnings:

• Evolution & Making of the Constitution • Features and Significant Provisions • Political systems • Democratic & Non-Democratic • Parliamentary & Presidential • Unitary & Federal • Direct and Representative • Republic and Monarchy


• The Preamble • The Union and its Territory • Citizenship

Aug 12 H Holiday on account of Bakri Id / Eid ul-Adha

Week 9 Aug 13– Aug 17


• Fundamental Rights • Directive Principles • Fundamental Duties • Amendment of Constitution • Emergency Provisions • Central Government • State Government • Judiciary • Parliament

Week 10 Aug 19 – Aug 24


• Indian Federalism • Local Government

Miscillenous:

• Official Language • Public Services • Tribunals • Special provisions for SCs, STs, BCs,

Minorities & Anglo-Indians • Rights and liabilities of the Government • Authoritative text in Hindi Language • Anti-defection law • Constitutional and non-constitutional

bodies

Week 11 Aug 26 –

Aug 31 Polity and Governance

• Ministries and Departments of the Government

• Pressure groups • Elections & political parties • Representation of People's Act • Election Process • Transparency & Accountability • RTI • Citizen’s Charter-Governance • Development processes and the

development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs

• Role of civil services in a democracy


Sept 2 Holiday on account of Vinayaka Chaturthi

Week 12 Sept 3 – Sept 6


• Important aspects of governance • Separation of powers between various

organs • dispute redressal mechanisms and

institutions devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.

Sept 9 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Polity & Governance

Sept 10 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Polity & Governance

Week 13 Sept 11 –Sept 14

Indian Economy National Income Accounting: Concepts:

• GDP • GNP • Market Price and Factor Cost • NNP • NDP • transfer payments • National income at FC • Personal Income • disposable income • factors affecting national income • net foreign facto income

National income:

• value added method • income method • expenditure method • Application of various methods • Base year • GDP deflator and other concepts.

Capital Markets & Money Markets :

• Basic Terms and Concepts • Equity and debt Instruments • Primary market and Secondary markets etc

RBI and Banking system:

• Money • Banking • Central Bank • Banking Reforms


Week 14 Sept 16 – Sept 21

Indian Economy Inflation and Employment : Inflation :

• Definition • Inflationary Gap and Inflationary process • Inflation Cycles • Demand Pull Inflation • Cost Push Inflation • Causes of Inflation • Inflation Control measures

Unemployment:

• Types of Unemployment: Structural, Seasonal, Frictional, Cyclical.

• Nature of Unemployment in India Government budgeting and Fiscal Policy:

• Budgeting • Fiscal Policy • Public Finance • Public Expenditure • Public Revenue • Sources of Revenue • Taxes • Public Debt • Deficit Financing

Week 15 Sept 23–

Sept 28 Indian Economy External Sector and Currency Exchange

rate • Balance of Payments • FDI • FII • Foreign Trade of India • Trade Policy • WTO related issues and India • Intellectual Property Rights

International Trade and Bodies : • IMF • World Bank • Bilateral and Regional Cooperation

Agriculture :

• Recent trends in Agriculture Sector • Cropping System and Pattern • Agricultural Marketing and Reforms • Agricultural Research


• Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Husbandry • issues of buffer stocks and food security • PDS, economics of animal-rearing, Food

processing and related industries in India, supply chain management, Farm distress and government initiatives, Land reforms in India

Week 16 Sept 30 – Oct 5

Indian Economy Industrial Sector reforms and programs: • Industrial Policies • Licensing • MSME • Labour Reforms • Companies Act • Make in India • Skill India • Challenges in Industrial development • Organised and unorganized sector • PPP • Investment models

Economic reforms and initiatives post-independence:

• Government policies • Five year Plans: Priorities and

Performance, Issues related to planning, Economic Policies till 1991

• Economic Reforms since 1991: End of license Raj

• Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization

• Investment models

Oct 7- Oct

8 Holiday on account of Dussehra / Dasara

Week 17 Oct 9- Oct 10

Indian Economy Infrastructure: • IT • Communication • Urbanization • Transport • Mining, Energy • Ports • Roads • Airports • Railways etc


Oct 12 Full Length Prelims Mock test on Indian Economy

Oct 14 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Indian Economy

Week 18 Oct 15– Oct 19

Geography and Disaster Management

World Geography: Physical Geography

• Geomorphology • Climatology • Oceanography • Biogeography • Distribution of key natural resources across

the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent

Week 19 Oct 21 – Oct 26

Geography and Disaster Management

Human Geography: • Population growth and distribution • Urbanisation - Growth and distribution • Different types and patterns of settlements • Slums and Squatter settlements • Problems associated with Population and

unplanned urbanisation and its remedies

Mapping of the world Week 20 Oct 28 –

Nov 2 Geography and Disaster Management

Economic Geography: • Factors responsible for the location of

primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries invarious parts of the world (including India)

• Distribution of important resources in the world (Including India)

Week 21 Nov 4 –

Nov 6 Geography and Disaster Management

Indian Geography: • Physical features • Rivers • Climate • Soil • Vegetation and • Natural Hazards and Disasters.

Important Geophysical phenomena such as • Earthquakes • Tsunami • Volcanic activity • cyclone etc.

