Civil Services Exam 2026

General Study Notes

Paper - I

• Effects of globalisation on Indian society
• Salient features of world's physical geography
• Social empowerment, communalism, regionalism & secularism
• Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone

General Study Notes

Paper - II

• Salient features of the Representation of People's Act
• Role of Civil Services in a Democracy
• E Governance-- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential
• Issues relating to poverty and hunger

General Study Notes

Paper - III

• Challenges to Internal Security through Communication Networks
• Money Laundering and Its Prevention
• Role of Media and Social Networking Sites in Internal Security Challenges
• Linkages of Organised Crime with Terrorism

General Study Notes

Paper - IV

• Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance
• Probity in Governance
• Probity in Governance: Right to Information
• Probity in Governance: Philosophical Basis of Governance and Probity

Management

Paper - I

• Concept and Foundations of Management
• Planning
• Organizing
• Controlling

Management

Paper - II

• Descriptive statistics- tabular, graphical and numerical methods
• Inferential statistics
• Chi-square and ANOVA
• Introduction to probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions

History

• Geographical knowledge of the vedic period
• Indus And Vedic Civilisation
• Asoka Foreign Relations
• Decline Of The Mauryas
• Pre Historic Cultures In India

Sociology

Paper - I

• Introduction
• Scope of Sociology
• Relation of Sociology with other social sciences
• Social Groups

Sociology

Paper - II

• Caste System
• Class System
• Social Change
• Urban Sociology

Political Science

Paper - I

• Political theory: meaning and approaches
• Concept of Power Hegemony Ideology and Legitimacy
• Theories of the state: Liberal
• Theories of the state: Neoliberal

Political Science

Paper - II

• Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches
• Comparative Politics: political economy and political sociology perspectives
• Comparative Politics: limitations of the comparative method

Anthropology

Paper - I

• Meaning and Scope Of Anthropology
• Relationships with other disciplines: Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, Earth Sciences and Humanities.
• Main branches of Anthropology, their scope and relevance
• Relationship of Prehistoric Archaeology with other branches of Anthropology

Law

• Necessity of amending provision in the Constitution
• 24th Amendment Act, 1971
• Theory of basic structure: a limitation on amending power
• Quasi Contracts
• Kinds Of Quasi Contracts