Union Public Service Commission

EXAMINATION NOTICE NO. 04/2013-CSP DATED 5.03.2013
(LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: 4/04/2013)
         CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2013
 (Commission's website - http://www.upsc.gov.in)

Union Public Service Commission
EXAMINATION NOTICE NO. 04/2013-CSP DATED 5.03.2013
(LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: 4/04/2013)
CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION, 2013
(Commission's website - http://www.upsc.gov.in)
IMPORTANT
CANDIDATES SHOULD NOTE THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE
SCHEME OF CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, WHICH HAVE BEEN
ELUCIDATED IN THE SCHEME OF EXAMINATION. THERE ARE SOME OTHER
CHANGES ALSO IN REGARD TO THE CHOICE OF LANGUAGE MEDIUM IN THE
CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION. THESE MAY ALSO BE NOTED.
1. CANDIDATES TO ENSURE THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR THE EXAMINATION:
The Candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to
examination. Their admission to all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the
prescribed eligibility conditions.
Mere issue of admission certificate to the candidate will not imply that his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the
Commission.
Commission takes up verification of eligibility conditions with reference to original documents only after the candidate has
qualified for Interview/Personality Test.
2. HOW TO APPLY:
Candidates are required to apply Online by using the website http:// www.upsconline.nic.in Detailed instructions for filling
up online applications are available on the above- mentioned website. Brief Instructions for filling up the "Online
Application Form" given in Appendix-II.
3. LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS:
The online Applications can be filled up to 4th of April, 2013 till 11.59 PM after which the link will be disabled.
4. The eligible candidates shall be issued an e-Admission Certificate three weeks before the commencement of the
examination. The e- Admission Certificate will be made available in the UPSC website [www.upsc.gov.in] for
downloading by candidates. No Admission Certificate will be sent by post.
5. PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS:
Candidates should note that there will be penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the
Objective Type Question Papers.
6. For both writing and marking answers in the OMR sheet [Answer Sheet], candidates must use black ball pen only.
Pens with any other colours are prohibited. Do not use Pencil or Ink pen. Candidates are further advised to read carefully
the "Special Instructions" contained in Appendix-III of the Notice.
6. FACILITATION COUNTER FOR GUIDANCE OF CANDIDATES:
In case of any guidance/information/clarification regarding their applications, candidature etc. candidates can contact
UPSC’s Facilitation Counter near gate ‘C’ of its campus in person or over Telephone No. 011-23385271/011-
23381125/011-23098543 on working days between 10.00 hrs and 17.00 hrs.
7. MOBILE PHONES BANNED:
(a) Mobile phones, pagers or any other communication devices are not allowed inside the premises where the examination
is being conducted. Any infringement of these instructions shall entail disciplinary action including ban from future
examinations.
(b) Candidates are advised in their own interest not to bring any of the banned items including mobile phones/ pagers to the
venue of the examination, as arrangement for safe-keeping cannot be assured.
8. Candidates are advised not to bring any valuable/costly items to the Examination Halls, as safe-keeping of the same
cannot be assured. Commission will not be responsible for any loss in this regard.
CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO APPLY ONLY THROUGH ONLINE MODE NO
OTHER MODE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION IS ALLOWED.
"Government strives to have a workforce which reflects gender balance and women candidates
are encouraged to apply."
….
F. No. 1/2/2012-E.I(B) : Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination for recruitment to the Services and
Posts mentioned below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 26th May, 2013 in accordance with the
Rules published by the Department of Personnel & Training in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 5th March, 2013
(i) Indian Administrative Service.
(ii) Indian Foreign Service.
(iii) Indian Police Service
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’.
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’.
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’.
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration).
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’.
(xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'.
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’.
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’.
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’.
(xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group 'A' (Gr. III).
(xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group "A".
(xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade).
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group
'B'.
(xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group
'B'.
(xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'.
(xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group 'B'.
 The number of vacancies to be filled on the result of the examination is expected to be approximately 1000. The final
number of vacancies may undergo a change subsequently after receipt of the firm number of vacancies from the
concerned Cadre Controlling Authorities.
 Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes
and Physically Disabled Categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Note I : The list of services participating in the Civil Services Examination, 2013 is tentative.
Note II : Services identified suitable for Physically Disabled Categories alongwith respective functional classification
and physical requirements are given below :-
S.No. Name of the Service Category(ies) for which
identified
Functional
Classification
Physical requirements
1. Indian Administrative
Service
i) Locomotor disability BA,OL,OA,BH,MW S,ST,W,SE,H,RWT
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment PD
2. Indian Foreign Service i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL S,ST,W,RW,C,MF,SE
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
3. Indian Revenue Service
(Customs & Central Excise,
Gr. A)
i) Locomotor disability OL,OA S,ST,W,BN,L,SE,MF,RW,H,C
ii) Hearing impairment HH
4. Indian P&T Accounts &
Finance Service, Gr.A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,W,SE,RW,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
5. Indian Audit & Accounts
Service Gr. A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL S,ST,W,BN,SE,RW,H,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
6. Indian Defence Accounts
Service, Gr. ‘A’
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,BN,SE,RW,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
7. Indian Revenue Service (IT)
Gr. A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,SE,RW,C
ii) Hearing impairment HH
8. Indian Ordnance Factories
Service, Gr. A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL
S,ST,W,BN,RW,SE,H,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
9. Indian Postal Service,
Gr. A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,BN,RW,SE,H,C
ii) Visual impairment B,LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
10. Indian Civil Accounts
Service, Gr. A
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,SE,RW,H,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
11. Indian Railway Accounts
Service, Gr. ‘A’
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,SE,RW,H,C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
12. Indian Railway
Personnel Service Gr.
‘A’
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL S,ST,W,BN, SE,RW,H,C
ii) Visual impairment B,LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
13. Indian Railway Traffic
Service Group’A’
Locomotor disability OA,OL S,ST,W,SE,RW,H,C
14. Indian Defence Estates
Service Gr. ‘A’
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL S,ST,W,BN,
ii) Blindness or Low MF,PP,KC,SE,RW,H,C
Vision
LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
15. Indian Information
Service, Gr. ‘A’
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL
S,ST,W,SE,RW,H,C
ii) Visual impairment B,LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
16. Indian Trade Service, Gr.
‘A’ (Gr.III)
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL S,ST,W,BN,
ii) Visual impairment LV MF,SE,RW,H,C
iii) Hearing impairment HH
17. Indian Corporate Law
Service
i) Locomotor disability OA,OL,OAL,BL ST,RW,SE,S,BN,H
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
18. Armed Forces
Headquarters Civil
Service, Gr. ‘B’ (Section
Officers’ Grade0
i) Locomotor disability OA, OL S, ST, W, BN, MF, SE,
ii) Visual impairment LV RW, H, C
iii) Hearing impairment HH
19. Delhi Andaman &
Nicobar Islands,
Lakshwadeep, Daman &
Diu and Dadra & Nagar
Haveli Civil Service Gr.
‘B’
i) Locomotor disability OA, OL S, ST, W, SE, RW, MF, H,
C
ii) Visual impairment LV
iii) Hearing impairment HH
20. Delhi Andaman &
Nicobar Islands,
Lakshwadeep, Daman &
Diu and Dadra & Nagar
Haveli Police Service Gr.
‘B’
i) Locomotor disability OL S, ST, W, BN, PP, KC, MF,
SE, RW, H, C
ii) Hearing impairment HH
21. Pondicherry Civil
Service , (Group B)
i) Locomotor disability OA, OL, OAL,
BL,LV
S, ST, W, SE, RW, H, C
2. (A) CENTRES OF EXAMINATION : The Examination will be held at the following Centres:
AGARTALA
AHMEDABAD
AIZAWL
ALIGARH
ALLAHABAD
AURANGABAD
BANGALORE
BAREILLY
BHOPAL
CHANDIGARH
CHENNAI
CUTTACK
DEHRADUN
DELHI
DHARWAD
DISPUR
GANGTOK
HYDERABAD
IMPHAL
ITANAGAR
JAIPUR
JAMMU
JODHPUR
JORHAT
KOCHI
KOHIMA
KOLKATA
LUCKNOW
MADURAI
MUMBAI
NAGPUR
PANAJI (GOA)
PATNA
PUDUCHERRY
PORT BLAIR
RAIPUR
RANCHI
SAMBALPUR
SHILLONG
SHIMLA
SRINAGAR
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
TIRUPATI
UDAIPUR
VISHAKHAPATNAM
The centres and the date of holding the examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the
Commission. Applicants should note that there will be a ceiling on the number of candidates allotted to each of the Centres,
except Chennai, Delhi, Dispur, Kolkatta and Nagpur. Allotment of Centres will be on the "first-apply-first allot” basis,
and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen. Applicants, who cannot get a Centre of
their choice due to ceiling, will be required to choose a Centre from the remaining ones. Applicants are, thus, advised that
they may apply early so that they could get a Centre of their choice.
NB: Notwithstanding the aforesaid provision, Commission reserves the right to change the examination centres
at their discretion if the situation demands.
Blind candidates will, however, be required to take the examination at any one of the seven centres only viz.
Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Dispur and Mumbai.
Candidates admitted to the examination will be informed of the time table and place or places of examination. The
candidates should note that no request for change of centre will be granted.
(B) PLAN OF EXAMINATION :
The Civil Services Examination will consist of two successive stages (vide Appendix I Section-I below).
(i) Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the Main
Examination; and
(ii) Civil Services Main Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various Services
and posts noted above.
Applications are now invited for the Preliminary Examination only. Candidates who are declared by the
Commission to have qualified for admission to the Main Examination will have to apply online again, in the Detailed
Application Form which would be made available them. The Main Examination is likely to be held in November/
December, 2013.
3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS :
(i) Nationality
(1) For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India.
(2) For other services, a candidate must be either:—
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India,
or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda,
the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling
in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a
certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Provided further that candidates belonging to categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for appointment
to the Indian Foreign Service.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the
offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the
Government of India.
(ii) Age Limits :
(a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August, 2013,
i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1983 and not later than 1st August, 1992.
(b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable :
(i) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe.
(ii) upto a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible to avail
of reservation applicable to such candidates.
(iii) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during
the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989.
(iv) upto a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with
any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof.
(v) upto a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commission Officers and ECOs/ SSCOs who
have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2013 and have been released (i) on completion of
assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from
1st August, 2013) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (ii) on
account of physical disability attributable to Military Service, or (iii) on invalidment.
(vi) Upto a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five
years Military Service as on 1st August, 2013 and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose
case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that they will be released on
three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
(vii) upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped persons.
NOTE I : Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who
are also covered under any other clauses of para 3(ii)(b) above, viz. those coming under the category of Ex-servicemen,
persons domiciled in the State of J & K, blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped etc. will be eligible for grant of
cumulative age-relaxation under both the categories.
NOTE II : The term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as ex-servicemen in the Ex-servicemen (Reemployment
in Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, as amended from time to time.
NOTE III : The age concession under para 3(ii)(b)(v) and (vi) will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned
Officers including ECOs/SSCOs who are released on own request.
NOTE IV : Notwithstanding the provision of age-relaxation under para 3 (ii) (b) (vii) above, a physically disabled
candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment only if he/she (after such physical examination as the
Government or appointing authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirements of physical and
medical standards for the concerned Services/posts to be allocated to the physically disabled candidates by the
Government.
SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE THE AGE LIMITS PRESCRIBED CAN IN NO CASE BE RELAXED.
The date of birth accepted by the Commission is that entered in the Matriculation or Secondary School Leaving
Certificate or in a certificate recognised by an Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a
Register of Matriculates maintained by a University, which extract must be certified by the proper authority of the
University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate.
These certificates are required to be submitted only at the time of applying for the Civil Services (Main)
Examination.
No other document relating to age like horoscopes, affidavits, birth extracts from Municipal Corporation, service
records and the like will be accepted.
The expression Matriculation/Secondary Examination Certificate in this part of the instruction includes the
alternative certificates mentioned-above.
NOTE 1 : Candidates should note that only the Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation/Secondary
Examination Certificate or an equivalent certificate as on the date of submission of applications will be accepted by
the Commission and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.
NOTE 2 : Candidates should also note that once a Date of Birth has been claimed by them and entered in the
records of the Commission for the purpose of admission to an examination, no change will be allowed subsequently
(or at any other examination of the Commission) on any grounds whatsoever.
NOTE 3 : The candidate should exercise due care while entering their date of birth in column 3 of the Application
Form for the Preliminary Examination. If on verification at any subsequent stage, any variation is found in their
date of birth from the one entered in their matriculation or equivalent Examination certificate, disciplinary action
will be taken against them by the Commission under the Rules.
(iii) Minimum Educational Qualifications :
The candidate must hold a degree of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature
in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a
University Under Section-3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification.
NOTE I : Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally
qualified for the Commission’s examination but have not been informed of the results as also the candidates who
intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary
Examination. All candidates who are declared qualified by the Commission for taking the Civil Services (Main)
Examination will be required to produce proof of passing the requisite examination with their application for the
Main Examination failing which such candidates will not be admitted to the Main Examination. The applications
for the Main Examination will be called sometime in the month of August/September, 2013.
NOTE II : In exceptional cases the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any of the
foregoing qualifications as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed examination conducted by the
other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his/her admission to the
examination.
NOTE III : Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications which are recognised by Government as
equivalent to professional and technical degree would also be eligible for admission to the examination.
NOTE IV : Candidates who have passed the final professional M.B.B.S. or any other Medical Examination but have
not completed their internship by the time of submission of their applications for the Civil Services (Main)
Examination, will be provisionally admitted to the Examination provided they submit along with their application a
copy of certificate from the concerned authority of the University/ Institution that they had passed the requisite final
professional medical examination. In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their
interview original Degree or a certificate from the concerned competent authority of the University/Institution that
they had completed all requirements (including completion of internship) for the award of the Degree.
(iv) Number of attempts:
Every candidate appearing at the examination who is otherwise eligible, shall be permitted four attempts
at the examination.
Provided that this restriction on the number of attempts will not apply in the case of Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes candidates who are otherwise eligible.
Provided further that the number of attempts permissible to candidates belonging to Other Backward
Classes, who are otherwise eligible shall be seven. The relaxation will be available to the candidates who are eligible
to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates.
Provided further that a physically handicapped will get as many attempts as are available to other nonphysically
handicapped candidates of his or her community, subject to the condition that a physically handicapped
candidate belonging to the General Category shall be eligible for seven attempts. The relaxation will be available to
the physically handicapped candidates who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates.
NOTE :
(i) An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the Examination.
(ii) If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, he/she shall be deemed to have
made an attempt at the Examination.
(iii) Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the
examination will count as an attempt.
(v) Restrictions on applying for the examination :
A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Foreign Service on the results of an
earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to compete at this examination.
In case such a candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the Preliminary Examination of Civil Services
Examination, 2013 is over and he/she continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be eligible to appear
in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2013 notwithstanding his/her having qualified in the Preliminary
Examination, 2013.
Also provided that if such a candidate is appointed to IAS/IFS after the commencement of the Civil Services (Main)
Examination, 2013 but before the result thereof and continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be
considered for appointment to any service/post on the basis of the result of this examination viz. Civil Services
Examination, 2013.
(vi) Physical Standards :
Candidates must be physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Civil Services Examination, 2013
as per guidelines given in Appendix-III of Rules for Examination published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary
dated 5th March, 2013.
4. FEE:
Candidates (excepting Female/SC/ST/PH Candidates who are exempted from pay- ment of fee) are required to pay fee
of Rs. 100/- (Rupees Hundred only) either by re- mitting the money in any Branch of SBI by Cash, or by using net
banking facility of State Bank of India/ State Bank of Bikaner& Jaipur/Sate Bank of Hyderabad/State Bank of Mysore/
State Bank of Patiala /State Bank of Travancore or by using Visa/Master Credit/Debit Card.
For the applicants in whose case payments details have not been received from the bank they will be treated as
fictitious payment cases and a list of all such applicants shall be made available on the Commission website within
two weeks after the last day of submission of online application. These applicants shall also be intimated through email
to submit copy of proof of their payment to the Commissi on at the address mentioned in the e-mail. The
applicant shall be required to submit the proof within 10 days from the date of such communication either by hand
or by speed post to the Commission. In case, no response is received from the applicants their applications shall be
summarily rejected and no further correspondence shall be entertained in this regard.
All female candidates and candidates belonging Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Physically Handicapped
categories are exempted from payment of fee. No fee exemption is, however, available to OBC candidates and they
are required to pay the prescribed fee in full.
Physically disabled persons are exempted from the payment of fee provided they are otherwise eligible for
appointment to the Services/Posts to be filled on the results of this examination on the basis of the standards of
medical fitness for these Services/Posts (including any concessions specifically extended to the physically disabled).
A physically disabled candidate claiming fee concession will be required by the Commission to submit along with
their Detailed Application Form, a certified copy of the certificate from a Government Hospital/Medical Board in
support of his/her claim for being physically disabled.
NOTE : Notwithstanding the aforesaid provision for fee exemption, a physically disabled candidate will be
considered to be eligible for appointment only if he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or the
Appointing Authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirements of physical and
medical standards for the concerned Services/Posts to be allocated to physically disabled candidates by the
Government.
NOTE I : APPLICATIONS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY THE PRESCRIBED FEE (UNLESS REMISSION OF FEE
IS CLAIMED) SHALL BE SUMMARILY REJECTED.
NOTE II : Fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances nor can the fee be held in reserve for any
other examination or selection.
NOTE III : If any candidate who took the Civil Services Examination held in 2012 wishes to apply for admission to
this examination, he/she must submit his/her application without waiting for the results or an offer of appointment.
NOTE IV : Candidates admitted to the Main Examination will be required to pay a further fee of Rs. 200/- (Rupees
Two hundreds only).
5. HOW TO APPLY :
(a) Candidates are required to apply online using the website http://www.upsconline.nic.in Detailed instructions for
filling up online applications are available on the abovementioned website.
The applicants are advised to submit only single application; however, if due to any unavoidable situation, if he/she
submits another/multiple applications, then he/she must ensure that applica- tion with the higher RID is
complete in all respects like applicants’ details, exami- nation centre, photograph, signature, fee etc. The applicants
who are submitting multiple applications should note that only the applications with higher RID (Reg- istration
ID) shall be entertained by the Commission and fee paid against one RID shall not be adjusted against any other
RID.
(b) All candidates, whether already in Government Service, Government owned industrial undertakings or other similar
organisations or in private employment should submit their applications direct to the Commission.
Persons already in Government Service, whether in a permanent or temporary capacity or as workcharged employees other
than casual or daily rated employees or those serving under the Public Enterprises are however, required to submit an
undertaking that they have informed in writing their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the Examination.
Candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their employer by the Commission withholding
permission to the candidates applying for/appearing at the examination, their application will be liable to be
rejected/candidature will be liable to be cancelled.
NOTE 1 :
While filling in his/her Application Form, the candidate should carefully decide about his/her choice of centre for
the Examination.
If any candidate appears at a centre other than the one indicated by the Commission in his/her Admission
Certificate, the papers of such a candidate will not be evaluated and his/her candidature will be liable to
cancellation.
NOTE 2 :
Candidates are not required to submit alongwith their applications any certificate in support of their claims
regarding Age, Educational Qualifications, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/Other Backward Classes and
Physically disabled etc. which will be verified at the time of the Main examination only. The
candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfil all the eligibility conditions for admission to
the Examination. Their admission at all the stages of examination for which they are admitted by the Commission
viz. Preliminary Examination, Main (Written) Examination and Interview Test will be purely provisional, subject to
their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time before or after the Preliminary
Examination, Main (written) Examination and Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfil any of the eligibility
conditions, their candidature for the examination will be cancelled by the Commission.
If any of their claims is found to be incorrect, they may render themselves liable to disciplinary action by the
Commission in terms of Rule 14 of the Rules for the Civil Services Examination, 2013 reproduced below :
A candidate who is or has been declared by the Commission to be guilty of:
(i) Obtaining support for his/her candidature by the following means, namely:–
(a) offering illegal gratification to, or
(b) applying pressure on, or
(c) blackmailing, or threatening to blackmail any person connected with the conduct of the examination, or
(ii) impersonating, or
(iii) procuring impersonation by any person, or
(iv) submitting fabricated documents or documents which have been tampered with, or
(v) making statements which are incorrect or false or suppressing material information, or
(vi) resorting to the following means in connection with his/her candidature for the examination,
Namely
(a) obtaining copy of question paper through improper means,
(b) finding out the particulars of the persons connected with secret work relating to the examination.
(c) influencing the examiners, or
(vii) using unfair means during the examination, or
(viii)writing obscene matter or drawing obscene sketches in the scripts, or
(ix) misbehaving in the examination hall including tearing of the scripts, provoking fellow examinees to boycott
examination, creating a disorderly scene and the like, or
(x) harassing or doing bodily harm to the staff employed by the Commission for the conduct of their examinations, or
(xi) being in possession of or using mobile phone, pager or any electronic equipment or device or any other equipment
capable of being used as a communication device during the examination; or
(xii) violating any of the instructions issued to candidates along with their Admission Certificates permitting them to take
the examination, or
(xiii)attempting to commit or as the case may be abetting the Commission of all or any of the acts specified in the foregoing
clauses; may in addition to rendering himself/herself liable to criminal prosecution, be liable;
(a) to be disqualified by the Commission from the examination for which he/she is a candidate and/or
(b) to be debarred either permanently or for a specified period
(i) by the Commission from any examination or selection held by them;
(ii) by the Central Government from any employment under them; and
(c) if he/she is already in service under Government to disciplinary action under the appropriate Rules.
Provided that no penalty under this Rules shall be imposed except after
(i) giving the candidate an opportunity of making such representation, in writing as he/she may wish to make
in that behalf; and
(ii) taking the representation, if any, submitted by the candidate within the period allowed to him/her into
consideration.
6. LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS :
The Online Applications can be filled up to 4th April, 2013 till 11.59 pm after which the link will be disabled.
7. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COMMISSION :
The Commission will not enter into any cor- respondence with the candidates about their candidature except in the
following cases:
(i) The eligible candidates shall be issued an e-Admission Certificate three weeks before the commencement of the examination.
The e-Admission Certificate will be made available on the UPSC website [www.upsc.gov.in] for downloading by
can- didates. No Admission Certificate will be sent by post. If a candidate does not receive his e-Admission Certificate or
any other communication regarding his/her candidature for the examination three weeks before the commencement of the
examination, he/she should at once contact the Commission. In- formation in this regard can also be obtained from the
Facilitation Counter located in the Commission’s Office either in person or over phone Nos. 011-23381125/011-
23385271/011-23098543. In case no communication is received in the Commission's Office from the candidate
regarding non-receipt of his/her Admission Certificate atleast 3 weeks before the examination, he/she himself/herself
will be solely responsible for non-receipt of his/her Admission Certificate.
No candidate will ordinarily be allowed to take the examination unless he/she holds a certificate of admission for the
exami- nation. On downloading of e-Admission Certificate, check it carefully and bring discrepancies/errors, if any, to the
notice of UPSC immediately.
The candidates should note that their admission to the examination will be purely provisional based on the information
given by them in the Application Form. This will be subject to verification of all the eligibility conditions by the UPSC.
The mere fact that a certificate of admission to the Examination has been issued to a candidate, will not imply that
his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the Commission or that entries made by the candidate in his/her
application for the Preliminary examination have been accepted by the Commission as true and correct. Candidates
may note that the Commission takes up the verification of eligibility conditions of a candidate, with reference to
original documents, only after the candidate has qualified for Civil Services (Main) Examination. Unless
candidature is formally confirmed by the Commission, it continues to be provisional.
The decision of the Commission as to the eligibility or otherwise of a candidate for admission to the Examination shall
be final.
Candidates should note that the name in the Admission Certificate in some cases, may be abbreviated due to technical
reasons.
(ii) In the event of a candidate download- ing more than one Admission Certificate from the Commission's website,
he/she should use only one of these Admission Certificates for appearing in the examina- tion and report about the
other(s) to the Commission's Office.
(iii) Candidates are informed that as the Preliminary Examination is only a screening test, no marks sheets will be
supplied to successful or unsuccessful candidates and no correspondence will be entertained by the Commission, in
this regard.
(iv) If a candidate receives an e-Admission Certificate in respect of some other candidate the same should be
immediately returned to the Commission with a request to issue the correct e-Admission Certificate. Candidates may
note that they will not be allowed to take the examination on the strength of an Admission Certificate issued in respect
of another candidate.
(v) Candidates must ensure that their e- mail IDs given in their online applications are valid and active.
IMPORTANT : ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMISSION SHOULD INVARIABLY CONTAIN THE
FOLLOWING PARTICULARS:
1. NAME AND YEAR OF THE EXAMINATION.
2. Registration ID (RID)
3. ROLL NUMBER (IF RECEIVED).
4. NAME OF CANDIDATE (IN FULL AND IN BLOCK LETTERS).
5. COMPLETE POSTAL ADDRESS AS GIVEN IN THE APPLICATION.
N.B. I. COMMUNICATION NOT CONTAINING THE ABOVE PARTICULARS MAY NOT BE ATTENDED TO.
N.B. II. CANDIDATES SHOULD ALSO NOTE DOWN THEIR RID NUMBER FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.
THEY MAY BE REQUIRED TO INDICATE THE SAME IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR CANDIDATURE
FOR THE CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION.
8. The eligibility for availing reservation against the vacancies reserved for the physically disabled persons shall be the
same as prescribed in "The Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act,
1995." Provided further that the physically disabled candidates shall also be required to meet special eligibility criteria in
terms of physical requirements/functional classification (abilities/disabilities) consistent with requirements of the identified
Service/Post as may be prescribed by its Cadre Controlling Authority at note-II of para 1 of this Notice.
The physical requirement and functional classification can for example be one or more of the following :
Code Physical Requirements
MF 1. Work performed by Manipulation by Fingers
PP 2. Work Performed by Pulling & pushing
L 3. Work Performed by Lifting
KC 4. Work Performed by Kneeling and Crouching
BN 5. Work Performed by Bending
S 6. Work Performed by Sitting (on bench or chair)
ST 7. Work Performed by Standing
W 8. Work Performed by Walking
SE 9. Work Performed by Seeing
H 10. Work Performed by Hearing/Speaking
RW 11. Work Performed by Reading and Writing
C 12. Communication
Code FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
BL 1. Both legs affected but not arms
BA 2. Both arms affected
a. Impaired Reach
b. Weakness of Grip.
c. ataxic
BLA 3. Both legs and both arms affected.
OL 4. One leg affected (R or L)
a. impaired reach
b. weakness of grip
c. ataxic
OA 5. One arm affected (R or L)
a. impaired reach
b. weakness of grip
c. ataxic
OAL 6. One arm and one leg affected
MW 7. Muscular weakness.
B 8. Blind
LV 9. Low vision
H 10. Hearing
Note : The above list is subject to revision.
9. A candidate will be eligible to get the benefit of community reservation only in case the particular caste to which the
candidates belong is included in the list of reserved communities issued by the Central Government. If a candidate
indicates in his/her application form for Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination that he/she belongs to General category
but subsequently writes to the Commission to change his/her category to a reserved one, such request shall not be
entertained by the Commission. Similar principle will be followed for physically disabled categories also.
While the above principle will be followed in general, there may be a few cases where there was a little gap (say 2-3
months) between the issuance of a Government Notification enlisting a particular community in the list of any of
the reserved communities and the date of submission of the application by the candidate. In such cases the
request of change of community from general to reserved may be considered by the Commission on merit. In
case of a candidate unfortunately becoming physically disabled during the course of the examination, the candidate
should produce valid documents to enable the Commission to take a decision in the matter on merit.
10. The closing date fixed for the receipt of the application will be treated as the date for determining the OBC status
(including that of creamy layer) of the candidate.
11. WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATIONS:
NO REQUEST FOR WITHDRAWAL OF CANDIDATURE RECEIVED FROM A CANDIDATE AFTER
HE/SHE HAS SUBMITTED HIS/HER APPLICATION WILL BE ENTERTAINED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
(MALAY MUKHOPADHYAY)
DEPUTY SECRETARY
UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
APPENDIX-I
Section-I
PLAN OF EXAMINATION
The competitive examination comprises two successive stages:
(i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examinations (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for Main Examination; and
(ii) Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various services and
posts.
2. The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a
maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in subsection (A) of Section-II. This examination is meant to serve as a
screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for
admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates
to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to
be filled in the year in the various Services and Posts. Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have
qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year
provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination.
3. Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written part of the Main Examination as may be fixed by
the Commission at their discretion, shall be summoned by them for interview for a Personality Test vide sub-section ‘C’ of
Section-II. Marks obtained in the papers will be counted for ranking. The number of candidates to be summoned for
interview will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled.
Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine their
final ranking. Candidates will be allotted to the various Services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the
preferences expressed by them for the various Services and Posts.
Section-II
Scheme and subjects for the Preliminary and Main Examinations
A. Preliminary Examination
The Examination shall comprise two compulsory papers of 200 marks each.
NOTE (i) Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions).
(ii) The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English. However, questions relating to English Language
Comprehension skills of Class X level will be tested through passages from English Language only without
providing Hindi translation thereof in the question paper.
(iii) Details of the syllabi are indicated in Part A of Section III.
(iv) Each paper will be of two hours duration. Blind candidates will however; be allowed an extra time of twenty
minutes at each paper.
B. Main Examination
The written examination will consist of the following papers:
Paper-I
Section 1 Essay 200 Marks
Section 2 English Comprehension
& English Précis 100 Marks
(Of Matriculation/ Xth standard
level)
Paper-II
General Studies–I 250Marks
(Indian Heritage and Culture,
History and Geography of the World
and Society)
Paper-III
General Studies –II 250 Marks
(Governance, Constitution,
Polity, Social Justice and
International relations)
Paper-IV
General Studies –III 250 Marks
(Technology, Economic Development,
Bio-diversity, Environment, Security
and Disaster Management)
Paper-V
General Studies –IV 250 Marks
(Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
Paper-VI
Optional Subject – Paper 1 250 Marks
Paper-VII
Optional Subject – Paper 2 250 Marks
Sub Total (Written test) 1800 Marks
Personality Test 275 Marks.
Grand Total 2075 Marks
{Candidates may choose any optional subject from amongst the list of subjects given in para 2 below (Group 1).
However, a candidate can opt for the literatures of a language, indicated in Group-2 below para 2, as an optional
subject, only if the candidate has graduated in the literature of that particular language as the main subject}.
NOTE:
(i) Marks obtained by the candidates for all papers (Paper I-VII) will be counted for merit ranking. However,
the Commission will have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all papers of the examination.
(ii) For the Language medium/ literature of languages, the scripts to be used by the candidates will be as
under:-
Language Script
Assamese Assamese
Bengali Bengali
Gujarati Gujarati
Hindi Devanagari
Kannada Kannada
Kashmiri Persian
Konkani Devanagari
Malayalam Malayalam
Manipuri Bengali
Marathi Devanagari
Nepali Devanagari
Oriya Oriya
Punjabi Gurumukhi
Sanskrit Devanagari
Sindhi Devanagari or Arabic
Tamil Tamil
Telugu Telugu
Urdu Persian
Bodo Devanagari
Dogri Devanagari
Maithilli Devanagari
Santhali Devanagari or Olchiki
Note : For Santhali language, question paper will be printed in Devanagari script; but candidates will be free
to answer either in Devanagari script or in Olchiki.
2. List of optional subjects for Main Examination:
Group-1
(i) Agriculture
(ii) Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
(iii) Anthropology
(iv) Botany
(v) Chemistry
(vi) Civil Engineering
(vii) Commerce and Accountancy
(viii) Economics
(ix) Electrical Engineering
(x) Geography
(xi) Geology
(xii) History
(xiii) Law
(xiv) Management
(xv) Mathematics
(xvi) Mechanical Engineering
(xvii) Medical Science
(xviii) Philosophy
(xix) Physics
(xx) Political Science and International Relations
(xxi) Psychology
(xxii) Public Administration
(xxiii) Sociology
(xxiv) Statistics
(xxv) Zoology
Group-2
Literature of any one of the following languages:
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili,
Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu,
Urdu, English.
NOTE:
(i) The question papers for the examination will be of conventional (essay) type.
(ii) Each paper will be of three hours duration.
(iii) Candidates will have the option to answer all the question papers, except Section 2 of the Paper-I (English
comprehension and English précis) in English or Hindi. If the candidate has had his/ her graduation in any of
the following language mediums using the particular language medium for qualifying the graduate level
examination, then he/she may opt for that particular language medium to answer all the question papers, except
Section 2 of the Paper-I (English comprehension and English précis).
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam,
Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu
(iv) However, in the interest of maintaining the quality and standards of examination, a minimum number of 25
(twenty-five) candidates should opt for a specific language medium for answering the question papers in that
language medium. In case there are less than 25 (twentyfive) candidates opting for any approved language
medium (other than English or Hindi), then those candidates will be required to write their examination either
in Hindi or in English only.
(v) Candidates exercising the option to answer Papers in any one of the languages mentioned above may,
if they so desire, give English version within brackets of only the description of the technical terms, if any, in
addition to the version in the language opted by them. Candidates should, however, note that if they misuse
the above rule, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing to them and
in extreme cases; their script(s) will not be valued for being in an unauthorized medium.
(vi) The question papers (other than the literature of language papers) will be set in Hindi and English only.
(vii) The details of the syllabi are set out in Part B of Section III.
General Instructions (Preliminary as well as Main Examination):
(i) Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances, will they be allowed the help of a scribe to
write the answers for them. However, blind candidates will be allowed to write the examination with the help of a scribe.
Blind candidates will also be allowed an extra time at each paper @ ten minutes per hour.
(ii) An extra time of twenty minutes per hour shall be permitted for the candidates with locomotor disability and cerebral
palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of function (minimum of
40% impairment) in the Civil Services (Main) Examination only. However, no scribe shall be permitted to such
candidates.
NOTE 1: The eligibility conditions of a scribe, his/her conduct inside the examination hall and the manner in which and
extent to which he/she can help the blind candidate in writing the Civil Services Examination shall be governed by the
instructions issued by the UPSC in this regard. Violation of all or any of the said instructions shall entail the cancellation of
the candidature of the blind candidate in addition to any other action that the UPSC may take against the scribe.
NOTE 2: For purpose of these rules the candidate shall be deemed to be a blind candidate if the percentage of visual
impairment is 40% or more. The criteria for determining the percentage of visual impairment shall be as follows :
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All with corrections Percentage
Better eye Worse eye
Category 0 6/9-6/18 6/24 to 6/36 20%
Category I 6/18-6/36 6/60 to nil 40%
Category II 6/60-4/60 3/60 to nil 75%
or field of
vision 10-20º
Category III 3/60-1/60 F.C. at 1 ft 100%
or field of to nil
vision 10 º
Category IV FC. at 1 ft F.C. at 1 ft 100%
to nil field of to nil field of
vision 100 º vision 100 º
One eyed 6/6 F.C. at 1 ft 30%
person to nil
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NOTE 3 : For availing of the concession admissible to a blind candidate, the candidate concerned shall produce a
certificate in the prescribed proforma from a Medical Board constituted by the Central/State Governments
alongwith his application for the Main Examination.
