Economics Class – 4

1. Inflation-Indexed Bonds (IIBs):
2. Debt Instruments used by the State Governments in India
3. Infrastructure Bonds
4. Cash Management Bills and Treasury Bonds – Differences and Similarities
5. Corporate Bonds
6. Bonds issued by Central and State Governments – A listing
7. Promissory Note, Certificate of Deposit, Commercial Paper, Masala Bonds
8. Call Money
9. P-Notes or Participatory Notes
10. SLR and CRR – Different Purposes, uses
11. The RBI Act
12. The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
13. Understanding the difference in Banking Regulation – The Banking Regulation Act and the RBI Act
14. The Macro-economic Framework Statement

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Economics Class – 6

1. Changing the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
2. Changing the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
3. Changing Interest Rates – Effects
4. Quantitative Easing
5. Government Spending – To increase or decrease?
6. Effects of Appreciation and Depreciation of a Currency
7. Attracting Foreign Investment

Economics Class – 7

1. Different Kinds of Banks in India
2. Scheduled Commercial Banks:
3. Regional Rural Banks (RRBs):
4. Cooperative Banks:
5. Small Finance Banks, Payment Banks
6. Foreign Banks:
7. Development Banks, Housing Finance Companies, SIDBI

Polity Class – 4

4. The Preamble

Economics Class – 8

1. Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs):
2. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs):
3. Smaller Banks Listing, Co-operative Societies, and other NBFCs
4. Banks and NBFCs – Differences highlighted!
5. Different kinds of NBFCs in India
6. Major kinds of Agri Banks in India
7. Agri Banks in India
8. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD):
9. Commercial Banks with Agri-Focused Branches:
10. Agricultural Insurance Companies:

Polity Class – 5

5. Amendment of the Constitution – Part 1

Economics Class – 11

1. UPI and NPCI
2. NPCI – National Payments Corporation of India
3. Blockchain Technology
4. BHIM – Bharat Interface for Money
5. Legal Tender
6. Keeping currency artificially low valued – Why?
7. Currency Devaluation when close to defaulting – Why?
8. Foreign Exchange (ForEx)
9. Gold as a traditional currency – a store of value
10. The Transition of Currency – From Gold backed Currency to Fiat Currency

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Economics Class – 13

1. Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) & Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER)
2. History of the Rupee
3. Currency Depreciation, Currency Devaluation
4. Depreciation vs. Devaluation
5. Appreciation – Currency, Revaluation
6. Currency Convertibility, Partial Convertibility of a Currency
7. Full Convertibility
8. Current Account Convertibility, Capital Account Convertibility
9. Consequences of Partial Convertibility
10. Overcoming defects of Partial convertibility
11. Non-convertibility of a Currency
12. LERMS – The Liberalized Exchange Rate Management System

Economics Class – 14

1. FDI – Foreign Direct Investment
2. Components of FDI
3. Risks of FIIs
4. FDI vs FII
5. FPI – Foreign Portfolio Investments
6. Debt
7. External Debt
8. Foreign currency denominated debt
9. External Commercial Borrowings

Polity Class – 8

8. Fundamental Rights

Economics Class – 15

1. Internal Debt
2. Maturing Debt
3. Total Outstanding Debt
4. Leverage Ratio
5. The Extended Fund Facility – EFF
6. Why is buying Gold from abroad bad for India
7. Gold Tranche
8. Special Drawing Rights
9. Special Drawing Rights – Components

Polity Class – 9

9. Directive Principles of State Policy

Economics Class – 18

1. An Inflation Spiral
2. Inflation Accounting
3. Inflation Premium
4. Reflation
5. Stagflation
6. Skewflation
7. Inflation and Growth
8. Inflation Indices in India
9. Housing Price Index (HPI)
10. Defining the purposes of the Indices
11. The Base Year

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Economics Class – 20

1. WPI – Components and Weightage
2. Factors determining HDI
3. Measures to curb inflation, Actions that lead to Inflation
4. Measuring Economic Growth
5. Why is growth necessary for the common man?
6. Trickle Down Economics
7. Demographic Dividend
8. Manufacturing led Growth, Measures to make India a manufacturing hub
9. Privatization as the driving force of Economic Growth
10. The Washington Consensus
11. GDP – as a measure of Growth, GFCF – Gross Fixed Capital Formation
12. Agricultural Capital Formation
13. GDP Deflator
14. The Big Mac Index
15. OECD Better Life Index
16. Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
17. Social Progress Index (SPI)

