Ceiling Phase 1: Freedom to 1972 Salient Features Limitations/Failures of Land Ceiling (‘47-‘72) Negative#1: No redistribution Negative#2: Family vs Individual Negative#3: Land ceilings too high Negative#4: Exempted land categories Negative#5: Delay in Law Making Negative#6: History repeats Ceiling Phase [...]
Prologue What is Land Ceiling? Why Ceiling on Land holdings? Land Ceiling in India Land Ceilings: Benefits/Advantages/Positive Points With political Will Production increased Employment increased Naxal reduced Social Justice Growth of New political parties Land Ceiling: Pro and Anti [...]
Prologue What is Land reform? Land reforms: broad vs narrow sense What are the objectives of Land reforms? Increase production social justice Economic development Improve standard of living Post-Freedom: Towards land reforms Why Abolish Zamindari? First Amendment, 1951 #1: [...]
Analysis Economy (Static/Theory) Unemployment and Inflation Budget (theory) Banking Finance LPG Generic Economy-Current Economy- International news Budget/ Taxation related Banking/Finance related Scheme IR/International Affairs PIN (Person in news) The End and FAQ Analysis Economy Last year only 6 Qs [...]
Analysis Aptitude-Internal breakup Maths Profit Loss Basic numeracy/algebra Ratio Time-Speed-Distance-Work Geometry Data interpretation Reasoning Sequence-Series Coding decoding Logical Venn Diagram Clock-Calendar Non-Verbal Aptitude-Analysis Questions not too difficult. Still, if you couldn’t solve all 20 questions accurately, it means (1) [...]
Analysis- Science MCQs in CAPF 2013 Physics internal breakup Optics related Electricity related Force/Motion Chemistry Botany related Sci-Tech Space related IT related Analysis- Science MCQs in CAPF 2013 Last year 16 questions, this year 20 questions out of 125. [...]
Analysis: History MCQs Ancient Buddhism/Jainism Culture, Society Medieval Modern History/Freedom Struggle Analysis: History MCQs In 2013, 22 Out of 125 questions came from Indian History. = ~18% of the paper was History. In 2012 they had asked 21 questions. [...]
Analysis: Geography/EnB/Agro Geography Indian Geography World Geography Physical Geography Environment and Biodiversity (EnB) Panda and WWF Wallace Line Chipko Ozone Depletion Autotrophs Agro Coffee and Virgin soil Micronutrients Black Soil Analysis: Geography/EnB/Agro Geography Question wise, Geography received more or [...]
Analysis: Polity Answerkey CAPF Current Static/Theory Creation of New state Parliament related Budget related FR/DPSP related Language Council of ministers Tribunals Analysis: Polity Answerkey CAPF In CAPF 2013, they asked 14 out of 125 questions from Polity. (In 2012 [...]
Prologue #1: Land reforms Congress in Provincial Governments 1937 @Bihar @Uttar Pradesh @Bombay @Other Provinces Overall Limitations #2: Congress Resolutions 4farmers @Karachi session, 1931 @Firozpur Session, 1936 @election manifesto,1937 Other resolutions/Manifestos Rise of All India Kisan Sabha Kisan Manifesto, [...]
Prologue Peasant struggles in British India Peasant Revolts before 1857 Sanyasi Revolt, 1772 Pagal Panthi, 1830s-40s Santhal, 1855 Revolts after 1857's Mutiny Indigo Movement (1859-60) Deccan Riots (1874-75) Ramosi, 1877-87 No-Revenue Movements (1893-1900) Birsa Munda’s Ulgulan (1899) Rajasthan: 1913-17 [...]
Prologue What is land reform? Players in Land tenure system? The State Owner Superior tenants Inferior Tenants Share croppers Landless laborers Land Tenure System: British Legacy Permanent Settlement: Features Permanent Settlement: Consequences Ryotwari System Ryotwari System: Features Ryotwari System: Consequences [...]
A Question asked by many readers: "I've done graduation from foreign university. Is my degree valid for UPSC IAS/IPS exam or not?" Ans. Yes, your degree is valid, but you need to get an equivalent certificate from ASSOCIATION OF [...]