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Soma Sekhar
5 times mains, 2 times UPSC Interviews

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 Map Pointing PYQ Analysis (2012-2022)
• First time this type of Pattern started in 2012.

Topic Name: UPSC Terminology: Year: Question #:

Administration Site Ancient Administration Centre 2020 vii
Art Centre site An art centre 2012 v, vii, xii, xviii
Centre of Gandhara art 2022 xvi
Centre of School of art 2019 xiv
Buddhist Site A Buddhist Site 2015 xi
A site known for Buddhist remains 2016 vii
A site of Buddhist Monastery 2013 xv
Buddhist Centre 2018 xvi
Buddhist Monastery 2022 xvii
Buddhist monastic centre 2021 xix
Buddhist site 2021 xv
Earliest Chaitya Griha 2022 xx
Largest Buddhist Monastery 2020 xvi
Shiva and Buddhist temple complex 2022 xix
Capital Site A capital city 2016 xiii, xix, xx
A capital town 2012 ix
An Ancient Capital 2018 xviii, xx
2015 xiv, xv, xvii
2014 i, iv, viii, xv, xviii
An ancient capital city 2017 v, xii, xvii, xx
Ancient Capital 2019 viii
Ancient Capital City 2020 xi
2019 vii, xii
Ancient Political Headquarter 2020 viii
capital of famous kingdom 2013 xx
Earliest Satavahana capital 2022 x
Chalcolithic Site A Chalcolithic site 2017 xi
2014 xii
2013 xiii, xiv
2012 ii, xiv, xv, xvi, xix, xx
A Megalithic-Chalcolithic site 2016 iii
A Neolithic, Megalithic and Chalcolithic site 2013 ix
A Neolithic-Chalcolithic site 2017 ii
Chalcolithic Period Site 2019 xviii
Chalcolithic Site 2020 v
2018 ii
x
Neolithic-Chalcolithic site 2022 vi
2021 iv
Church Site Oldest Jesuit church 2022 xv

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 Cultural Site A cultural centre 2014 Iii
Vaishnava Cultural Site 2018 viii
Economic Site an important halting place 2013 iii
Early Agricultural Centre 2018 xi
Education Site An educational centre 2016 xvi
2015 xii
Ancient Education Centre 2020 xx
2019 xvi
Ancient learning centre 2021 xiii
Fort Site An early fortified city 2017 xiv
famous fort 2013 xix
Fossils site Site of important fossils 2013 vi
Harappan Site A Harappan site 2017 iv
x
2016 ix
viii
x
xii
2015 iii
v
xx
2014 vii
2013 x
A late Harappan site 2016 xv
A pre-Harappan site 2013 iv
An Early Harappan site 2017 iii
An important Harappan site 2013 v
Early and Mature Harappan Site 2020 iv
Early Harappan Site 2019 ii
2018 xii
Harappan site 2021 v
2019 ix
2018 vii
Harappan UNESCO site 2022 vii
Pre-Harappan Site 2019 xvii
Historic site A Historical Site 2014 vi
Early historic site 2021 xvii
Hoard Site Coin hoard 2021 ix
First Gupta hoard of coins 2022 xii
Hoard of metal sculptures 2022 xiii
Ivory hoard 2021 xviii
Site of Coin and Seal Mounds 2020 vi
Inscriptional Site A site of Ashokan inscriptions 2017 viii
An Inscriptional Site 2020 xiv

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 2015 vii
Ancient Inscriptional Site 2019 xv
Ancient Inscriptions Site 2019 x
Early Inscriptional Site 2019 xix
Inscriptional site 2021 vii
2018 xvii
Place of inscribed statue of Ashoka 2022 xi
Jain Site A Jaina Centre 2018 xix
Jain monastic site 2021 viii
Megalithic Site A Megalithic site 2016 vi
2014 x
Megalithic burial site 2022 viii
2018 i
Mesolithic Site A Mesolithic site 2016 i
2015 iv
2014 xi
2013 ii
A paleolithic and Mesolithic site 2013 i
Mesolithic site 2021 ii
Mesolithic site with burials 2022 ii
Mosque Site Place of Oldest Mosque 2020 xviii
Neolithic site A Neolithic site 2017 vii
2016 ii
iv
v
xi
2015 i
ii
2013 xii
Neolithic pit dwelling 2022 iii
Neolithic site 2022 v
2021 iii
2020 iii
2019 v
Painting Site A site of ancient cave paintings 2015 x
Cave Paintings 2018 iii
Palaeolithic Site A Palaeolithic site 2017 xix
2014 ii
v
2013 xi
A paleolithic site 2013 viii
Palaeolithic Factory Site 2020 ii
Palaeolithic Site 2022 i
2020 i

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 2018 iv
Paleolithic site 2021 i
x
Personality Site Site related to a famous Indian philosopher 2013 xvii
Petroglyphs site Ancient Petroglyphs Site 2019 xx
PGW Site A Painted grey ware site 2017 vi
2015 vi
Painted Grey Ware Site 2018 ix
Painted Greyware site 2013 xvi
Political Site A political and Cultural centre 2014 ix
xiv
xix
Political and cultural centre 2021 xiv
2018 v, xiv
Port Site A lost port 2014 xvi
A port 2012 viii
A sea port 2013 vii
A seaport 2016 xviii
An ancient port 2015 ix
An ancient port and trade centre 2017 ix
An Ancient Sea Port 2018 xv
2015 xviii
Ancient port 2022 xiv
2021 xvi
Ancient Sea Port and Trade centre 2019 iii
Prehistoric Site A Prehistoric cave-paintings' site 2017 i
A Prehistoric Site 2014 xiii
2012 i, iv, vi, x, xiii, xvii
Archaeological Site 2019 vi
Early village settlement 2022 iv
Pre and Proto Historic Site 2020 x
Stone Age Site 2019 iv
Proto-historic site Proto-historic and historic site 2021 vi
Religious Site A religious centre 2012 iii
Rock cut Site A rock cut cave Site 2019 xi
A Rock-cut cave site 2017 xiii
2016 xiv
A Rock-cut temple site 2017 xv
historical rock cut caves 2013 xviii
Rock Cave art centre 2014 xvii
Rock-cut caves 2021 xii
Temple Site A temple site 2015 xvi
An Ancient Temple 2018 xiii
An ancient Temple site 2017 xvi, xviii

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 An archaeological temple site 2015 xix
Ancient Temple Complex 2020 xvii
Ancient Temple Site 2020 ix
Brick Temple Site 2019 i
Famous Temple Site 2019 xiii
Place of earliest Vishnu temple 2022 xviii
Place of Jain Temple 2020 xv
Place of Shaiva Temple 2020 xii
Temple complex 2021 xx
Temple Complex dedicated to Shiva 2020 xix
World Heritage centre of Temple Complex 2020 xiii
Terracota site A terra-cotta art centre 2016 xvii
Terracota Centre 2018 vi
Terracotta site 2021 xi
Timeline site A post Mauryan town 2012 xi
An ancient town 2014 xx
An important Ancient City 2015 viii
Brahmadeya Village 2015 xiii
Place of Second Sangam 2022 ix

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