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UPSC CSE MAINS GS-I PYQs

UPSC CSE MAINS GS-I PYQs (previous year questions)

2019          GS - I

Q1. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco-Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q2. The 1857 Uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q3. Examine the linkages between the ninteenth century's 'Indian Renaissance' and the emergence of national identity. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks 

Q4. Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks 

Q5. Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks 

Q6. Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India? (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q7. Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q8. What makes the Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q9. "Empowering women is the key to control population growth." Discuss. (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q10. What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism? (Answer in 150 words) 10 Marks

Q11. Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks

Q12. Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q13. Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q14. What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India? (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q15. How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?(Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q16. How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development of India? (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q17. How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks

Q18. Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Eleborate with examples. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q19. What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space? (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks 

Q20. Are we losing your local identity for the global identity? Discuss. (Answer in 250 words) 15 Marks

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