NOTE 4 : (i) The concession admissible to blind candidates shall not be admissible to those suffering from Myopia.
(ii) The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination.
(iii) If a candidate’s handwriting is not easily legible, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks
otherwise accruing to him.
(iv) Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.
(v) Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in all subjects of
the examination.
(vi) In the question papers, wherever required, SI units will be used.
(vii) Candidates should use only international form of Indian numerals (i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.) while answering question
papers.
(viii) Candidates will be allowed the use of Scientific (Non-Programmable type) Calculators at the conventional (Essay)
type examination of UPSC. Programmable type calculators will however not be allowed and the use of such calculators
shall tantamount to resorting to unfair means by the candidates. Loaning or interchanging of calculators in the Examination
Hall is not permitted.
It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective type papers (Test
Booklets). They should not therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
C. Interview test
The candidate will be interviewed by a Board who will have before them a record of his/her career. He/she will be asked
questions on matters of general interest. The object of the interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate for
a career in public service by a Board of competent and unbiased observers. The test is intended to judge the mental calibre
of a candidate. In broad terms this is really an assessment of not only his/her intellectual qualities but also social traits and
his/her interest in current affairs. Some of the qualities to be judged are mental alertness, critical powers of assimilation,
clear and logical exposition, balance of judgement, variety and depth of interest, ability for social cohesion and leadership,
intellectual and moral integrity.
2. The technique of the interview is not that of a strict cross-examination but of a natural, though directed and purposive
conversation which is intended to reveal the mental qualities of the candidate.
3. The interview test is not intended to be a test either of the specialised or general knowledge of the candidates which has
been already tested through their written papers. Candidates are expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in
their special subjects of academic study but also in the events which are happening around them both within and outside
their own state or country as well as in modern currents of thought and in new discoveries which should rouse the curiosity
of well educated youth.
Section-III
SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION
PART-A
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
The Examination shall comprise two compulsory papers of 200 marks each.
Paper I - (200 marks) Duration : Two hours
Current events of national and international importance.
History of India and Indian National Movement.
Indian and World Geography - Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
Indian Polity and Governance - Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights
Issues, etc.
Economic and Social Development Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics,
Social Sector initiatives, etc.
General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require
subject specialization.
General Science.
Paper II- (200 marks) Duration: Two hours
Comprehension
Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
Logical reasoning and analytical ability
Decision-making and problem-solving
General mental ability
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data
interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. - Class X level)
English Language Comprehension skills (Class X level).
Note 1 : Questions relating to English Language Comprehension skills of Class X level (last item in the Syllabus
of PaperII) will be tested through passages from English language only without providing Hindi translation
thereof in the question paper.
Note 2 : The questions will be of multiple choice, objective type.
PART-B
MAIN EXAMINATION
The main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits and depth of understanding
of candidates rather than merely the range of their information and memory.
The nature and standard of questions in the General Studies papers (Paper II to Paper V) will be
such that a well-educated person will be able to answer them without any specialized study. The questions
will be such as to test a candidate’s general awareness of a variety of subjects, which will have relevance for
a career in Civil Services. The questions are likely to test the candidate’s basic understanding of all relevant
issues, and ability to analyze, and take a view on conflicting socio- economic goals, objectives and demands.
The candidates must give relevant, meaningful and succinct answers.
The scope of the syllabus for optional subject papers (Paper VI and Paper VII) for the examination is
broadly of the honours degree level i.e. a level higher than the bachelors’ degree and lower than the masters’
degree. In the case of Engineering, Medical Science and law, the level corresponds to the bachelors’
degree.
Syllabi of the papers included in the scheme of Civil Services (Main) Examination are given as follows:-
PAPER-I
Essay: Candidates will be required to write an essay on a specific topic. The choice of subjects will be given.
They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion, and to
write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.
English Comprehension & English Precis will be to test the English language Comprehension and English
précis writing skills (at 10th standard level).
PAPER-II
General Studies- I: Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society.
 Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to
modern times.
 Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant
events, personalities, issues
 The Freedom Struggle - its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different
parts of the country.
 Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country.
 History of the world will include events from 18th century such as industrial revolution, world wars,
redrawal of national boundaries, colonization, decolonization, political philosophies like communism,
capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society.
 Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.
 Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and
developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies.
 Effects of globalization on Indian society
 Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism.
 Salient features of world’s physical geography.
 Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent);
factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in
various parts of the world (including India)
 Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc.,
geographical features and their location- changes in critical geographical features (including waterbodies
and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.
PAPER-III
General Studies- II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations.
 Indian Constitution- historical underpinnings, evolution, features, amendments, significant provisions
and basic structure.
 Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the
federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
 Separation of powers between various organs dispute redressal mechanisms and institutions.
 Comparison of the Indian constitutional scheme with that of other countries
 Parliament and State Legislatures - structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges
and issues arising out of these.
 Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary Ministries and Departments
of the Government; pressure groups and formal/informal associations and their role in the Polity.
 Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.
 Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various
Constitutional Bodies.
 Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies
 Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of
their design and implementation.
 Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and
associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders
 Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the
performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the
protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
 Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health,
Education, Human Resources.
 Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
 Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications,
models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and
institutional and other measures.
 Role of civil services in a democracy.
 India and its neighborhood- relations.
 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s
interests
 Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian
diaspora.
 Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.
PAPER-IV
General Studies-III: Technology, Economic Development, Bio diversity, Environment, Security and
Disaster Management.
 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and
employment.
 Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
 Government Budgeting.
 Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country, different types of irrigation and
irrigation systems storage, transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related
constraints; e-technology in the aid of farmers
 Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; Public Distribution
System- objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security;
Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing.
 Food processing and related industries in India- scope and significance, location, upstream and
downstream requirements, supply chain management.
 Land reforms in India.
 Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial
growth.
 Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.
 Investment models.
 Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life
 Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new
technology.
 Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and
issues relating to intellectual property rights.
 Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
 Disaster and disaster management.
 Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
 Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
 Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking
sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention
 Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with
terrorism
 Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate
PAPER-V
General Studies- IV: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude
This paper will include questions to test the candidates’ attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity,
probity in public life and his problem solving approach to various issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing
with society. Questions may utilise the case study approach to determine these aspects. The following broad
areas will be covered.
 Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions;
dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships. Human Values – lessons from the
lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of family, society and
educational institutions in inculcating values.
 Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and
political attitudes; social influence and persuasion.
 Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Service , integrity, impartiality and non-partisanship,
objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weakersections.
 Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
 Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world.
 Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration: Status and problems; ethical concerns
and dilemmas in government and private institutions; laws, rules, regulations and conscience as
sources of ethical guidance; accountability and ethical governance; strengthening of ethical and moral
values in governance; ethical issues in international relations and funding; corporate governance.
 Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance and probity;
Information sharing and transparency in government, Right to Information, Codes of Ethics, Codes of
Conduct, Citizen’s Charters, Work culture, Quality of service delivery, Utilization of public funds,
challenges of corruption.
 Case Studies on above issues.
PAPER-VI & PAPER VII
Optional Subject Papers I & II
Candidates may choose any optional subject from amongst the list of subjects given in para 2 (Group 1).
However, if a candidate has graduated in any of the literatures of languages indicated in Group-2 , with the
literature as the main subject, then the candidate can also opt for that particular literature subject as an
optional subject.
AGRICULTURE
PAPER - I
Ecology and its relevance to man, natural resources, their sustainable management and conservation. Physical
and social environment as factors of crop distribution and production. Agro ecology; cropping pattern as
indicators of environments. Environmental pollution and associated hazards to crops, animals and humans.
Climate change – International conventions and global initiatives. Green house effect and global warming.
Advance tools for ecosystem analysis – Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Cropping patterns in different agro-climatic zones of the country. Impact of high-yielding and short-duration
varieties on shifts in cropping patterns. Concepts of various cropping and farming systems. Organic and
Precision farming. Package of practices for production of important cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fibres, sugar,
commercial and fodder crops.
Important features and scope of various types of forestry plantations such as social forestry, agro-forestry, and
natural forests.
Propagation of forest plants. Forest products. Agro forestry and value addition. Conservation of forest flora and
fauna.
Weeds, their characteristics, dissemination and association with various crops; their multiplications; cultural,
biological, and chemical control of weeds.
Soil- physical, chemical and biological properties. Processes and factors of soil formation. Soils of India.
Mineral and organic constituents of soils and their role in maintaining soil productivity. Essential plant
nutrients and other beneficial elements in soils and plants. Principles of soil fertility, soil testing and fertilizer
recommendations, integrated nutrient management. Biofertilizers. Losses of nitrogen in soil, nitrogen-use
efficiency in submerged rice soils, nitrogen fixation in soils. Efficient phosphorus and potassium use. Problem
soils and their reclamation. Soil factors affecting greenhouse gas emission.
Soil conservation, integrated watershed management. Soil erosion and its management. Dry land agriculture
and its problems. Technology for stabilizing agriculture production in rain fed areas.
Water-use efficiency in relation to crop production, criteria for scheduling irrigations, ways and means of
reducing run-off losses of irrigation water. Rainwater harvesting. Drip and sprinkler irrigation. Drainage of
waterlogged soils, quality of irrigation water, effect of industrial effluents on soil and water pollution.
Irrigation projects in India. Farm management, scope, importance and characteristics, farm planning. Optimum
resource use and budgeting. Economics of different types of farming systems. Marketing management –
strategies for development, market intelligence. Price fluctuations and their cost; role of co-operatives in
agricultural economy; types and systems of farming and factors affecting them. Agricultural price policy. Crop
Insurance.
Agricultural extension, its importance and role, methods of evaluation of extension programmes, socioeconomic
survey and status of big, small and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers. Training
programmes for extension workers. Role of Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s (KVK) in dissemination of Agricultural
technologies. Non Government Organization (NGO) and self-help group approach for rural development.
PAPER - II
Cell structure, function and cell cycle. Synthesis, structure and function of genetic material. Laws of heredity.
Chromosome structure, chromosomal aberrations, linkage and cross-over, and their significance in
recombination breeding. Polyploidy, euploids and aneuploids. Mutations – and their role in crop improvement.
Heritability, sterility and incompatibility, classification and their application in crop improvement.
Cytoplasmic inheritance, sex-linked, sex-influenced and sex-limited characters.
History of plant breeding. Modes of reproduction, selfing and crossing techniques. Origin, evolution and
domestication of crop plants, center of origin, law of homologous series, crop genetic resources- conservation
and utilization. Application of principles of plant breeding, improvement of crop plants. Molecular markers
and their application in plant improvement. Pure-line selection, pedigree, mass and recurrent selections,
combining ability, its significance in plant breeding. Heterosis and its exploitation. Somatic hybridization.
Breeding for disease and pest resistance. Role of interspecific and intergeneric hybridization. Role of genetic
engineering and biotechnology in crop improvement. Genetically modified crop plants.
Seed production and processing technologies. Seed certification, seed testing and storage. DNA finger printing
and seed registration. Role of public and private sectors in seed production and marketing. Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) issues, WTO issues and its impact on Agriculture. Principles of Plant Physiology with reference
to plant nutrition, absorption, translocation and metabolism of nutrients. Soil water-plant relationship.
Enzymes and plant pigments; photosynthesis-modern concepts and factors affecting the process, aerobic and
anaerobic respiration; C3, C4 and CAM mechanisms. Carbohydrate, protein and fat metabolism. Growth and
development; photoperiodism and vernalilzation. Plant growth substances and their role in crop production.
Physiology of seed development and germination; dormancy. Stress physiology – draught, salt and water
stress.
Major fruits, plantation crops, vegetables, spices and flower crops. Package practices of major horticultural
crops. Protected cultivation and high tech horticulture. Post harvest technology and value addition of fruits and
vegetables. Landscaping and commercial floriculture. Medicinal and aromatic plants. Role of fruits and
vegetables in human nutrition.
Diagnosis of pests and diseases of field crops, vegetables, orchard and plantation crops and their economic
importance. Classification of pests and diseases and their management. Integrated pest and disease
management. Storage pests and their management. Biological control of pests and diseases. Epidemiology and
forecasting of major crop pests and diseases. Plant quarantine measures. Pesticides, their formulation and
modes of action.
Food production and consumption trends in India. Food security and growing population – vision 2020.
Reasons for grain surplus. National and international food policies. Production, procurement, distribution
constraints. Availability of food grains, per capita expenditure on food. Trends in poverty, Public Distribution
System and Below Poverty Line population, Targeted Public Distribution System (PDS), policy
implementation in context to globalization. Processing constraints. Relation of food production to National
Dietary Guidelines and food consumption pattern. Food based dietary approaches to eliminate hunger. Nutrient
deficiency – Micro nutrient
deficiency : Protein Energy Malnutrition or Protein Calorie Malnutrition (PEM or PCM), Micro nutrient
deficiency and HRD in context of work capacity of women and children. Food grain productivity and food
security.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE
PAPER – I
1. Animal Nutrition:
1.1 Partitioning of food energy within the animal. Direct and indirect calorimetry. Carbon – nitrogen balance
and comparative slaughter methods. Systems for expressing energy value of foods in ruminants, pigs and
poultry. Energy requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg, wool, and meat production.
1.2 Latest advances in protein nutrition. Energy protein interrelationships. Evaluation of protein quality. Use of
NPN compounds in ruminant diets. Protein requirements for maintenance, growth, pregnancy, lactation, egg,
wool and meat production.
1.3 Major and trace minerals – Their sources, physiological functions and deficiency symptoms. Toxic
minerals. Mineral interactions. Role of fat-soluble and water – soluble vitamins in the body, their sources and
deficiency symptoms.
1.4 Feed additives – methane inhibitors, probiotics, enzymes, antibiotics, hormones, oligosaccharides,
antioxidants, emulsifiers, mould inhibitors, buffers etc. Use and abuse of growth promoters like hormones and
antibiotics – latest concepts.
1.5 Conservation of fodders. Storage of feeds and feed ingredients. Recent advances in feed technology and
feed processing. Anti – nutritional and toxic factors present in livestock feeds. Feed analysis and quality
control. Digestibility trials – direct, indirect and indicator methods. Predicting feed intake in grazing animals.
1.6 Advances in ruminant nutrition. Nutrient requirements. Balanced rations. Feeding of calves, pregnant, work
animals and breeding bulls. Strategies for feeding milch animals during different stages of lactation cycle.
Effect of feeding on milk composition. Feeding of goats for meat and milk production. Feeding of sheep for
meat and wool production.
1.7 Swine Nutrition. Nutrient requirements. Creep, starter, grower and finisher rations. Feeding of pigs for lean
meat production. Low cost rations for swine.
1.8 Poultry nutrition. Special features of poultry nutrition. Nutrient requirements for meat and egg production.
Formulation of rations for different classes of layers and broilers.
2. Animal Physiology:
2.1 Physiology of blood and its circulation, respiration; excretion. Endocrine glands in health and disease.
2.2 Blood constituents - Properties and functions-blood cell formation-Haemoglobin synthesis and chemistryplasma
proteins production, classification and properties, coagulation of blood; Haemorrhagic disordersanticoagulants-
blood groups-Blood volume-Plasma expanders-Buffer systems in blood. Biochemical tests and
their significance in disease diagnosis.
2.3 Circulation - Physiology of heart, cardiac cycle, heart sounds, heart beat, electrocardiograms. Work and
efficiency of heart-effect of ions on heart function-metabolism of cardiac muscle, nervous and chemical
regulation of heart, effect of temperature and stress on heart, blood pressure and hypertension, osmotic
regulation, arterial pulse, vasomotor regulation of circulation, shock. Coronary and pulmonary circulation,
Blood-Brain barrier- Cerebrospinal fluid- circulation in birds.
2.4 Respiration - Mechanism of respiration, Transport and exchange of gases – neural control of respirationchemo-
receptors-hypoxia-respiration in birds.
2.5 Excretion-Structure and function of kidney-formation of urine-methods of studying renal function-renal
regulation of acidbase balance: physiological constituents of urine-renal failure-passive venous congestion-
Urinary secretion in chicken-Sweat glands and their function. Bio-chemical test for urinary dysfunction.
2.6 Endocrine glands - Functional disorders their symptoms and diagnosis. Synthesis of hormones, mechanism
and control of secretion- hormonal receptors-classification and function.
2.7 Growth and Animal Production- Prenatal and postnatal growth, maturation, growth curves, measures of
growth, factors affecting growth, conformation, body composition, meat quality.
2.8 Physiology of Milk Production, Reproduction and Digestion- Current status of hormonal control of
mammary development, milk secretion and milk ejection, Male and Female reproductive organs, their
components and functions. Digestive organs and their functions.
2.9 Environmental Physiology- Physiological relations and their regulation; mechanisms of adaptation,
environmental factors and regulatory mechanisms involved in animal behaviour, climatology – various
parameters and their importance. Animal ecology. Physiology of behaviour. Effect of stress on health and
production.
3. Animal Reproduction :
Semen quality- Preservation and Artificial Insemination- Components of semen, composition of spermatozoa,
chemical and physical properties of ejaculated semen, factors affecting semen in vivo and in vitro. Factors
affecting semen production and quality, preservation, composition of diluents, sperm concentration, transport
of
diluted semen. Deep freezing techniques in cows, sheep, goats, swine and poultry. Detection of oestrus and
time of insemination for better conception. Anoestrus and repeat breeding.
4. Livestock Production and Management :
4.1 Commercial Dairy Farming- Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced countries. Dairying
under mixed farming and as specialized farming, economic dairy farming. Starting of a dairy farm, Capital and
land requirement, organization of the dairy farm. Opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the
efficiency of dairy animal. Herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production, pricing policy; Personnel
Management. Developing Practical and Economic rations for dairy cattle; supply of greens throughout the
year, feed and fodder requirements of Dairy Farm. Feeding regimes for young stock and bulls, heifers and
breeding animals; new trends in feeding young and adult stock; Feeding records.
4.2 Commercial meat, egg and wool production-Development of practical and economic rations for sheep,
goats, pigs, rabbits and poultry. Supply of greens, fodder, feeding regimes for young and mature stock. New
trends in enhancing production and management. Capital and land requirements and socio-economic concept.
4.3 Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural calamities.
5. Genetics and Animal Breeding:
History of animal genetics. Mitosis and Meiosis: Mendelian inheritance; deviations to Mendelian genetics;
Expression of genes; Linkage and crossing over; Sex determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters;
Blood groups and polymorphism; Chromosome aberrations; Cytoplasmic inheritance. Gene and its structure;
DNA as a genetic material; Genetic code and protein synthesis; Recombinant DNA technology. Mutations,
types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation rate. Trans-genesis.
5.1 Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding- Quantitative Vs. qualitative traits; Hardy Weinberg Law;
Population Vs. individual; Gene and genotypic frequency; Forces changing gene frequency; Random drift and
small populations; Theory of path coefficient; Inbreeding, methods of estimating inbreeding coefficient,
systems of inbreeding, Effective population size; Breeding value, estimation of breeding value, dominance and
epistatic deviation; Partitioning of variation; Genotype X environment correlation and genotype X environment
interaction; role of multiple measurements; Resemblance between relatives.
5.2 Breeding Systems- Breeds of live-stock and Poultry. Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic
correlations, their methods of estimation and precision of estimates; Aids to selection and their relative merits;
Individual, pedigree, family and within family selection; Progeny testing; Methods of selection; Construction
of selection indices and their uses; Comparative evaluation of genetic gains through various selection methods;
Indirect selection and correlated response; Inbreeding, out breeding, upgrading, cross-breeding and synthesis of
breeds; Crossing of inbred lines for commercial production; Selection for general and specific combining
ability; Breeding for threshold characters. Sire index.
6. Extension :
Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension. Different Methods adopted to educate
farmers under rural conditions. Generation of technology, its transfer and feedback. Problems and constraints
in transfer of technology. Animal husbandry programmes for rural development.
PAPER – II
1. Anatomy, Pharmacology and Hygiene :
1.1 Histology and Histological Techniques: Paraffin embedding technique of tissue processing and H.E.
staining – Freezing microtomy- Microscopy-Bright field microscope and electron microscope. Cytologystructure
of cell, organells and inclusions; cell division-cell types- Tissues and their classification-embryonic
and adult tissuesComparative histology of organs-Vascular. Nervous, digestive, respiratory, musculo- skeletal
and urogenital systemsEndocrine glands -Integuments-sense organs.
1.2 Embryology – Embryology of vertebrates with special reference to aves and domestic mammals
gametogenesis-fertilization-germ layers- foetal membranes and placentation-types of placenta in domestic
mammals-Teratology-twins and twinning-organogenesis -germ layer derivatives- endodermal, mesodermal and
ectodermal derivates.
1.3 Bovine Anatomy- Regional Anatomy: Para-nasal sinuses of OX- surface anatomy of salivary glands.
Regional anatomy of infraorbital, maxillary, mandibuloalveolar, mental and cornual nerve block. Regional
anatomy of paravertebral nerves, pudendal nerve, median ulnar and radial nerves-tibial,fibular and digital
nerves-Cranial nerves-structures involved in epidural anaesthesia-superficial lymph nodes-surface anatomy of
visceral organs of thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities-comparative features of locomotor apparatus and
their
application in the biomechanics of mammalian body.
1.4 Anatomy of Fowl- Musculo-skeletal system-functional anatomy in relation to respiration and flying,
digestion and egg production.
1.5 Pharmacology and therapeutic drugs Cellular level of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Drugs
acting on fluids and electrolyte balance. Drugs acting on Autonomic nervous system. Modern concepts of
anaesthesia and dissociative anaesthetics. Autacoids. Antimicrobials and principles of chemotherapy in
microbial infections. Use of hormones in therapeutics-chemotherapy of parasitic infections. Drug and
economic concerns in the Edible tissues of animals-chemotherapy of Neoplastic diseases. Toxicity due to
insecticides, plants, metals, non-metals, zootoxins and mycotoxins.
1.6 Veterinary Hygiene with reference to water, air and habitation - Assessment of pollution of water, air and
soil-Importance of climate in animal health- effect of environment on animal function and performancerelationship
between industrialization and animal agriculture- animal housing requirements for specific
categories of domestic animals viz. pregnant cows and sows, milking cows, broiler birds- stress, strain and
productivity in relation to animal habitation.
2. Animal Diseases :
2.1 Etiology, epidemiology pathogenesis, symptoms, postmortem lesions, diagnosis, and control of infectious
diseases of cattle, sheep and goat, horses, pigs and poultry.
2.2 Etiology, epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of production diseases of cattle, horse, pig and
poultry.
2.3 Deficiency diseases of domestic animals and birds.
2.4 Diagnosis and treatment of non-specific conditions like impaction, Bloat, Diarrhoea, Indigestion,
dehydration, stroke, poisoning.
2.5 Diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.
2.6 Principles and methods of immunization of animals against specific diseasesherd immunity- disease free
zones- ‘zero’ disease concept- chemoprophylaxis.
2.7 Anaesthesia- local, regional and general-preanesthetic medication. Symptoms and surgical interference in
fractures and dislocation. Hernia, choking abomasal displacement- Caesarian operations. Rumenotomy-
Castrations.
2.8 Disease investigation techniques.Materials for laboratory investigation- Establishment of Animal Health
Centers- Disease free zone.
3. Veterinary Public Health:
3.1 Zoonoses. - Classification, definition, role of animals and birds in prevalence and transmission of zoonotic
diseases- occupational zoonotic diseases.
3.2 Epidemiology- Principle, definition of epidemiological terms, application of epidemiological measures in
the study of diseases and disease control. Epidemiological features of air, water and food borne infections. OIE
regulations, WTO, sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
3.3 Veterinary Jurisprudence- Rules and Regulations for improvement of animal quality and prevention of
animal diseases - State and central rules for prevention of animal and animal product borne diseases-S P C AVeterolegal
cases- Certificates Materials and Methods of collection of samples for veterolegal investigation.
4. Milk and Milk Products Technology:
4.1 Market Milk: Quality, testing and grading of raw milk. Processing, packaging, storing, distribution,
marketing, defects and their control. Preparation of the following milks: Pasteurized, standardized, toned,
double toned, sterilized, homogenized, reconstituted, recombined and flavoured milks. Preparation of cultured
milks, cultures and their management, yoghurt, Dahi, Lassi and Srikhand. Preparation of flavoured and
sterilized milks. Legal standards. Sanitation requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk plant
equipment.
4.2 Milk Products Technology: Selection of raw materials, processing, storing , distributing and marketing
milk products such as Cream, Butter, Ghee, Khoa, Channa, Cheese, condensed, evaporated, dried milk and
baby food, Ice cream and Kulfi; by-products, whey products, butter milk, lactose and casein. Testing, grading,
judging milk products- BIS and Agmark specifications, legal standards, quality control and nutritive properties.
Packaging, processing and operational control. Costing of dairy products.
5. Meat Hygiene and Technology:
5.1 Meat Hygiene.
5.1.1 Ante mortem care and management of food animals, stunning, slaughter and dressing operations; abattoir
requirements and designs; Meat inspection procedures and judgment of carcass meat cuts- grading of carcass
meat cuts- duties and functions of Veterinarians in wholesome meat production.
5.1.2 Hygienic methods of handling production of meat- Spoilage of meat and control measures- Post -
slaughter physicochemical changes in meat and factors that influence them- Quality improvement methods –
Adulteration of meat and detection Regulatory provisions in Meat trade and Industry.
5.2 Meat Technology.
5.2.1 Physical and chemical characteristics of meat- Meat emulsions- Methods of preservation of meat- Curing,
canning, irradiation, packaging of meat and meat products, processing and formulations.
5.3 By- products- Slaughter house by- products and their utilization- Edible and inedible by products- Social
and economic implications of proper utilization of slaughter house by-products- Organ products for food and
pharmaceuticals.
5.4 Poultry Products Technology- Chemical composition and nutritive value of poultry meat, pre - slaughter
care and management. Slaughtering techniques, inspection, preservation of poultry meat and products. Legal
and BIS standards.
Structure, composition and nutritive value of eggs. Microbial spoilage. Preservation and maintenance.
Marketing of poultry meat, eggs and products. Value added meat products.
5.5 Rabbit/Fur Animal farming – Rabbit meat production. Disposal and utilization of fur and wool and
recycling of waste by products. Grading of wool.
ANTHROPOLOGY
PAPER - I
1.1 Meaning, scope and development of Anthropology.
1.2 Relationships with other disciplines: Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical
Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities.
1.3 Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance:
(a) Social- cultural Anthropology.
(b) Biological Anthropology.
(c) Archaeological Anthropology.
(d) Linguistic Anthropology.
1.4 Human Evolution and emergence of Man:
(a) Biological and Cultural factors in human evolution.
(b) Theories of Organic Evolution (PreDarwinian, Darwinian and Post-Darwinian).
(c) Synthetic theory of evolution; Brief outline of terms and concepts of evolutionary biology (Doll’s rule,
Cope’s rule, Gause’s rule, parallelism, convergence, adaptive radiation, and mosaic evolution).
1.5 Characteristics of Primates; Evolutionary Trend and Primate Taxonomy; Primate Adaptations; (Arboreal
and Terrestrial) Primate Taxonomy; Primate Behaviour; Tertiary and Quaternary fossil primates; Living Major
Primates; Comparative Anatomy of Man and Apes; Skeletal changes due to erect posture and its implications.
1.6 Phylogenetic status, characteristics and geographical distribution of the following:
(a) Plio-pleistocene hominids in South and East Africa - Australopithecines.
(b) Homo erectus: Africa (Paranthropus), Europe (Homo erectus heidelbergensis), Asia (Homo erectus
javanicus, Homo erectus pekinensis).
(c) Neanderthal Man- La-Chapelle-auxsaints (Classical type), Mt. Carmel (Progressive type).
(d) Rhodesian man.
(e) Homo sapiens — Cromagnon, Grimaldi and Chancelede.
1.7 The biological basis of life: The Cell, DNA structure and replication, Protein Synthesis, Gene, Mutation,
Chromosomes, and Cell Division.
1.8 (a) Principles of Prehistoric Archaeology. Chronology: Relative and Absolute Dating methods.
(b) Cultural Evolution- Broad Outlines of Prehistoric cultures:
(i) Paleolithic
(ii) Mesolithic
(iii) Neolithic
(iv) Chalcolithic
(v) Copper-Bronze Age
(vi) Iron Age
2.1 The Nature of Culture : The concept and characteristics of culture and civilization; Ethnocentrism vis-àvis
cultural Relativism.
2.2 The Nature of Society: Concept of Society; Society and Culture; Social Institutions; Social groups; and
Social stratification.
2.3 Marriage: Definition and universality; Laws of marriage (endogamy, exogamy, hypergamy, hypogamy,
incest taboo); Types of marriage (monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, group marriage). Functions of marriage;
Marriage regulations (preferential, prescriptive and proscriptive); Marriage payments (bride wealth and
dowry).
2.4 Family: Definition and universality; Family, household and domestic groups; functions of family; Types of
family (from the perspectives of structure, blood relation, marriage, residence and succession); Impact of
urbanization, industrialization and feminist movements on family.
2.5 Kinship: Consanguinity and Affinity; Principles and types of descent (Unilineal, Double, Bilateral,
Ambilineal); Forms of descent groups (lineage, clan, phratry, moiety and kindred); Kinship terminology
(descriptive and classificatory); Descent, Filiation and Complimentary Filiation; Descent and Alliance.
3. Economic organization: Meaning, scope and relevance of economic anthropology; Formalist and
Substantivist debate; Principles governing production, distribution and exchange (reciprocity, redistribution
and market), in communities, subsisting on hunting and gathering, fishing, swiddening, pastoralism,
horticulture, and
agriculture; globalization and indigenous economic systems.
4. Political organization and Social Control: Band, tribe, chiefdom, kingdom and state; concepts of power,
authority and legitimacy; social control, law and justice in simple societies.
5. Religion: Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional);
monotheism and polytheism; sacred and profane; myths and rituals; forms of religion in tribal and peasant
societies (animism, animatism, fetishism, naturism and totemism); religion, magic and science distinguished;
magicoreligious functionaries (priest, shaman, medicine man, sorcerer and witch).
6. Anthropological theories:
(a) Classical evolutionism (Tylor, Morgan and Frazer)
(b) Historical particularism (Boas); Diffusionism (British, German and American)
(c) Functionalism (Malinowski); Structural-functionlism (Radcliffe-Brown)
(d) Structuralism (L’evi - Strauss and E.Leach)
(e) Culture and personality (Benedict, Mead, Linton, Kardiner and Cora – du Bois).
(f) Neo - evolutionism (Childe, White, Steward, Sahlins and Service)
(g) Cultural materialism (Harris)
(h) Symbolic and interpretive theories (Turner, Schneider and Geertz)
(i) Cognitive theories (Tyler, Conklin)
(j) Post- modernism in anthropology
7. Culture, language and communication: Nature, origin and characteristics of language; verbal and nonverbal
communication; social context of language use.
8. Research methods in anthropology:
(a) Fieldwork tradition in anthropology
(b) Distinction between technique, method and methodology
(c) Tools of data collection: observation, interview, schedules, questionnaire, Case study, genealogy, lifehistory,
oral history, secondary sources of information, participatory methods.
(d) Analysis, interpretation and presentation of data.
9.1 Human Genetics : Methods and Application: Methods for study of genetic principles in man-family study
(pedigree analysis, twin study, foster child, co-twin method, cytogenetic method, chromosomal and karyo-type
analysis), biochemical methods, immunological methods, D.N.A. technology and recombinant technologies.
9.2 Mendelian genetics in man-family study, single factor, multifactor, lethal, sublethal and polygenic
inheritance in man.
9.3 Concept of genetic polymorphism and selection, Mendelian population, HardyWeinberg law; causes and
changes which bring down frequency – mutation, isolation, migration, selection, inbreeding and genetic drift.
Consanguineous and non-consanguineous mating, genetic load, genetic effect of consanguineous and cousin
marriages.
9.4 Chromosomes and chromosomal aberrations in man, methodology.
(a) Numerical and structural aberrations (disorders).
(b) Sex chromosomal aberrations – Klinefelter (XXY), Turner (XO), Super female (XXX), intersex and other
syndromic disorders.
(c) Autosomal aberrations – Down syndrome, Patau, Edward and Cri-du-chat syndromes.
(d) Genetic imprints in human disease, genetic screening, genetic counseling, human DNA profiling, gene
mapping and genome study.
9.5 Race and racism, biological basis of morphological variation of non-metric and metric characters. Racial
criteria, racial traits in relation to heredity and environment; biological basis of racial classification, racial
differentiation and race crossing in man.
9.6 Age, sex and population variation as genetic marker- ABO, Rh blood groups, HLA Hp, transferring, Gm,
blood enzymes. Physiological characteristics-Hb level, body fat, pulse rate, respiratory functions and sensory
perceptions in different cultural and socio-economic groups.
9.7 Concepts and methods of Ecological Anthropology. Bio-cultural Adaptations – Genetic and Non- genetic
factors. Man’s physiological responses to environmental stresses: hot desert, cold, high altitude climate.
9.8 Epidemiological Anthropology: Health and disease. Infectious and non-infectious diseases. Nutritional
deficiency related diseases.
10. Concept of human growth and development: stages of growth - pre-natal, natal, infant, childhood,
adolescence, maturity, senescence.
- Factors affecting growth and development genetic, environmental, biochemical, nutritional, cultural and
socio-economic.
- Ageing and senescence. Theories and observations - biological and chronological longevity. Human physique
and somatotypes. Methodologies for growth studies.
11.1 Relevance of menarche, menopause and other bioevents to fertility. Fertility patterns and differentials.
11.2 Demographic theories- biological, social and cultural.
11.3 Biological and socio-ecological factors influencing fecundity, fertility, natality and mortality.
12. Applications of Anthropology: Anthropology of sports, Nutritional anthropology, Anthropology in
designing of defence and other equipments, Forensic Anthropology, Methods and principles of personal
identification and reconstruction, Applied human genetics – Paternity diagnosis, genetic counseling and
eugenics, DNA technology in diseases and medicine, serogenetics and cytogenetics in reproductive biology.
PAPER – II
1.1 Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization — Prehistoric (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and
Neolithic Chalcolithic). Protohistoric (Indus Civilization): Pre- Harappan, Harappan and postHarappan
cultures. Contributions of tribal cultures to Indian civilization.
1.2 Palaeo – anthropological evidences from India with special reference to Siwaliks and Narmada basin
(Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus and Narmada Man).
1.3 Ethno-archaeology in India : The concept of ethno-archaeology; Survivals and Parallels among the hunting,
foraging, fishing, pastoral and peasant communities including arts and crafts producing communities.
2. Demographic profile of India — Ethnic and linguistic elements in the Indian population and their
distribution. Indian population – factors influencing its structure and growth.
