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1. Consumer Demand and Consumer Sovereignty : Law of Demand, Nature and types of elasticity of demand, indifference curve analysis and consumer’s equilibrium. 2. Theory of Production : Production Function, Laws of Returns, Equilibrium of a Producer, Nature of Cost and Revenue curves, Pricing of factors of production. 3. Price and output determination : Under different market conditions. Cost plus pricing. 4. Equilibrium : General and Partial, Stable and Unstable. 5. Concepts of Economic Welfare : Old and New Welfare economics, Pareto Optimality and compensation principles, Consumer’s surplus. Economics welfare and Competition. 6. National Income : Concept, Components and methods of accounting. Classical and Keynesian Theories of Employment and Income, Pigou effect and Real balance effect; Intersection of Multiplier and Accelerator. Theory of Trade Cycles. (Monetary and Hicksian trade cycles). 7. Theory of Money : Measurement of changes in price level, Theory of money supply. Money Multiplier, Quantity theory of Money, Theories of Demand tor money. Interest determination, IS-LM curve analysis. Theory of Inflation, Measures of inflation control. 8. Monetary and Banking System : Banks and their roles in the economy. Central Bank and the money market, Techniques of monetary Management.

i) Public Finance : Theories of Taxation and Public Expenditure, Incidence of taxation, evasion and shifting of Tax burden. Effects of Taxation, Fiscal Policy and economic development, economic classification of Budgetary Receipts and Expenditure, Types of budget deficits and their effects on the economy. (ii) International Economics : Theories of International Trade, Hecksher-Ohlin theory. Offer Terms of Trade, Trade and Development Balance of Payments, Disequilibrium in Balance of Payments and policies for correcting it. Fixed and fluctuating exchange rates, Free Trade vs. Protection, Foreign Debt and Debt Management, International Monetary and Trade Institutions. (iii) Growth and Development Measures of Economic developments. Theories of Economic Growth; Classical, Marxian and Harrod-Domar Model, Surplus Labour and Capital formation, stages of growth. Problems of Human Capital formation.

1. Basic Features of Indian Economy : Trends in National Income and per capita income. Changes in comparison of National Income. Population Growth and Economic Development, Characteristics of India’s Population, Changes in occupational pattern. Developments & Infrastructure for Agriculture and Industry. Sources of Energy: Conventional and non-conventional. Energy Crisis, Environmental pollution and its control.

2. Indian Agriculture : Importance of agriculture in Indian economy. Source of growth in agriculture, Institutional reforms in Indian agriculture with special reference to land reforms and credit supply. Agricultural cost and product pricing.

3. Industrial growth and Structure In India : Public Sector. Private Corporate Sector Joint Sector. Small scale and Cottage industry in India; Industrial Policy resolutions; competition and industrial growth. Foreign Capital Technology and growth of Indian Industry; Industrial sickness in India, Labour policy reforms in India.

4. Budgetary Trends and Fiscal Policy in India: Trends of major sources of public revenue and expenditure of Union Government and U.P. Government, Non-Plan expenditure of Union Government internal and external debt of the Union Government, Fiscal and Revenue deficits in Union Budget. Major recommendations of the Tenth Finance Commission.

5. Money and Banking : The monetary institutions of India. Commercial Banks, Reserve Bank of India, Special financial institutions (Banking and non-banking). Sources of Reserve money, money mulipliers, objective and techniques of monetary policy in India and their limitations.

6. Foreign Trade and Balance of Payment : Foreign Trade of India-volume, composition and direction, Trade Policy-import substitution , export promotion and self reliance. Import liberalization and its effect on trade balance. External borrowing and the burden of foreign debt. Exchange rate of rupee. Devaluation and its effect on balance of payments- convertibility of rupee. Integration of Indian economy with the world economy, Indian and the World Trade Organisation.

7. Economic planning in India : Role of economic planning in India. Objectives of economic planning, Problems of unemployment, Economic poverty and regional imbalances. A brief review of planning in India since 1951. Strategy of planning in India and recent changes therein . Financial resources for the Plans Objectives and achievements of the Eighth Five Year plan and the proposed strategy for the Ninth plan.

1. Geomorphology : Origin and structure of the earth. Earth movements, Plate tectomics and Mountain Building ; Isostasy ; Vulcanism ; Weathering and Erosion; Cycle of Erosion, Evolution of landforms; fluvial, glacial, acolion, marine and Karst Rejuvenation and Polycyclic Land form features.