Economics Class – 21

1. Gross National Happiness
2. Structural composition of the economy
3. Green GDP
4. Potential GDP or Full employment GDP
5. Making Structural changes to the economy
6. The Formal and Informal sectors of the economy
7. Effect on Tax Collection and Black Money
8. Business Cycle
9. Purchasing Power Parity
10. Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)
11. NSDP – Net State Domestic Product
12. Headline Growth Rate
13. Headline Inflation
14. Recession – Measures to take to get out of it

Polity Class – 12

12. The President and the Vice-President

Economics Class – 22

1. The Union Budget
2. The Revenue Budget
3. Revenue Receipts
4. Revenue Expenditure
5. The Capital Budget

Polity Class – 13

13. Prime Minister and the Chief Minister

Economics Class – 25

1. The Bretton Woods System
2. The World Bank Group
3. International monetary Fund (IMF)
4. The International Monetary System
5. The BRICS Bank
6. The Asian Development Bank
7. The African Development Bank
8. WTO – World Trade Organization
9. Reports and Institutions

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Environment Class – 2

1. Functions of an Ecosystem
2. Different Types of Ecosystem
3. Forest Ecosystems
4. Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem
5. Temperate Forest Ecosystem
6. Aquatic Ecosystems
7. Eutrophication
8. Algal Bloom
9. Wetland Ecosystem
10. Mangrove Ecosystem
11. Estuary Ecosystem
12. Coral Reefs

Environment Class – 3

1. Protected Area Network
2. National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuary, Protected Area and Biosphere Reserves
3. National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries and Biosphere Reserves
4. Basic Differences between a National Park and A Wildlife Sanctuary in India
5. Conservation Reserves, Community Reserves and Wildlife Sanctuaries
6. MAB and World Network of Biosphere Reserves
7. The IUCN, REDD and REDD+
8. The Red Data Book of the IUCN – The Red List of Threatened Species
9. Understanding the categories under the Red Book
10. RAMSAR Sites
11. National Wetland Conservation Program
12. Montreux Record
13. IUCN and India – 15 most threated species
14. Community, Population and Organisms – Breaking it down further

Polity Class – 16

16. The Parliament

Environment Class – 4

1. Environmental Degradation
2. Deforestation
3. Consequences of Deforestation
4. Environmental degradation due to mining activities – in India
5. Impact on Environment due to Industrialization – in India
6. Impact of Modern Agriculture on the Environment – in Indian context
7. Environmental Backlash
8. Local Environment Backlash, Regional Environment Backlash, Global Environment Backlash
9. Environmental Degradation – as a threat to human life
10. Environmental Issues in India
11. Natural Resource Degradation – Desertification, deforestation, soil-degradation and biodiversity loss
12. Urbanization and changing environmental patterns

Polity Class – 17

17. The Parliamentary Committees, forums and groups

Environment Class – 7

1. Characteristics of Human Modified Ecosystems
2. Adverse effects of Industrialization and excessive population on the Environment in India
3. Agroecosystem
4. Plantation Forests
5. Urban Ecosystems
6. Rural Ecosystems
7. Aquaculture, Fish Farming and Fish Ranching
8. Fisheries and Aquaculture in India
9. Challenges and Opportunities
10. Forests – their functions
11. Deforestation – Causes and Effects
12. Desertification
13. Steps to reduce Desertification
14. Land Degradation
15. Flora Fauna in the Thar Desert

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Environment Class – 9

1. Genetic Diversity
2. Species Diversity
3. Biodiversity Hotspots
4. Biodiversity Hotspots in India
5. The Importance of Biodiversity
6. Causes of Biodiversity Depletion
7. In-situ conservation
8. Ex-situ conservation
9. Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Environment Class – 10

1. Acts and Laws
2. Wildlife Protection Act, 1972
3. Schedules of the WPA, 1972 and its importance
4. Major Amendments and Summary of the Amendments – WPA, 1972
5. The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 – Summary
6. Amendments and Summary – The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 1978
7. The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 – Summary
8. Amendments to The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980: A Structured Summary
9. The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986: A Structured Summary
10. Amendments to The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986: A Structured Summary
11. The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981: Summary
12. The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981: Amendments
13. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Polity Class – 20

