McGraw Hill presents the first edition of Modern India: For Civil Services and Other Competitive Examinations by Poonam Dalal Dahiya, an author popular among the UPSC Community for her subject-matter expertise. The book provides comprehensive information on history of modern India to help students excel in the UPSC Civil Services and other competitive examinations. Useful equally for both preliminary and main examinations, the book with its thorough analysis of the crucial events help the students to gain conceptual understanding of the subject.
Salient Features:
1. Multi-colour detachable charts for an easy and quick revision
2. Written comprehensively in an easy to grasp manner, covering the entire syllabus
3. In-depth coverage and analysis of all the important topics like whether British Conquest of India, was accidental or pre-planned, was the Revolt of 1857 the first war or independence, among others
4. Extensive insertion of quotations to make the book not only interesting but to make the students understand the multiple dimensions and perspectives related to the issue
5. Thorough structuring of the topics through information boxes, flowcharts, bullets, tables, block diagrams, images, maps among others
6. Important keywords highlighted and previous years’ questions provided in every chapter
7. Quick revision through the 7 appendices containing concise information related to all the crucial aspects such as Indian National Congress Sessions, Important Milestones in the Development of Education
8. Videos to recapitulate following key concepts available at the given link/QR code
• British Conquest of India
• Phases of Communalism • Revolt of 1857 • INA Experiment and Agitation • Moderates and Extremists