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15 results for “Part IV”

Governance
PURA: Kalam's vision of urban amenities for rural India, and the Rurban Mission that replaced it
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's PURA promised city-grade amenities in villages through public-private partnership. It faded by 2014 and the Rurban Mission took its place. The vision, the two pilots, the PPP model, and the mains lessons.
1 October 2026 · 16 min read
History
The Empire's Own Rebels: Foreigners in India's Freedom Struggle
Besant, Olcott, Horniman, Cama, Nivedita, Stokes, Andrews, Mirabehn: the foreigners who funded, reported, sheltered and suffered for India's freedom, and why their presence gave the movement international legitimacy.
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
GS-4
Private sector case studies: worked answers for corporate dilemmas
Eight fully worked private-sector case studies for GS-4: CSR fund misuse, insider trading, toxic-discharge whistleblowing, layoffs, dual quality standards, related-party contracts, community displacement and health-data privacy, each with stakeholders, options and a recommended course of action.
30 September 2026 · 45 min read
Science & Tech
Chemistry for prelims: matter, reactions and the compounds in everyday life
The chemistry prelims keeps testing: the universal solvent, physical vs chemical change, aspartame, blood pH, mercury vapour lamps, lightest and densest metals, TNT and RDX, methane in mines, and corundum gemstones. Complete definitions, quick tables and 10 practice MCQs.
30 September 2026 · 10 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
Drawing the Line: Why India Was Partitioned in 1947
Why India was divided in 1947: the collapse of compromise, Mountbatten's 72-day timetable, the Independence Act, and the human cost.
27 September 2026 · 22 min read
GS-4
Aptitude and the foundational values of the civil services
Aptitude versus attitude, then the eight foundational values of a civil servant: integrity, impartiality, non-partisanship, objectivity, dedication, empathy, tolerance and compassion.
27 September 2026 · 45 min read
Social Justice
The demographic dividend: jobs, women and the workforce
The dividend window, the jobs question, women's workforce participation, population management and the disaster scenario: the full GS-II guide to India's demography.
27 September 2026 · 33 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-US relations: the defining partnership of the 21st century
From the 2008 civil nuclear deal to iCET and the Quad: how India and the US moved from Cold War estrangement to strategic convergence, and what still causes friction.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
International Relations
India-Maldives: from 'India Out' to reset
How a 2023 'India Out' rupture gave way to a 2024 reset built on a Comprehensive Economic and Maritime Security Partnership, and why the Maldives remains central to India's Indian Ocean strategy.
27 September 2026 · 16 min read
Governance
NGOs and civil society: partners, watchdogs and the FCRA debate
Over 34 lakh registered NGOs make India’s civil society among the world’s largest. What the sector does, why the FCRA 2020 amendments triggered a reckoning, and the 2025 question: non-state actor or anti-state actor?
27 September 2026 · 28 min read
Governance
Civil services in a democracy: the constitutional design
Why the Constitution built a permanent steel frame behind the elected government: the Part XIV design of Articles 308 to 323, what civil services actually do in a democracy, and the UPSC as watchdog of the merit system.
27 September 2026 · 26 min read
Polity
Co-operative societies: the 97th Amendment, Part IXB and Article 43B
The 97th Amendment's three gifts to cooperatives, why the Supreme Court cut Part IXB down in Rajendra Shah (2021), and what the Ministry of Cooperation is building now.
27 September 2026 · 25 min read