20. The High Courts, the Sub-ordinate Courts and the Tribunals

Environment Class – 11

1. Convention on Biodiversity
2. Relevance of CBD to India
3. Benefit Sharing Pre-Biodiversity Act – Arogyapacha, Kani Tribe and Jeevani
4. Dandeli Honey Case Example
5. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002
6. Important Protocols to CBD
7. Examples of LMOs and more about the Cartagena Protocol
8. Earth Summit, 1992 and UNFCCC
9. Nagoya Protocol
10. The Bali Ministerial Conference
11. COP 15 Copenhagen Summit
12. COP 16 Cancun Summit
13. COP 17 Durban Summit
14. Paris Climate Change Conference – COP 21
15. Marrakech Agreement COP 22
16. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Polity Class – 21

21. Judicial Review and Judicial Activism

Environment Class – 14

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

INM Class – 2

3. Socio-religious reforms
4. An economic critique of colonialism – Ranade
5. The Vernacular Press Act – A blow to press freedom!

INM Class – 3

6. Voice in the Legislatures
7. Swadeshi Movement – 1903-1908
8. The Moderates and the Extremists

Polity Class – 24

24. Union Territories and Scheduled & Tribal Areas

INM Class – 4

9. Revolutionary Nationalism
10. WW1 and the Ghadar Party in USA

Polity Class – 25

25. Constitutional Bodies

INM Class – 7

15. The rise of Revolutionary Nationalism – Chandrashekar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

INM Class – 9

20. 1932-34
21. The Strategic Debate – 1935-37
22. Elected Indians in the Legislature
23. The Tripuri Crisis
24. Cripps Mission

INM Class – 10

25. Quit India Movement
26. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny – the real reason why the British left
27. Partition made inevitable

Polity Class – 28

28. A wide array of other topics and current affairs

INM Class – 11

28. Independence Declaration, Objectives resolution
29. The death of Gandhi

Polity Class – 29

29. Reserve day for remaining topics

INM Class – 14

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

INM Class – 16

Reserve Day for remaning topics and general discussion

INM Class – 17

Reserve Day for remaning topics and general discussion

CSAT Class – 2

Calendar and Dates

Post-Independence Class – 1

1. The Partition – the bloodiest mass migration in the history of our Planet
2. Integration of Princely States into India – Sardar Patel and VP Menon
3. The 1st General elections and Sukumar Sen
4. The Linguistic Re-organization of States, State Re-organization Act.
5. The Bandung Conference – Nehru introduces China to the World
6. The Proposal of China’s name for the UNSC
7. The Non-Aligned Movement

CSAT Class – 3

Direction and Distance

Post-Independence Class – 4

1. Operation Bluestar and Indira’s assassination
2. The Sikh Genocide and Rajiv Gandhi
3. Bhopal Gas Tragedy
4. OBC reservation and Mandal commission
5. 1991 – Opening up of the Indian economy – PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh
6. The Lotus blooms for the first time – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
7. Pokhran

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Post-Independence Class – 6

1. Agrarian Struggles Since Independence
2. Major Environmental Movements

International Relations Class – 1

India’s Foreign Policy
What is Foreign Policy? What are the components of the Indian Foreign Policy?
What are the determinants of Indian Foreign Policy?
How do International organizations influence Indian Foreign Policy?

CSAT Class – 6

Integers

International Relations Class – 2

India Pakistan:
1. The Partition
2. The Tribal invasion of 1947-48 and the signing of Kashmir
3. The support of the US from 1954-55
–> Pak became a part of SEATO (1954) and CENTO (1955) – got American tanks and aircraft.
4. The war of 1965
5. The war of 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh
6. Simla Agreement, 1972 – mutual commitment to bilateralism
7. 1974 – India’s first nuclear test
8. The successful nuclear test, 1998
9. Kargil war, 1999
10. The attack on Indian Parliament, 2001
11. The 2008 Mumbai attacks
12. Indus Water Treaty

CSAT Class – 7

Mensuration

International Relations Class – 5

India-China Relations
1. Indo-Tibet border
2. India’s UN help to China
3. Panchasheel Agreement, 1954
–> Hindi-Chini bhai bhai, 1954 – Zhou Enlai
4. Bandung conference, 1955
4. Indo-China war, 1962
5. The McMahon Line, Ladakh and Sikkim
6. Brahmaputra, The Three Gorges dam
7. The Doklam conflict
8. China’s assistance to Pakistan’s Nuclear weapons effort
9. Beijing massacre and the Tianenmen Square incident
10. SCO and BRICS

