UPSC Mains 2019 GS1 Previous Year Questions

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1. Q1 · Highlight the Central Asian and Greco-Bactrian elements in the Gandhara art.
2. 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.
3. Q3 · Examine the linkages between the nineteenth century’s ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.
4. Q4 · Assess the impact of global warming on the coral life system with examples.
5. Q5 · Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.
6. Q6 · Can the strategy of regional resource-based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?
7. Q7 · Discuss the factors for localisation of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.
8. Q8 · What makes the Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.
9. Q9 · “Empowering women is the key to control population growth.” Discuss.
10. Q10 · What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism?
11. Q11 · Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.
12. Q12 · Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s.
13. Q13 · Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French Revolutions.
14. Q14 · What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?
15. Q15 · How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?
16. Q16 · How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development of India?
17. Q17 · How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and coastal environment? Give suitable examples.
18. Q18 · Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples.
19. Q19 · What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?
20. Q20 · Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.