Preparing
for UPSC 2018? Here’s a detailed syllabus and go to books that you should refer
to master Geography for UPSC 2018. This post is brought to you by Oliveboard,
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UPSC
Geography Syllabus
The revised syllabus of UPSC has mentioned UPSC
geography syllabus in following words.
“Indian & World Geography: Physical, Social,
Economic Geography of India & the World”
The syllabus has clearly divided Geography
into 2 components – Indian Geography and World Geography.
The Topics covered in the 2 components as given the
following table.
Indian Geography
|
World Geography
|
Physiography of India
|
Atmosphere, its structure and components.
|
River Systems of India
|
World
Climate with focus on major world climatic phenomena like Planetary winds,
Clouds, Cyclones etc.
|
Climate
|
Geomorphic processes like Earthquakes, Volcanoes,
Weathering, Erosion and Gradational processes and their associated landform
features
|
Mineral Wealth of India
|
Major
World Biomes, their components and features.
|
Soil & Soil Types in India
|
World Resources and their distribution
|
Agriculture
|
World
Industries and their distribution
|
Forests
|
Major World Crops and Farming systems
|
Wildlife & Conservation
|
World
Map related questions
|
Human Geography
|
World oceans and related processes like Ocean
currents, tides
|
Universe
related questions including topics like Solar system; earth and its
movements;
asteroids, comets and meteors; satellites etc.
|
|
Disasters, like Tsunamis, earthquakes, floods,
droughts.
|
More Question have been asked
on Indian Geography as compared to world Geography. Hence you should prioritize
your studies accordingly.All the topics mentioned about should be understood
properly and the facts mentioned should be analysed with concepts given.
Books
and Sources for UPSC Geography Preparation
· NCERT
Books from 6th to 12th (Special focus should be
on 11th and 12th NCERT’s)
· C
Leong’s Physical Geography
· General
Studies Guide for Prelims, either from TMH or Arihant or Spectrum or Pearson
· Oxford
Student atlas (do not confuse it with Oxford School Atlas)
· Orient
Black Swann School Atlas (do not confuse it with Orient Black Swann Student
Atlas)
· Various
reports from Govt and NGO’s like Forest report, Agriculture census, HDI report,
etc.