3.1 The structure and nature of traditional Indian social system — Varnashram, Purushartha, Karma, Rina and
Rebirth.
3.2 Caste system in India- structure and characteristics, Varna and caste, Theories of origin of caste system,
Dominant caste, Caste mobility, Future of caste system, Jajmani system, Tribe- caste continuum.
3.3 Sacred Complex and Nature- Man-Spirit Complex.
3.4 Impact of Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and Christianity on Indian society.
4. Emergence and growth of anthropology in India-Contributions of the 18th, 19th and early 20th Century
scholar-administrators. Contributions of Indian anthropologists to tribal and caste studies.
5.1 Indian Village: Significance of village study in India; Indian village as a social system; Traditional and
changing patterns of settlement and inter-caste relations; Agrarian relations in Indian villages; Impact of
globalization on Indian villages.
5.2 Linguistic and religious minorities and their social, political and economic status.
5.3 Indigenous and exogenous processes of socio-cultural change in Indian society: Sanskritization,
Westernization, Modernization; Inter-play of little and great traditions; Panchayati raj and social change;
Media and social change.
6.1 Tribal situation in India – Bio-genetic variability, linguistic and socio-economic characteristics of tribal
populations and their distribution.
6.2 Problems of the tribal Communities — land alienation, poverty, indebtedness, low literacy, poor
educational facilities, unemployment, underemployment, health and nutrition.
6.3 Developmental projects and their impact on tribal displacement and problems of rehabilitation.
Development of forest policy and tribals. Impact of urbanization and industrialization on tribal populations.
7.1 Problems of exploitation and deprivation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward
Classes. Constitutional safeguards for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes.
7.2 Social change and contemporary tribal societies: Impact of modern democratic institutions, development
programmes and welfare measures on tribals and weaker sections.
7.3 The concept of ethnicity; Ethnic conflicts and political developments; Unrest among tribal communities;
Regionalism and demand for autonomy; Pseudo-tribalism; Social change among the tribes during colonial and
post-Independent India.
8.1 Impact of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and other religions on tribal societies.
8.2 Tribe and nation state — a comparative study of tribal communities in India and other countries.
9.1 History of administration of tribal areas, tribal policies, plans, programmes of tribal development and their
implementation. The concept of PTGs (Primitive Tribal Groups), their distribution, special programmes for
their development. Role of N.G.O.s in tribal development.
9.2 Role of anthropology in tribal and rural development.
9.3 Contributions of anthropology to the understanding of regionalism, communalism, and ethnic and political
movements.
BOTANY
PAPER – I
1. Microbiology and Plant Pathology:
Structure and reproduction/multiplication of viruses, viroids, bacteria, fungi and mycoplasma; Applications of
microbiology in agriculture, industry, medicine and in control of soil and water pollution; Prion and Prion
hypothesis.
Important crop diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi and nematodes; Modes of infection
and dissemination; Molecular basis of infection and disease resistance/defence; Physiology of parasitism and
control measures; Fungal toxins; Modelling and disease forecasting; Plant quarantine.
2. Cryptogams:
Algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes - structure and reproduction from evolutionary viewpoint;
Distribution of Cryptogams in India and their ecological and economic importance.
3. Phanerogams:
Gymnosperms: Concept of Progymnosperms; Classification and distribution of gymnosperms; Salient features
of Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Coniferales and Gnetales, their structure and reproduction; General account of
Cycadofilicales, Bennettitales and Cordaitales; Geological time scale; Type of fossils and their study
techniques. Angiosperms: Systematics, anatomy, embryology, palynology and phylogeny.
Taxonomic hierarchy; International Code of Botanical Nomenclature; Numerical taxonomy and
chemotaxonomy; Evidence from anatomy, embryology and palynology. Origin and evolution of angiosperms;
Comparative account of various systems of classification of angiosperms; Study of angiospermic families –
Mangnoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Brassicaceae, Rosaceae, Fabaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Malvaceae,
Dipterocarpaceae, Apiaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Verbenaceae, Solanaceae, Rubiaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Asteraceae,
Poaceae, Arecaceae, Liliaceae, Musaceae and Orchidaceae.
Stomata and their types; Glandular and non-glandular trichomes; Unusual secondary growth; Anatomy of C3
and C4 plants; Xylem and phloem differentiation; Wood anatomy.
Development of male and female gametophytes, pollination, fertilization; Endosperm - its development and
function; Patterns of embryo development; Polyembroyony and apomixes; Applications of palynology;
Experimental embryology including pollen storage and test-tube fertilization.
4. Plant Resource Development:
Domestication and introduction of plants; Origin of cultivated plants; Vavilov’s centres of origin; Plants as
sources for food, fodder, fibre, spices, beverages, edible oils, drugs, narcotics, insecticides, timber, gums,
resins and dyes, latex, cellulose, starch and its products; Perfumery; Importance of Ethnobotany in Indian
context; Energy plantations; Botanical Gardens and Herbaria.
5. Morphogenesis:
Totipotency, polarity, symmetry and dfferentiation; Cell, tissue, organ and protoplast culture; Somatic hybrids
and Cybrids; Micropropagation; Somaclonal variation and its applications; Pollen haploids, embryo rescue
methods and their applications.
PAPER – II
1. Cell Biology:
Techniques of cell biology; Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells - structural and ultra-structural details; Structure
and function of extra-cellular matrix (cell wall), membranes-cell adhesion, membrane transport and vesicular
transport; Structure and function of cell organelles (chloroplasts, mitochondria, ER, dictyo-somes ribosomes,
endosomes, lysosomes, peroxisomes); Cytoskelaton and microtubules; Nucleus, nucleolus, nuclear pore
complex; Chromatin and nucleosome; Cell signalling and cell receptors; Signal transduction; Mitosis and
meiosis; Molecular basis of cell cycle; Numerical and structural variations in chromosomes and their
significance; Chromatin organization and packaging of genome; Polytene chromosomes; B-chromosomes –
structure, behaviour and significance.
2. Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution:
Development of genetics; Gene versus allele concepts (Pseudoalleles); Quantitative genetics and multiple
factors; Incomplete dominance, polygenic inheritance, multiple alleles; Linkage and crossing over; Methods of
gene mapping, including molecular maps (idea of mapping function); Sex chromosomes and sex-linked
inheritance, sex determination and molecular basis of sex differentiation; Mutations (biochemical and
molecular basis); Cytoplasmic inheritance and cytoplasmic genes (including genetics of male sterility).
Structure and synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins; Genetic code and regulation of gene expression; Gene
silencing; Multigene families; Organic evolution – evidences, mechanism and theories.
Role of RNA in origin and evolution.
3. Plant Breeding, Biotechnology and Biostatistics:
Methods of plant breeding – introduction, selection and hybridization (pedigree, backcross, mass selection,
bulk method); Mutation, polyploidy, male sterility and heterosis breeding; Use of apomixes in plant breeding;
DNA sequencing; Genetic engineering – methods of transfer of genes; Transgenic crops and biosafety aspects;
Development and use of molecular markers in plant breeding; Tools and techniques - probe, southern blotting,
DNA fingerprinting, PCR and FISH.
Standard deviation and coefficient of variation (CV); Tests of significance (Z-test, t-test and chi-square test);
Probability and distributions (normal, binomial and Poisson); Correlation and regression.
4. Physiology and Biochemistry:
Water relations, mineral nutrition and ion transport, mineral deficiencies; Photosynthesis – photochemical
reactions; photo-phosphorylation and carbon fixation pathways; C3, C4 and CAM pathways; Mechanism of
phloem transport; Respiration (anerobic and aerobic, including fermentation) – electron transport chain and
oxidative phosphorylation; Photorespiration; Chemiosmotic theory and ATP synthesis; Lipid metabolism;
Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen metabolism; Enzymes, coenzymes; Energy transfer and energy conservation;
Importance of secondary metabolites; Pigments as photoreceptors (plastidial pigments and phytochrome); Plant
movements; Photoperiodism and flowering, vernalization, senescence; Growth substances – their chemical
nature, role and applications in agri-horticulture; Growth indices, growth movements; Stress physiology (heat,
water, salinity, metal); Fruit and seed physiology; Dormancy, storage and germination of seed; Fruit ripening –
its molecular basis and manipulation.
5. Ecology and Plant Geography:
Concept of ecosystem; Ecological factors; Concepts and dynamics of community; Plant succession; Concept of
biosphere; Ecosystems; Conservation; Pollution and its control (including phytoremediation); Plant indicators;
Environment (Protection) Act.
Forest types of India - Ecological and economic importance of forests, afforestation, deforestation and social
forestry; Endangered plants, endemism, IUCN categories, Red Data Books; Biodiversity and its conservation;
Protected Area Network; Convention on Biological Diversity; Farmers’ Rights and Intellectual Property
Rights; Concept of Sustainable Development; Biogeochemical cycles; Global warming and climatic change;
Invasive species; Environmental Impact Assessment; Phytogeo-graphical regions of India.
CHEMISTRY
PAPER – I
1. Atomic Structure:
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Schrodinger wave equation (time independent); Interpretation of wave
function, particle in one-dimensional box, quantum numbers, hydrogen atom wave functions; Shapes of s, p
and d orbitals.
2. Chemical Bonding:
Ionic bond, characteristics of ionic compounds, lattice energy, Born-Haber cycle; covalent bond and its general
characteristics, polarities of bonds in molecules and their dipole moments; Valence bond theory, concept of
resonance and resonance energy; Molecular orbital theory (LCAO method); bonding in H2+, H2, He2+ to Ne2,
NO, CO, HF, and CN–; Comparison of valence bond and molecular orbital theories, bond order, bond strength
and bond length.
3. Solid State:
Crystal systems; Designation of crystal faces, lattice structures and unit cell; Bragg’s law; X-ray diffraction by
crystals; Close packing, radius ratio rules, calculation of some limiting radius ratio values; Structures of NaCl,
ZnS, CsCl and CaF2; Stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric defects, impurity defects, semi-conductors.
4. The Gaseous State and Transport Phenomenon:
Equation of state for real gases, inter-molecular interactions and critical phenomena and liquefaction of gases,
Maxwell’s distribution of speeds, intermolecular collisions, collisions on the wall and effusion; Thermal
conductivity and viscosity of ideal gases.
5. Liquid State:
Kelvin equation; Surface tension and surface energy, wetting and contact angle, interfacial tension and
capillary action.
6. Thermodynamics:
Work, heat and internal energy; first law of thermodynamics.
Second law of thermodynamics; entropy as a state function, entropy changes in various processes, entropy–
reversibility and irreversibility, Free energy functions; Thermodynamic equation of state; Maxwell relations;
Temperature, volume and pressure dependence of U, H, A, G, Cp and Cvá and â; J-T effect and inversion
temperature; criteria for equilibrium, relation between equilibrium constant and thermodynamic quantities;
Nernst heat theorem, introductory idea of third law of thermodynamics.
7. Phase Equilibria and Solutions:
Clausius-Clapeyron equation; phase diagram for a pure substance; phase equilibria in binary systems, partially
miscible liquids–upper and lower critical solution temperatures; partial molar quantities, their significance and
determination; excess thermodynamic functions and their determination.
8. Electrochemistry:
Debye-Huckel theory of strong electrolytes and Debye-Huckel limiting Law for various equilibrium and
transport properties. Galvanic cells, concentration cells; electrochemical series, measurement of e.m.f. of cells
and its applications fuel cells and batteries.
Processes at electrodes; double layer at the interface; rate of charge transfer, current density; over-potential;
electro-analytical techniques: Polarography, amperometry, ion selective electrodes and their uses.
.
9. Chemical Kinetics:
Differential and integral rate equations for zeroth, first, second and fractional order reactions; Rate equations
involving reverse, parallel, consecutive and chain reactions; branching chain and explosions; effect of
temperature and pressure on rate constant; Study of fast reactions by stopflow and relaxation methods;
Collisions and transition state theories.
10. Photochemistry:
Absorption of light; decay of excited state by different routes; photochemical reactions between hydrogen and
halogens and their quantum yields.
11. Surface Phenomena and Catalysis:
Absorption from gases and solutions on solid adsorbents, Langmuir and B.E.T. adsorption isotherms;
determination of surface area, characteristics and mechanism of reaction on heterogeneous catalysts.
12. Bio-inorganic Chemistry:
Metal ions in biological systems and their role in ion transport across the membranes (molecular mechanism),
oxygen-uptake proteins, cytochromes and ferredoxins.
13. Coordination Compounds:
(i) Bonding theories of metal complexes; Valence bond theory, crystal field theory and its modifications;
applications of theories in the explanation of magnetism and electronic spectra of metal complexes.
(ii) Isomerism in coordination compounds; IUPAC nomenclature of coordination compounds; stereochemistry
of complexes with 4 and 6 coordination numbers; chelate effect and polynuclear complexes; trans effect and its
theories; kinetics of substitution reactions in square-planer complexes; thermodynamic and kinetic stability of
complexes.
(iii) EAN rule, Synthesis structure and reactivity of metal carbonyls; carboxylate anions, carbonyl hydrides and
metal nitrosyl compounds.
(iv) Complexes with aromatic systems, synthesis, structure and bonding in metal olefin complexes, alkyne
complexes and cyclopentadienyl complexes; coordinative unsaturation, oxidative addition reactions, insertion
reactions, fluxional molecules and their characterization; Compounds with metal-metal bonds and metal atom
clusters.
14. Main Group Chemistry:
Boranes, borazines, phosphazenes and cyclic phosphazene, silicates and silicones, Interhalogen compounds;
Sulphur – nitrogen compounds, noble gas compounds.
15. General Chemistry of ‘f’ Block Elements:
Lanthanides and actinides; separation, oxidation states, magnetic and spectral properties; lanthanide
contraction.
PAPER - II
1. Delocalised Covalent Bonding:
Aromaticity, anti-aromaticity; annulenes, azulenes, tropolones, fulvenes, sydnones.
2. (i) Reaction Mechanisms: General methods (both kinetic and non-kinetic) of study of mechanism of
organic reactions: isotopic method, cross-over experiment, intermediate trapping, stereochemistry; energy of
activation; thermodynamic control and kinetic control of reactions.
(ii) Reactive Intermediates: Generation, geometry, stability and reactions of carbonium ions and carbanions,
free radicals, carbenes, benzynes and nitrenes.
(iii) Substitution Reactions: SN1, SN2 and SNi mechanisms; neighbouring group participation; electrophilic
and nucleophilic reactions of aromatic compounds including heterocyclic compounds–pyrrole, furan,
thiophene and indole.
(iv) Elimination Reactions: E1, E2 and E1cb mechanisms; orientation in E2 reactions–Saytzeff and
Hoffmann; pyrolytic syn elimination – Chugaev and Cope eliminations.
(v) Addition Reactions: Electrophilic addition to C=C and C=C; nucleophilic addition to C=0, C=N,
conjugated olefins and carbonyls.
(vi) Reactions and Rearrangements: (a) Pinacol-pinacolone, Hoffmann, Beckmann, Baeyer–Villiger,
Favorskii, Fries, Claisen, Cope, Stevens and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements.
(b) Aldol condensation, Claisen condensation, Dieckmann, Perkin, Knoevenagel, Witting, Clemmensen,
Wolff-Kishner, Cannizzaro and von Richter reactions; Stobbe, benzoin and acyloin condensations; Fischer
indole synthesis, Skraup synthesis, Bischler-Napieralski, Sandmeyer, Reimer-Tiemann and Reformatsky
reactions.
3. Pericyclic Reactions:
Classification and examples; Woodward-Hoffmann rules – electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition reactions
[2+2 and 4+2] and sigmatropic shifts [1, 3; 3, 3 and 1, 5] FMO approach.
4. (i) Preparation and Properties of Polymers: Organic polymers–polyethy-lene, polystyrene, polyvinyl
chloride, teflon, nylon, terylene, synthetic and natural rubber.
(ii) Biopolymers: Structure of proteins, DNA and RNA.
5. Synthetic Uses of Reagents:
OsO4, HIO4, CrO3, Pb(OAc)4, SeO2, NBS, B2H6, Na-Liquid NH3, LiAlH4, NaBH4, n-BuLi and MCPBA.
6. Photochemistry:
Photochemical reactions of simple organic compounds, excited and ground states, singlet and triplet states,
Norrish-Type I and Type II reactions.
7. Spectroscopy:
Principle and applications in structure elucidation:
(i) Rotational: Diatomic molecules; isotopic substitution and rotational constants.
(ii) Vibrational: Diatomic molecules, linear triatomic molecules, specific frequencies of functional groups in
polyatomic molecules.
(iii) Electronic: Singlet and triplet states; n π* and π π* transitions; application to conjugated double bonds
and conjugated carbonyls–Woodward-Fieser rules; Charge transfer spectra.
(iv) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H NMR): Basic principle; chemical shift and spin-spin interaction and
coupling constants.
(v) Mass Spectrometry: Parent peak, base peak, metastable peak, McLafferty rearrangement.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
PAPER – I
1. Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis:
1.1 Engineering Mechanics:
Units and Dimensions, SI Units, Vectors, Concept of Force, Concept of particle and rigid body. Concurrent,
Non Concurrent and parallel forces in a plane, moment of force, free body diagram, conditions of equilibrium,
Principle of virtual work, equivalent force system.
First and Second Moment of area, Mass moment of Inertia.
Static Friction.
Kinematics and Kinetics:
Kinematics in Cartesian Co-ordinates, motion under uniform and non-uniform acceleration, motion under
gravity. Kinetics of particle: Momentum and Energy principles, collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid
bodies.
1.2 Strength of Materials:
Simple Stress and Strain, Elastic constants, axially loaded compression members, Shear force and bending
moment, theory of simple bending, Shear Stress distribution across cross sections, Beams of uniform strength.
Deflection of beams: Macaulay’s method, Mohr’s Moment area method, Conjugate beam method, unit load
method. Torsion of Shafts, Elastic stability of columns, Euler’s Rankine’s and Secant formulae.
1.3 Structural Analysis:
Castiglianio’s theorems I and II, unit load method of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed
trusses. Slopedeflection, moment distribution, Rolling loads and Influences lines: Influences lines for Shear
Force and Bending moment at a section of beam. Criteria for maximum shear force and bending Moment in
beams traversed by a system of moving loads. Influences lines for simply supported plane pin jointed trusses.
Arches: Three hinged, two hinged and fixed arches, rib shortening and temperature effects.
Matrix methods of analysis: Force method and displacement method of analysis of indeterminate beams and
rigid frames.
Plastic Analysis of beams and frames: Theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method, Mechanism
method.
Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of inertia, product of inertia, position of Neutral Axis and Principle axes,
calculation of bending stresses.
.
2. Design of Structures: Steel, Concrete and Masonry Structures:
2.1 Structural Steel Design:
Structural Steel: Factors of safety and load factors. Riveted, bolted and welded joints and connections. Design
of tension and compression member, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry
girders, stancheons with battens and lacings.
.
2.2 Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures:
Concept of mix design. Reinforced Concrete: Working Stress and Limit State method of design–
Recommendations of I.S. codes Design of one way and two way slabs, stair-case slabs, simple and continuous
beams of rectangular, T and L sections. Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity,
Cantilever and Counter fort type retaining walls. Water tanks: Design requirements for Rectangular and
circular tanks resting on ground.
Prestressed concrete: Methods and systems of prestressing, anchorages, Analysis and design of sections for
flexure based on working stress, loss of prestress.
Design of brick masonry as per I.S. Codes
3. Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow and Hydraulic Machines:
3.1 Fluid Mechanics:
Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid statics including forces acting on plane and curved
surfaces.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Fluid flow: Velocity and accelerations, stream lines, equation of continuity,
irrotational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream functions.
Continuity, momentum and energy equation, Navier-Stokes equation, Euler’s equation of motion, application
to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, sluice gates, weirs.
3.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similitude:
Buckingham’s Pi-theorem, dimensionless parameters.
3.3 Laminar Flow:
Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and moving plates, flow through tube.
3.4 Boundary layer:
Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate, laminar sub layer, smooth and rough boundaries, drag
and lift.
Turbulent flow through pipes: Characteristics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation of pipe
friction factor, hydraulic grade line and total energy line.
3.5 Open channel flow:
Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and energy correction factors, specific energy and specific force,
critical depth, rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles,
control section, step method of integration of varied flow equation.
3.6 Hydraulic Machines and Hydropower:
Hydraulic turbines, types classification, Choice of turbines, performance parameters, controls, characteristics,
specific speed.
Principles of hydropower development.
4. Geotechnical Engineering:
Soil Type and structure – gradation and particle size distribution – consistency limits. Water in soil – capillary
and structural – effective stress and pore water pressure – permeability concept – field and laboratory
determination of permeability – Seepage pressure – quick sand conditions – Shear strength determination –
Mohr Coulomb concept.
Compaction of soil – Laboratory and field tests.
Compressibility and consolidation concept – consolidation theory – consolidation settlement analysis.
Earth pressure theory and analysis for retaining walls, Application for sheet piles and Braced excavation.
Bearing capacity of soil – approaches for analysis – Field tests – settlement analysis – stability of slope of earth
walk.
Subsurface exploration of soils – methods Foundation – Type and selection criteria for foundation of structures
– Design criteria for foundation – Analysis of distribution of stress for footings and pile – pile group actionpile
load test.
Ground improvement techniques.
PAPER - II
1. Construction Technology, Equipment, Planning and Management:
1.1 Construction Technology:
Engineering Materials:
Physical properties of construction materials with respect to their use in construction - Stones, Bricks and
Tiles; Lime, Cement, different types of Mortars and Concrete.
Specific use of ferro cement, fibre reinforced C.C, High strength concrete.
Timber, properties and defects – common preservation treatments.
Use and selection of materials for specific use like Low Cost Housing, Mass Housing, High Rise Buildings.
1.2 Construction:
Masonry principles using Brick, stone, Blocks – construction detailing and strength characteristics.
Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roofing and construction features.
Common repairs in buildings.
Principles of functional planning of building for residents and specific use – Building code provisions.
Basic principles of detailed and approximate estimating - specification writing and rate analysis – principles of
valuation of real property.
Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their specific uses – Factors affecting selection of equipments –
operating cost of Equipments.
1.3 Construction Planning and Management:
Construction activity – schedules- organization for construction industry – Quality assurance principles.
Use of Basic principles of network – analysis in form of CPM and PERT – their use in construction
monitoring, Cost optimization and resource allocation.
Basic principles of Economic analysis and methods.
Project profitability – Basic principles of Boot approach to financial planning – simple toll fixation criterions.
2. Surveying and Transportation Engineering :
2.1 Surveying:
Common methods and instruments for distance and angle measurement for CE work – their use in plane table,
traverse survey, leveling work, triangulation, contouring and topographical map.
Basic principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing.
2.2 Railway Engineering:
Permanent way – components, types and their functions – Functions and Design constituents of turn and
crossings – Necessity of geometric design of track – Design of station and yards.
2.3 Highway Engineering:
Principles of Highway alignments – classification and geometrical design elements and standards for Roads.
Pavement structure for flexible and rigid pavements - Design principles and methodology of pavements.
Typical construction methods and standards of materials for stabilized soil, WBM, Bituminous works and CC
roads.
Surface and sub-surface drainage arrangements for roads - culvert structures.
Pavement distresses and strengthening by overlays.
Traffic surveys and their applications in traffic planning - Typical design features for channelized, intersection,
rotary etc – signal designs – standard Traffic signs and markings.
3. Hydrology, Water Resources and Engineering:
3.1 Hydrology:
Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood
frequency analysis, flood routing through a reservoir, channel flow routing-Muskingam method.
3.2 Ground water flow:
Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined equifers, aquifers,
aquitards, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions.
3.3 Water Resources Engineering:
Ground and surface water resource, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir
losses, reservoir sedimentation.
3.4 Irrigation Engineering:
(i) Water requirements of crops: consumptive use, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies.
(ii) Canals: Distribution systems for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and
distributory canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed
load.
(iii) Water logging: causes and control, salinity.
(iv) Canal structures: Design of, head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal outlets.
(v) Diversion headwork: Principles and design of weirs of permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla’s
theory, energy dissipation.
(vi) Storage works: Types of dams, design, principles of rigid gravity, stability analysis.
(vii) Spillways: Spillway types, energy dissipation.
(viii)River training: Objectives of river training, methods of river training.
4. Environmental Engineering:
4.1 Water Supply:
Predicting demand for water, impurities of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological
analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water.
4.2 Intake of water:
Water treatment: principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow-; rapid-, pressure-, filters;
chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour and salinity.
4.3 Sewerage systems:
Domestic and industrial wastes, storm sewage–separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of
sewers.
4.4 Sewage characterization:
BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal watercourse and on
land.
4.5 Sewage treatment:
Working principles, units, chambers, sedimentation tanks, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge
process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of wastewater.
4.6 Solid waste:
Collection and disposal in rural and urban contexts, management of long-term ill effects.
5. Environmental pollution:
Sustainable development. Radioactive wastes and disposal. Environmental impact assessment for thermal
power plants, mines, river valley projects. Air pollution. Pollution control acts.
COMMERCE AND ACCOUNTANCY
PAPER - I
Accounting and Finance
Accounting, Taxation & Auditing
1. Financial Accounting:
Accounting as a Financial Information System; Impact of Behavioural Sciences. Accounting Standards e.g.,
Accounting for Depreciation, Inventories, Research and Development Costs, Long-term Construction
Contracts, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, Contingencies, Foreign Exchange Transactions, Investments
and Government Grants, Cash Flow Statement, Earnings Per Share.
Accounting for Share Capital Transactions including Bonus Shares, Right Shares, Employees Stock Option
and Buy- Back of Securities.
Preparation and Presentation of Company Final Accounts.
Amalgamation, Absorption and Reconstruction of Companies.
2. Cost Accounting:
Nature and Functions of Cost Accounting. Installation of Cost Accounting System. Cost Concepts related to
Income Measurement, Profit Planning, Cost Control and Decision Making.
Methods of Costing: Job Costing, Process Costing, Activity Based Costing.
Volume – cost – Profit Relationship as a tool of Profit Planning.
Incremental Analysis/ Differential Costing as a Tool of Pricing Decisions, Product Decisions, Make or Buy
Decisions, Shut-Down Decisions etc.
Techniques of Cost Control and Cost Reduction: Budgeting as a Tool of Planning and Control. Standard
Costing and Variance Analysis.
Responsibility Accounting and Divisional Performance Measurement.
3. Taxation:
Income Tax: Definitions; Basis of Charge; Incomes which do not form Part of Total Income. Simple problems
of Computation of Income (of Individuals only) under Various Heads, i.e., Salaries, Income from House
Property, Profits and Gains from Business or Profession, Capital Gains, Income from other sources, Income of
other Persons included in Assessee’s Total Income.
Set - Off and Carry Forward of Loss.
Deductions from Gross Total Income. Salient Features/Provisions Related to VAT and Services Tax.
4. Auditing:
Company Audit: Audit related to Divisible Profits, Dividends, Special investigations, Tax audit.
Audit of Banking, Insurance, Non-Profit Organizations and Charitable Societies/Trusts/Organizations.
Financial Management, Financial Institutions and Markets
1. Financial Management:
Finance Function: Nature, Scope and Objectives of Financial Management: Risk and Return Relationship.
Tools of Financial Analysis: Ratio Analysis, Funds-Flow and Cash-Flow Statement.
Capital Budgeting Decisions: Process, Procedures and Appraisal Methods. Risk and Uncertainty Analysis and
Methods.
Cost of capital: Concept, Computation of Specific Costs and Weighted Average Cost of Capital. CAPM as a
Tool of Determining Cost of Equity Capital.
Financing Decisions: Theories of Capital Structure - Net Income (NI) Approach, Net Operating Income (NOI)
Approach, MM Approach and Traditional Approach. Designing of Capital structure: Types of Leverages
(Operating, Financial and Combined), EBIT- EPS Analysis, and other Factors.
Dividend Decisions and Valuation of Firm: Walter’s Model, MM Thesis, Gordan’s Model Lintner’s Model.
Factors Affecting Dividend Policy.
Working Capital Management: Planning of Working Capital. Determinants of Working Capital. Components
of Working Capital Cash, Inventory and Receivables.
Corporate Restructuring with focus on Mergers and Acquisitions (Financial aspects only).
2. Financial Markets and Institutions:
Indian Financial System: An Overview Money Markets: Participants, Structure and Instruments. Commercial
Banks. Reforms in Banking sector. Monetary and Credit Policy of RBI. RBI as a Regulator.
Capital Market: Primary and Secondary Market. Financial Market Instruments and Innovative Debt
Instruments; SEBI as a Regulator.
Financial Services: Mutual Funds, Venture Capital, Credit Rating Agencies, Insurance and IRDA.
PAPER – II
Organisation Theory and Behaviour, Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
Organisation Theory and Behaviour
1. Organisation Theory:
Nature and Concept of Organisation; External Environment of Organizations -Technological, Social, Political,
Economical and Legal; Organizational Goals - Primary and Secondary goals, Single and Multiple Goals;
Management by Objectives.
Evolution of Organisation Theory: Classical, Neo-classical and Systems Approach.
Modern Concepts of Organisation Theory: Organisational Design, Organisational Structure and Organisational
Culture.
Organisational Design–Basic Challenges; Differentiation and Integration Process; Centralization and
Decentralization Process; Standardization / Formalization and Mutual Adjustment. Coordinating Formal and
Informal Organizations. Mechanistic and Organic Structures.
Designing Organizational structures–Authority and Control; Line and Staff Functions, Specialization and
Coordination.
Types of Organization Structure –Functional. Matrix Structure, Project Structure. Nature and Basis of Power,
Sources of Power, Power Structure and Politics. Impact of Information Technology on Organizational Design
and Structure.
Managing Organizational Culture.
2. Organisation Behaviour:
Meaning and Concept; Individual in organizations: Personality, Theories, and Determinants; Perception -
Meaning and Process.
Motivation: Concepts, Theories and Applications. Leadership-Theories and Styles. Quality of Work Life
(QWL): Meaning and its impact on Performance, Ways of its Enhancement. Quality Circles (QC) – Meaning
and their Importance. Management of Conflicts in Organizations. Transactional Analysis, Organizational
Effectiveness, Management of Change.
Human Resources Management and Industrial Relations
1. Human Resources Management (HRM) :
Meaning, Nature and Scope of HRM, Human Resource Planning, Job Analysis, Job Description, Job
Specification, Recruitment Process, Selection Process, Orientation and Placement, Training and Development
Process, Performance Appraisal and 360° Feed Back, Salary and Wage Administration, Job Evaluation,
Employee Welfare, Promotions, Transfers and Separations.
2. Industrial Relations (IR):
Meaning, Nature, Importance and Scope of IR, Formation of Trade Unions, Trade Union Legislation, Trade
Union Movement in India. Recognition of Trade Unions, Problems of Trade Unions in India. Impact of
Liberalization on Trade Union Movement.
Nature of Industrial Disputes : Strikes and Lockouts , Causes of Disputes, Prevention and Settlement of
Disputes.
Worker’s Participation in Management: Philosophy, Rationale, Present Day Status and Future Prospects.
Adjudication and Collective Bargaining.
Industrial Relations in Public Enterprises, Absenteeism and Labour Turnover in Indian Industries and their
Causes and Remedies.
ILO and its Functions.
ECONOMICS
PAPER – I
1. Advanced Micro Economics:
(a) Marshallian and Walrasiam Approaches to Price determination.
(b) Alternative Distribution Theories: Ricardo, Kaldor, Kaleeki.
(c) Markets Structure: Monopolistic Competition, Duopoly, Oligopoly.
(d) Modern Welfare Criteria: Pareto Hicks & Scitovsky, Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, A.K. Sen’s Social
Welfare Function.
2. Advanced Macro Economics:
Approaches to Employment Income and Interest Rate determination: Classical, Keynes (IS-LM) curve, Neo
classical synthesis and New classical, Theories of Interest Rate determination and Interest Rate Structure.
3. Money - Banking and Finance:
(a) Demand for and Supply of Money: Money Multiplier Quantity Theory of Money (Fisher, Pique and
Friedman) and Keyne’s Theory on Demand for Money, Goals and Instruments of Monetary Management
in Closed and Open Economies. Relation between the Central Bank and the Treasury. Proposal for ceiling
on growth rate of money.
(b) Public Finance and its Role in Market Economy: In stabilization of supply, allocation of resources and in
distribution and development. Sources of Govt. revenue, forms of Taxes and Subsidies, their incidence and
effects. Limits to taxation, loans, crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings. Public Expenditure and its
effects.
4. International Economics:
(a) Old and New Theories of International Trade
(i) Comparative Advantage
(ii) Terms of Trade and Offer Curve.
(iii) Product Cycle and Strategic Trade Theories.
(iv) Trade as an engine of growth and theories of under development in an open economy.
(b) Forms of Protection: Tariff and quota.
(c) Balance of Payments Adjustments: Alternative Approaches.
(i) Price versus income, income adjustments under fixed exchange rates.
(ii) Theories of Policy Mix.
(iii) Exchange rate adjustments under capital mobility.
(iv) Floating Rates and their Implications for Developing Countries: Currency Boards.
(v) Trade Policy and Developing Countries.
(vi) BOP, adjustments and Policy Coordination in open economy macro-model.
(vii) Speculative attacks.
(viii) Trade Blocks and Monetary Unions.
(ix) WTO: TRIMS, TRIPS, Domestic Measures, Different Rounds of WTO talks.
5. Growth and Development:
(a) (i) Theories of growth: Harrod’s model,
(ii) Lewis model of development with surplus labour,
(iii) Balanced and Unbalanced growth,
(iv) Human Capital and Economic Growth.
(v) Research and Development and Economic Growth
(b) Process of Economic Development of Less developed countries: Myrdal and Kuzments on
economic development and structural change: Role of Agriculture in Economic Development of less
developed countries.
(c) Economic development and International Trade and Investment, Role of Multinationals.
(d) Planning and Economic Development: changing role of Markets and Planning, Private- Public
Partnership.
(e) Welfare indicators and measures of growth – Human Development Indices. The basic needs
approach.
(f) Development and Environmental Sustainability – Renewable and Non Renewable Resources,
Environmental Degradation, Intergenerational equity development.
PAPER – II
1. Indian Economy in Pre-Independence Era:
Land System and its changes, Commercialization of agriculture, Drain theory, Laissez faire theory and
critique. Manufacture and Transport: Jute, Cotton, Railways, Money and Credit.
2. Indian Economy after Independence:
A The Pre Liberalization Era:
(i) Contribution of Vakil, Gadgil and V.K.R.V. Rao.
(ii) Agriculture: Land Reforms and land tenure system, Green Revolution and capital formation in
agriculture.
(iii) Industry Trends in composition and growth, Role of public and private sector, Small scale and
cottage industries.
(iv) National and Per capita income: patterns, trends, aggregate and Sectoral composition and changes
their in.
(v) Broad factors determining National Income and distribution, Measures of poverty, Trends in
poverty and inequality.
