to be or not to be a civil servant part 2

My earlier post on this blog mentioned the broadest outline of the first paper. now i would like you to imagine yourself on the preferred post and tell your self how does it feel?

 

For that feeling to mature and nurture your desires, to what extent would you like to go? This is a question which all the dreamers (or aspirants) should answer.

 

Remember, this is not a degree course, one mistake and you are gone. back for next attempt. Please make that very  very clear.

 

As you are browsing the net, and that too visiting a profile of a nobody, and reading his so called 'chullu bhar gyan', you are searching for something, that is probably missing in your preparation. Or else you must just be jogging through.

 

In any case, i dont know you, but i can feel the impatience and uncertainty that linger, like the horrifying shadows in our childhood.

 

 

So, cutting short this bak bak,

 

 

Does History irritates you? it does to me, being an engineer, What is this? Why should i learn this?

 

Now imagine yourself being posted as a generalist to handle the tourism department, and now you are incharge?

 

History is important -

 

Now history is covered in both papers but its partial in mains. And now as trend is shifting from static to more analytical format, we will discuss that sometime.

 

How you should prepare History for PRELIMS.

 

•  First of all you should make yourself comfortable that it is not at all a boring subject, but a gradual evolving series of events. (Like those never ending Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi).
• And for any event there has to be a reason. and that event will eventually become a reason for another event.
• So, it is in short like a chain reaction.

First of all you should break the entire syllabus into smaller parts, and further into subparts.

for that follow these steps

 

•  Pre + Proto
• Vedic + Mahajanpads + Mauryans to Guptans
• Medieval -- Rajput era
• Medieval -- Muslim rule
• Modern -- upto 1947
• Modern -- upto , he he he today.

Now let us find each one by one ( unfortunately, i can't get all here at once)

Ancient - Pre + Proto

• Pre means where we dont have written evidence,
• that should include different periods ranging from different evindential findings from NARMADA MAN, to Mehargarh, and the likings.
• then it includes IVC or Harappan culture and civilization.

The main elements of questioning ---

• Who found what, when, under whose patronage. for example sahni in so and so year under Marshall found so and so place.
• Second thing what is found where , dancing statue of a girl ------- where?
• How many seals where?
• After findings the main area goes to the geographical location. On the banks of which river? MY guidance to all my students is PLEASE buy MAPS in BUNDLES, otherwise the publisher will go bankrupt and you will have to work thrice hard to understand the concept.
• If you could plot them ( i mean all the locations) correctly and write in brief about them, we are done for now.
• Next typical love of paper setter? is typical about Architecture, ( i admit, i am influenced by that), town planning and all.
• Another is use of metals , its evident.
• Food materials, grains , cotton, etc.

This is the primary level, moving onto next level you should

• Know, who was Dayaram Sahni, What was his post, who was his boss, did he dreamt of that place, or some BETAL came and sat on his shoulders to dig the forgotten city. etc.
• What is the quality of the dancing girl? Metal used? Good or bad specimen of art? What do you deduce of the culture by looking at that photo of statue? ( Please buy NCERT books )
• What are those seals made of ? What was their purpose? What are our deduction? Is there a find of any unusual seal of the likes of MESOPOTAMIA or EGYPT or else.
• Why these places wiped off, ( simple , they lie on the flood plains of rivers) , How many levels of habitation? span of their time, etc.
• About Architecture - get a picture of the site , it HELPS a lot. Then learn about streets, brick size, lamp post, sewer, layout of room , grainary, bath etc.
• Metals , source, how do they do it? watch NGC or Discovery. no way, its all deductions.
• now that society was Agararian, so how do they irrigate, how do they sow, what they sow, what are the evidences and from where they are found.

Thats about secondary level, now come to this then we will discuss the more indepth levels.

by the way i forgot to mention the questions on the origin and the end of civilisation.

So, thats IVC.

simillarly you should prepare Ancient, medieval, modern.

Hint or tip for this - Prepare charts, they do wonders.

all the best for now
i will try and post one more similar topic on history, God willing.