UPSC Mains 2014
General Studies – Paper I
Answer all the questions in NOT MORE THAN 150 words
each. Contents of the answer are more important than its length. All questions
carry equal marks
10*25-250
(01) To what extent has the urban planning and culture
of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs to the present day
urbanization? Discuss
(02) Gandhara sculpture owed as much tot he Romans as
to the Greeks. Explain
(03) Taxila university w as one of the oldest
universities of the world with which were associated a number of renowned
learned personalities of different disciplines. Its strategic location caused
its fame to flourish, but unlike Nalanda, it is not considered as a university
in the modern sense. Discuss
(04) The Third battle of Panipat was fought in 1761.
Why there were so many empire-shaking battles fought at Panipat?
(05) Sufis and medieval mystic saints failed to
modify either the religious ideas and practices or the outward structure of
Hindu/Muslim societies to any appreciable extent. Comment
(06) Examine critically the various facets of
economic policies of the British in India
(07) In what ways did the naval mutiny prove to be
the last nail in the coffin of British colonial aspirants in India
(08) What were the major political, economic and
social developments in the world which motivated the anti-colonial struggle in India
(09) What were the events that led tot he Suez Crisis
in 1956? How did it deal a final blow to Britain
(10) The New Economic Policy - 1921 of Lenin had
influenced the policies adopted by India
(11) How does patriarchy impact the position of a
middle class working woman in India
(12) Why do some of the most prosperous regions of India
(13) The life cycle of a joint family depends on
economic factors rather than social values. Discuss
(14) Discuss the various economic and socio-cultural
forces that are driving increasing feminization of agriculture in India
(15) How do the Indian debates on secularism differ
from the debates in the West?
(16) Most of the unusual climatic happenings are
explained as an outcome of the El-Nino effect. Do you agree?
(17) Why are the world's fold mountain systems
located along the margins of continents? Bring out the association between the
global distribution of fold mountains and the earthquakes and volcanoes
(18) Explain the formation of thousands of islands in
Indonesian and Philippines
(19) Tropical cyclones are largely confined to South
China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mexico .
Why?
(20) Bring out the relationship between the shrinking
Himalayan glaciers and the symptoms of climate change in the Indian sub-continent
(21) Whereas the British planeters had developed tea
gardens all along the Shivaliks and Lesser Himalayas from Assam to Himachal Pradesh, in effect they did
not succeed beyond the Darjeeling
(22) Why did the Green Revolution in India
(23) Account for change in the spatial pattern of the
Iron and Steel industry in the world
(24) Critically evaluate the various resources of the
oceans which can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world
(25) How does India
see its place in the economic space of rising natural resource rich Africa ?
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