B The Post Liberalization Era:
(i) New Economic Reform and Agriculture: Agriculture and WTO, Food processing, Subsidies,
Agricultural prices and public distribution system, Impact of public expenditure on agricultural
growth.
(ii) New Economic Policy and Industry: Strategy of industrialization, Privatization, Disinvestments,
Role of foreign direct investment and multinationals.
(iii) New Economic Policy and Trade: Intellectual property rights: Implications of TRIPS, TRIMS,
GATS
and new EXIM policy.
(iv) New Exchange Rate Regime: Partial and full convertibility, Capital account convertibility.
(v) New Economic Policy and Public Finance: Fiscal Responsibility Act, Twelfth Finance
Commission and Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Consolidation.
(vi) New Economic Policy and Monetary system. Role of RBI under the new regime.
(vii) Planning: From central Planning to indicative planning, Relation between planning and markets
for growth and decentralized planning: 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments.
(viii)New Economic Policy and Employment: Employment and poverty, Rural wages, Employment
Generation, Poverty alleviation schemes, New Rural, Employment Guarantee Scheme.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
PAPER - I
1. Circuit Theory:
Circuit components; network graphs; KCL, KVL; circuit analysis methods: nodal analysis, mesh analysis;
basic network theorems and applications; transient analysis: RL, RC and RLC circuits; sinusoidal steady state
analysis; resonant circuits; coupled circuits; balanced 3-phase circuits; Two-port networks.
2. Signals & Systems:
Representation of continuous–time and discrete-time signals & systems; LTI systems; convolution; impulse
response; time-domain analysis of LTI systems based on convolution and differential/difference equations.
Fourier transform, Laplace transform, Z-transform, Transfer function. Sampling and recovery of signals DFT,
FFT Processing of analog signals through discrete-time systems.
3. E.M. Theory:
Maxwell’s equations, wave propagation in bounded media. Boundary conditions, reflection and refraction of
plane waves. Transmission line: travelling and standing waves, impedance matching, Smith chart.
4. Analog Electronics:
Characteristics and equivalent circuits (large and small-signal) of Diode, BJT, JFET and MOSFET. Diode
circuits: clipping, clamping, rectifier. Biasing and bias stability. FET amplifiers. Current mirror; Amplifiers:
single and multi-stage, differential, operational, feedback and power. Analysis of amplifiers; frequencyresponse
of amplifiers. OPAMP circuits.
Filters; sinusoidal oscillators: criterion for oscillation; single-transistor and OPAMP configurations. Function
generators and wave-shaping circuits. Linear and switching power supplies.
5. Digital Electronics:
Boolean algebra; minimization of Boolean functions; logic gates; digital IC families (DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS,
CMOS). Combinational circuits: arithmetic circuits, code converters, multiplexers and decoders. Sequential
circuits: latches and flip-flops, counters and shift-registers. Comparators, timers, multi-vibrators. Sample and
hold circuits, ADCs and DACs. Semiconductor memories. Logic implementation using programmable devices
(ROM, PLA, FPGA).
6. Energy Conversion:
Principles of electromechanical energy conversion: Torque and emf in rotating machines. DC machines:
characteristics and performance analysis; starting and speed control of motors; Transformers: principles of
operation and analysis; regulation, efficiency; 3-phase transformers. 3-phase induction machines and
synchronous machines: characteristics and performance analysis; speed control.
7. Power Electronics and Electric Drives:
Semiconductor power devices: diode, transistor, thyristor, triac, GTO and MOSFET–static characteristics and
principles of operation; triggering circuits; phase control rectifiers; bridge converters: fully-controlled and halfcontrolled;
principles of thyristor choppers and inverters; DC-DC converters; Switch mode inverter; basic
concepts of speed control of DC and AC Motor drives applications of variable-speed drives.
8. Analog Communication:
Random variables: continuous, discrete; probability, probability functions. Statistical averages; probability
models; Random signals and noise: white noise, noise equivalent bandwidth; signal transmission with noise;
signal to noise ratio. Linear CW modulation: Amplitude modulation: DSB, DSB-SC and SSB. Modulators and
Demodulators; Phase and Frequency modulation: PM & FM signals; narrowband FM; generation & detection
of FM and PM, Deemphasis, Preemphasis. CW modulation system: Superhetrodyne receivers, AM receivers,
communication receivers, FM receivers, phase locked loop, SSB receiver Signal to noise ratio calculation for
AM and FM receivers.
PAPER - II
1. Control Systems:
Elements of control systems; block-diagram representation; open-loop & closed-loop systems; principles and
applications of feed-back. Control system components. LTI systems: time-domain and transform-domain
analysis. Stability: Routh Hurwitz criterion, root-loci, Bodeplots and polar plots, Nyquist’s criterion; Design of
lead-lad compensators. Proportional, PI, PID controllers. State-variable representation and analysis of control
systems.
2. Microprocessors and Microcomputers:
PC organisation; CPU, instruction set, register set, timing diagram, programming, interrupts, memory
interfacing, I/O interfacing, programmable peripheral devices.
3. Measurement and Instrumentation:
Error analysis; measurement of current, voltage, power, energy, power-factor, resistance, inductance,
capacitance and frequency; bridge measurement. Signal conditioning circuit; Electronic measuring
instruments: multimeter, CRO, digital voltmeter, frequency counter, Q-meter, spectrum-analyzer, distortionmeter.
Transducers: thermocouple, thermistor, LVDT, strain-gauge, piezo-electric crystal.
4. Power Systems: Analysis and Control:
Steady-state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables; principles of active and reactive power
transfer and distribution; per-unit quantities; bus admittance and impedance matrices; load flow; voltage
control and power factor correction; economic operation; symmetrical components, analysis of symmetrical
and unsymmetrical faults. Concept of system stability: swing curves and equal area criterion. Static VAR
system. Basic concepts of HVDC transmission.
5. Power System Protection:
Principles of overcurrent, differential and distance protection. Concept of solid state relays. Circuit breakers.
Computer aided protection: Introduction; line bus, generator, transformer protection; numeric relays and
application of DSP to protection.
6. Digital Communication:
Pulse code modulation (PCM), differential pulse code modulation (DPCM), delta modulation (DM), Digital
modulation and demodulation schemes: amplitude, phase and frequency keying schemes (ASK, PSK, FSK).
Error control coding: error detection and correction, linear block codes, convolution codes. Information
measure
and source coding. Data networks, 7-layer architecture.
GEOGRAPHY
PAPER - I
PRINCIPLES OF GEOGRAPHY
Physical Geography:
1. Geomorphology: Factors controlling landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; Origin and
evolution of the earth’s crust; Fundamentals of geomagnetism; Physical conditions of the earth’s interior;
Geosynclines; Continental drift; Isostasy; Plate tectonics; Recent views on mountain building; Vulcanicity;
Earthquakes and Tsunamis; Concepts of geomorphic cycles and Landscape development ; Denudation
chronology; Channel morphology; Erosion surfaces; Slope development; Applied Geomorphology :
Geohydrology, economic geology and environment.
2. Climatology: Temperature and pressure belts of the world; Heat budget of the earth; Atmospheric
circulation; atmospheric stability and instability. Planetary and local winds; Monsoons and jet streams; Air
masses and fronto genesis, Temperate and tropical cyclones; Types and distribution of precipitation; Weather
and Climate; Koppen’s, Thornthwaite’s and Trewartha’s classification of world climates; Hydrological cycle;
Global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, Applied climatology and Urban
climate.
3. Oceanography: Bottom topography of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans; Temperature and salinity of
the oceans; Heat and salt budgets, Ocean deposits; Waves, currents and tides; Marine resources: biotic, mineral
and energy resources; Coral reefs, coral bleaching; sealevel changes; law of the sea and marine pollution.
4. Biogeography: Genesis of soils; Classification and distribution of soils; Soil profile; Soil erosion,
Degradation and conservation; Factors influencing world distribution of plants and animals; Problems of
deforestation and conservation measures; Social forestry; agro-forestry; Wild life; Major gene pool centres.
5. Environmental Geography: Principle of ecology; Human ecological adaptations; Influence of man on
ecology and environment; Global and regional ecological changes and imbalances; Ecosystem their
management and conservation; Environmental degradation, management and conservation; Biodiversity and
sustainable development; Environmental policy; Environmental hazards and remedial measures;
Environmental education and legislation.
Human Geography:
1. Perspectives in Human Geography: Areal differentiation; regional synthesis; Dichotomy and dualism;
Environmentalism; Quantitative revolution and locational analysis; radical, behavioural, human and welfare
approaches; Languages, religions and secularisation; Cultural regions of the world; Human development index.
2. Economic Geography: World economic development: measurement and problems; World resources and
their distribution; Energy crisis; the limits to growth; World agriculture: typology of agricultural regions;
agricultural inputs and productivity; Food and nutrition problems; Food security; famine: causes, effects and
remedies; World industries: locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade.
3. Population and Settlement Geography: Growth and distribution of world population; demographic
attributes; Causes and consequences of migration; concepts of over-under-and optimum population; Population
theories, world population problems and policies, Social well-being and quality of life; Population as social
capital. Types and patterns of rural settlements; Environmental issues in rural settlements; Hierarchy of urban
settlements; Urban morphology: Concepts of primate city and rank-size rule; Functional classification of
towns; Sphere of urban influence; Rural urban fringe; Satellite towns; Problems and remedies of urbanization;
Sustainable development of cities.
4. Regional Planning: Concept of a region; Types of regions and methods of regionalisation; Growth centres
and growth poles; Regional imbalances; regional development strategies; environmental issues in regional
planning; Planning for sustainable development.
5. Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography: Systems analysis in Human geography; Malthusian,
Marxian and demographic transition models; Central Place theories of Christaller and Losch;Perroux and
Boudeville; Von Thunen’s model of agricultural location; Weber’s model of industrial location; Ostov’s model
of stages of growth. Heartland and Rimland theories; Laws of international boundaries and frontiers.
PAPER – II
GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA
1. Physical Setting: Space relationship of India with neighboring countries; Structure and relief; Drainage
system and watersheds; Physiographic regions; Mechanism of Indian monsoons and rainfall patterns, Tropical
cyclones and western disturbances; Floods and droughts; Climatic regions; Natural vegetation; Soil types and
their distributions.
2. Resources: Land, surface and ground water, energy, minerals, biotic and marine resources; Forest and wild
life resources and their conservation; Energy crisis.
3. Agriculture: Infrastructure: irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, power; Institutional factors: land holdings, land
tenure and land reforms; Cropping pattern, agricultural productivity, agricultural intensity, crop combination,
land capability; Agro and social-forestry; Green revolution and its socio-economic and ecological implications;
Significance of dry farming; Livestock resources and white revolution; aqua - culture; sericulture, apiculture
and poultry; agricultural regionalisation; agro-climatic zones; agro- ecological regions.
4. Industry: Evolution of industries; Locational factors of cotton, jute, textile, iron and steel, aluminium,
fertilizer, paper, chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile, cottage and agro-based industries; Industrial houses
and complexes including public sector undertakings; Industrial regionalisation; New industrial policies;
Multinationals
and liberalization; Special Economic Zones; Tourism including eco-tourism.
5. Transport, Communication and Trade: Road, railway, waterway, airway and pipeline networks and their
complementary roles in regional development; Growing importance of ports on national and foreign trade;
Trade balance; Trade Policy; Export processing zones; Developments in communication and information
technology and their impacts on economy and society; Indian space programme.
6. Cultural Setting: Historical Perspective of Indian Society; Racial, linguistic and ethnic diversities; religious
minorities; major tribes, tribal areas and their problems; cultural regions; Growth, distribution and density of
population; Demographic attributes: sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio,
longevity; migration (inter-regional, intra- regional and international) and associated problems; Population
problems and policies; Health indicators.
7. Settlements: Types, patterns and morphology of rural settlements; Urban developments; Morphology of
Indian cities; Functional classification of Indian cities; Conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl;
Slums and associated problems; town planning; Problems of urbanization and remedies.
8. Regional Development and Planning: Experience of regional planning in India; Five Year Plans;
Integrated rural development programmes; Panchayati Raj and decentralised planning; Command area
development; Watershed management; Planning for backward area, desert, drought prone, hill, tribal area
development; multi-level planning; Regional planning and development of island territories.
9. Political Aspects: Geographical basis of Indian federalism; State reorganisation; Emergence of new states;
Regional consciousness and inter state issues; international boundary of India and related issues; Cross border
terrorism; India’s role in world affairs; Geopolitics of South Asia and Indian Ocean realm.
10. Contemporary Issues: Ecological issues: Environmental hazards: landslides, earthquakes, Tsunamis,
floods and droughts, epidemics; Issues relating to environmental pollution; Changes in patterns of land use;
Principles of environmental impact assessment and environmental management; Population explosion and food
security; Environmental degradation; Deforestation, desertification and soil erosion; Problems of agrarian and
industrial unrest; Regional disparities in economic development; Concept of sustainable growth and
development; Environmental awareness; Linkage of rivers; Globalisation and Indian economy.
NOTE: Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory map question pertinent to subjects covered by
this paper.
GEOLOGY
PAPER - I
1. General Geology:
The Solar System, Meteorites, Origin and interior of the earth and age of earth; Volcanoes- causes and
products, Volcanic belts; Earthquakes-causes, effects, Seismic zones of India; Island arcs, trenches and midocean
ridges; Continental drifts; Seafloor spreading, Plate tectonics; Isostasy.
2. Geomorphology and Remote Sensing:
Basic concepts of geomorphology; Weathering and soil formations; Landforms, slopes and drainage;
Geomorphic cycles and their interpretation; Morphology and its relation to structures and lithology; Coastal
geomorphology; Applications of geomorphology in mineral prospecting, civil engineering; Hydrology and
environmental studies; Geomorphology of Indian subcontinent.
Aerial photographs and their interpretation-merits and limitations; The Electromagnetic spectrum; Orbiting
satellites and sensor systems; Indian Remote Sensing Satellites; Satellites data products; Applications of
remote sensing in geology; The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS)
– its applications.
3. Structural Geology: Principles of geologic mapping and map reading, Projection diagrams, Stress and
strain ellipsoid and stress-strain relationships of elastic, plastic and viscous materials; Strain markers in
deformed rocks; Behaviour of minerals and rocks under deformation conditions; Folds and faults classification
and mechanics; Structural analysis of folds, foliations, lineations, joints and faults, unconformities; Timerelationship
between crystallization and deformation.
4. Paleontology:
Species- definition and nomenclature; Megafossils and Microfossils; Modes of preservation of fossils;
Different kinds of microfossils; Application of microfossils in correlation, petroleum exploration, paleoclimatic
and paleoceanographic studies; Evolutionary trend in Hominidae, Equidae and Proboscidae; Siwalik fauna;
Gondwana flora and fauna and its importance; Index fossils and their significance.
5. Indian Stratigraphy:
Classification of stratigraphic sequences: lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic and
magnetostratigraphic and their interrelationships; Distribution and classification of Precambrian rocks of India;
Study of stratigraphic distribution and lithology of Phanerozoic rocks of India with reference to fauna, flora
and economic importance; Major boundary problemsCambrian/Precambrian, Permian/Triassic,
Cretaceous/Tertiary and Pliocene/Pleistocene; Study of climatic conditions, paleogeography and igneous
activity in the Indian subcontinent in the geological past; Tectonic framework of India; Evolution of the
Himalayas.
6. Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology:
Hydrologic cycle and genetic classification of water; Movement of subsurface water; Springs; Porosity,
permeability, hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity and storage coefficient, classification of aquifers; Waterbearing
characteristics of rocks; Groundwater chemistry; Salt water intrusion; Types of wells; Drainage basin
morphometry; Exploration for groundwater; Ground-water recharge; Problems and management of
groundwater; Rainwater harvesting; Engineering properties of rocks; Geological investigations for dams,
tunnels highways, railway and bridges; Rock as construction material; Landslides-causes, prevention and
rehabilitation; Earthquake-resistant structures.
PAPER - II
1. Mineralogy:
Classification of crystals into systems and classes of symmetry; International system of crystallographic
notation; Use of projection diagrams to represent crystal symmetry; Elements of X-ray crystallography.
Physical and chemical characters of rock forming silicate mineral groups; Structural classification of silicates;
Common minerals of igneous and metamorphic rocks; Minerals of the carbonate, phosphate, sulphide and
halide groups; Clay minerals.
Optical properties of common rock forming minerals; Pleochroism, extinction angle, double refraction,
birefringence, twinning and dispersion in minerals.
2. Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:
Generation and crystallization of magmas; Crystallization of albite-anorthite, diopside-anorthite and diopsidewollastonite-
silica systems; Bowen’s Reaction Principle; Magmatic differentation and assimilation;
Petrogenetic significance of the textures and structures of igneous rocks; Petrography and petrogenesis of
granite, syenite, diorite, basic and ultrabasic groups, charnockite, anorthosite and alkaline rocks; Carbonatites;
Deccan volcanic province.
Types and agents of metamorphism; Metamorphic grades and zones; Phase rule; Facies of regional and contact
metamorphism; ACF and AKF diagrams; Textures and structures of metamorphic rocks; Metamorphism of
arenaceous, argillaceous and basic rocks; Minerals assemblages Retrograde metamorphism; Metasomatism and
granitisation, migmatites, Granulite terrains of India.
3. Sedimentary Petrology:
Sediments and Sedimentary rocks: Processes of formation; digenesis and lithification; Clastic and non-clastic
rocks-their classification, petrography and depositional environment; Sedimentary facies and provenance;
Sedimentary structures and their significance; Heavy minerals and their significance; Sedimentary basins of
India.
4. Economic Geology:
Ore, ore minerals and gangue, tenor of ore, classification of ore deposits; Process of formation of minerals
deposits; Controls of ore localization; Ore textures and structures; Metallogenic epochs and provinces;
Geology of the important Indian deposits of aluminium, chromium, copper, gold, iron, lead zinc, manganese,
titanium, uranium and thorium and industrial minerals; Deposits of coal and petroleum in India; National
Mineral Policy; Conservation and utilization of mineral resources; Marine mineral resources and Law of Sea.
5. Mining Geology:
Methods of prospecting-geological, geophysical, geochemical and geobotanical; Techniques of sampling;
Estimation of reserves or ore; Methods of exploration and mining metallic ores, industrial minerals, marine
mineral resources and building stones; Mineral beneficiation and ore dressing.
6. Geochemistry and Environmental Geology:
Cosmic abundance of elements; Composition of the planets and meteorites; Structure and composition of Earth
and distribution of elements; Trace elements; Elements of crystal chemistry-types of chemical bonds,
coordination number; Isomorphism and polymorphism; Elementary thermodynamics.
Natural hazards-floods, mass wasting, costal hazards, earthquakes and volcanic activity and mitigation;
Environmental impact of urbanization, mining, industrial and radioactive waste disposal, use of fertilizers,
dumping of mine waste and fly ash; Pollution of ground and surface water, marine pollution; Environment
protection legislative measures in India; Sea level changes: causes and impact.
HISTORY
PAPER - I
1. Sources:
Archaeological sources:
Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, numismatics, monuments Literary sources:
Indigenous: Primary and secondary; poetry, scientific literature, literature, literature in regional languages,
religious literature.
Foreign accounts: Greek, Chinese and Arab writers.
2. Pre-history and Proto-history:
Geographical factors; hunting and gathering (paleolithic and mesolithic); Beginning of agriculture (neolithic
and
chalcolithic).
3. Indus Valley Civilization:
Origin, date, extent, characteristics, decline, survival and significance, art and architecture.
4. Megalithic Cultures:
Distribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements,
Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry.
5. Aryans and Vedic Period:
Expansions of Aryans in India.
Vedic Period: Religious and philosophic literature; Transformation from Rig Vedic period to the later Vedic
period; Political, social and economical life; Significance of the Vedic Age; Evolution of Monarchy and Varna
system.
6. Period of Mahajanapadas:
Formation of States (Mahajanapada) : Republics and monarchies; Rise of urban centres; Trade routes;
Economic growth; Introduction of coinage; Spread of Jainism and Buddhism; Rise of Magadha and Nandas.
Iranian and Macedonian invasions and their impact.
7. Mauryan Empire:
Foundation of the Mauryan Empire, Chandragupta, Kautilya and Arthashastra; Ashoka; Concept of Dharma;
Edicts; Polity, Administration; Economy; Art, architecture and sculpture; External contacts; Religion; Spread
of religion; Literature.
Disintegration of the empire; Sungas and Kanvas.
8. Post - Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas, Western Kshatrapas):
Contact with outside world; growth of urban centres, economy, coinage, development of religions, Mahayana,
social conditions, art, architecture, culture, literature and science.
9. Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India:
Kharavela, The Satavahanas, Tamil States of the Sangam Age; Administration, economy, land grants, coinage,
trade guilds and urban centres; Buddhist centres; Sangam literature and culture; Art and architecture.
10. Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas:
Polity and administration, Economic conditions, Coinage of the Guptas, Land grants, Decline of urban centres,
Indian feudalism, Caste system, Position of women, Education and educational institutions; Nalanda,
Vikramshila and Vallabhi, Literature, scientific literature, art and architecture.
11. Regional States during Gupta Era:
The Kadambas, Pallavas, Chalukyas of Badami; Polity and Administration, Trade guilds, Literature; growth of
Vaishnava and Saiva religions. Tamil Bhakti movement, Shankaracharya; Vedanta; Institutions of temple and
temple architecture; Palas, Senas, Rashtrakutas, Paramaras, Polity and administration; Cultural aspects. Arab
conquest of Sind; Alberuni, The Chalukyas of Kalyana, Cholas, Hoysalas, Pandyas; Polity and Administration;
local Government; Growth of art and architecture, religious sects, Institution of temple and Mathas, Agraharas,
education and literature, economy and society.
12. Themes in Early Indian Cultural History:
Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and
schools, ideas in Science and Mathematics.
13. Early Medieval India, 750-1200:
- Polity: Major political developments in Northern India and the Peninsula, origin and the rise of Rajputs - The
Cholas: administration, village economy and society
- “Indian Feudalism”
- Agrarian economy and urban settlements
- Trade and commerce
- Society: the status of the Brahman and the new social order
- Condition of women
- Indian science and technology
14. Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200:
- Philosophy: Skankaracharya and Vedanta, Ramanuja and Vishishtadvaita, Madhva and Brahma-Mimansa
- Religion: Forms and features of religion, Tamil devotional cult, growth of Bhakti, Islam and its arrival in
India, Sufism
- Literature: Literature in Sanskrit, growth of Tamil literature, literature in the newly developing languages,
Kalhan’s Rajtarangini, Alberuni’s India
- Art and Architecture: Temple architecture, sculpture, painting
15. The Thirteenth Century:
- Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate: The Ghurian invasions – factors behind Ghurian success
- Economic, social and cultural consequences
- Foundation of Delhi Sultanate and early Turkish Sultans
- Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban
16. The Fourteenth Century:
- “The Khalji Revolution”
- Alauddin Khalji: Conquests and territtorial expansion, agrarian and economic measures
- Muhammad Tughluq: Major projects, agrarian measures, bureaucracy of Muhammad Tughluq
- Firuz Tughluq: Agrarian measures, achievements in civil engineering and public works, decline of the
Sultanate, foreign contacts and Ibn Battuta’s account
17. Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries:
- Society: composition of rural society, ruling classes, town dwellers, women, religious classes, caste and
slavery under the Sultanate, Bhakti movement, Sufi movement
- Culture: Persian literature, literature in the regional languages of North India, literature in the languages of
South India, Sultanate architecture and new structural forms, painting, evolution of a composite culture
- Economy: Agricultural production, rise of urban economy and non-agricultural production, trade and
commerce
18. The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century – Political Developments and Economy:
- Rise of Provincial Dynasties: Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul Abedin), Gujarat, Malwa, Bahmanids
- The Vijayanagra Empire
- Lodis
- Mughal Empire, First phase: Babur and Humayun
- The Sur Empire: Sher Shah’s administration
- Portuguese Colonial enterprise
- Bhakti and Sufi Movements
19. The Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century – Society and Culture:
- Regional cultural specificities
- Literary traditions
- Provincial architecture
- Society, culture, literature and the arts in Vijayanagara Empire.
20. Akbar:
- Conquests and consolidation of the Empire
- Establishment of Jagir and Mansab systems
- Rajput policy
- Evolution of religious and social outlook, theory of Sulh-i-kul and religious policy
- Court patronage of art and technology
21. Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century:
- Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb
- The Empire and the Zamindars
- Religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb
- Nature of the Mughal State
- Late Seventeenth century crisis and the revolts
- The Ahom Kingdom
- Shivaji and the early Maratha Kingdom.
22. Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:
- Population, agricultural production, craft production
- Towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English and French companies : a trade revolution
- Indian mercantile classes, banking, insurance and credit systems
- Condition of peasants, condition of women
- Evolution of the Sikh community and the Khalsa Panth
23. Culture in the Mughal Empire:
- Persian histories and other literature
- Hindi and other religious literature
- Mughal architecture
- Mughal painting
- Provincial architecture and painting - Classical music
- Science and technology
24. The Eighteenth Century:
- Factors for the decline of the Mughal Empire
- The regional principalities: Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal, Awadh
- Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas
- The Maratha fiscal and financial system
- Emergence of Afghan Power, Battle of Panipat:1761
- State of politics, culture and economy on the eve of the British conquest
PAPER - II
1. European Penetration into India:
The Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and the Dutch; The English and the French East India
Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic Wars; Bengal -The conflict between the English and the
Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English; The Battle of Plassey; Significance of Plassey.
2. British Expansion in India:
Bengal – Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; The Battle of Buxar; Mysore; The Marathas; The three Anglo-Maratha
Wars; The Punjab.
3. Early Structure of the British Raj:
The early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control; The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt’s India
Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); The voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule;
The English utilitarian and India.
4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule:
(a) Land revenue settlements in British India; The Permanent Settlement; Ryotwari Settlement; Mahalwari
Settlement; Economic impact of the revenue arrangements; Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless
agrarian labourers; Impoverishment of the rural society.
(b) Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; De-industrialisation; Decline of traditional crafts; Drain of
wealth; Economic transformation of India; Railroad and communication network including telegraph and
postal services; Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations.
5. Social and Cultural Developments:
The state of indigenous education, its dislocation; Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, The introduction of
western
education in India; The rise of press, literature and public opinion; The rise of modern vernacular literature;
Progress of science; Christian missionary activities in India.
6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other Areas:
Ram Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement; Devendranath Tagore; Iswarchandra Vidyasagar; The Young
Bengal Movement; Dayanada Saraswati; The social reform movements in India including Sati, widow
remarriage, child marriage etc.; The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic
revivalism – the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.
7. Indian Response to British Rule:
Peasant movements and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the
Kol Rebellion (1832), the Mopla Rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo Rebellion
(1859-60), Deccan Uprising (1875) and the Munda Ulgulan (18991900); The Great Revolt of 1857 - Origin,
character, causes of failure, the consequences; The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857
period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s.
8. Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism; Politics of Association; The Foundation of the Indian
National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of
Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists; The
Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of
Swadeshi Movement; The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India.
9. Rise of Gandhi; Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi’s popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha; the
Khilafat Movement; the Non-cooperation Movement; National politics from the end of the Non-cooperation
movement to the beginning of the Civil Disobedience movement; the two phases of the Civil Disobedience
Movement; Simon Commission; The Nehru Report; the Round Table Conferences; Nationalism and the
Peasant Movements; Nationalism and Working class movements; Women and Indian youth and students in
Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the formation of ministries; Cripps Mission; the Quit
India Movement; the Wavell Plan; The Cabinet Mission.
10. Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935.
11. Other strands in the National Movement.
The Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, U.P, the Madras Presidency, Outside India.
The Left; The Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist Party;
the Communist Party of India, other left parties.
12. Politics of Separatism; the Muslim League; the Hindu Mahasabha; Communalism and the politics of
partition; Transfer of power; Independence.
13. Consolidation as a Nation; Nehru’s Foreign Policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964); The linguistic
reorganization of States (1935-1947); Regionalism and regional inequality; Integration of Princely States;
Princes in electoral politics; the Question of National Language.
14. Caste and Ethnicity after 1947; Backward castes and tribes in postcolonial electoral politics; Dalit
movements.
15. Economic development and political change; Land reforms; the politics of planning and rural
reconstruction; Ecology and environmental policy in post – colonial India; Progress of science.
16. Enlightenment and Modern ideas:
(i) Major ideas of Enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau
(ii) Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies
(iii) Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism.
17. Origins of Modern Politics:
(i) European States System.
(ii) American Revolution and the Constitution.
(iii) French revolution and aftermath, 17891815.
(iv) American Civil War with reference to Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery.
(v) British Democratic Politics, 18151850; Parliamentary Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists.
18. Industrialization:
(i) English Industrial Revolution: Causes and Impact on Society
(ii) Industrialization in other countries: USA, Germany, Russia, Japan
(iii) Industrialization and Globalization.
19. Nation-State System:
(i) Rise of Nationalism in 19th century
(ii) Nationalism: state-building in Germany and Italy
(iii) Disintegration of Empires in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the world.
20. Imperialism and Colonialism:
(i) South and South-East Asia
(ii) Latin America and South Africa
(iii) Australia
(iv) Imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo-imperialism.
21. Revolution and Counter-Revolution:
(i) 19th Century European revolutions
(ii) The Russian Revolution of 19171921
(iii) Fascist Counter-Revolution, Italy and Germany.
(iv) The Chinese Revolution of 1949
22. World Wars:
(i) 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: Societal implications
(ii) World War I: Causes and consequences
(iii) World War II: Causes and consequence
23. The World after World War II:
(i) Emergence of two power blocs
(ii) Emergence of Third World and non-alignment
(iii) UNO and the global disputes.
24. Liberation from Colonial Rule:
(i) Latin America-Bolivar
(ii) Arab World-Egypt
(iii) Africa-Apartheid to Democracy
(iv) South-East Asia-Vietnam
25. Decolonization and Underdevelopment:
(i) Factors constraining development: Latin America, Africa
26. Unification of Europe:
(i) Post War Foundations: NATO and European Community
(ii) Consolidation and Expansion of European Community
(iii) European Union.
27. Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World:
(i) Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union, 1985-1991
(ii) Political Changes in Eastern Europe 1989-2001.
(iii) End of the cold war and US ascendancy in the World as the lone superpower.
LAW
PAPER - I
Constitutional and Administrative Law
1. Constitution and Constitutionalism: The distinctive features of the Constitution.
2. Fundamental rights – Public interest litigation; Legal Aid; Legal services authority.
3. Relationship between fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties.
4. Constitutional position of the President and relation with the Council of Ministers.
5. Governor and his powers.
6. Supreme Court and High Courts:
(a) Appointments and transfer.
(b) Powers, functions and jurisdiction.
7. Centre, States and local bodies:
(a) Distribution of legislative powers between the Union and the States.
(b) Local bodies.
(c) Administrative relationship among Union, State and Local Bodies.
(d) Eminent domain – State property – common property – community property.
8. Legislative powers, privileges and immunities.
9. Services under the Union and the States:
(a) Recruitment and conditions of services; Constitutional safeguards; Administrative tribunals.
(b) Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commissions – Power and functions
(c) Election Commission – Power and functions.
10. Emergency provisions.
11. Amendment of the Constitution.
12. Principles of natural justice – Emerging trends and judicial approach.
13. Delegated legislation and its constitutionality.
14. Separation of powers and constitutional governance.
15. Judicial review of administrative action.
16. Ombudsman: Lokayukta, Lokpal etc.
International Law
1. Nature and definition of international law.
2. Relationship between international law and municipal law.
3. State recognition and state succession.
4. Law of the sea: Inland waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive economic zone,
high seas.
5. Individuals: Nationality, statelessness; Human rights and procedures available for their enforcement.
6. Territorial jurisdiction of States, extradition and asylum.
7. Treaties: Formation, application, termination and reservation.
8. United Nations: Its principal organs, powers, functions and reform.
9. Peaceful settlement of disputes – different modes.
10. Lawful recourse to force: aggression, self-defence, intervention.
11. Fundamental principles of international humanitarian law – International conventions and contemporary
developments.
12. Legality of the use of nuclear weapons; ban on testing of nuclear weapons; Nuclear – non proliferation
treaty, CTBT.
13. International terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, hijacking, international criminal court.
14. New international economic order and monetary law: WTO, TRIPS, GATT, IMF, World Bank.
15. Protection and improvement of the human environment: International efforts.
PAPER - II
Law of Crimes
1. General principles of criminal liability: Mens rea and actus reus, mens rea in statutory offences.
2. Kinds of punishment and emerging trends as to abolition of capital punishment.
3. Preparation and criminal attempt.
4. General exceptions.
5. Joint and constructive liability.
6. Abetment.
7. Criminal conspiracy.
8. Offences against the State.
9. Offences against public tranquility.
10. Offences against human body.
11. Offences against property.
12. Offences against women.
13. Defamation.
14. Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
15. Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 and subsequent legislative developments.
16. Plea bargaining.
Law of Torts
1. Nature and definition.
2. Liability based upon fault and strict liability; Absolute liability.
3. Vicarious liability including State liability.
4. General defences.
5. Joint tort feasors.
6. Remedies.
7. Negligence.
8. Defamation.
9. Nuisance.
10. Conspiracy.
11. False imprisonment.
12. Malicious prosecution.
13. Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
Law of Contracts and Mercantile Law
1. Nature and formation of contract/Econtract.
2. Factors vitiating free consent.
3. Void, voidable, illegal and unenforceable agreements.
4. Performance and discharge of contracts.
5. Quasi- Contracts.
6. Consequences of breach of contract.
7. Contract of indemnity, guarantee and insurance.
8. Contract of agency.
9. Sale of goods and hire purchase.
10. Formation and dissolution of partnership.
11. Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
12. Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
13. Standard form contracts.
Contemporary Legal Developments
1. Public Interest Litigation.
2. Intellectual property rights – Concept, types/prospects.
3. Information Technology Law including Cyber Laws – Concept, purpose/prospects.
4. Competition Law- Concept, purpose/prospects.
5. Alternate Dispute Resolution – Concept, types/prospects.
6. Major statutes concerning environmental law.
7. Right to Information Act.
8. Trial by media.
Literature of the following languages
NOTE (i) : A candidate may be required to answer some or all the questions in the language concerned.
NOTE (ii) : In regard to the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to Constitution, the scripts will
be the same as indicated in Section-II (B) of Appendix I relating to Main Examination.
NOTE (iii) : Candidates should note that the questions not required to be answered in a specific
language will have to be answered in the language medium indicated by them for answering papers on
Essay, General Studies and Optional Subjects.
ASSAMESE
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Assamese)
Section-A
Language
(a) History of the origin and development of the Assamese language-its position among the Indo-Aryan
Languages - periods in its history.
(b) Developments of Assamese prose.
(c) Vowels and consonants of the Assamese languages-rules of phonetic changes with stress on Assamese
coming down from Old Indo-Aryan.
(d) Assamese vocabulary-and its sources.
