Here is some really good study material on Indian Culture and Heritage from National Open School (NOS) now renamed as NIOS.
The content is less boring and more structured than Spectrum’s book on Indian Culture + truckload of 2 markers scattered throughout the paragraphs.
By the way,
- Here is the link: https://files.secureserver.net/0fdAWETp4sONW5 You may download required papersets, study material etc from it, as per your requirements.
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Index/Content of Indian Culture NIOS material
- An Introduction
- Indian Culture
- Ancient India
- Medieval India
- Modern India
- Indian Languages and Literature-I
- Indian Languages and Literature-II
- Religion and Philosophy in ancient India
- Religion and Philosophy in Medieval India
- Religious Reform Movements in Modern India
- Indian Painting
- Music, Dance and Drama
- Indian Architecture
- Science and Technology in India
- Scientists of Ancient India
- Science and Scientists of Medieval India
- Scientists of Modern India
- Education in India
- Indian Social Structure
- Socio-Cultural Issues in Contemporary India
- Spread of Indian Culture Abroad

Hi Mrunal,
Can we buy hard copy of study material from NIOS?
I tried to search but could not get the answer.
yes we can get a hard copy..there is a request form in NIOS download section ..fill the form and we have to attach a DD (the cost of each book is present in the last page) to it and send them
where is the request form.??
i coudn’t find it..??…plz give the link
Would u please reply with the procedure of getting the hard copy material from NIOS ..??
every ones problem……………
thank you
how to prepare csat
sir is the nois material can be available in the hard copy notes which we could buy.
Material is very lucent and deep and rich in content and me not able to read all on computer.please do tell please.
thanks
Great job ! Thanks a lot for all these wonderful notes and materials.:)
I am preparing quite seriously and my only difficulty is to find the right materials for my language paper, ie Tamil.
Can you kindly guide me on this?
Recently i read a chapter named Indian Painting frm National Open School material (downloaded frm here) and then i tried some old questions asked by UPSC on same topic , i couldn’t find answer of single question sadly , i think there is no good book for studying Indian culture and arts .
Hi Mrunal the above link does not contain all the units listed by you, the contain only from unit 10 to 21, please upload the remaining unita 1 to 9.
sir, total study hours exceed 200 hours. Kindly help how to approach. Thank you for your valuable reply in advance…:)
sir please give material for hindi medium for mains 2013 culture notes i have downloaded
hi sir very good material send to me and also thank u sir
ok ur sematerial is very useful
hi sir
By great respect to you sir .I want to ask you if upsc only wants the above syllabus for.Indian heritage and culture.And please recommend me.a good book for this whole topic .With this world history and geography books also recommend me
Hello sir
i could not able to download the study material .please help
Sir can I know how can i get the level a,b,c Syllabus in english format and the sample question papers also for the same
Can I get The downloaded materials for level b subjects also
Sir
me aap k es kam se kafi khush hu jo aap hum sabhi k liy kar rahai hai jishe hum sabhi ko kafi subhidha mi pa rahi hai sir kuch kar k hindi me bhi matter dijiy taki hindi medium k liya bhi kuch ho pay …..
THANKS A LOT SIR
you are great man you saved my day :)….thanx alot for all this you have done for us.
thanks for great work
Really helpfull site for upsc examination.Thank you for your help,you are doing a great job.Just keep going.Thank you from bottom of my heart.
God bless you sir, thank you very very much…..
Thank you Mrunal,
you are really doing a great work, i have downloaded the material which i required…Keep helping the society.
take care
nice..comprehensive and objective pdfs….thanks a lot
thank u very much its a great work
provide social work material for uppsc it will be great help for me
thank u
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thank you…………..
sir
if i became ias it’s depend on u sir.
thank u very much…
please help me in future also…
my preparation is start just now…
my life is depend on this exam, soooo i passed it in 1 trial… pls help me sir…
people like you are making life easy in this tough world by helping people.great work ,helpful for poor student who don’t have resources to join coaching and get information
thank you very much
please provide us to download
hindi mai material milega kya sir mujhe hindi mai material kaise milega