UPSC Mains 2019 GS-1 Question Paper

All 20 questions from this paper, with real topper answers where available.

• Q5. Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss.15 marks · Local vs Global Identity
• Q7. What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space?15 marks · Historical Challenges for Women
• Q8. How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid Urban Mass economic development of India?15 marks · Transport
• Q8. “Empowering women is the key to control population growth”. Discuss10 marks · Women's Empowermen t & Population
• Q10. Discuss the factors for localization of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India.10 marks · Agro-Processi ng Industries (NW India)
• Q13. Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French revolution.15 marks · American & French Revolutions
• Q14. Can the strategy of regional-resource based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India?10 marks · Resource-Bas ed Manufacturin g
• Q16. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco -Bactrian elements in Gandhara art. Gandhara Art10 marks
• Q16. What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism.10 marks · Secularism vs Cultural Practices
• Q17. Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples.15 marks · Cultural Diversity (Pockets)
• Q17. What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India?15 marks · Water Stress
• Q18. Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of Transfer of transfer of power during the 1940s.15 marks · Power (1940s)
• Q18. What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss.10 marks · Continuity of Indian Culture
• Q18. How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism?15 marks · Mountain Ecosystems & Tourism
• Q19. Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate.15 marks · Diverse Voices in Freedom Struggle
• Q19. Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology.10 marks · Mangroves
• Q20. Examine the linkages between 19th centuries ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity.10 marks · Indian Renaissance
• Q20. How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and the coastal environment? Give suitable examples?15 marks · ocean currents and
• Q21. The 1857 Uprising was the culmination the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.10 marks · Pre-1857 Local Rebellions
• Q21. Assess the impact of global warming on coral life system with examples.10 marks · water masses Coral Reefs Himalayan