(e) Morphology of the language-conjugation-enclitic definitives and pleonastic suffixes.
(f) Dilectical divergences-the standard colloquial and the Kamrupi dialect in particulars.
(g) Assamese scripts-its evolution through the ages till 19th century A.D.
Section-B
Literary Criticism and Literary History
(a) Principles of Literary criticism upto New criticism.
(b) Different literary genres.
(c) Development of literary forms in Assamese.
(d) Development of literary criticism in Assamese.
(e) Periods of the literary history of Assam from the earliest beginnings, i.e. from the period of the
charyyageets with their socio-cultural background : the proto Assamese-Pre-Sankaradeva - Sankaradeva-post
Sankaradeva – Modern period (from the coming of the Britishers)-Post-Independence period. Special
emphasis is to be given on the Vaisnavite period, the gonaki and the post-Independence period.
PAPER-II
This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the
candidates’ critical ability.
[Answers must be written in Assamese]
Section-A
Rãmãyana (Ayodhya Kãnda only) - by Madhava Kandali.
Pãrijãt-Harana - by Sankaradeva.
Rãsakrïdã - by Sankaradeva (From Kirtana Ghosa).
Bargeet - by Madhavadeva
Rãjasûya - by Madhavadeva.
Kãthã-Bhãgavata (Books I and II) - by Baikunthanath Bhattacharyya.
Gurucarit-Kathã (Sankaradeva’s - ed. by Maheswar Neog
Part only)
Section-B
Mor Jeevan Soñwaran - by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Kripãbar Barbaruãr Kãkatar Topola - by Lakshminath Bezbaroa.
Pratimã - by Chandra Kumar Agarwalla.
Gãoñburhã - by Padmanath Gohain Barua.
Monamatî - by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.
Purani Asamîyã Sãhitya - by Banikanta Kakati.
Kãrengar Ligirî - by Jyotiprasad Agarwalla
Jeevanar Bãtat - by Bina Barwa (Birinchi Kumar Barua)
Mrityunjoy - by Birendrakumar Bhattacharyya
Samrãt - by Navakanta Barua.
BENGALI
PAPER-I
History of Language and Literature.
Answers must be written in Bengali.
Section-A
Topics from the History of Bangla language
1. The chronological track from Proto Indo-European to Bangla (Family tree with branches and approximate
dates).
2. Historical stages of Bangla (Old, Middle, New) and their linguistic features.
3. Dialects of Bangla and their distinguishing characteristics.
4. Elements of Bangla Vocabulary.
5. Forms of Bangla Literary Prose-Sadhu and Chalit.
6. Processes of language change relevant for Bangla :
Apinihiti (Anaptyxis), Abhishruti (umlaut), Murdhanyibhavan (cerebralization), Nasikyibhavan
(Nasalization),
Samibhavan (Assimilation), Sadrishya (Analogy), Svaragama (Vowel insertion)-Adi Svaragama, Madhya
Svaragama or Svarabhakti, Antya Svaragama, Svarasangati (Vowel hormony), y-shruti and w-shruti.
7. Problems of standardization and reform of alphabet and spelling, and those of transliteration and
Romanization.
8. Phonology, Morphology and Syntax of Modern Bangla.
(Sounds of Modern Bangla, Conjuncts; word formations, compounds; basic sentence patterns.)
Section-B
Topics from the History of Bangla Literature.
1. Periodization of Bangla Literature : Old Bangla and Middle Bangla.
2. Points of difference between modern and pre-modern Bangla Literature.
3. Roots and reasons behind the emergence of modernity in Bangla Literature.
4. Evolution of various Middle Bangla forms : Mangal kavyas, Vaishnava lyrics, Adapted narratives
(Ramayana,
Mahabharata, Bhagavata) and religious biographies.
5. Secular forms in middle Bangla literature.
6. Narrative and lyric trends in the nineteenth century Bangla poetry.
7. Development of prose.
8. Bangla dramatic literature (nineteenth century, Tagore, Post-1944 Bangla drama).
9. Tagore and post-Tagoreans.
10. Fiction, major authors :
(Bankimchandra, Tagore, Saratchandra, Bibhutibusan, Tarasankar, Manik).
11. Women and Bangla literature : creators and created.
PAPER-II
Prescribed texts for close study.
Answers must be written in Bengali.
Section-A
1. Vaishnava Padavali (Calcutta University)
Poems of Vidyapati, Chandidas, Jnanadas, Govindadas and Balaramdas.
2. Chandimangal Kalketu episode by Mukunda (Sahitya Akademi).
3. Chaitanya Charitamrita Madya Lila, by Krishnadas Kaviraj (Sahitya Akademi).
4. Meghnadbadh Kavya by Madhusudan Dutta.
5. Kapalkundala by Bankimchandra Chattarjee.
6. Samya and Bangadesher Krishak by Bankimchandra Chatterjee.
7. Sonar Tari by Rabindranath Tagore.
8. Chhinnapatravali by Rabindranath Tagore.
Section-B
9. Raktakarabi by Rabindranath Tagore.
10. Nabajatak by Rabindranath Tagore.
11. Grihadaha by Saratchandra Chatterjee.
12. Prabandha Samgraha Vol. 1, by Pramatha Choudhuri.
13. Aranyak by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee
14. Short stories by Manik Bandyopadhyay : Atashi Mami, Pragaitihasik, Holud-Pora, Sarisrip, Haraner
Natjamai, Chhoto-Bokulpurer Jatri, Kustharogir Bou, Jakey Ghush Ditey Hoy.
15. Shrestha Kavita by Jibanananda Das.
16. Jagori by Satinath Bhaduri.
17. Ebam Indrajit by Badal Sircar.
BODO
PAPER-I
History of Bodo Language and Literature
(Answers must be written in Bodo)
Section-A
History of Bodo Language
1. Homeland, language family, its present status and its mutual contact with Assamese.
2. (a) Phonemes : Vowel and Consonant Phonemes
(b) Tones.
3. Morphology : Gender, Case & Case endings, Plural suffix, Definitives, Verbal suffix.
4. Vocabulary and its sources.
5. Syntax : Types of sentences, Word Order.
6. History of Scripts used in writing Bodo Language since inception.
Section-B
History of Bodo Literature
1. General introduction of Bodo folk literature.
2. Contribution of the Missionaries.
3. Periodization of Bodo Literature.
4. Critical analysis of different genre (Poetry, Novel, Short Story and Drama)
5. Translation Literature.
Paper-II
The Paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the critical
ability of the candidates.
(Answers must be written in Bodo)
Section-A
(a) Khonthai-Methai (Edited by Madaram Brahma & Rupnath Brahma).
(b) Hathorkhi-Hala (Edited by Pramod Chandra Brahma)
(c) Boroni Gudi Sibsa Arw Aroz : Madaram Brahma.
(d) Raja Nilambar : Dwarendra Nath Basumatary.
(e) Bibar (Prose section) (Edited by Satish Chandra Basumatary)
Section-B
(a) Gibi Bithai (Aida Nwi) : Bihuram Boro
(b) Radab : Samar Brahma Chaudhury
(c) Okhrang Gongse Nangou : Brajendra Kumar Brahma
(d) Baisagu Arw Harimu : Laksheswar Brahma.
(e) Gwdan Boro : Manoranjan Lahary
(f) Jujaini Or : Chittaranjan Muchahary
(g) Mwihoor : Dharanidhar Wary
(h) Hor Badi Khwmsi : Kamal Kumar Brahma
(i) Jaolia Dewan : Mangal Singh Hozowary
(j) Hagra Guduni Mwi : Nilkamal Brahma.
DOGRI
PAPER-I
History of Dogri Language and Literature
(Answers must be written in Dogri)
Section-A
History of Dogri Language
1. Dogri language : Origin and development through different stages.
2. Linguistic boundaries of Dogri and its dialects.
3. Characteristic features of Dogri language.
4. Structure of Dogri Language :
(a) Sound Structure :
Segmental : Vowels and Consonants Non-Segmental : Length, Stress, Nasalization, Tone and Juncture.
(b) Morphology of Dogri :
(i) Inflection Categories : Gender, Number, Case, Person, Tense and Voice.
(ii) Word Formation : use of prefixes, infixes and suffixes.
(iii) Vocabulary : Tatsam, tadbhav, foreign and regional.
(c) Sentence Structure: Major Sentence - types and their constituents, agreement and concord in Dogri
syntax.
5. Dogri Language and Scripts : Dogre/Dogra Akkhar, Devanagari and Persian.
Section-B
History of Dogri Literature :
1. A brief account of Pre-independence Dogri Literature : Poetry & Prose.
2. Development of modern Dogri Poetry and main trends in Dogri Poetry.
3. Development of Dogri short-story, main trends & prominent short-story writers.
4. Development of Dogri Novel, main trends & contribution of Dogri Novelists.
5. Development of Dogri Drama & contribution of prominent Playwrights.
6. Development of Dogri Prose : Essays, Memoirs & Travelogues.
7. An introduction to Dogri Folk literature - Folk songs, Folk tales & Ballads.
Paper-II
Textual Cristisim of Dogri Literature
(Answers must be written in Dogri)
Section-A
Poetry
1. Azadi Paihle Di Dogri Kavita.
The following poets :
Devi Ditta, Lakkhu, Ganga Ram, Ramdhan, Hardutt, Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram & Permanand Almast.
2. Modern Dogri Poetry
Azadi Bad Di Dogri Kavita
The following poets :
Kishan Smailpuri, Tara Smailpuri, Mohan Lal Sapolia, Yash Sharma, K.S. Madhukar, Padma Sachdev,
Jitendra Udhampuri, Charan Singh and Prakash Premi.
3. Sheeraza Dogri Number 102, Ghazal Ank.
The following poets :
Ram Lal Sharma, Ved Pal Deep, N.D. Jamwal, Shiv Ram Deep, Ashwini Magotra and Virendra Kesar.
4. Sheeraza Dogri Number 147, Ghazal Ank
The following poets :
R.N. Shastri, Jitendra Udhampuri, Champa Sharma and Darshan Darshi.
5. Ramayan (Epic) by Shambhu Nath Sharma (upto Ayodhya Kand)
6. Veer Gulab (Khand Kavya) by Dinoo Bhai Pant.
Section-B
Prose
1. Ajakani Dogri Kahani
The following short story writers :
Madan Mohan Sharma, Narendra Khajuria and B.P. Sathe.
2. Ajakani Dogri Kahani Part-II
The following Short Story writters :
Ved Rahi, Narsingh Dev Jamwal, Om Goswami, Chhattrapal, Lalit Magotra, Chaman Arora and Ratan
Kesar.
3. Khatha Kunj Bhag II
The following Story writters :
Om Vidyarthi, Champa Sharma and Krishan Sharma
4. Meel Patthar (collection of short stories) by Bandhu Sharma
5. Kaiddi (Novel) by Desh Bandhu Dogra Nutan
6. Nanga Rukkh (Novel) by O.P. Sharma Sarathi.
7. Nayaan (Drama) by Mohan Singh.
8. Satrang (A collection of one act plays)
The following pay wrights :
Vishwa Nath Khajuria, Ram Nath Shastri, Jitendra Sharma, Lalit Magotra and Madan Mohan Sharma.
9. Dogri Lalit Nibandh
The following authors :
Vishwa Nath Khajuria, Narayan Mishra, Balkrishan Shastri, Shiv Nath, Shyam Lal Sharma, Lakshmi
Narayan,
D.C. Prashant, Ved Ghai, Kunwar Viyogi.
ENGLISH
The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from
the following periods in English Literature: Paper I: 1600-1900 and Paper II : 1900-1990.
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : a) A short-notes question related to the topics for
general study, and b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER-I
Answers must be written in English.
Texts for detailed study are listed below.
Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
The Renaissance : Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neoclassicism;
Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section-A
1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.
2. John Donne. The following poems :
- Canonization;
- Death be not proud;
- The Good Morrow;
- On his Mistress going to bed;
- The Relic;
3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX
4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock.
5. William Wordsworth. The following poems:
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
- Tintern Abbey.
- Three years she grew.
- She dwelt among untrodden ways.
- Michael.
- Resolution and Independence.
- The World is too much with us.
- Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour.
- Upon Westminster Bridge.
6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.
7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House.
Section-B
1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels.
2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.
4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.
6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
PAPER-II
Answers must be written in English.
Texts for detailed study are listed below.
Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-
Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post-
Modernism.
Section-A
1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems:
- Easter 1916
- The Second Coming
- A Prayer for my daughter.
- Sailing to Byzantium.
- The Tower.
- Among School Children.
- Leda and the Swan.
- Meru
- Lapis Lazuli
- The Second Coming
- Byzantium.
2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems :
- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
- Journey of the Magi.
- Burnt Norton.
3. W.H. Auden. The following poems :
- Partition
- Musee des Beaux Arts
- in Memory of W.B. Yeats
- Lay your sleeping head, my love
- The Unknown Citizen
- Consider
- Mundus Et Infans
- The Shield of Achilles
- September 1, 1939
- Petition.
4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.
5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.
6. Philip Larkin. The following poems :
- Next
- Please
- Deceptions
- Afternoons
- Days
- Mr. Bleaney
7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems :
- Looking for a Causim on a Swing
- A River
- Of Mothers, among other Things
- Love Poem for a Wife 1
- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House
- Obituary
(All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy,
published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
Section-B
1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim.
2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.
4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.
5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway.
6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura.
7. V.S. Naipal. A House for Mr. Biswas.
GUJARATI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Gujarati)
Section-A
Gujarati Language : Form and history
1. History of Gujarati Language with special reference to New Indo-Aryan i.e. last one thousand years.
2. Significant features of the Gujarati language: Phonology, morphology and syntax.
3. Major dialects: Surti, Pattani, charotari and Saurashtri.
History of Gujarati Literature
Medieval :
4. Jaina tradition
5. Bhakti tradition: Sagun and Nirgun (Jnanmargi)
6. Non-sectarian tradition (Laukik parampara)
Modern:
7. Sudharak yug
8. Pandit yug
9. Gandhi yug
10. Anu-Gandhi yug
11. Adhunik yug
Section-B
Literary Forms : (Salient features, history and development of the following literary forms):
(a) Medieval
1. Narratives: Rasa, Akhyan and Padyavarta
2. Lyrical: Pada
(b) Folk
3. Bhavai
(c) Modern
4. Fiction: Novel and short story
5. Drama
6. Literary Essay
7. Lyrical Poetry
(d) Criticism
8. History of theoretical Gujarati criticism
9. Recent research in folk tradition.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Gujarati)
The paper will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability
of the candidate.
Section-A
1. Medieval
(i) Vasantvilas phagu-AJNATKRUT
(ii) Kadambari-BHALAN
(iii) Sudamacharitra-PREMANAND
(iv) Chandrachandravatini varta-SHAMAL
(v) Akhegeeta-AKHO
2. Sudharakyug & Pandityug
(vi) Mari Hakikat-NARMADASHANKAR DAVE
(vii) Farbasveerah- DALPATRAM
(viii)Saraswatichandra-Part-I GOVARDHANRAM TRIPATHI
(ix) Purvalap- 'KANT' (MANISHANKAR RATNAJI BHATT)
(x) Raino Parvat-RAMANBHAI NEELKANTH
Section-B
1. Gandhiyug & Anu Gandhiyug
(i) Hind Swaraj-MOHANDAS KARMACHAND GANDHI
(ii) Patanni Prabhuta- KANHAIYALAL MUNSHI
(iii) Kavyani Shakti- RAMNARAYAN VISH-WANATH PATHAK
(iv) Saurashtrani Rasdhar Part 1- ZAVERCHAND MEGHANI
(v) Manvini Bhavai-PANNALAL PATEL
(vi) Dhvani-RAJENDRA SHAH
2. Adhunik yug
(vii) Saptapadi-UMASHANKAR JOSHI
(viii)Janantike- SURESH JOSHI
(ix) Ashwatthama- SITANSHU YASHASCHANDRA
HINDI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Hindi)
Section-A
1. History of Hindi Language and Nagari Lipi.
I. Grammatical and applied forms of Apbhransh, Awahatta & Arambhik Hindi.
II. Development of Braj and Awadhi as literary language during medieval period.
III. Early form of Khari-boli in Siddha-Nath Sahitya, Khusero, Sant Sahitaya, Rahim etc. and Dakhni Hindi.
IV. Development of Khari-boli and Nagari Lipi during 19th Century.
V. Standardisation of Hindi Bhasha & Nagari Lipi.
VI. Development of Hindi as national Language during freedom movement.
VII. The development of Hindi as a National Language of Union of India.
VIII. Scientific & Technical development of Hindi Language.
IX. Prominent dialects of Hindi and their inter- relationship.
X. Salient features of Nagari Lipi and the efforts for its reform & Standard form of Hindi.
XI. Grammatical structure of Standard Hindi.
Section-B
2. History of Hindi Literature.
I. The relevance and importance of Hindi literature and tradition of writing History of Hindi Literature.
II. Literary trends of the following four periods of history of Hindi Literature.
A. Adikal-Sidh, Nath and Raso Sahitya.
Prominent poets - Chandvardai, Khusaro, Hemchandra, Vidyapati.
B. Bhaktikal - Sant Kavyadhara, Sufi Kavyadhara, Krishna Bhaktidhara and Ram Bhaktidhara.
Prominent Poets - Kabir, Jayasi, Sur & Tulsi.
C. Ritikal-Ritikavya, Ritibaddhakavya & Riti Mukta Kavya.
Prominent Poets-Keshav, Bihari, Padmakar and Ghananand.
D. Adhunik Kal
a. Renaissance, the development of Prose, Bharatendu Mandal.
b. Prominent Writers : Bharatendu, Bal Krishna Bhatt & Pratap Narain Mishra.
c. Prominent trends of modern Hindi Poetry : Chhayavad, Pragativad, Proyogvad, Nai Kavita, Navgeet and
Contemporary poetry and Janvadi Kavita.
Prominent Poets : Maithili Sharan Gupta, Prasad, Nirala, Mahadevi, Dinkar, Agyeya, Muktibodh, Nagarjun.
III. Katha Sahitya
A. Upanyas & Realism
B. The origin and development of Hindi Novels.
C. Prominent Novelists : Premchand, Jainendra, Yashpal, Renu and Bhism Sahani.
D. The origin and development of Hindi short story.
E. Prominent short Story Writers : Premchand, Prasad, Agyeya, Mohan Rakesh & Krishna Shobti.
IV. Drama & Theatre
A. The origin & Development of Hindi Drama.
B. Prominent Dramatists : Bharatendu, Prasad, Jagdish Chandra Mathur, Ram Kumar Verma, Mohan Rakesh.
C. The development of Hindi Theatre.
V. Criticism
A. The origin and development of Hindi criticism : Saiddhantik, Vyavharik, Pragativadi, Manovishleshanvadi
& Nai Alochana.
B. Prominent critics : Ramchandra Shukla, Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Ram Vilas Sharma & Nagendra.
VI. The other forms of Hindi prose-Lalit Nibandh, Rekhachitra, Sansmaran, Yatravrittant.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Hindi)
This paper will require first hand reading of prescribed texts and will test the critical ability of the candidates.
Section-A
1. Kabir : Kabir Granthawali, Ed, Shyam Sundar Das (First hundred Sakhis.)
2. Surdas : Bhramar Gitsar, Ed. Ramchandra Shukla (First hundred Padas)
3. Tulsidas : Ramchrit Manas (Sundar Kand) Kavitawali (Uttar Kand).
4. Jayasi : Padmawat Ed. Shyam Sundar Das (Sinhal Dwip Khand & Nagmativiyog Khand)
5. Bihari : Bihari Ratnakar Ed. Jagnnath Prasad Ratnakar (First 100 Dohas)
6. Maithili : Bharat Bharati Sharan Gupta
7. Prasad : Kamayani (Chinta and Sharddha Sarg)
8. Nirala : Rag-Virag, Ed. Ram Vilas Sharma (Ram Ki Shakti Puja & Kukurmutta).
9. Dinkar : Kurushetra 10. Agyeya : Angan Ke Par Dwar (Asadhya Vina)
11. Muktiboth: Brahma Rakshas
12. Nagarjun: Badal Ko Ghirte Dekha Hai, Akal Ke Bad, Harijan Gatha.
Section-B
1. Bharatendu : Bharat Durdasha
2. Mohan Rakesh : Ashad Ka Ek Din
3. Ramchandra Shukla : Chintamani (Part I)
(Kavita Kya Hai] Shraddha Aur Bhakti)
4. Dr. Satyendra : Nibandh Nilaya-Bal Krishna Bhatt, Premchand, Gulab Rai, Hajari Prasad Dwivedi, Ram
Vilas Sharma, Agyeya, Kuber Nath Rai.
5. Premchand : Godan, Premchand ki Sarvashreshtha Kahaniyan, Ed. Amrit Rai/Manjusha - Prem Chand ki
Sarvashreshtha Kahaniyan, Ed. Amrit Rai.
6. Prasad : Skandgupta
7. Yashpal : Divya
8. Phaniswar Nath Renu : Maila Anchal
9. Mannu Bhandari : Mahabhoj
10. Rajendra Yadav : Ek Dunia Samanantar (All Stories)
KANNADA
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Kannada)
Section-A
A. History of Kannada Language
What is Language? General charecteristics of Language. Dravidian Family of Languages and its specific
features, Antiquity of Kannada Language, Different Phases of its Development.
Dialects of Kannada Language : Regional and Social Various aspects of development of Kannada Language :
phonological and Semantic changes.
Language borrowing.
B. History of Kannada Literature
Ancient Kannada literature : Influence and Trends. Poets for study : Specified poets from Pampa to Ratnakara
Varni are to be studied in the light of contents, form and expression : Pampa, Janna, Nagachandra.
Medieval Kannada literature : Influence and Trends.
Vachana literature : Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi.
Medieval Poets : Harihara, Ragha-vanka, Kumar-Vyasa.
Dasa literature : Purandra and Kanaka.
Sangataya : Ratnakaravarni
C. Modern Kannada literature :
Influence, trends and idealogies, Navodaya, Pragatishila, Navya, Dalita and Bandaya.
Section-B
A. Poetics and literary criticism :
Definition and concepts of poetry : Word, Meaning, Alankara, Reeti, Rasa, Dhwani, Auchitya.
Interpretations of Rasa Sutra.
Modern Trends of literary criticism : Formalist, Historical, Marxist, Feminist, Post-colonial criticism.
B. Cultural History of Karnataka
Contribution of Dynasties to the culture of Karnataka : Chalukyas of Badami and Kalyani, Rashtrakutas,
Hoysalas, Vijayanagara rulers, in literary context.
Major religions of Karnataka and their cultural contributions.
Arts of Karnataka : Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Music, Dance-in the literary context.
Unification of Karnataka and its impact on Kannada literature.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Kannada)
The paper will require first-hand reading of the Texts prescribed and will be designed to test the critical ability
of the candidates.
Section-A
A. OLD KANNADA LITERATURE
1. Vikramaarjuna Vijaya of Pampa (cantos 12 & 13), (Mysore University Pub.)
2. Vaddaraadhane (Sukumaraswamyia Kathe, Vidyutchorana Kathe)
B. MEDIEVAL KANNADA LITERATURE :
1. Vachana Kammata, Ed: K. Marulasiddappa K.R. Nagaraj (Bangalore University Pub.)
2. Janapriya Kanakasamputa, Ed. D. Javare Gowda (Kannada and Culture Directorate, Bangalore)
3. Nambiyannana Ragale, Ed., T.N. Sreekantaiah (Ta.Vem. Smaraka Grantha Male, Mysore)
4. Kumaravyasa Bharata : Karna Parva (Mysore University)
5. Bharatesha Vaibhava Sangraha Ed. Ta. Su. Shama Rao (Mysore University)
Section-B
A. MODERN KANNADA LITERATURE
1. Poetry : Hosagannada Kavite, Ed : G.H. Nayak (Kannada Saahitya Parishattu, Bangalore)
2. Novel : Bettada Jeeva-Shivarama Karanta Madhavi-Arupama Niranjana Odalaala-Devanuru Mahadeva
3. Short Story : Kannada Sanna Kathegalu, Ed. G.H. Nayak (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi).
4. Drama : Shudra Tapaswi-Kuvempu. Tughlak-Girish Karnad.
5. Vichara Saahitya : Devaru-A.N. Moorty Rao (Pub : D.V.K. Moorty, Mysore.)
B. FOLK LITERATURE :
1. Janapada Swaroopa-Dr. H.M. Nayak. (Ta. Vem. Smaraka Grantha Male, Mysore.)
2. Janapada Geetaanjali-Ed.D. Javare Gowda. (Pub : Sahitya Academy, New Delhi.)
3. Kannada Janapada Kathegalu-Ed. J.S. Paramashivaiah, (Mysore University.)
4. Beedi Makkalu Beledo. Ed. Kalegowda Nagavara (Pub : Bangalore University.)
5. Savirada Ogatugalu-Ed : S.G. Imrapura.
KASHMIRI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Kashmiri)
Section-A
1. Genealogical relationship of the Kashmiri language: various theories.
2. Areas of occurrence and dialects (geographical/social)
3. Phonology and grammar:
i. Vowel and consonant system;
ii. Nouns and pronouns with various case inflections;
iii. Verbs: various types and tenses.
4. Syntactic structure:
i. Simple, active and declarative statments;
ii. Coordination;
iii. Relativisation.
Section-B
1. Kashmiri literature in the 14th century (Socio-cultural and intellectual background with special reference to
Lal
Dyad and Sheikhul Alam)
2. Nineteenth century Kashmiri literature (development of various genres: vatsun; ghazal; and mathnavi).
3. Kashmiri literature in the first half of the twentieth century (with special reference to Mahjoor and Azad;
various literary influences).
4. Modern Kashmiri literature (with special refernece to the development of the short story, drama, novel and
nazm).
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Kashmiri)
Section-A
1. Intensive study of Kashmiri poetry upto the nineteenth century:
i) Lal Dyad
ii) Sheikhul Aalam
iii) Habba Khatoon
2. Kashmiri poetry: 19th Century
i) Mahmood Gami (Vatsans)
ii) Maqbool Shah (Gulrez)
iii) Rasool Mir (Ghazals)
iv) Abdul Ahad Nadim (N'at)
v) Krishanjoo Razdan (Shiv Lagun)
vi) Sufi Poets (Text in Sanglaab, published by the Deptt. of Kashmiri, University of Kashmir)
3. Twentieth Century Kashmiri poetry (text in Azich Kashir Shairi, published by the Deptt. of Kashmiri,
University of Kashmir)
4. Literary criticism and research work: development and various trends.
Section-B
1. An analytical study of the short story in Kashmiri.
i) Afsana Majmu'a, published by the Deptt. of Kashmiri, University of Kashmir.
ii) Kashur Afsana Az, published by the Sahitya Akademi
iii) Hamasar Kashur Afsana, published by the Sahitya Akademi.
The following short story writers only:
Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din, Kamil, Hari Krishan Kaul, Hraday Kaul Bharti, Bansi Nirdosh, Gulshan Majid.
2. Novel in Kashmiri:
i) Mujrim by G.N. Gowhar
ii) Marun-Ivan Ilyichun, (Kashmiri version of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iiyich (Published by Kashmiri
Deptt).
3. Drama in Kashmiri
i) Natuk Kariv Band, by Hari Krishan Kaul
ii) Qk Angy Natuk, ed. Motilal Keemu published by Sahitya Akademi.
iii) Razi Oedipus, tr. Naji Munawar, published by Sahitya Akademi.
4. Kashmiri Folk Literature:
i) Kashur Luki Theatre by Mohammad Subhan Bhagat, published by Deptt. of Kashmiri, University of
Kashmir.
ii) Kashiry Luki Beeth (all volumes) published by the J & K Cultural Academy.
KONKANI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Konkani)
Section-A
History of the Konkani Language :
(i) Origin and development of the language and influences on it.
(ii) Major variants of Konkani and their linguistic features.
(iii) Grammatical and lexicographic work in Konkani, including a study of cases, adverbs, indeclinables and
voices.
(iv) Old Standard Konkani, new Standard and standardisation problems.
Section-B:
History of Konkani literature:
Candidates would be expected to be wellacquainted with Konkani literature and its social and cultural
background and consider the problems and issues arising out of them.
(i) History of Konkani literature from its probable source to the present times, with emphasis on its major
works, writers and movements.
(ii) Social and cultural background of the making of Konkani literature from time to time.
(iii) Indian and Western influences on Konkani literature from the earliest to modern times.
(iv) Modern literary trends in the various genres and regions including a study of Konkani folklore.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Konkani)
Textual Criticism of Konkani Literature
The paper will be designed to test the canidate's critical and analytical abilities. Candidates would be expected
to be wellacquainted with Konkani Literature and required to have a first-hand reading of the following texts:
Section-A
Prose
1. a) Konkani Mansagangotri (excluding poetry) ed. by Prof. Olivinho Gomes.
b) Old Konkani language and literature-the Portuguese Role.
2. a) Otmo Denvcharak-a novel by A.V. da Cruz.
b) Vadoll ani Varem-A novel by Antonio Pereira.
c) Devache Kurpen-a novel by V J P Saldanha.
3. a) Vajralikhani-Shenoy Goem-bab-An anthology-ed. by Shantaram Varde Valavalikar
b) Konkani Lalit Niband-Essays-ed. By Shyam Verenkar
c) Teen Dasakam-An lAnthology-ed. by Chandrakant Keni.
4. a) Demand-Drama-by Pundalik Naik
b) Kadambini- A miscellany of modern Prose-ed. by Prof. OJF Gomes & Smt. P.S. Tadkodkar.
c) Ratha Tujeo Ghudieo-by Smt. Jayanti Naik.
Section-B
Poetry
1. a) Ev ani Mori: Poetry by Eduardo Bruno de Souza.
b) Abravanchem Yadnyadan-by Luis Mascarenhas.
2. a) Godde Ramayan-ed.by R.K. Rao
b) Ratnahar I &II-collection of poems ed. R.V. Pandit.
3. a) Zayo Zuyo-poems-Manohar L. Sardessai.
b) Kanadi Mati Konkani Kavi-Anthology of Poems-ed. Pratap Naik.
4. a) Adrushatache Kalle-Poems by Pandurang Bhangui.
b) Yaman-Poems by Madhav Borkar
MAITHILI
PAPER-I
History of Maithili Language and its Literature
(Answer to be written in Maithili)
PART-A
History of Maithili Language
1. Place of Maithili in Indo-European language family.
2. Origin and development of Maithili language. (Sanskrit, Prakrit, Avhatt, Maithili)
3. Periodic division of Maithili Language. (Beginning, Middle era, Modern era)
4. Maithili and its different dialects.
5. Relationship between Maithili and other Eastern languages (Bengali, Assamese, Oriya).
6. Origin and development of Tirhuta Script.
7. Pronouns and Verbs in Maithili Language.
PART-B
History of Maithili Literature
1. Background of Maithili Literature (Religious, economic, social, cultural).
2. Periodic division of Maithili literature.
3. Pre-Vidyapati Literature.
4. Vidyapati and his tradition.
5. Medieval Maithili Drama (Kirtaniya Natak, Ankai Nat, Maithili dramas written in Nepal).
6. Maithili Folk Literature (Folk Tales, Folk Drama, Folk Stories, Folk Songs).
7. Development of different literary forms in modern era.
(a) Prabandh-kavya
(b) Muktak-kavya
(c) Novel
(d) Short Story
(e) Drama
(f) Essay
(g) Criticism
(h) Memoirs
(i) Translation
8. Development of Maithili Magazines and Journals.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Maithili)
The paper will require first-hand reading of the prescribed texts and will test the critical ability of the
candidates.
PART-A
1. Vidyapati Geet-Shati-Publisher : Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (Lyrics- 1 to 50)
2. Govind Das Bhajanavali-Publisher : Maithili Academy, Patna (Lyrics - 1 to 25).
3. Krishnajanm – Manbodh
4. Mithilabhasha Ramayana – Chanda Jha (only Sunder-Kand)
5. Rameshwar Charit Mithila Ramayan - Lal Das (only Bal-kand)
6. Keechak-Vadh-Tantra Nath Jha.
7. Datta-Vati-Surendra Jha 'Suman' (only 1st and 2nd Cantos).
8. Chitra-Yatri
9. Samakaleen Maithili Kavita – Publisher : Sahitaya Akademi, New Delhi.
PART-B
10. Varna Ratnakar - Jyotirishwar (only 2nd Kallol)
11. Khattar Kakak Tarang - Hari Mohan Jha.
12. Lorik-Vijaya-Manipadma
13. Prithvi Putra-Lalit
14. Bhaphait Chahak Jinagi-Sudhanshu 'Shekar' Choudhary.
15. Kirti Rajkamlak-Publisher : Maithili Academy, Patna (First Ten Stories only).
16. Katha-Sangrah-Publisher : Maithili Academy, Patna.
MALAYALAM
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Malayalam
Section-A
Unit 1-Early phase of Malayalam Language:
1.1 Various theories: origin from proto Dravidian, Tamil, Sanskrit.
1.2 Relation between Tamil and Malayalam: Six nayas of A.R. Rajarajavarma.
1.3 Pattu school-definition, Ramacharitam, later pattu works-Niranam works and Krishnagatha.
Unit 2-Linguistic features of :
2.1 Manipravalam-definition. Language of early manipravala works-Champu, Sandesakavya, Chandrotsava,
minor works. Later Manipravala works-medieval Champu and Attakkatha.
2.2 Folklore-Southern and Northern ballads, Mappila songs.
2.3 Early Malayalam prose-Bhashakautaliyam, Brahmandapuranam, Attaprakaram, Kramadipika and
Nambiantamil.
Unit 3-Standardisation of Malayalam:
3.1 Peculairities of the language of Pana, Kilippattu and Tullal.
3.2 Contributions of indigenous and European missionaries to Malayalam.
3.3 Characteristics of contemporary Malayalam : Malayalam as administravie language. Language of scientific
and technical literature-media language.
Section-B
Literary History
Unit-4 Ancient and Medieval Literature:
4.1 Pattu-Ramacharitam, Niranam works and Krishnagatha.
4.2 Manipravalam-early and medieval manipravala works including attakkatha and champu.
4.3 Folk literature.
4.4 Kilippattu, Tullal and Mahakavya.
Unit 5- Modern Literature-Poerty:
5.1 Venmani poets and contemporaries.
5.2 The advent of Romanticism-Poerty of Kavitraya i.e., Asan, Ulloor and Vallathol
5.3 Poetry after Kavitraya.
5.4 Modernism in Malayalam poetry.
Unit 6- Modern Literature-Prose:
6.1 Drama
6.2 Novel
6.3 Short story
6.4 Biography, travelogue, essay and criticism.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Malayalam)
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and is designed to test the candidate's
critical ability.
