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GS-4
Public sector case studies: worked answers for administration dilemmas
Eleven worked case studies for GS-4: bribery pressure, whistleblowing, political interference, disaster triage, land acquisition, tender rigging, corrupt subordinates, communal fault lines and RTI transparency, each resolved step by step.
30 September 2026 · 51 min read
Modern History
From traders to rulers: how the Company built its government machine (1773-1857)
Between 1773 and 1857 the Company stopped being a business and became a government, with Acts of Parliament, a steel-frame bureaucracy, Cornwallis's courts and the thana-daroga police. How the machine was built.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Medieval History
The Empire's Operating System: Mansabdars, Jagirs and the Revenue Machine
One rank decided every officer's salary and cavalry strength; one revenue grid taxed every harvest. How the mansabdari and zabt systems let the Mughals run a subcontinent.
27 September 2026 · 29 min read
GS-4
Ethics in public administration: dilemmas and sources of guidance
Why administration needs ethics, the dilemmas public servants face, and the two great sources of guidance: laws, rules and regulations on one side, conscience on the other.
27 September 2026 · 63 min read
GS-4
Emotional intelligence: concepts and application in administration
Emotional intelligence end to end: Salovey and Mayer, Goleman five components, whether EI can be learned, its uses in Indian administration, and its limits.
27 September 2026 · 37 min read
GS-4
Attitude: how it forms, how it changes, and why it matters
The GS-4 attitude syllabus end to end: the A-B-C structure, functions, formation, the attitude-behaviour link, moral and political attitudes, social influence and persuasion in administration.
27 September 2026 · 48 min read
Governance
Citizen’s Charter: India’s promise of citizen-centric administration
From the UK’s 1991 charter to India’s 1997 adoption: the six principles, Sevottam and IS 15700, why charters underperform, and the 2nd ARC’s fixes. Anchored on the 2018 and 2024 PYQs.
27 September 2026 · 18 min read
Polity
Centre-State Relations: Legislative, Administrative and Financial
How the Constitution divides law-making, administration and money between the Union and the states: the Seventh Schedule, Articles 245 to 280, the GST exception, and what Sarkaria and Punchhi recommended.
27 September 2026 · 41 min read