GS1 · Indian Heritage & Culture, History, Geography & Society
The Freedom Struggle - its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
Syllabus line GS1-L3. These 8 themes have PYQs under it; several also draw on other papers.
- T11Colonial administration & education policy: Macaulay, Curzon
- T121857 and tribal–peasant resistance to colonial rule
- T14Early nationalism: Moderates & foreign contributors
- T15Gandhi: mass movements, constructive programme, ideas & contemporaries
- T16Widening of the national movement: ideological strands & global influences
- T17Final phase: Quit India, Naval mutiny, Maulana Azad
- T18Making of the Constitution: Government of India Act 1935 to Constituent Assembly
- T64Women's question in history: 19th-century reform & freedom struggle