20 questions
General Studies Paper I
UPSC Civil Services Mains 2019
- Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.
- Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?
- Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.
- The 1857 uprising was the culmination of the recurrent, big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.
- “Empowering women is the key to control population growth.” Discuss.
- What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.
- What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?
- Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.
- Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.
- Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples.
- Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions
- How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples.
- Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples.
- How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?
- Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
- What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?
- What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?
- Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.
- Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s.
- How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development in India?