Indian Society15 Marks
Q1.Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.
Directive: Discuss
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GS 1
UPSC Mains 2019
20 questions · 250 marks · Indian Heritage & Culture, History, Geography of the World and Society
Indian Society15 Marks
Q2.What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?
Directive: Explain
Indian Society15 Marks
Q3.Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples.
Directive: Elaborate
Physical Geography15 Marks
Q4.How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Geography15 Marks
Q5.How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development in India?
Directive: Analyze
Indian Geography15 Marks
Q6.How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?
Directive: Discuss
Indian Geography15 Marks
Q7.What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?
Directive: Explain
World History15 Marks
Q8.Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions
Directive: Explain
Modern History15 Marks
Q9.Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s.
Directive: Assess
Modern History15 Marks
Q10.Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
Directive: Elaborate
Indian Society10 Marks
Q11.What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?
Directive: Explain
Indian Society10 Marks
Q12.“Empowering women is the key to control population growth.” Discuss.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Society10 Marks
Q13.What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Geography10 Marks
Q14.Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.
Directive: Discuss
Indian Geography10 Marks
Q15.Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?
World Geography10 Marks
Q16.Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.
Directive: Discuss
Physical Geography10 Marks
Q17.Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples.
Directive: Assess
Modern History10 Marks
Q18.Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.
Directive: Examine
Modern History10 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.
Directive: Elucidate
Art & Culture10 Marks
Q20.Highlight the Central Asian and Greco Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.
Directive: Highlight