Strategy for G.S. (Main Exam) - About the Facet-Base Preparation

1. Causes of the Revolt
2. Nature of the Revolt
3. The Revolt as a National Revolt
4. Was the Revolt backward - looking?
5. Was the Revolt A war of Independence?
6. Was the Revolt inevitable?
7. Comment on the statement : The Revolt was the Revolt of Oudh
8. Comment on the statement : The Revolt was not an isolated phenomenon in British India
9. Comment on the statement : What began as a Battle for religion, ended as a war for independence
10. Comment on the Statement : The Revolt was inherent in the British Imperial Structure
11. Comment on the Statement : The Revolt was a great challenge to British Rule in India
12. Significance of the Revolt
13. Explanation of the statement "It was neither First nor National, nor war of Independence"
14. The Revolt as a move towards safeguarding religion in immediate term
15. Reorganisation of British Raj after the Revolt
16. Administrative changes after the Revolt
17. British attitude to various classes viz. Muslims, Zamindars, Intelligentsia etc. after Revolt
18. British attitude towards reforms after the Revolt
19. British Policy towards the Native states after the Revolt
20. Causes of the failure of the Revolt

1. The words of the preamble and their meaning.
2. Various parts of the preamble.
3. Philosophy of the preamble.
4. Preamble represents the entire constitution. Discussion
5. The constitution is an extension of the Preamble. Discussion
6. Various ideals enshrined in the preamble.
7. How preamble defines the objectives of the Indian Political System.
8. Relevance of Preamble.
9. A little 'socialism' is written in the constitution but it prevades the entire constitutional scheme. Discussion
10. Principle of 'popular sovereignty' enshrined in the constitution.
11. Doctrine of social justice enshrined in the preamble.
12. A little socialism is written in our constitution and rest has been expanded by constitutional amendements.

1. Is preamble as part of the constitution? Discussion
2. How the relevance of the preamble has been increased in recent times?
3. Relation between Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of state Policy in the light of judicial intrepretation

1. Planning Commission — Status, Composition & Functions
2. Comparative study of the status, structure and role of Planning Commission and National Development Council
3. Comparative study of the status, structure and specific roles of the Planning Commission and the Finance Commission
4. Basic features of Indian Planning
5. Basic objectives of Planning
6. Pitfalls of Planning
7. Mahalanobis Model
8. Rao-Manmohan Model
9. Strategy of Planning
10. Economic Planning and increase in the rate of capital formation
11. Comment on the Statement : In Planned Economic Development actual growth has been lower than target growth?
12. Progress of Indian Economy during 50 years of Planning
13. Structural changes which have taken place in economy during the Planning period

FACETS IN CURRENT PERSPECTIVE

1. Controversy related to the role of Planning Commission
2. Comment on the view : Planning Process adversely affects Federal Structure
3. Comment on the view : National Development Council has emerged as a Super / Parallel Cabinet
4. New approaches in Planning Process beginning with Eighth Five Year Plan
5. New Approaches in the Tenth Plan
6. Major objectives of Tenth Plan
7. Tenth Plan approach : Growth target of 8% — Positive aspects of attainment
8. Tenth Plan approach : Growth target of 8 % — Limitations in attainment
9. India's move towards becoming a Economic Super Power
10. Concept of Indicative Planning
11. Rationale of Decentralized Planning
12. Planning and market forces
13. Limitations of Market forces in development process
14. Need to go beyond liberalisation and privatisation in the context of development
15. Federal Planning — Concept and features
16. Relevance of planning in the era of liberalisation
17. Comment on the statement : Should Planning Commission be abolished?
18. Need to redifine the role of Planning Commission
19. New Role of Planning Commission

Concepts related to the topic

1. Centralised Plan
2. Planning by Direction
3. Planning by Command
4. Imperative Planning
5. Target Planning
6. Planning by Inducement
7. Indicative Planning
8. Soft Planning
9. Decentralised Planning
10. Socialistic Planning
11. Functional Planning
12. Structural Planning
13. Corrective Planning
14. Development Planning
15. Physical Planning
16. Financial Planning
17. Democratic Planning
18. Gandhian Planning
19. Static Planning
20. Dynamic Planning
21. Fixed Period Planning
22. Rolling Planning
23. Planning from below
24. Planning from above
25. Bottom-up Planning
26. Micro - Level Planning
27. Macro - Level Planning
28. Multi - Level Planning
29. Perspective Planning
30. Prospective Planning
31. General Planning
32. Partial Planning
33. Piece-Meal Planning
34. Metropolitan Planning
35. Regional Planning

1. Development of Information Technology in India
2. India's status
3. Government Policy to promote Information Technology
4. Problems as regards development of Information Technology in India
5. Implications of Information Technology in Economic Development
6. Implications of Information Technology in Rural Development
7. Implications of Information Technology in other fields
8. Positive Impact of Information Technology Revolution
9. Negative impact of Information Technology
10. Development of Super Computers in India
11. E-Commerce - Development and Relevance
12. CD-ROM — Relevance
13. Artificial Intelligence

1. New elements of India's Foreign Policy
2. India's Foreign Policy — Elements of self-assertion
3. India's Foreign Policy — Harmony between the policy of Intervention & Non-Intervention
4. India's Foreign Policy towards neighbours in recent times
5. Economic dimensions of Foreign Policy in recent times
6. India's role in multipolar world
7. "New Journey to East" - as a policy
8. "Look East Policy" - concept and development significance
9. India's role in world economic affairs
10. India and WTO
11. India and EU
12. India's role in regional economy
13. India & SAARC
14. India & ASEAN
15. Gujral Doctrine
16. India's response to NAM
17. Relevance of NAM in the present context
18. India and G-77
19. India and G-15
20. India's claim for the permanent membership of Security Council of UNO
21. New Challenges to India's Foreign Policy
22. India's response to International Terrorism