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History

Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues, cover important events from the 1750s until the present time.

Points to focus under this topic are:

Freedom Struggle
All important events and contributions of personalities that have had an important impact on the country till now.

To cover this topic, refer sources as mentioned below.

NCERT Books and Current Affairs
A Brief History of Modern India - Spectrum
All a candidate has to do is refer UPSC Previous Years’ Question Papers and observe the kind of questions asked from this part of the syllabus and focus on understanding the basic events from the NCERT Books and keeping an eye on currents affairs for relevant news.

The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country

This topic demands specific knowledge of freedom struggle and its various facets, here we recommend Bipin Chandra’s Struggle for India’s Independence which is the best for the UPSC Mains Preparation though some may prefer to refer Spectrum’s Modern History Book., one should at least revise this book for 2 or 3 times.

Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country

This topic of the GS Paper I Syllabus can be covered by referring these two sources

Bipin Chandra’s India Since Independence – Aspirants should read from Chapter 6 to Chapter12 in this book
India after Gandhi : The History of the World’s Largest – In this book, one should read from Chapter 8 to Chapter 14.

The chapters mentioned in the above books will cover this topic completely.

History of the world

This will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars, re-drawl of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communalism, capitalism, socialism etc. - their forms and effect on the society.

We recommend the below-mentioned books to cover this particular topic.

Always start with the NCERT Books and candidates should read only the Modern History part from the below mentioned NCERT Textbooks.