2. Climatology : Composition and structure of atmosphere, Insolation and Heat Budget ; Atmospheric pressure and winds, Moisture and Precipitation ; Airmasses and Fronts ; Cyclone ; Origin ; Movements and associated weather, Classification of world climates; Kooppen and Thomthwaite.

3.Oceanography : Configuration of Ocean floor, Salinity Ocean Currents, Tides; Ocean deposits and coral reefs.

4. Soil and Vegetation : Soils-genesis; classification and world distribution, Soil Vegetation Symbiosis; Biotic Communities and Succession.

5. Ecosystem : Concept of Ecosystem, structure and functioning of Ecosystems. Types of Ecosystems; Major Biomes, Man’s impact on the ecosystem and global ecological issues.

1. Evolution of Geography Thought - Contributions of German. French, British, Soviet and Indian Geographers : Changing Paradigms of Man Environment Relationship Impact of Positivism and Quantitative revolution ; models and systems in geography, Recent trends in geographic thought with special reference to radical, behavioural phenomenological and ecological paradigms.

2. Human Geography : Human habitat in major natural regions : Emergence of Man and Races of Mankind; Cultural evolution and stages; Major cultural realsm. Growth and Distribution of population; International migration population. Demorgraphic Transition and contemporary population problems.

3. Settlement Geography : Concept of Settlement Geography ; Rural settlement; Nature; Origin, Types and patterns, concept of Urban settlement. Patterns. Processes and consequences of Urbanisation; Central place theory; classification of Town; Hierarchy of urban centres. Morphology of Town; Rural Urban nexus; Uniand and urban finges.

4. Economic Geography : Fundamental concepts. Concepts of Resource; Classification, Conservation and Management Nature and Types of Agriculture; Agricultural land use location theories; World agricultural regions; Major crops; Mineral and Power Resources Occurrence, Reserves, utilization and production patterns, World Energy crisis and search for alternatives. Industries-Theories of Industrial location, Major industrial regions; Major Industries-Iron & Steel, Paper, Textiles, Petro-chemicals, Automobiles, Ship building; their location patterns. International Trade; Trade Blocks, Trade routes. Ports and global trace centres. World Economic Development Patterns. Concepts of and approaches to Sustainable Development.

5. Political Geography : Concept of Nation and state; Frontiers, Boundaries and Buffer zones; Concepts of Heartland and Rimland Federalism, Contemporary world geopolitical issue.

1. Physical Features : Geological systems and structure; Relief and drainage, soils and natural vegetation; soil degradation and deforestation. Origin and mechanism of Indian Monsoon; Climatic regionalisation; Physiographic regionalisation.

2. Human Feature: Distribution and growth of population; structural characteristics of population-temporalregional variations. Regional rural settlement patterns and village morphology. Urban Settlement ; Classification of Indian Cities-locational, functional, hierarchicalcity regions Urban morphology; urbanisation and urban policy.

3. Agriculture : Infrastructure; irrigation, power, fertilizer use, mechanization; Regional characteristics of agricultural land use, problem of wastelands and their reclamation, Cropping patterns and intensity; Agricultural Efficiency and Productivity, Impact of Green revolution; Agricultural regions with special reference to agroecological conditions. Land reforms and agrarian problems, Crop Combinations and agricultural regionalisation. Modernisation of Agriculture and agricultural planning.

4. Mineral and Power Resources : Locational patterns, Reserves and Production trends; Complementarily of minerals. Power resources; Coal Petroleum, hydro power, Multipurpose river valley projects; Energy crisis and search for alternatives.

5. Industries : Industrial Development, Major industries-non & steel. Textiles,, Paper Cements, Fertilizers Sugar, Petro-chemicals, industrial Complexes and Regions.

6.Transport and Trade: Networks of railways and roads; Problems and prospects of Civil aviation and water transport; inter-regional commodity flows; International trace, policy and flow patterns. Major ports and trace centres.

7. Regional Development and Planning : Problems of regional development and spatial planning strategies: Geographic and Planning regions; Planning for metropolitan, tribal, hilly, drought-prone regions and watershed management. Regional disparities in development and policies in five Year Plans; Planning for Eco-Development.

8. Political Economy : Historical Perspective on Unity and diversity. States reorganisation; Regional consciousness and national integration geographical basis of centre-state relations. International boundaries of India and related geopolitical issues. India and the geopolitics of the Indian ocean. India and the SAARC.