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

International Relations Class – 7

India – US relations
India – France Relations

International Relations Class – 8

India – West Asia Relations – Saudia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey
India – Iran relations
India – Israel Relations

CSAT Class – 10

Geometric Progression

International Relations Class – 9

India – Japan Relations
India – ASEAN relations + S. Korea

CSAT Class – 11

Clocks and Time

International Relations Class – 12

IR Current Affairs Discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

International Relations Class – 14

IR Current Affairs Discussion

International Relations Class – 15

IR Current Affairs Discussion

CSAT Class – 14

Sequences and Series

International Relations Class – 16

IR Current Affairs Discussion

CSAT Class – 15

Speed and Distance

World History Class – 3

7. World War 1
8. Russian Revolution
9. The Great Depression

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

World History Class – 5

1. Chinese Revolution
2. Decolonization – Africa, Latin America, Asia
3. Cold war
4. Bandung Conference
5. NAM

World History Class – 6

1. The New International Economic Order (NIEO)
2. Yom Kippur
3. Oil Crisis, 1973
4. Nixon Shock
5. Iranian Revolution, 1979

CSAT Class – 18

Ratio and Proportion

World History Class – 7

1. Latin America Debt Crisis, 1982
2. The Berlin Wall (1961-1989)
3. The Truman Doctrine (1974)
4. The Berlin Blockade (1948-49)
5. The Korean War (1950-53)
6. The Collapse of the Soviet Union (1989-91)

CSAT Class – 19

Trigonometry

Physical Geography Class – 2

3. Oceans, Ocean floor and Salinity
–> Hydrological Cycle
–> Ocean Floor and its relief features
–> Temperature of Ocean water
–> Salinity of Ocean waters

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Physical Geography Class – 4

5. Oceans
–> Relief of the Ocean
–> Deposits of the ocean floor
–> Salinity of the ocean
–> Temperature of the ocean
–> Movement of Ocean currents
–> Circulation of the Atlantic ocean
–> Circulation of the Pacific ocean
–> Circulation of the Indian Ocean

Physical Geography Class – 5

6. Physical Features of India
–> Plate tectonics – Concept
–> Plate Margins across the World
–> Major Physiographic divisions of the World
—->The Himalayas
—-> The Norther Plains
—-> The Coastal Plains and the Ghats
—-> The Thar Desert
—-> Islands

CSAT Class – 22

Data Sufficiency – Math

Physical Geography Class – 6

7. Geomorphic Processes

CSAT Class – 23

Coding and Decoding

Physical Geography Class – 9

10. Landforms made by Running Water
–> River erosion & transportation
–> The course of a river
–> River rejuvenation

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Physical Geography Class – 11

12. Desert Landforms, Limestone landforms

Physical Geography Class – 12

13. Lakes, Coastal Landforms

CSAT Class – 26

Blood Relations

Physical Geography Class – 13

14. Islands and Costal Reefs

CSAT Class – 27

Wordplay – Reasoning and Comprehension

Physical Geography Class – 16

17. Solar radiation, Heat Balance and Temperature

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Physical Geography Class – 18

19. Water in the atmosphere

Physical Geography Class – 19

20. Weather
–> Difference b/w weather and climate
–> Elements of Weather and Climate – Temperature, Humidity, Rainfall, Clouds, Winds, Sunshine.

CSAT Class – 30

Syllogism – Reasoning

Physical Geography Class – 20

21. Planetary Winds
–> Land & Sea Breeze
–> Fohn Wind or Chinook Wind
–> Climatic types and associated vegetation, & other information, World Climatic Types

CSAT Class – 31

Decision making for common themes – Passage Comprehension

Physical Geography Class – 23

24. Interior of the Earth

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Physical Geography Class – 26

26. Disasters – Earthquakes and Volcanoes
–> Volcanoes – Origin
–> Types of Volcanoes
–> Extrusive landforms
–> Volcanic eruptions – big and famous
–> The Distribution of Volcanoes across the World – Reasoning
–> Geysers and Hot Springs
–> Earthquakes – Distribution and Reasoning.

