APRIL 15, 2025

SYLLABUS
[CSE-2029-30]

OMM PRAKASH
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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 water-bodies and ice-caps) and in
flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.
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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 neighbourhood- 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.
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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.

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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 weaker-
sections.
 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.

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PAPER-VI & PAPER VII

Optional Subject Papers I & II
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) Talcott Parsons - Social system, pattern variables.

(e) Robert K. Merton - Latent and manifest functions, conformity and

deviance, reference groups.

(f) Mead - Self and identity.

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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:

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(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 (G.S. Ghure).

(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: G. S. 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.

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(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.

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(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 movements.

(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.

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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 1: 1600-1900 and Paper 2: 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.

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– 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.

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– 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:

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– Looking for a cousin 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. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.

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ODIA

PAPER-I

(Answers must be written in Odia)

Section A

History of Odia Language

(i) Origin and development of Odia Language—Influence of Austric,

Dravidian, Perso— Arabic and English on Odia Language.

(ii) Phonetics and Phonemics: Vowels, Consonants Principles of changes in

Odia sounds.

(iii) Morphology: Morphemes (free, bound compound and complex),

derivational and inflectional affixes, case inflection, conjugation of verb.

(iv) Syntax: Kinds of sentences and their trans-formation, structure of

sentences.

(v) Semantics—Different types of change in meaning. Euphemism.

(vi) Common errors in spellings, grammatical uses and construction of

sentences.

(vii) Regional variations in Odia Language (Western, Southern and

Northern Odia) and Dialects (Bhatri and Desia).

Section B

History of Odia Literature

(i) Historical backgrounds (social, cultural and political) of Odia Literature

of different periods.

(ii) Ancient epics, ornate kavyas and padavalis.

(iii) Typical structural forms of Odia Literature (Koili, Chautisa, Poi,

Chaupadi, Champu).

(iv) Modern trends in poetry, drama short story, novel essay and literary
criticism.

PAPER-II

(Answers must be written in Odia)

Critical Study of texts—

The paper will require first hand reading of the text and test the critical
ability of the candidate.
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Section A

Poetry

(Ancient)

1. Sarala Das—Shanti Parva from Mahabharata.

2. Jaganath Das—Bhagavata, XI Skandha—Jadu Avadhuta Sambãda.

(Medieval)

3. Dinakrushna Dãs—Raskallola— (Chhãndas—16 & 34)

4. Upendra Bhanja—Lãvanyabati (Chhãndas—1 & 2).

(Modern)

5. Rãdhãnath Rãy—Chandrabhãgã.

6. Mãyãdhar Mänasinha—Jeevan—Chitã.

7. Sãtchidananda Routray—Kabitã—1962.

8. Ramãkãnta Ratha—Saptama Ritu.

Section B

Drama:

9. Manoranjan Dãs—Kätha-Ghoda.

10. Bijay Mishra—Tata Niranjanä.

Novel:

11. Fakir Mohan Senãpati—Chhamãna Ãthaguntha.

12. Gopinãth Mohãnty—Dãnãpani.

Short Story:

13. Surendra Mohãnty—Marãlara Mrityu.

14. Manoj Dãs—Laxmira Abhisãra.

Essay:

15. Chittaranjan Dãs—Tranga O Tadit (First Five essays).

16. Chandra Sekhar Rath — Mun Satyadharmã Kahuchhi (First five

essays).