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PSIR Optional Best Coaching
PSIR is a very dynamic option and requires broad coverage of current affairs for both papers. Our course provides monthly coverage of important topics, giving you the best coaching for the PSIR optional.
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Revision Series 2022-50 Important Topics | UPSC Prelims 2022
Sleepy Classes IAS has curated subject-wise 50 most important topics for upcoming UPSC Prelims 2022. Join the live session every day at noon on Youtube. Just before prelims, these sessions will let you Revise all the Important topics And strengthen your chance to become the next officer.
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PSIR Optional Booklist By Toppers
Get the best PSIR Course for UPSC 2023. Prerna Madam’s courses are known for being extremely comprehensive and ensure conceptual and analytical understanding of PSIR and Polity to aid students in tackling any question that may come their way. Under her guidance, a number of aspirants have secured ranks in UPSC through PSIR Optional including Aditya Raj (AIR 225- 2021), Anurag Nayan (AIR 279-2021), Raghvendra Sharma (AIR 340-2021), Preeti Panchal (AIR 449-2021), Anjali Birla (2019), Ravinderpreet Kaur (AIR 389- 2018), Rupesh Kumar (AIR 487- 2018) and more.
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Free Course for UPSC PSIR Optional
Our courses are known for being extremely comprehensive and ensure conceptual and analytical understanding of PSIR and Polity to aid students in tackling any question that may come their way. Under our guidance, a number of aspirants have secured ranks in UPSC through PSIR Optional including Aditya Raj (AIR 225- 2021), Anurag Nayan (AIR 279-2021), Raghvendra Sharma (AIR 340-2021), Preeti Panchal (AIR 449-2021), Anjali Birla (2019), Ravinderpreet Kaur (AIR 389- 2018), Rupesh Kumar (AIR 487- 2018) and more. Get our Free Course for UPSC PSIR Optional.
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This year’s Essay paper is yet another evidence of the shifting trend of UPSC CSE towards evaluating originality in thinking. Through essays with a philosophical base, UPSC wants to recruit Civil Servants who have the ability to think out of the box. To find out the best approach to deal with such Essays, Join the Sleepy Classes IAS – Essay Course available now.
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For any aspirant to crack an optional, it is important that they understand and memorise minute details of the syllabus and prepare according to its requirements. Political Science and International Relations has its detailed syllabus listed out by the UPSC. There are two Papers of PSIR Optional- Paper 1 and Paper 2. Both Papers can also be broadly divided into two parts- Part A and B with specific syllabus of each of these components.
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Trends in PSIR Previous 5 Years and Strategy for Mains 2022
Trends in Paper 1 Part A
·        Western Political Thought:
o    Trace the evolution of western political thought from ancient to contemporary period. [2020]
·        Plato:
o    Explain Aristotle's critique of Plato's Idealism. [2019]
o    'Plato was an enemy of the open society'. (Popper). Comment. [2015]
·        Aristotle:
o    Explain Aristotle's critique of Plato's Idealism. [2019]
o    Everywhere inequality is a cause of revolution’. (Aristotle). Comment. [2017]
o    Comment on Aristotle's conception of equality. [2015]
·        Machiavelli:
o    Comment on Machiavelli on secularism. [2020]
o    Critically examine Machiavelli's views on religion and politics. [2018]
o    Compare and contrast the views of Kautilya and Machiavelli on statecraft. [2015]
·        Thomas Hobbes and John Locke:
o    Comment on Hobbesian notion of political obligation. [2017]
o    How would I and my fellow human beings behave if we were to find ourselves in a state of nature, and what does this behaviour tell us about our innate predispositions? Thomas Hobbes. Discuss. [2016]
o    John Locke is a father of liberalism. Explain. [2018]
·        J.S. Mill:
o    Representative democracy…means the people as a body must be able to control the general direction of government policy. (J.S. Mill) [2020]
o    John Stuart Mill is a 'reluctant democrat’. (CL Wayper). Comment. [2018]
·        Karl Marx:
o    Discuss Karl Marx’s concept of class. [2020]
o    Differentiate between freedom and liberty. Discuss Marx's notion of freedom. [2017]
o    Explain Marx's understanding of human essence and alienation. [2016]
o    Discuss the relationship between base and superstructure in Marxist theory. [2015]
·        Gramsci:
o    According to Gramsci, 'hegemony is primarily based on the organisation of consent.' Comment. [2019]
o    Comment on Gramsci's concept of hegemony. [2016]
o    Discuss Gramsci's notion of organic intellectuals. [2015]
·        Hannah Arendt:
o    Critically examine Hannah Arendt's conceptual triad of labour, work and action. [2019]
o    Discuss Hannah Arendt's analysis of the role of ideology in the modern totalitarian regime. [2016]
·        Political Theory:
