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UPSC Mains 2019

20 questions · 250 marks · Indian Heritage & Culture, History, Geography of the World and Society

Indian Society 15 Marks

Q1. Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.

Indian Society 15 Marks

Q2. What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?

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Indian Society 15 Marks

Q3. Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples.

Physical Geography 15 Marks

Q4. How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples.

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Indian Geography 15 Marks

Q5. How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development in India?

Indian Geography 15 Marks

Q6. How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?

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Indian Geography 15 Marks

Q7. What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?

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World History 15 Marks

Q8. Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions

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Modern History 15 Marks

Q9. Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s.

Modern History 15 Marks

Q10. Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.

Indian Society 10 Marks

Q11. What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?

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Indian Society 10 Marks

Q12. “Empowering women is the key to control population growth.” Discuss.

Indian Society 10 Marks

Q13. What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.

Indian Geography 10 Marks

Q14. Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.

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Indian Geography 10 Marks

Q15. Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?

World Geography 10 Marks

Q16. Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.

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Physical Geography 10 Marks

Q17. Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples.

Modern History 10 Marks

Q18. Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.

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Modern History 10 Marks

Q19. 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.

Art & Culture 10 Marks

Q20. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.