Physical Geography Class – 27

27. Weathering
–> Weathering
–> Mass movements
–> Groundwater and Water Table
–> Springs and Wells

CSAT Class – 34

Previous Year Paper Discussion and Revision

Physical Geography Class – 28

28. Disaster Management
–> Different Types of Disasters – Cyclones, Floods, Tsunami, Earthquake, Landslide, Droughts, Fires.
29. Disaster Response mechanism in India
–> Disaster Management Act 2005, SDMA, NDMA, NDRF, Civil Defence
–> National Policy on Disaster Management, 2009
–> Institutional Arrangements and Forecasting – IMD< CWC, Indian Naitonal Center for Oceanic Information Services, Geological Survey of India, Snow & Avalanche study establishment.

CSAT Class – 35

Previous Year Paper Discussion and Revision

Human and Economic Geo Class – 3

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Internal Security Class – 2

1. What is Security?
• National Security – Components, Institutions
• Internal Security – Components, Institutions
• Exernal Security – Components, Institutions
2. A brief Introduction to Security Threats
• Regions where Internal Security is a problem – a brief
• N.E. Separatists
• Bangla and Mynmar Infiltration, Insurgency and Refugee crisis
• Central India Naxalism
• Cross-Border Terrorism – Pakistan

Internal Security Class – 3

3. India’s security doctrine
• Nuclear Security doctrine
• Internal and External Security doctrine
4. Central India Naxalism
• Extremism – Definition and Meaning
• Left Wing Extremism – LWE
• Components of LWE, Geographic Region, Why is it continuing to exist and spread, Guerilla warfare
• How is the Government addressing this?

CSAT Class – 38

Reserve Day for remaning topics and general discussion

Internal Security Class – 4

3. N.E Separatist Movements – Assam and Nagaland
• AFSPA
• Why do such separatist movements exist?
• Stakeholders – ASU, Nagas etc
• What do they want? Why is it not addressed
• What is an Inner Line Permit
4. Bangladesh and Mynmar Infiltration, Insurgency and Refugee crisis
• Why is infiltration a problem?
• Cause of refugee crisis
• What is being done to address it
• Role of Neighbouring Governments in Infiltration success & how is it being diplomatically addressed

CSAT Class – 39

Reserve Day for remaning topics and general discussion

Internal Security Class – 7

10. Cyber Security
• What is Cyber Security?
• What is Cyber Terrorism? Cyber Warfare?
• What is Critical Infrastructure and Critical Information Infrastructure(CII)
• Threats to CII and steps initiated by Government
• Targets to Key Infrastructure – Telecom, Railway Lines, Power etc.
11. Social media – as a communication pathway
• A communication pathway and conduit for Terrorism
• A recruitment hotbed
• Security challenges due to social media, inflammation of emotions, group targeting, co-ordination
• Balancing freedom of expression, Law & Order and Security

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Internal Security Class – 9

Current Affairs Discussion

Internal Security Class – 10

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Science and Technology Class – 2

Biotechnology – RNA, DNA

Internal Security Class – 11

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Science and Technology Class – 3

Space and Tech – ISRO, DRDO

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 2

3. Jainism and Buddhism
Causes for the Rise of Jainism and Buddhism
Jainism – Life of Vardhamana Mahavira (539- 467 B.C.)
Teachings of Mahavira
Spread of Jainism
Buddhism- Life of Gautama Buddha (567- 487 B.C.), Teachings of Buddha, Spread of Buddhism, Buddhist Councils, Causes for the Decline of Buddhism in India, Contribution of Buddhism to Indian Culture

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 4

5. Post – Mauryan India
• Sungas, Satavahanas, Economic Condition, Cultural Contributions
• Foreign Invasions of Northwest India – Bactrians, Sakas
• Kushanas – Kanishka (78 – 120 A.D.), Kanishka’s Conquests, Kanishka and Buddhism
• Gandhara Art
• Mathura School of Art
• Successors of Kanishka and end of Kushana Rule

6. Sangam Age
• Sangam Literature – Other Sources, Period of Sangam Literature
• Political History – Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas
• Minor Chieftains
• Sangam Polity, Sangam Society, Religion, Position of Women, Fine Arts, Economy of the Sangam Age, End of the Sangam Age