o    Discuss the significance of normative approach to Political Theory. [2020]
o    Comment on resurgence of political theory. [2019]
o    Comment on the decline of Political Theory. [2018]
o    Comment on the post behavioural approach. [2016]
·        Theories of State:
o    Comment on Post Colonial theory of State. [2020]
o    Write a short note on pluralist theory of the State. [2019]
o    Critically examine the neoliberal theory of State. [2018]
o    Comment on neoliberal perspective of the State. [2017]
o    Discuss the feminist theory of the State. [2016]
o    Examine the challenges to sovereignty of the State in the contemporary world. [2015]
·        Justice:
o    Make a comparative assessment of the Greek perspective of Justice and Rawlsian perspective of Justice. [2020]
o    Examine communitarian perspectives on justice. [2019]
o    Comment on distributive justice. [2018]
o    Analyse John Rawls' justification of discrimination to achieve the goals of justice. [2018]
o    'Rawls' theory of justice is both contractual and distributive'. Examine. [2017]
o    Critically examine John Rawls argument for democratic equality. [2016]
o    Comment on difference principle in the Rawls theory of justice. [2015] 
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   Equality:
o    Comment on equality of opportunity. [2020]
o    Equality means fair treatment rather than equal treatment. Comment. [2018]
o    Comment on affirmative action. [2016]
·        Rights:
o    Assess the significance of right to property in political theory. [2020]
o    Discuss the doctrine of 'rights as trump'. [2019/15m/200w/4b]
o    What do you understand by three generation of human rights? [2018]
o    What do you understand by multiculturalism? Discuss Bhikhu Parekh's views on multiculturalism.[2017]
o    The implementation of human rights is  regarded as a matter of changing the conduct of states. Comment. [2016]
o    Comment on the idea of Natural Rights. [2015]
·         Democracy:
o    Write a short note on Deliberative democracy. [2019]
o    Comment on Substantive democracy. [2018]
o    Critically examine MacPherson's views on democracy. [2018]
o    Deliberative democracy does not have its salience without participation and Participatory democracy does not have its credence without deliberations. Comment. [2017]
o    Explicate the features of representative democracy. [2016]
o    Elaborate the difference between participatory and deliberative democracy. [2015]
·        Power:
o    Examine the nature and meaning of power. [2020]
o    Explain the relationship between power, authority and legitimacy. [2018]
o    Distinguish between power and authority. [2015]
o    Discuss the 'crisis of legitimacy' in capitalist societies. (Habermas). [2015] 
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·        Ideologies:
o    Liberalism as a revolutionary idea. [2020]
o    Compare negative and positive concepts of liberty. [2019]
o    The political ideology of Globalisation is neoliberalism. Comment. [2016]
o    Define socialism. Discuss the salient features of Fabian socialism. [2017]
o    Discuss the key features of pre-Marxist socialist theory. [2015]
o    What is the contemporary relevance of Marxism? [2019]
o     'Nothing against the state, nothing over it, nothing beyond it'. (Mussolini). Comment. [2018]
o    Distinguish between liberal feminism and radical feminism. [2019]
o    Comment on Ecofeminism. [2017]
o    Comment on Postmodernism. [2017]
·        End of Ideology:
o    Discuss the end of Ideology debate. [2019]
o    Write a brief note on the End of History. [2017] 
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Indian Political Thought
·        Ancient thought and Kautilya:
o    Explain the sources of ancient Indian Political Thought. [2020]
o    Discuss Kautilya's views on the elements of the State. [2019]
o    What do you understand about the notion of statecraft? Discuss the theory of statecraft as given by Kautilya. [2017]
o    Compare and contrast the views of Kautilya  and Machiavelli on statecraft. [2015]
·        Sri Aurobindo:
o    According to Sri Aurobindo, Swaraj is a necessary condition for India to accomplish its destined goal. Comment. [2017]
o    Discuss Sri Aurobindo's views on cultural nationalism. [2016]
·        M.K. Gandhi:
o    Explain ideological components of Gandhism. [2020]
o    Discuss MK Gandhi's concept of Swaraj. [2019]
o    Examine Gandhi's critique of modernisation. [2016]
o    Comment on Gandhi's views on the state. [2015]
·        B.R. Ambedkar:
o    Comment on Ambedkar on Constitutionalism. [2020]
o    Discuss Ambedkar's ideas on Annihilation of Caste. [2018]
o    'Political democracy could not last unless social democracy lay at its base'. (BR Ambedkar). Comment. [2017]
o    Discuss Dr. BR Ambedkar's idea of state socialism. [2016]
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Sources and strategy
·        Stick to your notes and revise them repeatedly.
·        If possible make mind maps and tables for thought and theory for quick revision.
·        In case of lack of material, stick to IGNOU.
·        Answer writing key for conceptual clarity, interlinkage and scholars to quote. 
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