Indian Mapping


Nov 9 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Geography and Disaster Management

Nov 11 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Geography and Disaster Management

Week 22 Nov 12 - Nov 16

Environment Ecology and Environment : • Ecology • Functions of Ecosystem • Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystem • Biomes • Environmental Pollution and Issues

Biodiversity:

• Biodiversity and Indian Biodiversity • Animal and Plant diversity in India • Marine Organism • Protected Area Network • Conservation Efforts

Week 23 Nov 18-

Nov 22 Environment Climate Change:

• Climate change and its impact on India • Ocean Acidification • Ozone Depletion • Mitigation Strategies • Government Initiatives • Climate Change Organizations

Agriculture:

• Agriculture • Acts and Policies • Institution and Measures • Environmental Organizations • International Environmental Convention

Nov 25 Full length Prelims Mock Test on Environment

Nov 26 Full length Mains Mock Test on Environment

Week 24 Nov 27 – Nov 30

Science and Technology

• Basic science concepts • Science and Technology • developments and their applications and

effects in everyday life • Achievement of Indians in science &

technology


• Indigenization of technology and developing new technology.

Week 25 Dec 2 – Dec 3

Science and Technology

Awareness in the fields of • IT • Space • Computers • Robotics • nano-technology • bio-technology • issues relating to intellectual property

rights. Current affairs

Dec 6 Full Length Prelims Mock Test on Science & Technology

Dec 7 Full Length Mains Mock Test on Science & Technology


World history Important Revolutions :

• Industrial Revolution • American Revolution • French Revolution • Unification of Germany • Unification of Italy • Russian revolution • Chinese Communism • World War I • World War 2 • Cold War Era • Post-cold war. • European Unification • Redrawal of National boundaries • Colonization • Communism • Capitalism • Socialism

Dec 17 Full length Mains Mock test on World History


Society Salient features of Indian Society:

• Caste System and changes in the caste system in recent times

• Sanskritization • Westernization and Modernization


• Religious diversity • Kinship, Marriage and Family • Middle class

Diversity:

• Unity in Diversity • Different types of diversities in India • Factors leading to Unity amidst Diversity in

India • Diversity and associated problems • Globalization and Diversity

Role of Women and Women’s organization:

• Importance of Women’s organizations • Women’s organizations and their

achievements • Types of women’s organization • Government initiatives to support and

collaborate with Women’s Organizations • Women in agriculture • labor workforce • politics • Family • Marriage • Middle Class • Role of Men in Women Organization

Population and associated issues

Poverty and developmental issues

Urbanization, their problems and their remedies


Society Effects of globalization on Indian society

Social empowerment

Communalism

Secularism


Dec 25 Holliday on account of Christmas Dec 27 Full length Mains Mock test on Society

Week 29 Dec 30- Jan

4 Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude

Ethics and Human Interface: • Essence, determinants and consequences of

Ethics in human actions • dimensions of ethics • ethics in private and public relationships.

Human Values • Lessons from the lives and teachings of

great leaders, reformers and administrators.

• Role of family in inculcating values. • Role of society in inculcating values. • Role of educational institutions in

inculcating values Attitude:

• Content • Structure • Function • its influence and relation with thought and

behavior • moral and political attitudes • social influence and persuasion.

Aptitude and foundational values: for Civil Service

• integrity • impartiality and non-partisanship • objectivity • dedication to public service • empathy • tolerance • compassion towards the weaker sections.

Week 30 Jan 6- Jan

11 Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude

Emotional intelligence • concepts and their utilities and application

in administration and governance. Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world. Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration:

• Status and problems • ethical concerns and dilemmas in

government and private institutions


• laws, rules, regulations and conscience as sources of ethical guidance

• accountability and ethical governance

• strengthening of ethical and moral values in governance

• ethical issues in international relations and funding

• corporate governance.

Probity in Governance: • Concept of public service;

Philosophical basis of governance and probity

• Information sharing and transparency in government

• Right to Information • Codes of Ethics • Codes of Conduct • Citizen’s Charters • Work culture • Quality of service delivery • Utilization of public funds • challenges of corruption.

Jan 14 Holiday On account of Makar Sankranti

Week 31 Jan 15 Full Length Mains Mock test on Ethics

Week 31 Jan 16- Jan 18

Internal Security • Linkages between development and spread of extremism

Challenges to internal security: • Role of external state and non-state actors

in creating challenges to internal security • Challenges to internal security through

communication networks Media and internal security:

• role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges.

Cyber security: • basics of cyber security • challenges • measures taken.


Week 32 Jan 20 Internal Security • Money-laundering • Security challenges and their

management in border areas. • Organized crime • Various Security forces and agencies and

their mandate

Jan 23 Full length Mains Mock test on Internal Security

Week 32 Jan 24- Jan 25

International relations

India and its neighborhood

Week 33 Jan 27 – Feb 1

International Relations

• Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests

• Indian Diaspora • regional and global groupings and

agreements involving India • Important International institutions,

agencies and fora- their structure, mandate Feb 4 Full length Mains Mock test on International Relations

Week 34 Feb 5- Feb 8

India Year Book

Week 35 Feb 10 India Year Book

Feb 13 Full length Prelims Mock test on India Year Book

Feb 14- Feb 15

Economic Survey and Budget


Economic Survey and Budget

Feb 22 Full length Prelims Mock test on Economic Survey and Budget


Current Affairs


Week 38 March 2-7 • CSAT classes

Week 39

March 9-March 14

• CSAT classes

March 8,2020 Sunday

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• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science • Current Affairs

March 15,2020 Sunday

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April 5, 2020

Sunday

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April 12,

2020 Sunday

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April 19,

2020 Sunday

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• Indian Constitution, Political System and Governance • Geography • History of India • Indian Economy & Social Development • Ecology & Environment • General Science


• Current Affairs •

April 26,

2020 Sunday

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May 3, 2020

Sunday

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May 10, 2020

Sunday

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May 17, 2020

Sunday

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May 24, 2020

Sunday

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