The most important topics for the Indian polity section of the 2022 prelims exam are: (1) rights of individuals including legal, constitutional, and fundamental rights such as right to privacy and property; (2) philosophy of the Indian constitution including questions from the preamble; (3) administrative reform committees such as the Gopalaswamy and Administrative Reforms Commissions; (4) basic concepts of polity including the definition of a state and parliamentary government; and (5) the Directive Principles of State Policy including the ideal of a welfare state and separation of the judiciary from the executive. Conceptual understanding of foundational sources and judicial interpretations is more important than memorizing numerous acts and schemes.
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POLITY FOR UPSC
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MOST IMORTANT TOPICS OF POLITY FOR UPSC PRELIMS 2022
The most important topics for the Indian polity section of the 2022 prelims exam are: (1) rights of individuals including legal, constitutional, and fundamental rights such as right to privacy and property; (2) philosophy of the Indian constitution including questions from the preamble; (3) administrative reform committees such as the Gopalaswamy and Administrative Reforms Commissions; (4) basic concepts of polity including the definition of a state and parliamentary government; and (5) the Directive Principles of State Policy including the ideal of a welfare state and separation of the judiciary from the executive. Conceptual understanding of foundational sources and judicial interpretations is more important than memorizing numerous acts and schemes.
The most important topics for the Indian polity section of the 2022 prelims exam are: (1) rights of individuals including legal, constitutional, and fundamental rights such as right to privacy and property; (2) philosophy of the Indian constitution including questions from the preamble; (3) administrative reform committees such as the Gopalaswamy and Administrative Reforms Commissions; (4) basic concepts of polity including the definition of a state and parliamentary government; and (5) the Directive Principles of State Policy including the ideal of a welfare state and separation of the judiciary from the executive. Conceptual understanding of foundational sources and judicial interpretations is more important than memorizing numerous acts and schemes.
1. Rights of Individual – Legal, constitutional and Fundamental. If
one can observe last few year papers questions on -Right to privacy, Right to Property, executive or administrative authority an unguided and uncontrolled discretionary power, concentration of wealth, Fundamental Rights incorporated against untouchability and so on. This makes this topic highly important. 2. Philosophy of Constitution – From what does constitutional government means to question on Liberty, Question directly from preamble (Twice). 3. Administrative Reform committees- N. Gopalaswamy Iyenger Committee, First Administrative Reforms Commission ,2nd Arc, questions have been asked on these topics repeatedly. 4. Basic polity -What is state, what is Parliamentary form of government, Rule of Law 5. DPSP - ideal of a Welfare State, principles and provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, separation of judiciary from the executive, concentration of wealth violates and so on.
Learning – Conceptual understanding of static sources and
interpretations of judiciary is more important than giving more time to thousands of acts , and schemes etc.