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 5

7. Gupta Empire
• The sources for the study of Guptas – Chandragupta I (320 – 330 A.D.), Samudragupta (330-380 A.D.)
• Extant of Samudragupta’s Empire, Estimate of Samudragupta
• Chandragupta II (380-415 A.D.)
• Conquest of Western India, Other Conquests, Fahien’s Visit
• Estimate of Chandragupta II, Successors of Chandragupta II
• Gupta Administration, Social Life, Art and Culture, Art and Architecture, Literature, Science

8. Harshavardhana (606 – 647 A.D) 113
• Early Life of Harsha, Harsha’s Military Conquests, Harsha and Buddhism
• Kanauj Assembly, Allahabad Conference, Harsha’s Administration, Society and Economy under Harsha
• Cultural Progress, Nalanda University,

Science and Technology Class – 6

Latest and upcoming mass use technologies

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 6

9. South Indian Kingdoms – II
• Chalukyas (543 – 755 A.D.)
• Pulakesin II (608-642 A.D.)
• Administration and Social Life under the Chalukya, Art and Architecture
• Rashtrakutas (755 – 975 A.D.), Administration, Society and Economy, Cultural Contributions, Art and Architecture

Science and Technology Class – 7

Basic Physics

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 9

12. Early Medieval India
• Rajput Kingdoms
• Ahoms, Chandelas, Solankis, Gaekwads

13. Bhakti Movement in Medieval India
• Rise and spread of Bhakti Movement in India
• Sufism and its development in India
• Bhakti saints like Sankara, Ramanuja, Kabir, Guru Nanak & Others
• Importance of the Bhakti Movement

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 11

15. Vijayanagar Kingdom
• Sources for the study of Vijayanagar Empire
• Political History of the Vijayanagar Empire – Krishna Deva Raya (1509 – 1530)
• Administration and Social life
• Economic Condition and Cultural contributions
• A brief history of the Bahmani kingdom and Mahmud Gawan

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 12

16. The Marathas
• The Rise of the Marathas
• Shivaji (1627-1680): His Life and Conquests
• Shivaji’s Administration and Successors of Shivaji
• The Peshwas (1713-1818) – Balaji Viswanath (1713-1720)
• Baji Rao I (1720-1740)
• Balaji Baji Rao (1740-1761)

Ethics Class – 1

Ethical Philosophies

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 13

16. The Coming of Europeans
• The coming of the Portuguese to India
• Establishment of the Dutch, English, French and Danish Trading centres in India
• The Anglo-French Rivalry in the Carnatic region.
• Establishment of British Power in Bengal

Ethics Class – 2

Frameworks of Ethical Thought

Ancient & Medieval Indian History Class – 16

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Art & Culture Class – 2

Schools of Philosophy

Art & Culture Class – 3

Indian Paintings, Music and Dance forms

Ethics Class – 5

Terminologies and Definitions

Art & Culture Class – 4

Handicrafts, Puppetry, Languages and Literature

Ethics Class – 6

Justice – Procedural, Substantive, Rawls, Aristotle

Art & Culture Class – 7

Indian Art, Architecture and Sculpture

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Agriculture Class – 2

Role of the State and the Center in Agriculture
Procurement Procedure – Management of food grains
MSP
Mandis and e-NAM
Buffer Stock, FCI

Agriculture Class – 3

Storage Management – Dry storage houses and Cold storage houses – crops that can be stored – proximity to farms
Distribution of food grains
Subsidies
Sustainable Agriculture – components

Ethics Class – 9

Frameworks to Answering – Legal-Institutional, Moral etc.

Agriculture Class – 4

Issues with pesticides and insecticides – Diseases, cancer, problems
Organic Farming – components, definition, meaning
Fertilizers – Chemicals and Organic
Import and Export of Crops

Ethics Class – 10

Case Studies

Agriculture Class – 7

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Agriculture Class – 9

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Agriculture Class – 10

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Ethics Class – 13

Previous Year Paper Discussion and Revision

Ethics Class – 14

Previous Year Paper Discussion and Revision

Current Affairs – Adi – Class – 24

Ethics Class – 17

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s

Ethics Class – 19

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Ethics Class – 20

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Current Affairs – Adi – Class – 27

Ethics Class – 22

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

Current Affairs – Adi – Class – 28

Ethics Class – 25

Reserve Day for remaining topics and general discussion

50 Prelims + 10 Mains Q’s