Section-A
Unit 1
1.1 Ramacharitam-Patalam 1.
1.2 Kannassaramayanam-Balakandam first 25 stanzas.
1.3 Unnunilisandesam-Purvabhagam 25 slokas including Prastavana
1.4 Mahabharatham Kilippattu-Bhishmaparvam.
Unit 2
2.1 Kumaran Asan-Chintavisthayaya Sita.
2.2 Vailoppilli-Kutiyozhikkal.
2.3 G. Sankara Kurup-Perunthachan.
2.4 N.V. Krishna Variar-Tivandiyile Pattu.
Unit 3
3.1 ONV -Bhumikkoru Charamagitam
3.2 Ayyappa Panicker-Kurukshetram.
3.3 Akkittam-Pandatha Messanthi
3.4 Attur Ravivarma-Megharupan.
Section-B
Unit 4
4.1 O. Chanthu Menon-Indulekha
4.2 Thakazhy-Chemmin.
4.3 O V Vijayan-Khasakkinte Ithihasam.
Unit 5
5.1 MT Vasudevan Nair-Vanaprastham (Collection).
5.2 N S Madhavan-Higvitta (Collection).
5.3 C J. Thomas-1128-il Crime 27.
Unit 6
6.1 Kuttikrishna Marar-Bharataparyatanam
6.2 M. K Sanu-Nakshatrangalute snehabhajanam
6.3 V.T. Bhattathirippad-Kannirum Kinavum.
MANIPURI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Manipuri)
Section-A
Language :
a) General characteristics of Manipuri Language and history of its development; its importance and status
among the TibetoBurman Languages of North-East India; recent development in the study of Manipuri
language; evolution and study of old Manipuri script.
b) Significant features of Manipuri language :
i) Phonology-Phoneme-vowels, consonants juncture, tone, consonant cluster and its occurrence, syllable-its
structure, pattern and types.
ii) Morphology : Word-class, root and its types; affix and its types; grammatical categories-gender, number,
person, case, tense and aspects, process of compounding (samas and sandhi).
iii) Syntax : Word order : types of sentences, pharse and clause structures.
Section-B
a) Literary History of Manipuri :
Early period (upto 17th century)-Social and cultural background; Themes, diction and style of the works.
Medieval period (18th and 19th century)Social, religious and political background; Themes, diction and
style of the works.
Modern period-Growth of major literary forms; change of Themes, diction and style.
b) Manipuri Folk Literature :
Legend, Folktale, Folksong, Ballad, Proverb and Riddle.
c) Aspects of Manipuri Culture :
Pre-Hindu Manipuri Faith; Advent of Hinduism and the process of syncreticism.
Performing arts-Lai Haraoba, Maha Ras; Indegenous games-Sagol Kangjei, Khong Kangjei, Kang.
PAPER II
(Answers must be written in Manipuri)
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s
critical ability to assess them.
Section-A
Old and Medieval Manipuri Literature
(a) Old Manipuri Literature
1. O. Bhogeswar Singh (Ed.) : Numit Kappa
2. M. Gourachandra Singh (Ed.) : Thawanthaba Hiran
3. N. Khelchandra Singh (Ed.) : Naothingkhong Phambal Kaba
4. M. Chandra Singh (Ed.) : Panthoibi Khonggul
(b) Medieval Manipuri Literature :
1. M. Chandra Singh (Ed.) : Samsok Ngamba
2. R.K.Snahal Singh (Ed.) : Ramayana Adi Kanda
3. N. Khelchandra SIngh (Ed.) : Dhananjoy Laibu Ningba
4. O. Bhogeswar Singh (Ed.) : Chandrakirti Jila Changba
Section-B
Modern Manipuri Literature :
(a) Poetry and Epic :
(I) Poetry :
(a)Manipuri Sheireng (Pub) Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, 1988 (ed.)
Kh. Chaoba Singh : Pi Thadoi, Lamgi Chekla Amada, Loktak
Dr. L. Kamal Singh: Nirjanata, Nirab Rajani
A. Minaketan Singh : Kamalda, Nonggumlakkhoda
L. Samarendra Singh : Ingagi Nong, Mamang Leikai Thambal Satle
E. Nilakanta Singh : Manipur, Lamangnaba
Shri Biren : Tangkhul Hui Th. Ibopishak : Anouba Thunglaba Jiba
(b) Kanchi Sheireng. (Pub) Manipur University 1998 (ed.)
Dr. L. Kamal Singh: Biswa-Prem
Shri Biren : Chaphadraba Laigi Yen
Th. Ibopishak : Norok Patal Prithivi
(II) Epic :
1. A. Dorendrajit Singh : Kansa Bodha
2. H. Anganghal Singh : Khamba-Thoibi Sheireng (SanSenba, Lei Langba, Shamu Khonggi Bichar)
(III) Drama :
1. S. Lalit Singh : Areppa Marup
2. G.C. Tongbra : Matric Pass
3. A. Samarendra : Judge Sahebki Imung
(b) Novel, Short-story and Prose :
(I) Novel :
1. Dr. L. Kamal Singh : Madhabi
2. H. Anganghal Singh : Jahera
3. H. Guno Singh : Laman
4. Pacha Meetei : Imphal Amasung, Magi Ishing, Nungsitki Phibam
(II) Short-story :
(a) Kanchi Warimacha (Pub) Manipur University 1997 (ed.)
R.K. Shitaljit Singh : Kamala Kamala
M.K. Binodini : Eigi Thahoudraba Heitup Lalu
Kh. Prakash : Wanom Shareng
(b) Parishadki Khangatlaba Warimacha (Pub) Manipuri Sahitya Parishad 1994 (ed.)
S. Nilbir Shastri : Loukhatpa
R.K. Elangba : Karinunggi
(c) Anouba Manipuri Warimacha (Pub) The Cultural Forum Manipur 1992 (ed.)
N. Kunjamohon Singh : Ijat Tanba
E. Dinamani : Nongthak Khongnang
(III) Prose :
(a) Warenggi Saklon [Due Part (Pub) The Cultural Forum Manipur 1992 (ed.)
Kh. Chaoba Singh : Khamba-Thoibigi Wari Amasung Mahakavya
(b) Kanchi Wareng (Pub) Manipur University 1998 (ed.)
B. Manisana Shastri : Phajaba
Ch. Manihar Singh : Lai-Haraoba
(c) Apunba Wareng. (Pub) Manipur University, 1986 (ed.)
Ch. Pishak Singh : Samaj Amasung, Sanskriti
M.K. Binodini : Thoibidu Warouhouida
Eric Newton : Kalagi Mahousa (translated by I.R. Babu)
(d) Manipuri Wareng (Pub) The Cultural Forum Manipur 1999 (ed.)
S. Krishnamohan Singh : Lan
MARATHI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Marathi)
Section-A
Language and Folk-Iore :
(a) Nature and Functions of Language (with reference to Marathi)
Language as a signifying system : Langue and Parole; Basic functions; Poetic language; Standard Language
and dialect; Language variations according to social parameters.
Linguistic features of Marathi in thirteenth century and seventeenth century.
(b) Dialects of Marathi
Ahirani; Varhadi; Dangi
(c) Marathi Grammar
Parts of Speech; Case-system; Prayog-vichar (Voice)
(d)Nature and kinds of Folk-lore (with special reference to Marathi)
Lok-Geet, Lok Katha, Lok Natya
Section-B
History of Literature and Literary Criticism:
(a) History of Marathi Literature
1. From beginning to 1818 AD, with special reference to the following : The Mahanubhava writers, the Varkari
poets, the Pandit poets, the Shahirs, Bakhar literature.
2. From 1850 to 1990, with special reference to developments in the following major forms : Poetry, Fiction
(Novel and Short Story), Drama; and major literary currents and movements, Romantic, Realist, Modernist,
Dalit Gramin, Feminist.
(b) Literary Criticism
1. Nature and function of Literature;
2. Evaluation of Literature;
3. Nature, Objectives and Methods of Criticism;
4. Literature, Culture and Society.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Marathi)
Textual study of prescribed literary works
The paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s
critical ability.
Section-A
Prose
(1) ‘Smritishala’
(2) Mahatma Jotiba Phule “Shetkaryacha Asud; ‘Sarvajanik Satyadharma’
(3) S.V. Ketkar ‘Brahmankanya;
(4) P.K. Atre ‘Sashtang Namaskar’
(5) Sharchchandra Muktibodh ‘Jana Hey Volatu Jethe’
(6) Uddhav Shelke ‘Shilan’
(7) Baburao Bagul ‘Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti’
(8) Gouri Deshpande ‘Ekek Paan Galavaya’
(9) P.I. Sonkamble ‘Athavaninche Pakshi’
Section-B
Poetry
(1) Namadevanchi Abhangawani’ Ed: Inamdar, Relekar, Mirajkar Modern Book Depot, Pune
(2) ‘Painjan’ Ed : M.N. Adwant Sahitya Prasar Kendra, Nagpur
(3) ‘Damayanti-Swayamvar’ By Raghunath Pandit
(4) ‘Balakvinchi Kavita’ By Balkavi
(5) ‘Vishakha’ By Kusumagraj
(6) ‘Mridgandh’ By Vinda Karandikar
(7) ‘Jahirnama’ By Narayan Surve
(8) ‘Sandhyakalchya Kavita’ By Grace
(9) ‘Ya Sattet Jeev Ramat Nahi’ By Namdev Dhasal
NEPALI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Nepali)
Section-A
1. History of the origin and development of Nepali as one of the new IndoAryan Languages
2. Fundamentals of Nepali Grammar and phonology:
(i) Nominal forms and categories : Gender, Number, Case, Adjectives,Pronouns, Avyayas
(ii) Verbal forms and categoriesTense, Aspects, Voice, Roots and Fixes
(iii) Nepali Swara and Vyanjana;
3. Major Dialects of Nepali
4. Standardisation and Modernisation of Nepali with special reference to language movements (viz. Halanta
Bahiskar, Jharrovad etc.)
5. Teaching of Nepali language in IndiaIts history and development with special reference to its socio-cultural
aspects.
Section-B
1. History of Nepali literature with special reference to its development in India.
2. Fundamental concepts and theories of literature :
Kavya/Sahitya, Kavya Prayojan, Literary genres, Shabda Shakti, Rasa, Alankara, Tragedy, Comedy,
Aesthetics, Stylistics.
3. Major literary trends and movementsSwachchhandatavad, Yatharthavad, Astitwavad, Ayamik Movement,
Contemporary Nepali writings, Postmodernism.
4. Nepali folklores (the following folkform only)- Sawai, Jhyaurey, Selo, Sangini, Lahari.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Nepali)
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed below and questions will be designed to test
the candidate’s critical acumen.
Section-A
1. Santa Jnandil Das-Udaya Lahari
2. Lekhnath Poudyal-Tarun Tapasi
(Vishrams III, V, VI, XII, XV, XVIII only)
3. Agam Singh Giri-Jaleko Pratibimba : Royeko Pratidhwani (The following poems only - rasawako
Chichy-ahatsanga Byunjheko Ek Raat, Chhorolai, Jaleko Pratibimba : Royeko Pratidhwani, Hamro Akashmani
Pani Hunchha Ujyalo, Tihar).
4. Haribhakta Katuwal-Yo Zindagi Khai Ke Zindagi : (The following poems only - Jeevan : Ek Dristi, Yo
Zindagi Khai Ke Zindagi, Akashka tara Ke Tara, Hamilai Nirdho Nasamjha, Khai Many-ata Yahan
Atmahutiko Balidan Ko).
5. Balkrishna Sama - Prahlad
6. Manbahadur Mukhia - Andhyaroma Banchneharu (The following OneAct plays only - ‘Andhyaroma
Banchneharu’, ‘Suskera’).
Section-B
1. Indra Sundas-Sahara
2. Lilbahadur Chhetri-Brahmaputrako Chheuchhau
3. Rupnarayan Sinha-Katha Navaratna (The following stories only-Biteka Kura, Jimmewari Kasko,
Dhanamatiko Cinema-Swapna, Vidhwasta Jeevan).
4. Indrabahadur Rai-Vipana Katipaya (The following stories only-Raatbhari Huri Chalyo, Jayamaya
Aphumatra
Lekha-pani Aipugi, Bhagi, Ghosh Babu, Chhutyaiyo).
5. Sanu Lama-Katha Sampad (The following stories only-Swasni Manchhey, Khani Tarma Ekdin, Phurbale
Gaun Chhadyo, Asinapo Manchhey).
6. Laxmi Prasad Devkota-Laxmi Nibandha Sangraha (The following essays only-Sri Ganeshaya Namah,
Nepali Sahityako Itihasma Sarvashrestha Purus, Kalpana, Kala Ra Jeevan, Gadha Buddhiman Ki Guru).
7. Ramkrishna Sharma-Das Gorkha (The following essays only-Kavi, Samaj Ra Sahitya, Sahityama
Sapekshata, Sahityik Ruchiko Praudhata, Nepali Sahityako Pragati).
ORIYA
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Oriya)
Section-A
History of Oriya Language
(1) Origin and development of Oriya Language-Influence of Austric, Dravidian, Perso-Arabic and English on
Oriya Language.
(2) Phonetics and Phonemics : Vowels, Consonants Principles of changes in Oriya sounds.
(3) Morphology : Morphemes (free, bound compound and complex), derivational and inflectional affixes, case
inflection, conjugation of verb.
(4) Syntax : Kinds of sentences and their transformation, structure of sentences.
(5) Semantics-Different types of change in meaning Euphemism.
(6) Common errors in spellings, grammatical uses and construction of sentences.
(7) Regional variations in Oriya Language (Western, Southern and Northern Oriya) and Dialects (Bhatri and
Desia).
Section-B
History of Oriya Literature
(1) Historical backgrounds (social, cultural and political) of Oriya Literature of different periods.
(2) Ancient epics, ornate kavyas and padavalis.
(3) Typical structural forms of Oriya Literature (Koili, Chautisa, Poi, Chaupadi, Champu).
(4) Modern trends in poetry, drama short story, novel, essay and literary criticism.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Oriya)
Critical Study of texts –
The paper will require first hand reading of the text and test the critical ability of the candidate.
Section-A
Poetry :
(Ancient)
1. Sãralã Das-Shanti Parva from Mãhãbharãta.
2. Jaganãth Das-Bhãgãbate, XI Skandha-Jadu Avadhuta Sambãda.
(Medieval)
3. Dinãkrushna Dãs-Rasakallola-(Chhãndas-16 & 34)
4. Upendra Bhanja-Lãvanyabati (Chhãndas-1 & 2)
(Modern)
5. Rãdhãnãth Rãy-Chandrabhãgã
6. Mãyãdhãr Mãnasinha-Jeevan Chitã
7. Satchidãnanda Routray-Kabitã-1962
8. Ramãkãnta Ratha-Saptama Ritu.
Section-B
Drama :
9. Manoranjan Dãs-Kãtha-Ghodã
10. Bijay Mishra-Tata Niranjanã
Novel :
11. Fakir Mohan Senãpati-Chhamãna Ãthaguntha
12. Gopinãth Mohanty-Dãnãpãni
Short Story :
13. Surendra Mohãnty-Marãlãra Mrityu
14. Manoj Dãs-Laxmira Abhisara
Essay :
15. Chittaranjan Dãs-Taranga O Tadit (First five essays).
16. Chandra Sekhar Rath-Mun Satyadhãrma Kahuchhi (First five essays)
PUNJABI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Punjabi in Gurumukhi Script)
Section-A
(a) Origin of Punjabi language : different stages of development and recent development in Punjabi language :
characteristics of Punjabi phonology and the study of its tones : classification of vowels and consonants.
(b) Punjabi morphology : the number-gender system (animate and inanimate), prefixes, affixes and different
categories of Post positions: Punjabi word formation: Tatsam. Tad Bhav, forms: Sentence structure, the
notion of subject and object in Punjabi: Noun and verb phrases.
(c) Language and dialect : the notions of dialect and idiolect; major dialects of Punjabi; Pothohari, Majhi,
Doabi, Malwai, Puadhi; the validity of speech variation on the basis of social stratification, the distinctive
features of various dialects with special reference to tones. Language and script; origin and development of
Gurmukhi; suitability of Gurmukhi for Punjabi.
(d) Classical background : Nath Jogi Sahit
Medieval literature : Gurmat, Sufti, Kissa and Var Janamsakhis.
Section-B
(a) Modern Trends - Mystic, romantic, progressive and neomystic (Vir Singh, Puran Singh, Mohan Singh,
Amrita Pritam, Bawa Balwant, Pritam Singh Safeer, J.S. Neki).
Experimentalist (Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Ravinder Ravi, Ajaib Kamal)
Aesthetes (Harbhajan Singh, Tara Singh). Neo-progressive (Pash, Jagtar, Patar)
Origin and Development of Genres :
(b) Folk literature - Folk songs, Folk tales. Riddles, Proverbs.
Epic - (Vir Singh, Avtar Singh, Azad Mohan Singh)
Lyric - (Gurus, Sufis and Modern Lyricists-Mohan Singh Amrita Pritam, Shiv Kumar,
Harbhajan Singh)
(c) Drama (I.C. Nanda, Harcharan Singh, Balwant Gargi, S.S.Sekhon, Charan Das Sidhu)
Novel (Vir Singh, Nanak Singh, Jaswant Singh Kanwal, K.S. Duggal, Sukhbir, Gurdial Singh,
Dalip Kaur Tiwana, Swaran Chandan)
Short Story (Sujan Singh, K.S. Virk, Prem Parkash, Waryam Sandhu).
(d) Socio - cultural Literary influences - Sanskrit, Persian and Western.
Essay - (Puran Singh, Teja Singh, Gurbaksh Singh)
Literary Criticism - (S.S. Sekhon, Attar Singh, Kishan Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Najam Hussain Sayyad).
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Punjabi in Gurumukhi Script)
This paper will require first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the candidate’s
critical ability.
Section-A
a) Sheikh Farid The complete Bani as included in the Adi Granth.
b) Guru Nanak Japu Ji Baramah, Asa di Var
c) Bulleh Shah Kafian
d) Waris Shah Heer
Section-B
a) Shah Mohammad Jangnama (JangSinghan te Firangian)
Dhani Ram Chatrik Chandan Vari (Poet), Sufi Khana, Nawan Jahan
b) Nanak Singh (Novelist) Chitta Lahu, Pavittar Papi, Ek Mian Do Talwaran
c) Gurbaksh Singh Zindagi-di-Ras, Nawan Shivala, Merian Abhul Yadaan.
(Essayist)
Balraj Sahni Mera Roosi Safarnama
(Travelogue) Mera Pakistani Safarnama
d) Balwant Gargi Loha Kutt
(Dramatist) Dhuni-di-Agg
Sultan Razia
Sant Singh Sahityarth Sekhon
(Critic) Parsidh Punjabi Kavi
Punjabi Kav Shiromani
SANSKRIT
PAPER-I
There will be three questions as indicated in the question paper which must be answered in Sanskrit.
The remaining questions must be answered either in Sanskrit or in the medium of examination opted by the
candidate.
Section-A
1. Significant features of the grammar, with particular stress on Sanjna, Sandhi, Karaka, Samasa, Kartari and
Karmani vacyas (voice usages) (to be answered in Sanskrit).
2. (a) Main characteristics of Vedic Sanskrit language.
(b) Prominent features of classical Sanskrit language.
(c) Contribution of Sanskrit to linguistic studies.
3. General Knowledge of:-
(a) Literary history of Sanskit,
(b) Principal trends of literary criticism
(c) Ramayana,
(d) Mahabharata
(e) The origin and development of literary geners of Mahakavya
Rupaka (drama)
Katha
Akhyayika
Campu
Khandakavya
Muktaka Kavya.
Section-B
4. Essentials of Indian Culture with stress on
a) Purusarthas, b) Samskaras, c) Varnasramavyavastha, d) Arts and fine arts, e) Technical sciences
5. Trends of Indian Philosophy
a) Mimansa, b) Vedanta, c) Nyaya, d) Vaisesika, e) Sankhya, f) Yoga, g) Bauddha, h) Jaina, i)
Carvaka
6. Short Essay in Sanskrit
7. Unseen passage with the questions, to be answered in Sanskrit.
PAPER-II
Question from Group 4 is to be answered in Sanskrit only. Question from Groups 1, 2 and 3 are to be
answered either in Sanskrit or in the medium opted by the candidate.
Section-A
General study of the following groups:
Group 1
a) Raghuvamsam-Kalidasa
b) Kumarasambhavam-Kalidasa
c) Kiratarjuniyam-Bharavi
d) Sisupalavadham-Magha
e) Naisadhiyacaritam-Sriharsa
f) Kadambari-Banabhatta
g) Dasakumaracaritam -Dandin
h) Sivarajyodayam-S.B. Varnekar
Group 2
a) Isavasyopanisad
b) Bhagavadgita
c) Sundarakanda of Valmiki’s Ramayana
d) Arthasastra of Kautilya
Group 3
a) Svapnavasavadattam- Bhasa
b) Abhijnanasakuntalam- Kalidasa
c) Mrcchakatikam- Sudraka
d) Mudraraksasam- Visakhadatta
e) Uttararamacaritam- Bhavabhuti
f) Ratnavali- Sriharshavardhana
g) Venisamharam- Bhattanarayana
Group 4
Short notes in Sanskrit on the following:
a) Meghadutam-Kalidasa
b) Nitisatakam-Bhartrhari
c) Panchtantra
d) Rajatarangini-Kalhana
e) Harsacaritam-Banabhatta
f) Amarukasatakam-Amaruka
g) Gitagovindam-Jayadeva
Section-B
Questions from Groups 1 & 2 are to be answered in Sanskrit only. (Questions from Groups 3 & 4 are to
be answered in Sanskrit or in the medium opted by the candidate).
This Section will require first hand reading of the following selected texts :
Group 1
(a) Raghuvansam-CantoI, Verses 1 to 10
(b) Kumarasambhavam-Canto I, Verses 1 to 10
(c) Kiratarjuniyam-Canto I, Verses 1 to 10
Group 2
(a) Isavasyopanisad-verses-1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 15 and 18
(b) Bhagavatgita II chapter verses 13 to 25
(c) Sundarakandam of Valmiki Canto 15, Verses 15 to 30 (Geeta Press Edition)
Group 3
(a) Meghadutam-verses 1 to 10
(b) Nitisatakam-Verses 1 to 10 (Edited by D.D. Kosambi Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Publication)
(c) Kadambari-Sukanaso-padesa (only)
Group 4
(a) Svapnavasavadattam Act VI
(b) Abhijnansakuntalam Act IV verses 15 to 30 (M.R. Kale Edition)
(c) Uttararamacharitam Act 1 verses 31 to 47 (M.R. Kale Edition)
SANTHALI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Santhali)
Section-A
Part-I History of Santhali Language
I. Main Austric Language family, population and distribution.
II. Grammatical structure of Santhali Language.
III. Important character of Santhali Language : Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Translation,
Lexicography.
IV. Impact of other languages on Santhali.
V. Standardization of Santhali Language.
Part-II History of Santhali Literature.
I. Literary trends of the following four periods of History of Santhali Literature.
(a) Ancient literature before 1854.
(b) Missionary period : Literature between 1855 to 1889 AD.
(c) Medieval period : Literature between 1890 to 1946 AD.
(d) Modern period : Literature from 1947 AD to till date.
II. Writing tradition in History of Santhali Literature.
Section-B
Literary forms - Main characteristics, history and development of following literary forms.
Part-I : Folk Literature in Santhali-folk song, folk tale, phrase, idioms, puzzles and Kudum.
Part-II : Modern literature in Santhali
(a) Development of poetry and prominent poets.
(b) Development of prose and prominent writers.
(i) Novels and prominent Novelists.
(ii) Stories and prominent story writers.
(iii) Drama and prominent Dramatist.
(iv) Criticism and prominent critics.
(v) Essay, sketches, memoirs, travelogues and prominent writers.
Santhali writers :
Shyam Sunder Hembram, Pandit Raghunath Murmu, Barha Beshra, Sadhu Ramchand Murmu, Narayan Soren
'Toresutam', Sarada Prasad Kisku, Raghunath Tudu, Kalipada Soren, Sakla Soren, Digambar Hansda, Aditya
Mitra 'Santhali', Babulal Murmu 'Adivasi', Jadumani Beshra, Arjun Hembram, Krishna Chandra Tudu,
Rupchand Hansda, Kalendra Nath Mandi, Mahadev Hansda, Gour Chandra Murmu, Thakur Prasad Murmu,
Hara Prasad Murmu, Uday Nath Majhi, Parimal Hembram, Dhirendra Nath Baske, Shyam Charan Hembram,
Damayanti Beshra, T.K. Rapaj, Boyha Biswanath Tudu.
Part-III : Cultural Heritage of Santhali tradition, customs, festival and rituals (birth, marriage and death).
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Santhali)
Section-A
This paper will require in-depth reading of the following texts and the questions will be designed to
test the candidates' criticial ability.
Ancient Literature :
Prose
(a) Kherwal Bonso Dhorom Puthi-Majhi Ramdas Tudu "Rasika".
(b) Mare Hapramko Reyak Katha-L.O. Scrafsrud.
(c) Jomsim Binti Lita-Mangal Chandra Turkulumang Soren.
(d) Marang Buru Binti-Kanailal Tudu.
Poetry
(a) Karam Sereng-Nunku Soren.
(b) Devi Dasain Sereng-Manindra Hansda.
(c) Horh Sereng-W.G. Archer.
(d) Baha Sereng-Balaram Tudu
(e) Dong Sereng-Padmashri Bhagwat Murmu 'Thakur'
(f) Hor Sereng-Raghunath Murmu.
(g) Soros Sereng-Babulal Murmu "Adivasi"
(h) More Sin More Nida-Rup Chand Hansda
(i) Judasi Madwa Latar-Tez Narayan Murmu.
Section-B
Modern Literature
Part-I : Poetry
(a) Onorhen Baha Dhalwak-Paul Jujhar Soren.
(b) Asar Binti-Narayan Soren "Tore Sutam"
(c) Chand Mala-Gora Chand Tudu.
(d) Onto Baha Mala-Aditya Mitra "Santhali"
(e) Tiryo Tetang-Hari Har Hansda
(f) Sisirjon Rar-Thakur Prasad Murmu.
Part-II : Novels
(a) Harmawak Ato-R. Karstiars (Translator-R.R. Kisku Rapaz).
(b) Manu Mati-Chandra Mohan Hansda
(c) Ato Orak-Doman Hansda
(d) Ojoy Gada Dhiphre-Nathenial Murmu
Part-III : Stories
(a) Jiyon Gada-Rup Chand Hansda and Jadumani Beshra.
(b) Mayajaal-Doman Sahu, 'Samir' and Padmashri Bhagwat Murmu 'Thakur'
Part-IV : Drama
(a) Kherwar Bir-Pandit Raghunath Murmu
(b) Juri Khatir-Dr. K.C. Tudu
(c) Birsa Bir-Ravi Lal Tudu
Part-V : Biography
Santal Ko Ren Mayam Gohako-Dr. Biswanath Hansda.
SINDHI
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Sindhi)
(Arabic or Devanagari script)
Section-A
1. (a) Origin and evolution of Sindhi language-views of different scholars.
(b) Significant linguistic features of Sindhi language, including those pertaining to its phonology,
morphology and syntax.
(c) Major dialects of the Sindhi language.
(d) Sindhi vocabularly-stages of its growth, including those in the pre-partition and post-partition periods.
(e) Historical study of various Writing Systems (Scripts) of Sindhi.
(f) Changes in the structure of Sindhi language in India, after partition, due to influence of other languages
and social conditions.
Section-B
2. Sindhi literature through the ages in context of socio-cultural conditions in the respective periods :
a. Early medieval literature upto 1350 A.D. including folk literature.
b. Late medicval period from 1350 A.D. to 1850 A.D.
c. Renaissance period from 1850 A.D. to 1947 A.D.
d. Modern period from 1947 and onwards (Literary genres in Modern Sindhi literature and experiments in
poetry, drama, novel, short story, essay, literary criticism, biography, autobiography, memoirs, and
travelogues.)
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Sindhi)
(Arabic or Devanagari script).
This paper will require the first-hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the
candidates’ critical ability.
Section-A
References to context and critical appreciation of the texts included in this section.
(1) Poetry
a. “Shah Jo Choond Shair” : ed. H.I. Sadarangani, Published by Sahitya Akademi (First 100 pages)
b. “Sachal Jo Choond Kalam” : ed. Kalyan B. Advani Published by Sahitya Akademi (Kafis only)
c. “Sami-a-ja Choond Sloka” : ed. B.H. Nagrani Published by Sahitya Akademi (First 100 pages)
d. “Shair-e-Bewas” : by Kishinchand Bewas (“Saamoondi Sipoon” portion only)
e. “Roshan Chhanvro” : Narayan Shyam
f. “Virhange Khanpoije Sindhi Shair jee Choond” : ed. H.I. Sadarangani Published by Sahitya Akademi
(2) Drama
g. “Behtareen Sindhi Natak” (One-act Plays) : Edited by M. Kamal Published by Gujarat Sindhi Academy.
h. “Kako Kaloomal” (Full-length Play) : by Madan Jumani
Section-B
References to context and critical appreciation of the texts included in this section.
a. ‘Pakheeara Valar Khan Vichhrya’ (Novel) : by Gobind Malhi
b. ‘Sat Deenhan’ (Novel) : by Krishan Khatwani
c. ‘Choond Sindhi Kahanyoon’ (Short Stories) Vol. III. : Edited by Prem Prakash, Published by Sahitya
Akademi.
d. ‘Bandhan’ (Short Stories) : Sundari Uttamchandani
e. ‘Behtareen Sindhi Mazmoon’ (Essays) : Edited by Hiro Thakur, published by Gujarat Sindhi Akademi.
f. ‘Sindhi Tanqeed’ (Criticism) : Edited by Harish Vaswani : Published by Sahitya Akademi.
g. ‘Mumhinjee Hayati-a ja Sona Ropa varqa’ (Autobiography) : by Popati Hiranandani
h. “Dr. Choithram Gidwani” (Biography) : by Vishnu Sharma
TAMIL
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Tamil)
Section-A
Part: 1 History of Tamil Language
Major Indian Language Families – The place of Tamil among Indian languages in general and
Dravidian in particular-Enumeration and Distribution of Dravidian languages.
The language of Sangam literature – The language of medieval Tamil: Pallava period only-Historical
study of Nouns, Verbs, adjectives, adverbs Tense markers and case markers in Tamil.
Borrowing of words from other languages into Tamil-Regional and social dialects-difference between
literary and spoken Tamil.
Part: 2 History of Tamil Literature
Tolkappiyam-Sangam Literatue - The division of Akam and puram-The secular characteristics of
Sangam Literature-The development of Ethical literatureSilappadikaram and Manimekalai.
Part: 3 Devotional literature (Alwars and Nayanmars)
The bridal mysticism in Alwar hymns-Minor literary forms (Tutu, Ula, Parani, Kuravanji) Social
factors for the development of Modern Tamil literature: Novel, Short story and New Poetry-The impact of
various political ideologies on modern writings.
Section-B
Part:1 Recent trends in Tamil Studies
Approaches to criticism: Social, psychological, historical and moralistic-the use of criticism-the
various techniques in literature; Ullurai, Iraicchi, Thonmam (Myth) Otturuvagam (allegory), Angadam (Satire),
Meyppadu, Padimam(image), Kuriyeedu (Symbol), Irunmai (ambiguity)-The concept of comparative
literature-the principle of comparative literature.
Part: 2 Folk literature in Tamil
Ballads, Songs, proverbs and riddles-Sociological study of Tamil folklore. Uses of translation –
Translation of Tamil works into other languages-Development of journalism in Tamil.
Part: 3 Cultural Heritage of the Tamils
Concept of Love and War-Concept of Aramthe ethical codes adopted by the ancient Tamils in their
warfare-customs, beliefs, rituals, modes of worship in the five Thinais.
The cultural changes as revealed in post sangam literature-cultural fusion in the medieval period
(Jainism & Buddhism). The development of arts and architecture through the ages (Pallavas, later cholas, and
Nayaks). The impact of various political, social, religious and cultural movements on Tamil Society. The role
of mass media in the cultural change of contemporary Tamil society.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Tamil)
The paper will require first hand reading of the Text prescribed and will be designed to test the critical
ability of the candidate.
Section-A
Part: 1 Ancient Literature
(1) Kuruntokai (1-25 poems)
(2) Purananurui (182-200 poems)
(3) Tirukkural Porutpal : Arasiyalum Amaichiyalum (from Iraimatchi to Avaianjamai)
Part : 2 Epic Literature
(1) Silappadikaram: Madhurai Kandam only.
(2) Kambaramayanam: Kumbakarunan Vadhai Padalam
Part 3: Devotional Literature
(1) Tiruvasagam: Neetthal Vinnappam
(2) Tiruppavai: (Full Text)
Section-B
Modern Literature
Part 1 : Poetry
(1) Bharathiar: Kannan Pattu
(2) Bharathidasan: Kudumba Vilakku
(3) Naa. Kamarasan: Karuppu Malarkal
Prose
(1) Mu. Varadharajanar : Aramum Arasiyalum
(2) C N Annadurai : Ye!Thazhntha Tamilagame.
Part : 2 Novel, Short story and Drama
(1) Akilon: Chittirappavai
(2) Jayakanthan: Gurupeedam
(3) Cho: Yarukkum Vetkamillai
Part: 3 Folk Literature
(1) Muthuppattan Kathai Edited by Na. Vanamamalai, (Publication: Madurai Kamaraj University)
(2) Malaiyaruvi, Edited by Ki. Va Jagannathan (Publication: Saraswathi, Mahal, Thanjavur)
TELUGU
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Telugu)
Section-A
Language
1. Place of Telugu among Dravidian languages and its antiquity-Etymological history of Telugu, Tenugu and
Andhra.
2. Major linguistic changes in phonological, morphological, grammatical and syntactical levels, from Proto-
Dravidian to old Telugu and from old Telugu to Modern Telugu.
3. Evolution of spoken Telugu when compared to classical Telugu-Formal and functional view of Telugu
language.
4. Influence of other languages and its impact on Telugu.
5. Modernization of Telugu language.
(a) Linguistic and literary movements and their role in modernization of Telugu.
(b) Role of media in modernization of Telugu (Newspapers, Radio, TV etc.)
(c) Problems of terminology and mechanisms in coining new terms in Telugu in various discourses
including
scientific and technical.
6. Dialects of Telugu-Regional and social variations and problems of standardization.
7. Syntax-Major divisions of Telugu sentences-simple, complex and compound sentences-Noun and verb
predications-Processes of nominlization and relativization-Direct and indirect reporting-conversion processes.
8. Translation-Problems of translation, cultural, social and idiomatic-Methods of translation-Approaches to
translation-Literary and other kinds of translation-various uses of translation.
