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History
Money and Nationalism: The Capitalist Class in the Freedom Struggle
Mill owners who funded the Congress but feared the streets: FICCI 1927, the rupee and tariff grievances, constitutional methods, the Bombay Plan of 1944, and the permanent tension with labour and the left.
30 September 2026 · 11 min read
International Relations
India-UAE relations: the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
From oil buyer to strategic partner: the 2022 CEPA, $100 billion trade, INR-Dirham settlement and 4.3 million Indians who make the UAE India’s most consequential Gulf relationship.
30 September 2026 · 9 min read
Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture in India: Millets, Organic and Natural Farming
What sustainable agriculture means, why millets are the triple win, how organic certification works, what ZBNF's four pillars do, and the institutions, from MAHAFPC to Pani Panchayats, that make sustainability real.
29 September 2026 · 19 min read
Indian Society
The Invisible Majority: Who Really Counts as Vulnerable in India?
From 2.68 crore persons with disabilities to 150 million ageing Indians, UPSC's 2026 disability question proves vulnerable sections are now core syllabus. A data-driven map of who is vulnerable, why, and what the state owes them.
27 September 2026 · 38 min read
Indian Society
Tribes of India: the first peoples caught between forest and development
104 million Indians, 700+ groups, one constitutional shield, the story of tribal India, from PVTGs to the displacement-rehabilitation trap.
27 September 2026 · 41 min read
Post-Independence India
The Long Walk Home: Partition's Refugees and the Remaking of India
At midnight on 15 August 1947 India woke to freedom, but for over seven million people, freedom arrived as a refugee column. This is the story of the camps, the colonies, and the laws that rebuilt their lives.
27 September 2026 · 21 min read
Modern History
Red Flags in the Mills: Workers, Communists and Socialists
AITUC, the Meerut trial, the Tashkent communists and the Congress Socialists, the left flank that made the freedom struggle about bread as well as flags.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
Modern History
Swadeshi 1905: Boycott, Bande Mataram, and India's First Mass Classroom
For three years Bengal tried to live without Britain, boycotting Manchester cloth, building Indian mills and national schools. The Swadeshi movement was India's first mass classroom, and its laboratory for everything Gandhi later used.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Ancient History
Long before history: the million years India spent in the Stone Age
Half a million years of Indian history happened before a single word was written. From Bhimbetka's painted caves to Mehrgarh's first farmers, this is the prehistory UPSC keeps testing.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
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Moral thinkers of the world: the great ethical frameworks
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham and Mill, Rawls, Mandela and others: the world's moral thinkers compressed into deontology, utilitarianism and virtue ethics as working tools for administrators.
27 September 2026 · 54 min read
Social Justice
Homelessness and urban exclusion: the invisible poor
Who India's 1.77 million homeless are, the structural causes of urban exclusion, shelter and rehabilitation schemes, and why cities keep failing their poorest residents.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
International Relations
The Indian diaspora: 32 million bridges
The world's largest overseas community: remittance lifeline, political force from Washington to London, and soft-power asset. How India engages its diaspora, and where the relationship frays.
27 September 2026 · 14 min read
International Relations
India-Australia: from ECTA to critical minerals
How India and Australia moved from Cold War distance to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership built on the 2022 trade deal, critical minerals, defence interoperability and a million-strong diaspora.
27 September 2026 · 17 min read
International Relations
India-UK: CETA, Vision 2035 and the living bridge
The 2025 Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement reset the economic relationship, Vision 2035 set the decade's agenda, and 1.8 million Indian-origin Britons form the living bridge. The frictions, from Khalistan to extradition, remain.
27 September 2026 · 12 min read
International Relations
India-Sri Lanka: the China factor in the island neighbourhood
Thirty kilometres and three millennia of ties: the $4 billion 2022 lifeline, Operation Sagar Bandhu, Hambantota and the Tamil file.
27 September 2026 · 15 min read
Polity
Directive Principles: the Constitution's conscience
The Directive Principles decoded: their Irish origin, the three families, the thirty-year war with fundamental rights, and the Minerva Mills harmony doctrine.
27 September 2026 · 30 min read
Polity
Basic structure doctrine: from Kesavananda to the NJAC case
The basic structure doctrine from Kesavananda (1973) to the NJAC case (2015): the 7:6 verdict, Minerva Mills, Waman Rao, the recognised elements, and why this unwritten limit on Parliament remains UPSC's favourite debate.
27 September 2026 · 28 min read