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35 days strategy for Spectrum Modern History

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Modern History is one of the most important subjects in your UPSC preparation. The reason is, every year a
significant number of questions comes from this subject and many of them can be done correctly by putting
little effort. It is comparatively easier than the ancient and medieval and the return of investment is also very
high in modern history, so this should be prepared accordingly.
Before moving to the planner the following points should be kept in mind:
1. You have to simultaneously solve questions and revise the topics otherwise you will keep reading new
topics and will forget the earlier ones.
2. 35 days means 5 weeks. Now every Saturday of the week should be reserved for revision and remembering
important facts and Sunday should be reserved for tests and revision.
3. Your first reading of any chapter should be without underlining anything just read the chapter.
4. After your first reading of the chapter refer to the previous year questions of that chapter only.
5. Then read the chapter again two times and this time you can use small pencil marks (but not markers at this
stage, markers should be used in later revisions)
6. Revise the chapter on Sunday and give a test on that chapter and again revise the chapter based on the
mistakes you made in the test.
7. Making notes of this book is not required at all as the book itself is in notes form.
8. The summary and the boxes in the chapters can be used for better revision.
9. After completing the complete book in 35 days, multiple revisions of the same are very important.
10. You should at least revise it 5-6 times before the exam.
11. Multiple revisions with tests is the key.

 
Week 1
Day 1: Complete Syllabus in detail, Chapter-1 (Sources of History of Modern India) and Chapter-2 (Major
approaches to history of modern India)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped:
Not that important just one quick reading of the chapters.

Day 2: Chapter-3 (Advent of Europeans in India)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped:
Rise and fall of all the Europeans
Anglo-Dutch rivalry
Carnatic wars
Causes of success of the Britishers

Day 3: Chapter-4 (India on the eve of British Conquest)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Later Mughals
Causes of fall of Mughals
Rise of regional states

Day 4 and 5: Chapter-5 (Expansion and Consolidation of British Power in India)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
British conquest accidental or intentional
Causes of success of Britishers in India
British conquest of Bengal
Anglo-Mysore wars
Anglo-Maratha struggle
Conquest of Sindh
Conquest of Punjab
Policy of ring-fence

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Subsidiary alliance
Doctrine of lapse
North-West frontier

Day 6: Revision of all the chapters.

Day 7: Revision of complete week’s work and chapter wise tests
 
Week 2
Day 1: Chapter-6 (People’s Resistance against British before 1857)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Peasant movements
Sepoy mutinies
Weaknesses of the mutinies

Day 2: Chapter-7 (The revolt of 1857)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Major causes of the revolt
Important leaders of the revolt
Reason of failure
Significance of the revolt

Day 3: Chapter-8 (Socio-Religious Reform Movements: General Features) and Chapter-9 (A general survey of
Socio-Cultural Reform Movements)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Impact of British rule on social reforms
Position of women
Caste based exploitation
Social movements and their main leaders
Important organization and its founder
Significance of the social movements

Day 4: Chapter-10 (Beginning of Modern Nationalism in India) and Chapter-11 (Indian National Congress:
Foundation and moderate phase)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Factors leading to growth of modern nationalism
Political associations before INC
Aims and objectives of INC
Safety valve theory
Moderates
Approach
Important leaders

Day 5: Chapter-12 (Era of Militant Nationalism) and Chapter-13 (First phase of Revolutionary Activities) and
Chapter-14 (1st World War and Nationalist Response)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Reasons of the grown of militant nationalism
Swadeshi movement
Partition of Bengal
Annulment of partition
Surat split
Morley-Minto reforms
Revolutionary activities abroad
Home Rule Movement
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Lucknow session
Lucknow pact between Congress and Muslim League

Day 6: Revision of all the chapters.

Day 7: Revision of complete week’s work and chapter wise tests
 
Week 3
Day 1: Chapter-15 (Emergence of Gandhi) Chapter-16 (Non-Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
Government of India Act 1919
Champaran Satyagraha
Ahmadabad Mill strike
Kheda satyagraha
Rowlett Act
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Hunter Commission
Khilafat issue
Non-cooperation and khilafat movement

Day 2: Chapter-17 (Emergence of Swarajists, socialist ideas, revolutionary activities and other new forces)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Swarajists
Socialist ideas
Revolutionary activities in 1920s

Day 3: Chapter-18 (Simon Commission and the Nehru report) and Chapter-19 (CDM and round table
conferences)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Indian statutory commission
Nehru report
CDM
Calcutta session of INC
Irwin’s declaration
Salt satyagraha
Karachi congress session
Round table conference ( broad idea of participants)
Communal Award
Harijan campaingn
Gandhi and Ambedkar

Day 4: Chapter-20 (Debates on future strategy after CDM) and Chapter-21 (Congress rule in the Provinces)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Struggle-truce-struggle strategy
Government of India Act, 1935
Work under congress ministries

Day 5: Chapter-22 (Nationalist response in the wake of WW2)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Gandhi and Bose
WW2 and nationalists response
August offer
Cripps Mission
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Day 6: Revision of all the chapters.

Day 7: Revision of complete week’s work and chapter wise tests
 
Week 4
Day 1: Chapter-23 (QIM, demand for Pakistan, and the INA)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
QIM
Famine of 1943
Wavell plan
INA and Subhash Chandra Bose

Day 2: Chapter-24 (Post-War National scenario)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
INA trials
Cabinet mission
Interim government
Spread of communalism in India

Day 3: Chapter-25 (Independence with Partition) and Chapter-26 (Constitutional, Administrative and Judicial
developments)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Atlee’s statement
Mountbatten Plan
Partition of India
All the acts (Very important)
Civil services in India
Military in India
Judiciary in India
Administrative structure

Day 4: Chapter-27 (Survey of British Policy in India) and Chapter-28 (Economic Impact of British rule in India)
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Administrative policies
Social and cultural policies
Deindustrialization
All the economic impacts
Drain of wealth theory

Day 5: Chapter-29 (Development of Indian press) and Chapter-30 (Development of education)

Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Vernacular press act
Evolution of education from Charter act till Independence
Wood’s dispatch
Hunter commission
Saddler commission
Vernacular education
Wardha scheme of basic education 

Day 6: Revision of all the chapters.

Day 7: Revision of complete week’s work and chapter wise tests
 
Week 5
Day 1: Chapter-31 (Peasant movements) and Chapter-32 (The movement of the working class)
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Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped

Peasant movements (basic points)
Contribution of working class

Day 2: Unit-10
Important topics from the chapter that should not be skipped
Quick reading for India After Independence 

Day 3: Unit-10
Day 4: Revision Chapter 2-11
Day 5: Revision Chapter 12-21
Day 6: Revision chapter 22-32
Day 7: Revision of complete week’s work and chapter wise tests and full syllabus tests
 
All the best!!!
 
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