Section-B
Literature
1. Literature in Pre-Nannaya Period-Marga and Desi poetry.
2. Nannaya Period-Historical and literary background of Andhra Mahabharata.
3. Saiva poets and their contribution-Dwipada, Sataka, Ragada, Udaharana.
4. Tikkana and his place in Telugu literature.
5. Errana and his literary works-Nachana Somana and his new approach to poetry.
6. Srinatha and Potana-Their woks and contribution.
7. Bhakti poets in Telugu literature-Tallapaka Annamayya, Ramadasu, Tyagayya.
8. Evolution of prabandhas-Kavya and prabandha.
9. Southern school of Telugu literature-Raghunatha Nayaka, Chemakura Vankatakavi and women poets-
Literary forms like yakshagana, prose and padakavita.
10. Modern Telugu Literature and literary forms-Novel, Short Story, Drama, Playlet and poetic forms.
11. Literary Movements : Reformation, Nationalism, Neo-classicism, Romanticism and Progressive,
Revolutionary movements.
12. Digambarakavulu, Feminist and Dalit Literature.
13. Main divisions of folk literature-Performing folk arts.
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Telugu)
This paper will require first hand reading of the prescribed texts and will be designed to test the candidate's
critical ability, which will be in relation to the following approaches.
i) Aesthetic approach-Rasa, Dhwani, Vakroti and Auchitya-Formal and Structural-Imagery and Symbolism.
ii) Sociological, Historical, Ideological, Psychological approaches.
Section-A
1. Nannaya-Dushyanta Charitra (Adiparva 4th Canto verses 5-109)
2. Tikkana-Sri Krishna Rayabaramu (Udyoga parva -3rd Canto verses 1144)
3. Srinatha-Guna Nidhi Katha (Kasikhandam, 4th Canto, verses 76-133)
4. Pingali Surana-Sugatri Salinulakatha (Kalapurnodayamu 4 Canto verses, 60-142)
5. Molla-Ramayanamu (Balakanda including avatarika)
6. Kasula Purushothama Kavi-Andhra Nayaka Satakamu
Section-B
7. Gurajada Appa Rao - Animutyalu (Short stories)
8. Viswanatha Satyanarayana-Andhra prasasti
9. Devulapalli Krishna Sastry - Krishnapaksham (excluding Urvasi and Pravasam)
10. Sri Sri - Maha prastanam.
11. Jashuva - Gabbilam (Part I)
12. C. Narayana Reddy - Karpuravasanta rayalu.
13. Kanuparti Varalakshmamma - Sarada lekhalu (Part I)
14. Atreya - N.G.O.
15. Racha konda Visswanatha Sastry - Alpajaeevi.
URDU
PAPER-I
(Answers must be written in Urdu)
Section-A
Development of Urdu Language
a) Development of Indo-Aryan (i) Old IndoAryan (ii) Middle Indo Aryan (iii) New Indo Aryan
b) Western Hindi and its dialects Brij Bhasha Khadi Boli, Haryanavi Kannauji, Bundeli-Theories about the
origin of Urdu Language
c) Dakhani Urdu-Origin and development, its significant linguistic features.
d) Social and Cultural roots of Urdu language-and its distinctive features.
Script, Phonology, Morphology, Vocabulary.
Section-B
a) Genres and their development : (i) Poetry : Ghazal, Masnavi, Qasida, Marsia, Rubai, Jadid Nazm,
(ii) Prose : Novel, Short Story, Dastan, Drama, Inshaiya, Khutoot,
Biography.
b) Significant features of : (i) Deccani, Delhi and Lucknow schools (ii) Sir Syed movement, Romantic
movement, Progressive movement, Modernism.
c) Literary Criticism and its development with reference to Hali, Shibli, Kaleemuddin Ahmad, Ehtisham
Hussain, Ale-Ahmad Suroor.
d) Essay writing (covering literary and imaginative topics)
PAPER-II
(Answers must be written in Urdu)
This paper will require first hand reading of the texts prescribed and will be designed to test the
candidate's critical ability.
Section-A
1. Mir Amman Bagho-Babar
2. Ghalib Intikhab-e-Khutoot-e-Ghalib
3. Mohd. Husain Azad Nairang-e-Khayal
4. Prem Chand Godan
5. Rajendra Singh Apne Dukh Mujhe Bedi Dedo
6. Abul Kalam Azad Ghubar-e-Khatir
Section-B
1. Mir Intikhab-e-Kalam-e-Mir (Ed. Abdul Haq.)
2. Mir Hasan Sahrul Bayan
3. Ghalib Diwan-e-Ghalib
4. Iqbal Bal-e-Jibrail
5. Firaq Gul-e-Naghma
6. Faiz Dast-e-Saba
7. Akhtruliman Bint-e-Lamhat
MANAGEMENT
The candidate should make a study of the concept and development of management as science and art drawing
upon the contributions of leading thinkers of management and apply the concepts to the real life of government
and business decision making keeping in view the changes in the strategic and operative environment.
PAPER – I
1. Managerial Function and Process:
Concept and Foundations of Management, Evolution of Management Thoughts; Managerial Functions –
Planning, Organizing, Controlling; Decision making; Role of Manager, Managerial skills; Entrepreneurship;
Management of innovation; Managing in a global environment, Flexible Systems Management; Social
responsibility and managerial ethics; Process and customer orientation; Managerial processes on direct and
indirect value chain.
2. Organisational Behaviour and Design:
Conceptual model of organization behaviour; The individual processes – personality, values and attitude,
perception, motivation, learning and reinforcement, work stress and stress management; The dynamics of
organization behaviour – power and politics, conflict and negotia-tion, leadership process and styles,
communication; The Organizational Processes - decision making, job design; Classical, Neoclassical and
Contingency approaches to organizational design; Organizational theory and design – organizational culture,
managing cultural diversity, learning organization; organizational change and development; Knowledge Based
Enterprise – systems and processes; Networked and virtual organizations.
3. Human Resource Management:
HR challenges; HRM functions; The future challenges of HRM; Strategic Management of human resources;
Human resource planning; Job analysis; Job evaluation; Recruitment and selection; Training and development;
Promotion and transfer; Performance management; Compensation management and benefits; Employee morale
and productivity; Management of organizational climate and Industrial relations; Human resources accounting
and audit; Human resource information system; International human resource management.
4. Accounting for Managers:
Financial accounting – concept, importance and scope, generally accepted accounting principles, preparation of
financial tatements with special reference to analysis of a balance sheet and measurement of business income,
inventory valuation and depreciation, financial statement analysis, fund flow analysis, the statement of cash
flows; Management accounting – concept, need, importance and scope; Cost accounting – records and
processes, cost ledger and control accounts, reconciliation and integration between financial and cost accounts;
Overhead cost and control, Job and process costing, Budget and budgetary control, Performance budgeting,
Zero-base budgeting, relevant costing and costing for decision-making, standard costing and variance analysis,
marginal costing and absorption costing.
5. Financial Management:
Goals of finance function; Concepts of value and return; Valuation of bonds and shares; Management of
working capital: Estimation and financing; Management of cash, receivables, inventory and current liabilities;
Cost of capital; Capital budgeting; Financial and operating leverage; Design of capital structure: theories and
practices; Shareholder value creation: dividend policy, corporate financial policy and strategy, management of
corporate distress and restructuring strategy; Capital and money markets: institutions and instruments; Leasing,
hire purchase and venture capital; Regulation of capital market; Risk and return: portfolio theory; CAPM;
APT; Financial derivatives: option, futures, swap; Recent reforms in financial sector.
6. Marketing Management:
Concept, evolution and scope; Marketing strategy formulation and components of marketing plan; Segmenting
and targeting the market; Positioning and differentiating the market offering; Analyzing competition;
Analyzing consumer markets; Industrial buyer behaviour; Market research; Product strategy; Pricing strategies;
Designing and managing Marketing channels; Integrated marketing communications; Building customer
satisfaction, Value and retention; Services and non-profit marketing; Ethics in marketing; Consumer
protection; Internet marketing; Retail management; Customer relationship management; Concept of holistic
marketing.
PAPER – II
1. Quantitative Techniques in Decision Making:
Descriptive statistics – tabular, graphical and numerical methods, introduction to probability, discrete and
continuous probability distributions, inferential statistics-sampling distributions, central limit theorem,
hypothesis testing for differences between means and proportions, inference about population variances, Chisquare
and ANOVA, simple correlation and regression, time series and forecasting, decision theory, index
numbers; Linear programming – problem formulation, simplex method and graphical solution, sensitivity
analysis.
2. Production and Operations Management:
Fundamentals of operations management; Organizing for production; Aggregate production planning, capacity
planning, plant design: process planning, plant size and scale of operations, Management of facilities; Line
balancing; Equipment replacement and maintenance; Production control; Supply chain management – vendor
evaluation and audit; Quality management; Statistical process control, Six Sigma; Flexibility and agility in
manufacturing systems; World class manufacturing; Project management concepts, R&D management,
Management of service operations; Role and importance of materials management, value analysis, make or
buy decision; Inventory control, MRP; Waste management.
3. Management Information System:
Conceptual foundations of information systems; Information theory; Information resource management; Types
of information systems; Systems development – Overview of systems and design; System development
management life-cycle, Designing for online and distributed environments; Implementation and control of
project; Trends in information technology; Managing data resources - Organising data; DSS and RDBMS;
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Expert systems, e-Business architecture, e-Governance; Information
systems planning, Flexibility in information systems; User involvement; Evaluation of information systems.
4. Government Business Interface:
State participation in business, Interaction between Government, Business and different Chambers of
Commerce and Industry in India; Government’s policy with regard to Small Scale Industries; Government
clearances for establishing a new enterprise; Public Distribution System; Government control over price and
distribution; Consumer Protection Act (CPA) and The Role of voluntary organizations in protecting
consumers’ rights; New Industrial Policy of the Government: liberalization, deregulation and privatisation;
Indian planning system; Government policy concerning development of Backward areas/regions; The
Responsibilities of the business as well as the Government to protect the environment; Corporate Governance;
Cyber Laws.
5. Strategic Management:
Business policy as a field of study; Nature and scope of strategic management, Strategic intent, vision,
objectives and policies; Process of strategic planning and implementation; Environmental analysis and internal
analysis; SWOT analysis; Tools and techniques for strategic analysis – Impact matrix: The experience curve,
BCG matrix, GEC mode, Industry analysis, Concept of value chain; Strategic profile of a firm; Framework for
analysing competition; Competitive advantage of a firm; Generic competitive strategies; Growth strategies –
expansion, integration and diversification; Concept of core competence, Strategic flexibility; Reinventing
strategy; Strategy and structure; Chief Executive and Board; Turnaround management; Management of
strategic change; Strategic alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions; Strategy and corporate evolution in the Indian
context.
6. International Business:
International Business Environment: Changing composition of trade in goods and services; India’s Foreign
Trade: Policy and trends; Financing of International trade; Regional Economic Cooperation; FTAs;
Internationalisation of service firms; International production; Operation Management in International
companies; International Taxation; Global competitiveness and technological developments; Global e-
Business; Designing global organisational structure and control; Multicultural management; Global business
strategy; Global marketing strategies; Export Management; Export- Import procedures; Joint Ventures; Foreign
Investment: Foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment; Cross-border Mergers and
Acquisitions; Foreign Exchange Risk Exposure Management; World Financial Markets and International
Banking; External Debt Management; Country Risk Analysis.
MATHEMATICS
PAPER - I
(1) Linear Algebra:
Vector spaces over R and C, linear dependence and independence, subspaces, bases, dimension; Linear
transformations, rank and nullity, matrix of a linear transformation.
Algebra of Matrices; Row and column reduction, Echelon form, congruence’s and similarity; Rank of a matrix;
Inverse of a matrix; Solution of system of linear equations; Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic
polynomial, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, Symmetric, skew-symmetric, Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, orthogonal
and unitary matrices and their eigenvalues.
(2) Calculus:
Real numbers, functions of a real variable, limits, continuity, differentiability, meanvalue theorem, Taylor’s
theorem with remainders, indeterminate forms, maxima and minima, asymptotes; Curve tracing; Functions of
two or three variables: limits, continuity, partial derivatives, maxima and minima, Lagrange’s method of
multipliers, Jacobian.
Riemann’s definition of definite integrals; Indefinite integrals; Infinite and improper integrals; Double and
triple integrals (evaluation techniques only); Areas, surface and volumes.
(3) Analytic Geometry:
Cartesian and polar coordinates in three dimensions, second degree equations in three variables, reduction to
canonical forms, straight lines, shortest distance between two skew lines; Plane, sphere, cone, cylinder,
paraboloid, ellipsoid, hyperboloid of one and two sheets and their properties.
(4) Ordinary Differential Equations:
Formulation of differential equations; Equations of first order and first degree, integrating factor; Orthogonal
trajectory; Equations of first order but not of first degree, Clairaut’s equation, singular solution.
Second and higher order linear equations with constant coefficients, complementary function, particular
integral and general solution.
Second order linear equations with variable coefficients, Euler-Cauchy equation; Determination of complete
solution when one solution is known using method of variation of parameters.
Laplace and Inverse Laplace transforms and their properties; Laplace transforms of elementary functions.
Application to initial value problems for 2nd order linear equations with constant coefficients.
(5) Dynamics & Statics:
Rectilinear motion, simple harmonic motion, motion in a plane, projectiles; constrained motion; Work and
energy, conservation of energy; Kepler’s laws, orbits under central forces.
Equilibrium of a system of particles; Work and potential energy, friction; common catenary; Principle of
virtual work; Stability of equilibrium, equilibrium of forces in three dimensions.
(6) Vector Analysis:
Scalar and vector fields, differentiation of vector field of a scalar variable; Gradient, divergence and curl in
cartesian and cylindrical coordinates; Higher order derivatives; Vector identities and vector equations.
Application to geometry: Curves in space, Curvature and torsion; Serret-Frenet’s formulae.
Gauss and Stokes’ theorems, Green’s identities.
PAPER - II
(1) Algebra:
Groups, subgroups, cyclic groups, cosets, Lagrange’s Theorem, normal subgroups, quotient groups,
homomorphism of groups, basic isomorphism theorems, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem.
Rings, subrings and ideals, homomorphisms of rings; Integral domains, principal ideal domains, Euclidean
domains and unique factorization domains; Fields, quotient fields.
(2) Real Analysis:
Real number system as an ordered field with least upper bound property; Sequences, limit of a sequence,
Cauchy sequence, completeness of real line; Series and its convergence, absolute and conditional convergence
of series of real and complex terms, rearrangement of series.
Continuity and uniform continuity of functions, properties of continuous functions on compact sets.
Riemann integral, improper integrals; Fundamental theorems of integral calculus.
Uniform convergence, continuity, differentiability and integrability for sequences and series of functions;
Partial derivatives of functions of several (two or three) variables, maxima and minima.
(3) Complex Analysis:
Analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy’s theorem, Cauchy’s integral formula, power series
representation of an analytic function, Taylor’s series; Singularities; Laurent’s series; Cauchy’s residue
theorem; Contour integration.
(4) Linear Programming:
Linear programming problems, basic solution, basic feasible solution and optimal solution; Graphical method
and simplex method of solutions; Duality.
Transportation and assignment problems.
(5) Partial differential equations:
Family of surfaces in three dimensions and formulation of partial differential equations; Solution of quasilinear
partial differential equations of the first order, Cauchy’s method of characteristics; Linear partial differential
equations of the second order with constant coefficients, canonical form; Equation of a vibrating string, heat
equation, Laplace equation and their solutions.
(6) Numerical Analysis and Computer programming:
Numerical methods: Solution of algebraic and transcendental equations of one variable by bisection, Regula-
Falsi and Newton-Raphson methods; solution of system of linear equations by Gaussian elimination and
Gauss-Jordan (direct), Gauss-Seidel(iterative) methods. Newton’s (forward and backward) interpolation,
Lagrange’s interpolation.
Numerical integration: Trapezoidal rule, Simpson’s rules, Gaussian quadrature formula.
Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations: Euler and Runga Kutta-methods. Computer
Programming: Binary system; Arithmetic and logical operations on numbers; Octal and Hexadecimal systems;
Conversion to and from decimal systems; Algebra of binary numbers.
Elements of computer systems and concept of memory; Basic logic gates and truth tables, Boolean algebra,
normal forms.
Representation of unsigned integers, signed integers and reals, double precision reals and long integers.
Algorithms and flow charts for solving numerical analysis problems.
(7) Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics:
Generalized coordinates; D’ Alembert’s principle and Lagrange’s equations; Hamilton equations; Moment of
inertia; Motion of rigid bodies in two dimensions.
Equation of continuity; Euler’s equation of motion for inviscid flow; Stream-lines, path of a particle; Potential
flow; Two-dimensional and axisymmetric motion; Sources and sinks, vortex motion; Navier-Stokes equation
for a viscous fluid.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PAPER - I
1. Mechanics:
1.1 Mechanics of rigid bodies:
Equations of equilibrium in space and its application; first and second moments of area; simple problems on
friction; kinematics of particles for plane motion; elementary particle dynamics.
1.2 Mechanics of deformable bodies:
Generalized Hooke’s law and its application; design problems on axial stress, shear stress and bearing stress;
material properties for dynamic loading; bending shear and stresses in beams;. determination of principle
stresses and strains – analytical and graphical; compound and combined stresses; bi-axial stresses - thin walled
pressure vessel; material behaviour and design factors for dynamic load; design of circular shafts for bending
and torsional load only; deflection of beam for statically determinate problems; theories of failure.
2. Engineering Materials:
Basic concepts on structure of solids; common ferrous and non-ferrous materials and their applications; heattreatment
of steels; non-metals- plastics, ceramics, composite materials and nano-materials.
3. Theory of Machines:
Kinematic and dynamic analysis of plane mechanisms. Cams, Gears and epicyclic gear trains, flywheels,
governors, balancing of rigid rotors, balancing of single and multicylinder engines, linear vibration analysis of
mechanical systems (single degree of freedom), Critical speeds and whirling of shafts.
4. Manufacturing Science:
4.1 Manufacturing Process:
Machine tool engineering – Merchant’s force analysis; Taylor’s tool life equation; conventional machining;
NC and CNC machining process; jigs and fixtures.
Non-conventional machining – EDM, ECM, ultrasonic, water jet machining etc; application of lasers and
plasmas; energy rate calculations.
Forming and welding processes- standard processes.
Metrology - concept of fits and tolerances; tools and gauges; comparators; inspection of length; position;
profile and surface finish.
4.2. Manufacturing Management:
System design: factory location- simple OR models; plant layout - methods based; applications of engineering
economic analysis and break- even analysis for product selection, process selection and capacity planning;
predetermined time standards.
System planning; forecasting methods based on regression and decomposition, design and balancing of multi
model andstochastic assembly lines; inventory management – probabilistic inventory models for order time
and order quantity determination; JIT systems; strategic sourcing; managing inter plant logistics.
System operations and control: Scheduling algorithms for job shops; applications of statistical methods for
product and process quality control - applications of control charts for mean, range, percent defective, number
of defectives and defects per unit; quality cost systems; management of resources, organizations and risks in
projects.
System improvement: Implementation of systems, such as total quality management, developing and managing
flexible, lean and agile organizations.
PAPER - II
1. Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics and Turbine:
1.1 Basic concept of First – law and second law of Thermodynamics; concept of entropy and reversibility;
availability and unavailability and irreversibility.
1.2 Classification and properties of fluids; incompressible and compressible fluids flows; effect of Mach
number and compressibility; continuity momentum and energy equations; normal and oblique shocks; one
dimensional isentropic flow; flow or fluids in duct with frictions that transfer.
1.3 Flow through fans, blowers and compressors; axial and centrifugal flow configuration; design of fans and
compressors; single problems compresses and turbine cascade; open and closed cycle gas turbines; work done
in the gas turbine; reheat and regenerators.
2. Heat Transfer:
2.1 Conduction heat transfer- general conduction equation - Laplace, Poisson and Fourier equations; Fourier
law of conduction; one dimensional steady state heat conduction applied to simple wall, solid and hollow
cylinder & spheres.
2.2 Convection heat transfer- Newton’s law of convection; free and forces convection; heat transfer during
laminar and turbulent flow of an incompressible fluid over a flat plate; concepts of Nusselt number,
hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layer their thickness; Prandtl number; analogy between heat and
momentum transferReynolds, Colbum, Prandtl analogies; heat transfer during laminar and turbulent flow
through horizontal tubes; free convection from horizontal and vertical plates.
2.3 Black body radiation - basic radiation laws such as Stefan-Boltzman, Planck distribution, Wein’s
displacement etc.
2.4 Basic heat exchanger analysis; classification of heat exchangers.
3. I .C. Engines:
3.1 Classification, thermodynamic cycles of operation; determination of break power, indicated power,
mechanical efficiency, heat balance sheet, interpretation of performance characteristics, petrol, gas and diesel
engines.
3.2 Combustion in SI and CI engines, normal and abnormal combustion; effect of working parameters on
knocking, reduction of knocking; Forms of combustion chamber for SI and CI engines; rating of fuels;
additives; emission.
3.3 Different systems of IC engines- fuels; lubricating; cooling and transmission systems. Alternate fuels in IC
engines.
4. Steam Engineering:
4.1 Steam generation- modified Rankine cycle analysis; Modern steam boilers; steam at critical and
supercritical pressures; draught equipment; natural and artificial draught; boiler fuels solid, liquid and gaseous
fuels. Steam turbines - principle; types; compounding; impulse and reaction turbines; axial thrust.
4.2 Steam nozzles- flow of steam in convergent and divergent nozzle; pressure at throat for maximum
discharge with different initial steam conditions such as wet, saturated and superheated, effect of variation of
back pressure; supersaturated flow of steam in nozzles, Wilson line.
4.3 Rankine cycle with internal and external irreversibility; reheat factor; reheating and regeneration, methods
of governing; back pressure and pass out turbines.
4.4 Steam power plants - combined cycle power generation; heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) fired and
unfired, co- generation plants.
5. Refrigeration and air-conditioning:
5.1 Vapour compression refrigeration cycle - cycle on p-H & T-s diagrams; eco-friendly refrigerants -
R134a,123; Systems like evaporators, condensers, compressor, expansion devices. Simple vapour absorption
systems.
5.2 Psychrometry - properties; processes; charts; sensible heating and cooling; humidification and
dehumidification effective temperature; air-conditioning load calculation; simple duct design.
MEDICAL SCIENCE
PAPER - I
1. Human Anatomy:
Applied anatomy including blood and nerve supply of upper and lower limbs and joints of shoulder, hip and
knee.
Gross anatomy, blood supply and lymphatic drainage of tongue, thyroid, mammary gland, stomach, liver,
prostate, gonads and uterus.
Applied anatomy of diaphragm, perineum and inguinal region.
Clinical anatomy of kidney, urinary bladder, uterine tubes, vas deferens.
Embryology: Placenta and placental barrier. Development of heart, gut, kidney, uterus, ovary, testis and their
common congenital abnormalities.
Central and peripheral autonomic nervous system : Gross and clinical anatomy of ventricles of brain,
circulation of cerebrospinal fluid; Neural pathways and lesions of cutaneous sensations, hearing and vision;
Cranial nerves, distribution and clinical significance; Components of autonomic nervous system.
2. Human Physiology:
Conduction and transmission of impulse, mechanism of contraction, neuromuscular transmission, reflexes,
control of equilibrium, posture and muscle tone, descending pathways, functions of cerebellum, basal ganglia,
Physiology of sleep and consciousness.
Endocrine system: Mechanism of action of hormones, formation, secretion, transport, metabolism, function
and regulation of secretion of pancreas and pituitary gland.
Physiology of reproductive system: Menstrual cycle, lactation, pregnancy.
Blood: Development, regulation and fate of blood cells.
Cardio-vascular, cardiac output, blood pressure, regulation of cardiovascular functions;
3. Biochemistry:
Organ function tests-liver, kidney, thyroid Protein synthesis.
Vitamins and minerals.
Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP).
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Radio - immunoassays (RIA).
4. Pathology:
Inflammation and repair, disturbances of growth and cancer, Pathogenesis and histopathology of rheumatic and
ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus. Differentiation between benign, malignant, primary and
metastatic malignancies, Pathogenesis and histopathology of bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoma breast, oral
cancer, cancer cervix, leukemia, Etiology, pathogenesis and histopathology of cirrhosis liver,
glomerulonephritis, tuberculosis, acute osteomyelitis.
5. Microbiology:
Humoral and cell mediated immunity Diseases caused by and laboratory diagnosis of -
 Meningococcus, Salmonella
 Shigella, Herpes, Dengue, Polio
 HIV/AIDS, Malaria, E. Histolytica, Giardia
 Candida, Cryptococcus, Aspergillus
6. Pharmacology:
Mechanism of action and side effects of the following drugs
 Antipyretics and analgesics, Antibiotics, Antimalaria; Antikala-azar,Antidiabetics
 Antihypertensive, Antidiuretics, General and cardiac vasodilators, Antiviral, Antiparasitic,
Antifungal, Immunosuppressants
 Anticancer
7. Forensic Medicine and Toxicology:
Forensic examination of injuries and wounds; Examination of blood and seminal stains; poisoning, sedative
overdose, hanging, drowning, burns, DNA and finger print study.
PAPER - II
1. General Medicine:
Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of management (including prevention) of: - Tetanus,
Rabies, AIDS, Dengue, Kala-azar, Japanese Encephalitis.
Etiology, clinical features, diagnosis and principles of management of: Ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary
embolism.
Bronchial asthma.
Pleural effusion, tuberculosis, Malabsorption syndromes, acid peptic diseases, Viral hepatitis and cirrhosis of
liver.
Glomerulonerphritis and pyelonephritis, renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, renovascular hypertension,
complications of diabetes mellitus, coagulation disorders, leukemia, Hypo and hyper thyrodism, meningitis and
encephalitis.
Imaging in medical problems, ultrasound, echocardiogram, CT scan, MRI.
Anxiety and Depressive Psychosis and schizophrenia and ECT.
2. Pediatrics:
Immunization, Baby friendly hospital, congenital cyanotic heart disease, respiratory distress syndrome,
broncho - pneumonias, kernicterus. IMNCI classification and management, PEM grading and management.
ARI and Diarrhea of under five and their management.
3. Dermatology:
Psoriasis, Allergic dermatitis, scabies, eczema, vitiligo, Stevan Johnson’s syndrome, Lichen Planus.
4. General Surgery:
Clinical features, causes, diagnosis and principles of management of cleft palate, harelip.
Laryngeal tumor, oral and esophageal tumors.
Peripheral arterial diseases, varicose veins, coarctation of aorta.
Tumors of Thyroid, Adrenal Glands.
Abscess, cancer, fibroadenoma and adenosis of breast.
Bleeding peptic ulcer, tuberculosis of bowel, ulcerative colitis, cancer stomach.
Renal mass,cancer Prostate.
Haemothorax, stones of Gall bladder, Kidney, Ureter and Urinary Bladder.
Management of surgical conditions of Rectum, Anus and Anal canal, Gall bladder and Bile ducts.
Splenomegaly, cholecystitis, portal hypertension, liver abscess, peritonitis, carcinoma head of pancreas.
Fractures of spine, Colles’ fracture and bone tumors.
Endoscopy.
Laprascopic Surgery.
5. Obstetrics and Gynaecology including Family Planning:
Diagnosis of pregnancy.
Labour management, complications of 3rd stage, Antepartum and postpartum hemorrhage, resuscitation of the
newborn, Management of abnormal lie and difficult labour, Management of small for date or premature
newborn.
Diagnosis and management of anemia. Preeclampsia and Toxaemias of pregnancy, Management of Post
menopausal Syndrome.
Intra-uterine devices, pills, tubectomy and vasectomy. Medical termination of pregnancy including legal
aspects.
Cancer cervix.
Leucorrhoea, pelvic pain, infertility, dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB), amenorrhoea, Fibroid and prolapse
of uterus.
6. Community Medicine (Preventive and Social Medicine):
Principles, methods, approach and measurements of Epidemiology.
Nutrition, nutritional diseases / disorders & Nutrition Programmes.
Health information Collection, Analysis and Presentation.
Objectives, components and critical analysis of National programmes for control/eradication of:
Malaria, Kala-azar, Filaria and Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, STDs and Dengue Critical appraisal of Health care
delivery system.
Health management and administration: Techniques, Tools, Programme Implementation and Evaluation.
Objective, Component, Goals and Status of Reproductive and Child Health, National Rural Health Mission and
Millennium Development Goals.
Management of hospital and industrial waste.
PHILOSOPHY
PAPER - I
History and Problems of Philosophy:
1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality and Potentiality.
2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain Knowledge; Substance; God;
Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.
3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance and Qualities; Self and God;
Scepticism.
4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time; Categories; Ideas of Reason;
Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the Existence of God
5. Hegel: Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism
6. Moore, Russell and Early Wittgenstein: Defence of Commonsense; Refutation of Idealism; Logical
Atomism; Logical Constructions; Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing.
7. Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of
Necessary Propositions.
8. Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of Private Language.
9. Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of Psychologism.
10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Existence and Essence; Choice, Responsibility and
Authentic Existence; Being-in-the –world and Temporality.
11. Quine and Strawson: Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars and Persons.
12. Cârvâka : Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent Entities.
13. Jainism: Theory of Reality; Saptabhaòginaya; Bondage and Liberation.
14. Schools of Buddhism: Pratîtyasamutpâda; Ksanikavada, Nairâtmyavâda.
15. Nyâya- Vaiúesika: Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance; Theory of Pramâna; Self, Liberation;
God; Proofs for the Existence of God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
16. Sâmkhya: Prakrti; Purusa; Causation; Liberation.
17. Yoga: Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.
18. Mimâmsâ: Theory of Knowledge.
19. Schools of Vedânta: Brahman; Îúvara; Âtman; Jiva; Jagat; Mâyâ; Avidyâ; Adhyâsa; Moksa;
Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda
20. Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.
PAPER – II
Socio-Political Philosophy
1. Social and Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty.
2. Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.
3. Individual and State: Rights; Duties and Accountability.
4. Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.
5. Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism.
6. Humanism; Secularism; Multiculturalism.
7. Crime and Punishment: Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital Punishment.
8. Development and Social Progress.
9. Gender Discrimination: Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights; Empowernment.
10. Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar
Philosophy of Religion:
1. Notions of God: Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and Western).
2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).
3. Problem of Evil.
4. Soul: Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
5. Reason, Revelation and Faith.
6. Religious Experience: Nature and Object (Indian and Western).
7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
10. Nature of Religious Language: Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and Noncognitive.
PHYSICS
PAPER - I
1. (a) Mechanics of Particles:
Laws of motion; conservation of energy and momentum, applications to rotating frames, centripetal and
Coriolis accelerations; Motion under a central force; Conservation of angular momentum, Kepler’s laws;
Fields and potentials; Gravitational field and potential due to spherical bodies, Gauss and Poisson equations,
gravitational self-energy; Two-body problem; Reduced mass; Rutherford scattering; Centre of mass and
laboratory reference
frames.
(b) Mechanics of Rigid Bodies:
System of particles; Centre of mass, angular momentum, equations of motion; Conservation theorems for
energy, momentum and angular momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions; Rigid body; Degrees of freedom,
Euler’s theorem, angular velocity, angular momentum, moments of inertia, theorems of parallel and
perpendicular axes, equation of motion for rotation; Molecular rotations (as rigid bodies); Di and tri-atomic
molecules; Precessional motion; top, gyroscope.
(c) Mechanics of Continuous Media:
Elasticity, Hooke’s law and elastic constants of isotropic solids and their inter-relation; Streamline (Laminar)
flow, viscosity, Poiseuille’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation, Stokes’ law and applications.
(d) Special Relativity:
Michelson-Morley experiment and its implications; Lorentz transformations-length contraction, time dilation,
addition of relativistic velocities, aberration and Doppler effect, mass-energy relation, simple applications to a
decay process; Four dimensional momentum vector; Covariance of equations of physics.
2. Waves and Optics:
(a) Waves:
Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation and resonance; Beats; Stationary waves in a
string; Pulses and wave packets; Phase and group velocities; Reflection and Refraction from Huygens’
principle.
(b) Geometrical Optics:
Laws of reflection and refraction from Fermat’s principle; Matrix method in paraxial optics-thin lens formula,
nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations.
(c) Interference:
Interference of light-Young’s experiment, Newton’s rings, interference by thin films, Michelson
interferometer; Multiple beam interference and Fabry-Perot interferometer.
(d) Diffraction:
Fraunhofer diffraction-single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power; Diffraction by a circular
aperture and the Airy pattern; Fresnel diffraction: half-period zones and zone plates, circular aperture.
(e) Polarization and Modern Optics:
Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarized light; Double refraction, quarter wave plate;
Optical activity; Principles of fibre optics, attenuation; Pulse dispersion in step index and parabolic index
fibres; Material dispersion, single mode fibres; Lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients; Ruby and He-Ne lasers;
Characteristics of laser light-spatial and temporal coherence; Focusing of laser beams; Three-level scheme for
laser operation; Holography and simple applications.
3. Electricity and Magnetism:
(a) Electrostatics and Magnetostatics:
Laplace and Poisson equations in electrostatics and their applications; Energy of a system of charges, multipole
expansion of scalar potential; Method of images and its applications; Potential and field due to a dipole, force
and torque on a dipole in an external field; Dielectrics, polarization; Solutions to boundary-value problemsconducting
and dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field; Magnetic shell, uniformly magnetized sphere;
Ferromagnetic materials, hysteresis, energy loss.
(b) Current Electricity:
Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications; Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’ law; Self-and
mutual-inductances; Mean and r m s values in AC circuits; DC and AC circuits with R, L and C components;
Series and parallel resonances; Quality factor; Principle of transformer.
4. Electromagnetic Waves and Blackbody Radiation:
Displacement current and Maxwell’s equations; Wave equations in vacuum, Poynting theorem; Vector and
scalar potentials; Electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwell’s equations; Wave equations in isotropic
dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics; Fresnel’s relations; Total internal
reflection; Normal and anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering; Blackbody radiation and Planck’s radiation
law, StefanBoltzmann law, Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans’ law.
5. Thermal and Statistical Physics:
(a) Thermodynamics:
Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric,
isochoric processes and entropy changes; Otto and Diesel engines, Gibbs’ phase rule and chemical potential;
van der Waals equation of state of a real gas, critical constants; Maxwell-Boltzman distribution of molecular
velocities, transport phenomena, equipartition and virial theorems; Dulong-Petit, Einstein, and Debye’s
theories of specific heat of solids; Maxwell relations and applications; Clausius- Clapeyron equation; Adiabatic
demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and liquefaction of gases.
(b) Statistical Physics:
Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac
distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and blackbody radiation; Concept of negative temperatures.
PAPER - II
1. Quantum Mechanics:
Wave-particle dualitiy; Schroedinger equation and expectation values; Uncertainty principle; Solutions of the
one-dimensional Schroedinger equation for a free particle (Gaussian wave-packet), particle in a box, particle in
a finite well, linear harmonic oscillator; Reflection and transmission by a step potential and by a rectangular
barrier; Particle in a three dimensional box, density of states, free electron theory of metals; Angular
momentum; Hydrogen atom; Spin half particles, properties of Pauli spin matrices.