1. Fundamentals of Sociology and Study of Social Phenomena : Emergence of Sociology, its nature and scope. Method of study; Problem of objectivity and issues of measurement in social sciences; Sampling: Research Design : Descriptive, Exploratory and Experimental: Techniques of data collection; Observation. Interview schedule and questionnaire, 2. Theoretical Perspective Functionalism : Radcliffe Brown, Malinowski and Merton. Conflict Theory : Karl Marx, Raif Dahrendorf and Lewis Coser. Symbolic Interactionism : C.H. Cooley, G.H. Mead and Herbert Blumer. Structuralism-Levi : Strauss, S.F. Nadel, Parsons and Merton. 3. Pioneers In Sociology: A. Comte-Positivism and Hierarchy of Sciences. H Spencer- Organic analogy and the doctrine of evolution. KMarx - Dialectical materialism and alienation. E.Durkheim- Division of labour. Sociology of religion. Max Weber-Social action and ideal type. 4. Social Stratification And Differentiation : Concept, Theories of Stratification : Marx Weber, Davis and Moore, Types-Caste and Class. Status and Role, Social Mobility-Types : Occupational Mobility-lntra-Generabonal and inter Generational.

5. Marriage, Family And Kinship : Type and forms of marriage, Impact of social legislation. Family; Structure and functions; Changing patterns of family; Family descent and kinship: Marriage and sex roles in modern society. 6.Social Change and Development : Concept, Theories and Factors of Social Change, Social movement and change. State intervention. Social policy and development, Strategies of rural transformation; Community development programme, I.R.D.P., TRYSEM and Jawahar Rojgar Yojana. 7. Economic and Political System : Concept of property. Social dimensions of division of labour. Types of exchange. Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Social Development. Nature of power. Personal, Community Elite. Class. Modes of political participation-Democratic and Authoritarian 8.Religion, Science and Technology Concept, Role and religious belief in traditional and modern societies. Ethos of science, Social responsibility and control of science; Social consequences of science and technology. 9.Population and Society: Population size, Trends, Composition, Migration Growth, Population Problems in India, population education.

1. Bases of Indian Society: Traditional Indian Social Organisation: Dharma, Doctrine of Karma. Ashram Vyavastha Purushartha and Samskars; Socio-Cultural Dynamics impact of Buddhism, Islam and the west: Factors responsible for continuity and change.

2. Social Stratification : Caste system: Origin, Structural cultural views. Changing patterns of caste: Caste and class; Issues of equality and social justice; Class structure in India-Agrarian and industrial: Emergence of middle class. Classes among the tribes; Emergence of Dalits consciousness.

3. Marriage Family and Kinship: Marriage among different ethnic groups. Its changing trends and future; Family-its structural and functional aspects Changing pattern, Impact of legislations and socio-economic changes on marriage and family, Regional variations in kinship system and its changing aspect.

4. Economic and Politicial System :Jaimani system, Land tenure system. Social consequences of land reforms and liberalisation, Social Determinants of economic development, Green revolution, Functioning of democratic political system. Political parties and their composition; Structural change and orientation among political elites. Decentralisation of power and political participation, Political implications to development.

5.Education and Society : Dimension of education in traditional and modern societies . Educational equality and change; Education and social mobility. Problems of education among the weaker sections of the society.

6. Tribal, Rural and Urban Social Organisation. : Distinctive features of tribal communities and their distribution; Tribe and caste, Process Acculturation. Assimilation and integration. Problems of tribal’s social identity: Socio-cultural dimensions of village community; traditional power structure, Democratisation and leadership. Community development programme and Panchayati raj, New strategies for rural transformation. Continuity and change of traditional institutions in urban areas (kinship, caste, occupation etc.). Class structure and mobility in urban community; Ethinic diversity and community integration. Urban neighbourhood. Rural urban differences. Demographic and socio-cultural practices.

7.Religion and Society: Size. Growth and Regional distribution of different religious groups; inter religious interaction and its manifestation-Problems of conversion. Community tensions. Secularism, Minority statute and religious fundamentalism.

8. Population Dynamics : Socio-cultural aspects of sex, Age Marital status. Feritility and mortality. The problem of population explosion, Socio-psychological, Cultural and Economic. Population policy and family welfare programme; Determinants and consequences of population growth.

9. Women and Society: Demographic profile of women Changes in their status; Special problems-dowry, atrocity, discrimination; welfare programmes for women & children.

10. Dimensions of Change and Development : Social change and modernisation. Indices, Constrains and receptivity; Source of social change Endogenious and Exogenious. Processes of Social Change Sanskritisation. Westernisation and Modernisation, Agents of change. Mass media, Education and communication, Problems of modernisation and planned change : Strategy and ideology of planning. Five year plans. Poverty alleviation programme; Environment, Unemployment and programme for urban development; Social reform movement with special reference to peasant movement. Backward classes movement, Women movement and Dalit movement.