GS1Indian heritage and culture, history and geography of the world and society
Art, literature and architecture
Syllabus: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.
Current affairs on this topic 3
- Education Ministry approves five Centres of Excellence for newer classical languages 4 October 2026
Classical status came in 2024. Two years on, do Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit finally get institutions?
- Centre and Ladakh fix standard names for 28 places on the Survey of India map 2 October 2026
Atisha, Milarepa, Kanishka, Zorawar: why a list of Ladakh's peaks reads like a history syllabus.
- Rajghat finds from decades-old digs shed new light on ancient Kashi 7 September 2026
Ten thousand objects sat in storage for about 70 years. What can they now tell us about one of India's oldest cities?
Previous-year questions 3
- 2024 · GS1 · 10 marks Underline the changes in the field of society and economy from the rig vedic to the later vedic period.
- 2018 · GS1 · 10 marks Safeguarding the Indian art heritage is the need of the moment. Comment.
- 2017 · GS1 · 10 marks How do you justify the view that the level of excellence of the Gupta numismatic art is not at all noticeable in later times?