H OW TO PREPARE HISTORY FOR G ENERAL S TUDIES 1

S HARE OF HISTORY IN PRELIMS From history generally questions are asked in PT. Questions asked are from Art & culture as well Questions asked are concept based rather than fact based

M YTHS History is very boring Lot of dates, places, names have to be remembered in chronological order Everything gets mixed up once we complete the full syllabus This is not true study history like a story and keep narrating to others

H OW TO APPROACH THE SUBJECT Divide the subject into following parts Ancient history Medieval history Modern history or the freedom struggle Art and Culture World History (for mains)

C ONTD …. Before Start up with Preparation Go through NIOS and NCERT (Old) for basics. Always remember: “Basics are the Building Blocks of your Preparation”. Make mental notes of all the important incidents e.g Quit India movement etc

P REPRATION S TRATEGY After Starting Preparation Make your own Running notes which will be useful at Revision Time. Maintain Separate Notes of Ancient, Medieval and Modern History. You should be in a Position to List out the Contents Chronologically.

A NCIENT H ISTORY Prehistoric Period Indus Valley Civilization Vedic period The Sangam Age Buddhism & Jainism Maurya and Gupta Empire Post Gupta period

M EDIEVAL H ISTORY Delhi Sultanate Religious movements The Mughals and Later mughals The advent of Europeans Vijayanagar and Bahamani Kingdom The Marathas and Sikhs Settlement of British in India

M ODERN H ISTORY British conquest of India Economic policies of British Revolt of 1857 Brahmo and Arya Samaj Indian freedom struggle Pre-Congress Nationalist Organization Indian National Congress

C ONTD … Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism Swadeshi Movement Muslims League First World War and Freedom Struggle Gandhian Era Peasant Movements and Revolutionary Terrorism Independence and Partition

T OPICS

S OURCES NIOS notes NCERT history books Freedom Struggle: Bipin Chandra India After Gandhi A Book on History by Tamilnadu Board NBT books