2. Atomic and Molecular Physics:
Stern-Gerlach experiment, electron spin, fine structure of hydrogen atom; L-S coupling, J-J coupling;
Spectroscopic notation of atomic states; Zeeman effect; FrankCondon principle and applications; Elementary
theory of rotational, vibratonal and electronic spectra of diatomic molecules; Raman effect and molecular
structure; Laser Raman spectroscopy; Importance of neutral hydrogen atom, molecular hydrogen and
molecular hydrogen ion in astronomy; Fluorescence and Phosphorescence; Elementary theory and applications
of NMR and EPR; Elementary ideas about Lamb shift and its significance.
3. Nuclear and Particle Physics:
Basic nuclear properties-size, binding energy, angular momentum, parity, magnetic moment; Semi-empirical
mass formula and applications, mass parabolas; Ground state of deuteron, magnetic moment and non-central
forces; Meson theory of nuclear forces; Salient features of nuclear forces; Shell model of the nucleus -
successes and limitations; Violation of parity in beta decay; Gamma decay and internal conversion; Elementary
ideas about Mossbauer spectroscopy; Q-value of nuclear reactions; Nuclear fission and fusion, energy
production in stars; Nuclear reactors.
Classification of elementary particles and their interactions; Conservation laws; Quark structure of hadrons;
Field quanta of electroweak and strong interactions; Elementary ideas about unification of forces; Physics of
neutrinos.
4. Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics:
Crystalline and amorphous structure of matter; Different crystal systems, space groups; Methods of
determination of crystal structure; X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopies; Band
theory of solids - conductors, insulators and semiconductors; Thermal properties of solids, specific heat, Debye
theory; Magnetism: dia, para and ferromagnetism; Elements of superconductivity, Meissner effect, Josephson
junctions and applications; Elementary ideas about high temperature superconductivity.
Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors; p-n-p and n-p-n transistors; Amplifiers and oscillators; Op-amps; FET,
JFET and MOSFET; Digital electronics-Boolean identities, De Morgan’s laws, logic gates and truth tables;
Simple logic circuits; Thermistors, solar cells; Fundamentals of microprocessors and digital computers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PAPER - I
Political Theory and Indian Politics:
1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches.
2. Theories of the State: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist.
3. Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian
critiques.
4. Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action.
5. Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights.
6. Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy – representative,
participatory and deliberative.
7. Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy.
8. Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism.
9. Indian Political Thought : Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri
Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy.
10. Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci,
Hannah Arendt.
Indian Government and Politics:
1. Indian Nationalism:
(a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation,
Civil Disobedience; Militant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers’ movements.
(b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical humanist and Dalit.
2. Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives.
3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive
Principles; Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine.
4. (a) Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive,
Legislature and Supreme Court.
(b) Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive,
Legislature and High Courts.
5. Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; significance of 73rd and 74th
Amendments; Grassroot movements.
6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions: Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance
Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National
Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission,
National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes Commission.
7. Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and
regional aspirations; inter-state disputes.
8. Planning and Economic Development : Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; role of planning and public
sector; Green Revolution, land reforms and agrarian relations; liberalilzation and economic reforms.
9. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
10. Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties; patterns of
coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour; changing socio- economic profile of
Legislators.
11. Social Movements: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist
movements.
PAPER – II
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics:
1. Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; political economy and political sociology perspectives;
limitations of the comparative method.
2. State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist and socialist
economies, and, advanced industrial and developing societies.
3. Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social movements in
advanced industrial and developing societies.
4. Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.
5. Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems
theory.
6. Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance of power and
deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation.
7. Changing International Political Order:
(a) Rise of super powers; strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; nuclear threat;
(b) Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements;
(c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; relevance of non-alignment in the
contemporary world.
8. Evolution of the International Economic System: From Brettonwoods to WTO; Socialist economies and the
CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); Third World demand for new international economic
order; Globalisation of the world economy.
9. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and functioning; need for
UN reforms.
10. Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA.
11. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice, terrorism, nuclear
proliferation.
India and the World:
1. Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making; continuity and change.
2. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role.
3. India and South Asia:
(a) Regional Co-operation: SAARC – past performance and future prospects.
(b) South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
(c) India’s “Look East” policy.
(d) Impediments to regional co-operation: river water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; ethnic
conflicts and insurgencies; border disputes.
4. India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; leadership role in the demand for
NIEO and WTO negotiations.
5. India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s position on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, Iraq and
West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; vision of a new world order.
PSYCHOLOGY
PAPER - I
Foundations of Psychology
1. Introduction:
Definition of Psychology; Historical antecedents of Psychology and trends in the 21st century; Psychology and
scientific methods; Psychology in relation to other social sciences and natural sciences; Application of
Psychology to societal problems.
2. Methods of Psychology:
Types of research: Descriptive, evaluative, diagnostic and prognostic; Methods of Research: Survey,
observation, case-study and experiments; Characteristics of experimental design and non-experimental design,
Quasi-experimental designs; Focussed group discussions, brain storming, grounded theory approach.
3. Research Methods:
Major steps in Psychological research (problem statement, hypothesis formulation, research designs, sampling,
tools of data collection, analysis and interpretation and report writing) Fundamental versus applied research;
Methods of data collection (interview, observation, questionnaire); Research designs (ex-post facto and
experimental); Application of statistical technique (t - test, two way ANOVA correlation, regression and factor
analysis); Item response theory.
4. Development of Human Behaviour:
Growth and development; Principles of development, Role of genetic and environmental factors in determining
human behaviour; Influence of cultural factors in socialization; Life span development Characteristics,
development tasks, promoting psychological well-being across major stages of the life span.
5. Sensation, Attention and Perception:
Sensation: concepts of threshold, absolute and difference thresholds, signal-detection and vigilance; Factors
influencing attention including set and characteristics of stimulus; Definition and concept of perception,
biological factors in perception; Perceptual organization-influence of past experiences, perceptual defencefactors
influencing space and depth perception, size estimation and perceptual readiness; The plasticity of
perception; Extrasensory perception; Culture and perception, Subliminal perception.
6. Learning:
Concept and theories of learning (Behaviourists, Gestaltalist and Information processing models); The
Processes of extinction, discrimination and generalization; Programmed learning, probability learning, selfinstructional
learning, concepts; Types and the schedules of reinforcement, escape, avoidance and punishment,
modeling and social learning.
7. Memory:
Encoding and remembering; Short term memory, Long term memory, Sensory memory, Iconic memory,
Echoic memory: The Multistore model, levels of processing; Organization and Mnemonic techniques to
improve memory; Theories of forgetting: decay, interference and retrieval failure: Metamemory; Amnesia:
Anterograde and retrograde.
8. Thinking and Problem Solving:
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development; Concept formation processes; Information processing, Reasoning
and problem solving, Facilitating and hindering factors in problem solving, Methods of problem solving:
Creative thinking and fostering creativity; Factors influencing decision making and judgment; Recent trends.
9. Motivation and Emotion:
Psychological and physiological basis of motivation and emotion; Measurement of motivation and emotion;
Effects of motivation and emotion on behaviour; Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation; Factors influencing
intrinsic motivation; Emotional competence and the related issues.
10. Intelligence and Aptitude:
Concept of intelligence and aptitude, Nature and theories of intelligence Spearman, Thurstone, Gullford
Vernon,
Sternberg and J.P; Das; Emotional Intelligence, Social intelligence, measurement of intelligence and aptitudes,
concept of IQ, deviation IQ, constancy of IQ; Measurement of multiple intelligence; Fluid intelligence and
crystallized intelligence.
11. Personality:
Definition and concept of personality; Theories of personality (psychoanalytical, sociocultural, interpersonal,
developmental, humanistic, behaviouristic, trait and type approaches); Measurement of personality (projective
tests, pencil-paper test); The Indian approach to personality; Training for personality development; Latest
approaches like big 5 factor theory; The notion of self in different traditions.
12. Attitudes, Values and Interests:
Definition of attitudes, values and interests; Components of attitudes; Formation and maintenance of attitudes;
Measurement of attitudes, values and interests; Theories of attitude change; Strategies for fostering values;
Formation of stereotypes and prejudices; Changing others behaviour; Theories of attribution; Recent trends.
13. Language and Communication:
Human language - Properties, structure and linguistic hierarchy, Language acquisition-predisposition, critical
period hypothesis; Theories of language development Skinner and Chomsky; Process and types of
communication - effective communication training.
14. Issues and Perspectives in Modern Contemporary Psychology:
Computer application in the psychological laboratory and psychological testing; Artificial intelligence;
Psychocybernetics; Study of consciousness-sleep-wake schedules; dreams, stimulus deprivation, meditation,
hypnotic/drug induced states; Extrasensory perception; Intersensory perceptionSimulation studies.
PAPER - II
Psychology: Issues and Applications
1. Psychological Measurement of Individual Differences:
The nature of individual differences; Characteristics and construction of standardized psychological tests;
Types of psychological tests; Use, misuse and limitation of psychological tests; hical issues in the use of
psychological tests.
2. Psychological well being and Mental Disorders:
Concept of health-ill health; Positive health, well being; Causal factors in mental disorders (Anxiety disorders,
mood disorders, schizophrenia and delusional disorders; personality disorders, substance abuse disorders);
Factors influencing positive health, well being, life style and quality of life; Happiness disposition.
3. Therapeutic Approaches:
Psychodynamic therapies; Behaviour therapies; Client centered therapy; Cognitive therapies; Indigenous
therapies (Yoga, Meditation); Bio-feedback therapy; Prevention and rehabilitation of the mentally ill; Fostering
mental health.
4. Work Psychology and Organisational Behaviour:
Personnel selection and training; Use of psychological tests in the industry; Training and human resource
development; Theories of work motivation – Herzberg, Maslow, Adam Equity theory, Porter and Lawler,
Vroom; Leadership and participatory management; Advertising and marketing; Stress and its management;
Ergonomics; consumer psychology; Managerial effectiveness; Transformational leadership; Sensitivity
training; Power and politics in organizations.
5. Application of Psychology to Educational Field:
Psychological principles underlying effective teaching-learning process; Learning styles; Gifted, retarded,
learning disabled and their training; Training for improving memory and better academic achievement;
Personality development and value education, Educational, vocational guidance and career counseling; Use of
psychological tests in educational institutions; Effective strategies in guidance programmes.
6. Community Psychology:
Definition and concept of community psychology; Use of small groups in social action; Arousing community
consciousness and action for handling social problems; Group decision making and leadership for social
change; Effective strategies for social change.
7. Rehabilitation Psychology:
Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention programmes-role of psychologists; Organising of services for
rehabilitation of physically, mentally and socially challenged persons including old persons, Rehabilitation of
persons suffering from substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, criminal behaviour; Rehabilitation of victims of
violence, Rehabilitation of HIV/AIDS victims, the role of social agencies.
8. Application of Psychology to disadvantaged groups:
The concepts of disadvantaged, deprivation; Social, physical, cultural and economic consequences of
disadvantaged and deprived groups; Educating and motivating the disadvantaged towards development;
Relative and prolonged deprivation.
9. Psychological problems of social integration:
The concept of social integration; The problem of caste, class, religion and language conflicts and prejudice;
Nature and manifestation of prejudice between the in-group and out-group; Causal factors of social conflicts
and prejudices; Psychological strategies for handling the conflicts and prejudices; Measures to achieve social
integration.
10. Application of Psychology in Information Technology and Mass Media:
The present scenario of information technology and the mass media boom and the role of psychologists;
Selection and training of psychology professionals to work in the field of IT and mass media; Distance learning
through IT and mass media; Entrepreneurship through e-commerce; Multilevel marketing; Impact of TV and
fostering value through IT and mass media; Psychological consequences of recent developments in
Information Technology.
11. Psychology and Economic development:
Achievement motivation and economic development; Characteristics of entrepreneurial behaviour; Motivating
and training people for entrepreneurship and economic development; Consumer rights and consumer
awareness, Government policies for promotion of entrepreneurship among youth including women
entrepreneurs.
12. Application of psychology to environment and related fields:
Environmental psychology-effects of noise, pollution and crowding; Population psychology: psychological
consequences of population explosion and high population density; Motivating for small family norm; Impact
of rapid scientific and technological growth on degradation of environment.
13. Application of psychology in other fields:
(a) Military Psychology
Devising psychological tests for defence personnel for use in selection, Training, counseling; training
psychologists to work with defence personnel in promoting positive health; Human engineering in defence.
(b) Sports Psychology
Psychological interventions in improving performance of athletes and sports. Persons participating in
Individual and Team Games.
(c) Media influences on pro and antisocial behaviour.
(d) Psychology of terrorism.
14. Psychology of Gender:
Issues of discrimination, Management of diversity; Glass ceiling effect, Self fulfilling prophesy, Women and
Indian society.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PAPER – I
Administrative Theory
1. Introduction:
Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration; Wilson’s vision of Public Administration;
Evolution of the discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach;
Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: concept and application; New
Public Management.
2. Administrative Thought:
Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model
– its critique and post-Weberian Developments; Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett); Human
Relations School (Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard); Simon’s decisionmaking
theory; Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).
3. Administrative Behaviour:
Process and techniques of decision-making; Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories – content, process
and contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
4. Organisations:
Theories – systems, contingency; Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies,
Boards and Commissions; Ad hoc and advisory bodies; Headquarters and Field relationships; Regulatory
Authorities; Public – Private Partnerships.
5. Accountability and control:
Concepts of accountability and control; Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration; Citizen
and Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil society; Citizen’s Charters;
Right to Information; Social audit.
6. Administrative Law:
Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative
Tribunals.
7. Comparative Public Administration:
Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different
countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and administration; Riggsian models
and their critique.
8. Development Dynamics:
Concept of development; Changing profile of development administration; ‘Antidevelopment thesis’;
Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on
administration
in developing countries; Women and development - the self-help group movement.
9. Personnel Administration:
Importance of human resource development; Recruitment, training, career advancement, position
classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions; employer-employee
relations, grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative ethics.
10. Public Policy:
Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation,
monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation.
11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
Organisation and methods, Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology;
Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
12. Financial Administration:
Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and forms; Budgetary
process; Financial accountability; Accounts and audit.
PAPER - II
Indian Administration
1. Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration -
Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government.
2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:
Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy;
Bureaucracy and development.
3. Public Sector Undertakings:
Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability
and control; Impact of liberalization and privatization.
4. Union Government and Administration:
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary - structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intragovernmental
relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments;
Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field organizations.
5. Plans and Priorities:
Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National
Development Council; ‘Indicative’ planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;
Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.
6. State Government and Administration:
Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor;
Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates.
7. District Administration since Independence:
Changing role of the Collector; Unionstate-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law
and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.
8. Civil Services:
Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building; Good governance initiatives;
Code of conduct and discipline; Staff associations; Political rights; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil
service neutrality; Civil service activism.
9. Financial Management:
Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in
monetary and fiscal area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and
Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
10. Administrative Reforms since Independence:
Major concerns; Important Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human
resource development; Problems of implementation.
11. Rural Development:
Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural development programmes: foci and strategies;
Decentralization and Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.
12. Urban Local Government:
Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment;
Globallocal debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference
to city management.
13. Law and Order Administration:
British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies
including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism;
Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.
14. Significant issues in Indian Administration:
Values in public service; Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of
administration in coalition regimes; Citizen-administration interface; Corruption and administration; Disaster
management.
SOCIOLOGY
PAPER - I
FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY
1. Sociology - The Discipline:
(a) Modernity and social changes in Europe and emergence of sociology.
(b) Scope of the subject and comparison with other social sciences.
(c) Sociology and common sense.
2. Sociology as Science:
(a) Science, scientific method and critique.
(b) Major theoretical strands of research methodology.
(c) Positivism and its critique.
(d) Fact value and objectivity.
(e) Non- positivist methodologies.
3. Research Methods and Analysis:
(a) Qualitative and quantitative methods.
(b) Techniques of data collection.
(c) Variables, sampling, hypothesis, reliability and validity.
4. Sociological Thinkers:
(a) Karl Marx- Historical materialism, mode of production, alienation, class struggle.
(b) Emile Durkheim- Division of labour, social fact, suicide, religion and society.
(c) Max Weber- Social action, ideal types, authority, bureaucracy, protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
(d) Talcolt Parsons- Social system, pattern variables.
(e) Robert K. Merton- Latent and manifest functions, conformity and deviance, reference groups.
(f) Mead - Self and identity.
5. Stratification and Mobility:
(a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation.
(b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory.
(c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
(d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.
6. Works and Economic Life:
(a) Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist
society.
(b) Formal and informal organization of work.
(c) Labour and society.
7. Politics and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of power.
(b) Power elite, bureaucracy, pressure groups, and political parties.
(c) Nation, state, citizenship, democracy, civil society, ideology.
(d) Protest, agitation, social movements, collective action, revolution.
8. Religion and Society:
(a) Sociological theories of religion.
(b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults.
(c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.
9. Systems of Kinship:
(a) Family, household, marriage.
(b) Types and forms of family.
(c) Lineage and descent.
(d) Patriarchy and sexual division of labour.
(e) Contemporary trends.
10. Social Change in Modern Society:
(a) Sociological theories of social change.
(b) Development and dependency.
(c) Agents of social change.
(d) Education and social change.
(e) Science, technology and social change.
PAPER - II
INDIAN SOCIETY : STRUCTURE AND CHANGE
A. Introducing Indian Society:
(i) Perspectives on the study of Indian society:
(a) Indology (GS. Ghurye).
(b) Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas).
(c) Marxist sociology (A R Desai).
(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society :
(a) Social background of Indian nationalism.
(b) Modernization of Indian tradition.
(c) Protests and movements during the colonial period.
(d) Social reforms.
B. Social Structure:
(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure:
(a) The idea of Indian village and village studies.
(b) Agrarian social structure - evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.
(ii) Caste System:
(a) Perspectives on the study of caste systems: GS Ghurye, M N Srinivas, Louis Dumont, Andre Beteille.
(b) Features of caste system.
(c) Untouchability - forms and perspectives.
(iii) Tribal communities in India:
(a) Definitional problems.
(b) Geographical spread.
(c) Colonial policies and tribes.
(d) Issues of integration and autonomy.
(iv) Social Classes in India:
(a) Agrarian class structure.
(b) Industrial class structure.
(c) Middle classes in India.
(v) Systems of Kinship in India:
(a) Lineage and descent in India.
(b) Types of kinship systems.
(c) Family and marriage in India.
(d) Household dimensions of the family.
(e) Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.
(vi) Religion and Society:
(a) Religious communities in India.
(b) Problems of religious minorities.
C. Social Changes in India:
(i) Visions of Social Change in India:
(a) Idea of development planning and mixed economy.
(b) Constitution, law and social change.
(c) Education and social change.
(ii) Rural and Agrarian transformation in India:
(a) Programmes of rural development, Community Development Programme, cooperatives, poverty alleviation
schemes.
(b) Green revolution and social change.
(c) Changing modes of production in Indian agriculture .
(d) Problems of rural labour, bondage, migration.
(iii) Industrialization and Urbanisation in India:
(a) Evolution of modern industry in India.
(b) Growth of urban settlements in India.
(c) Working class: structure, growth, class mobilization.
(d) Informal sector, child labour.
(e) Slums and deprivation in urban areas.
(iv) Politics and Society:
(a) Nation, democracy and citizenship.
(b) Political parties, pressure groups, social and political elite.
(c) Regionalism and decentralization of power.
(d) Secularization.
(v) Social Movements in Modern India:
(a) Peasants and farmers movements.
(b) Women’s movement.
(c) Backward classes & Dalit movement.
(d) Environmental movements.
(e) Ethnicity and Identity movements.
(vi) Population Dynamics:
(a) Population size, growth, composition and distribution.
(b) Components of population growth: birth, death, migration.
(c) Population policy and family planning.
(d) Emerging issues: ageing, sex ratios, child and infant mortality, reproductive health.
(vii) Challenges of Social Transformation:
(a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental problems and sustainability.
(b) Poverty, deprivation and inequalities.
(c) Violence against women.
(d) Caste conflicts.
(e) Ethnic conflicts, communalism, religious revivalism.
(f) Illiteracy and disparities in education.
STATISTICS
PAPER - I
1. Probability:
Sample space and events, probability measure and probability space, random variable as a measurable
function, distribution function of a random variable, discrete and continuous-type random variable, probability
mass function, probability density function, vector-valued random variable, marginal and conditional
distributions, stochastic independence of events and of random variables, expectation and moments of a
random variable, conditional expectation, convergence of a sequence of random variable in distribution, in
probability, in p-th mean and almost everywhere, their criteria and inter-relations, Chebyshev’s inequality and
Khintchine‘s weak law of large numbers, strong law of large numbers and Kolmogoroff’s theorems,
probability generating function, moment generating function, characteristic function, inversion theorem,
Linderberg and Levy forms of central limit theorem, standard discrete and continuous probability distributions.
2. Statistical Inference:
Consistency, unbiasedness, efficiency, sufficiency, completeness, ancillary statistics, factorization theorem,
exponential family of distribution and its properties, uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU)
estimation, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems, Cramer-Rao inequality for single parameter.
Estimation by methods of moments, maximum likelihood, least squares, minimum chi-square and modified
minimum chi-square, properties of maximum likelihood and other estimators, asymptotic efficiency, prior and
posterior distributions, loss function, risk function, and minimax estimator. Bayes estimators.
Non-randomised and randomised tests, critical function, MP tests, Neyman-Pearson lemma, UMP tests,
monotone likelihood ratio, similar and unbiased tests, UMPU tests for single parameter likelihood ratio test and
its asymptotic distribution. Confidence bounds and its relation with tests.
Kolmogoroff’s test for goodness of fit and its consistency, sign test and its optimality.
Wilcoxon signed-ranks test and its consistency, Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test, run test, Wilcoxon-
Mann-Whitney test and median test, their consistency and asymptotic normality.
Wald’s SPRT and its properties, OC and ASN functions for tests regarding parameters for Bernoulli, Poisson,
normal and exponential distributions. Wald’s fundamental identity.
3. Linear Inference and Multivariate Analysis:
Linear statistical models’, theory of least squares and analysis of variance, Gauss-Markoff theory, normal
equations, least squares estimates and their precision, test of significance and interval estimates based on least
squares theory in one-way, two-way and three-way classified data, regression analysis, linear regression,
curvilinear regression and orthogonal polynomials, multiple regression, multiple and partial correlations,
estimation of variance and covariance components, multivariate normal distribution, Mahalanobis-D2 and
Hotelling’s T2 statistics and their applications and properties, discriminant analysis, canonical correlations,
principal component analysis.
4. Sampling Theory and Design of Experiments:
An outline of fixed-population and superpopulation approaches, distinctive features of finite population
sampling, probability sampling designs, simple random sampling with and without replacement, stratified
random sampling, systematic sampling and its efficacy , cluster sampling, twostage and multi-stage sampling,
ratio and regression methods of estimation involving one or more auxiliary variables, two-phase sampling,
probability proportional to size sampling with and without replacement, the Hansen-Hurwitz and the Horvitz-
Thompson estimators, non-negative variance estimation with reference to the Horvitz-Thompson estimator,
non-sampling errors.
Fixed effects model (two-way classification) random and mixed effects models (two-way classification with
equal observation per cell), CRD, RBD, LSD and their analyses, incomplete block designs, concepts of
orthogonality and balance, BIBD, missing plot technique, factorial experiments and 2n and 32, confounding in
factorial experiments, split-plot and simple lattice designs, transformation of data Duncan’s multiple range test.
PAPER - II
1. Industrial Statistics:
Process and product control, general theory of control charts, different types of control charts for variables and
attributes, X, R, s, p, np and c charts, cumulative sum chart. Single, double, multiple and sequential sampling
plans for attributes, OC, ASN, AOQ and ATI curves, concepts of producer’s and consumer’s risks, AQL,
LTPD and AOQL, Sampling plans for variables, Use of Dodge-Roming tables.
Concept of reliability, failure rate and reliability functions, reliability of series and parallel systems and other
simple configurations, renewal density and renewal function, Failure models: exponential, Weibull, normal,
lognormal.
Problems in life testing, censored and truncated experiments for exponential models.
2. Optimization Techniques:
Different types of models in Operations Research, their construction and general methods of solution,
simulation and Monte-Carlo methods formulation of linear programming (LP) problem, simple LP model and
its graphical solution, the simplex procedure, the two-phase method and the M-technique with artificial
variables, the duality theory of LP and its economic interpretation, sensitivity analysis, transportation and
assignment problems, rectangular games, twoperson zero-sum games, methods of solution (graphical and
algebraic).
Replacement of failing or deteriorating items, group and individual replacement policies, concept of scientific
inventory management and analytical structure of inventory problems, simple models with deterministic and
stochastic demand with and without lead time, storage models with particular reference to dam type.
Homogeneous discrete-time Markov chains, transition probability matrix, classification of states and ergodic
theorems, homogeneous continuous-time Markov chains, Poisson process, elements of queuing theory, M/M/1,
M/M/K, G/M/1 and M/G/1 queues.
Solution of statistical problems on computers using well-known statistical software packages like SPSS.
3. Quantitative Economics and Official Statistics:
Determination of trend, seasonal and cyclical components, Box-Jenkins method, tests for stationary series,
ARIMA models and determination of orders of autoregressive and moving average components, forecasting.
Commonly used index numbersLaspeyre’s, Paasche’s and Fisher’s ideal index numbers, chain-base index
number, uses and limitations of index numbers, index number of wholesale prices, consumer prices,
agricultural production and industrial production, test for index numbers proportionality, time-reversal, factorreversal
and circular .
General linear model, ordinary least square and generalized least squares methods of estimation, problem of
multi-collinearity, consequences and solutions of mult-icollinearity, auto-correlation and its consequences,
heteroscedasticity of disturbances and its testing, test for independence of disturbances, concept of structure
and model for simultaneous equations, problem of identification-rank and order conditions of identifiability,
two-stage least square method of estimation.
Present official statistical system in India relating to population, agriculture, industrial production, trade and
prices, methods of collection of official statistics, their reliability and limitations, principal publications
containing such statistics, various official agencies responsible for data collection and their main functions.
4. Demography and Psychometry:
Demographic data from census, registration, NSS other surveys, their limitations and uses, definition,
construction and uses of vital rates and ratios, measures of fertility, reproduction rates, morbidity rate,
standardized death rate, complete and abridged life tables, construction of life tables from vital statistics and
census returns, uses of life tables, logistic and other population growth curves, fitting a logistic curve,
population
projection, stable population, quasi-stable population, techniques in estimation of demographic parameters,
standard classification by cause of death, health surveys and use of hospital statistics.
Methods of standardisation of scales and tests, Z-scores, standard scores, T-scores, percentile scores,
intelligence quotient and its measurement and uses, validity and reliability of test scores and its determination,
use of factor analysis and path analysis in psychometry.
ZOOLOGY
PAPER – I
1. Non-chordata and Chordata:
(a) Classification and relationship of various phyla up to subclasses: Acoelomate and Coelomate, Protostomes
and Deuterostomes, Bilateria and Radiata; Status of Protista, Parazoa, Onychophora and Hemichordata;
Symmetry.
(b) Protozoa: Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction, sex; General features and life history of Paramaecium,
Monocystis, Plasmodium and Leishmania.
(c) Porifera: Skeleton, canal system and reproduction.
(d) Cnidaria: Polymorphism, defensive structures and their mechanism; coral reefs and their formation;
metagenesis; general features and life history of Obelia and Aurelia.
(e) Platyhelminthes: Parasitic adaptation; general features and life history of Fasciola and Taenia and their
pathogenic symptoms.
(f) Nemathelminthes: General features, life history, parasitic adaptation of Ascaris and Wuchereria.
(g) Annelida: Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes; general features and life history of
Nereis,
earthworm and leach.
(h) Arthropoda: Larval forms and parasitism in Crustacea; vision and respiration in arthropods (Prawn,
cockroach and scorpion); modification of mouth parts in insects (cockroach, mosquito, housefly, honey bee
and butterfly); metamorphosis in insect and its hormonal regulation, social behaviour of Apis and termites.
(i) Mollusca: Feeding, respiration, locomotion, general features and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and Sepia,
torsion and detorsion in gastropods.
(j) Echinodermata: Feeding, respiration, locomotion, larval forms, general features and life history of Asterias.
(k) Protochordata: Origin of chordates; general features and life history of Branchiostoma and Herdmania.
(l) Pisces: Respiration, locomotion and migration.
(m) Amphibia: Origin of tetrapods, parental care, paedomorphosis.
(n) Reptilia: Origin of reptiles, skull types, status of Sphenodon and crocodiles.
(o) Aves: Origin of birds, flight adaptation, migration.
(p) Mammalia: Origin of mammals, dentition, general features of egg laying mammals, pouched-mammals,
aquatic mammals and primates, endocrine glands (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, gonads)
and their interrelationships.
(q) Comparative functional anatomy of various systems of vertebrates (integument and its derivatives,
endoskeleton, locomotory organs, digestive system, respiratory system, circulatory system including heart and
aortic arches, urino-genital system, brain and sense organs (eye and ear).
2. Ecology:
(a) Biosphere: Concept of biosphere; biomes, Biogeochemical cycles, Human induced changes in atmosphere
including green house effect, ecological succession, biomes and ecotones, community ecology.
(b) Concept of ecosystem; structure and function of ecosystem, types of ecosystem, ecological succession,
ecological adaptation.
(c) Population; characteristics, population dynamics, population stabilization.
(d) Biodiversity and diversity conservation of natural resources.
(e) Wildlife of India.
(f) Remote sensing for sustainable development.
(g) Environmental biodegradation, pollution and its impact on biosphere and its prevention.
3. Ethology:
(a) Behaviour: Sensory filtering, reponsive-ness, sign stimuli, learning and memory, instinct, habituation,
conditioning, imprinting.
(b) Role of hormones in drive; role of pheromones in alarm spreading; crypsis, predator detection, predator
tactics, social hierarchies in primates, social organization in insects.
(c) Orientation, navigation, homing, biological rhythms, biological clock, tidal, seasonal and circadian
rhythms.
(d) Methods of studying animal behaviour including sexual conflict, selfishness, kinship and altruism.
4. Economic Zoology:
(a) Apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl culture, prawn culture, vermiculture.
(b) Major infectious and communicable diseases (malaria, filaria, tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their
vectors, pathogens and prevention.
(c) Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogen (helminthes) and vectors (ticks, mites, Tabanus, Stomoxys).
(d) Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella) oil seed (Achaea janata) and rice (Sitophilus oryzae).
(e) Transgenic animals.
(f) Medical biotechnology, human genetic disease and genetic counselling, gene therapy.
(g) Forensic biotechnology.
5. Biostatistics:
Designing of experiments; null hypothesis; correlation, regression, distribution and measure of central
tendency, chi square, student-test, F-test (one-way & two-way Ftest).
6. Instrumentation Methods:
(a) Spectrophotometer, phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy, radioactive tracer, ultra centrifuge, gel
electrophoresis, PCR, ELISA, FISH and chromosome painting.
(b) Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM).
PAPER - II
1. Cell Biology:
(a) Structure and function of cell and its organelles (nucleus, plasma membrane, mitochondria, Golgi bodies,
endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, and lysosomes), cell division (mitosis and meiosis), mitotic spindle and
mitotic apparatus, chromosome movements, chromosome type polytene and lambrush, organization of
chromatin, heterochromatin, Cell cycle regulation.
(b) Nucleic acid topology, DNA motif, DNA replication, transcription, RNA processing, translation, protein
foldings and transport.
2. Genetics:
(a) Modern concept of gene, split gene, genetic regulation, genetic code.
(b) Sex chromosomes and their evolution, sex determination in Drosophila and man.
(c) Mendel’s laws of inheritance, recombination, linkage, multiple alleles, genetics of blood groups, pedigree
analysis, hereditary diseases in man.
(d) Mutations and mutagenesis.
(e) Recombinant DNA technology; plasmid, cosmid, artificial chromosomes as vectors, transgenic, DNA
cloning and whole animal cloning (principles and methods).
(f) Gene regulation and expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
(g) Signal molecules, cell death, defects in signaling pathway and consequences.
(h) RFLP, RAPD and AFLP and application of RFLP in DNA finger printing, ribozyme technologies, human
genome project, genomics and protomics.
3. Evolution:
(a) Theories of origin of life.
(b) Theories of evolution; Natural selection, role of mutations in evolution, evolutionary patterns, molecular
drive,
mimicry, variation, isolation and speciation.
(c) Evolution of horse, elephant and man using fossil data.
(d) Hardy-Weinberg Law.
(e) Continental drift and distribution of animals.
4. Systematics:
Zoological nomenclature, international code, cladistics, molecular taxonomy and biodiversity.
5. Biochemistry:
(a) Structure and role of carbohydrates, fats, fatty acids and cholesterol, proteins and amino-acids, nucleic
acids. Bioenergetics.
b) Glycolysis and Kreb cycle, oxidation and reduction, oxidative phosphorylation, energy conservation and
release, ATP cycle, cyclic AMP – its structure and role.
(c) Hormone classification (steroid and peptide hormones), biosynthesis and functions.
(d) Enzymes: types and mechanisms of action.
(e) Vitamins and co-enzymes
(f) Immunoglobulin and immunity.
6. Physiology (with special reference to mammals):
(a) Composition and constituents of blood; blood groups and Rh factor in man, factors and mechanism of
coagulation, iron metabolism, acid-base balance, thermo-regulation, anticoagulants.
(b) Haemoglobin: Composition, types and role in transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
(c) Digestion and absorption: Role of salivary glands, liver, pancreas and intestinal glands.
(d) Excretion: nephron and regulation of urine formation; osmo-regulation and excretory product.
(e) Muscles: Types, mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscles, effects of exercise on muscles.
(f) Neuron: nerve impulse – its conduction and synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters.
(g) Vision, hearing and olfaction in man.
(h) Physiology of reproduction, puberty and menopause in human.
7. Developmental Biology:
(a) Gametogenesis; spermatogenesis, composition of semen, in vitro and in vivo capacitation of mammalian
sperm, Oogenesis, totipotency; fertilization, morphogenesis and morphogen, blastogenesis, establishment of
body axes formation, fate map, gestulation in frog and chick; genes in development in chick, homeotic genes,
development of eye and heart, placenta in mammals.
(b) Cell lineage, cell-to cell interaction, Genetic and induced teratogenesis, role of thyroxine in control of
metamorphosis in amphibia, paedogenesis and neoteny, cell death, aging.
(c) Developmental genes in man, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, cloning.
(d) Stem cells: Sources, types and their use in human welfare.
(e) Biogenetic law.
APPENDIX-II
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES FOR FILLING ONLINE APPLICATIONS
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 Applicants should avoid submitting multiple applications. However, if due to any unavoidable
circumstances any applicant submits multiple applications then he must ensure that the
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 In case of multiple applications, the applications with higher RID shall be entertained by the
Commission and fee paid against one RID shall not be adjusted against any other RID.
 Candidates are strongly advised to apply well in time without waiting for last date for submission
of online application.