History is a popular optional subject in Civil Services Mains Examination and Allied Civil Services. History Optional includes a compulsory question of 50 marks on map entries in Paper-I. However, to locate and remember the entries is a challenging task in itself and the cumbersome process of preparing notes for them adds to the woes of a civil services aspirant. It requires ample amount of precious time and energy for these tasks. 'Map Entries for History Optional' contains more than 400 map entries with descriptive notes, in a concise and lucid form. The book will properly cater to the requirements of the candidates to score high marks in History Optional. Salient features: - Specific focus on the civil services examination - Over 400 entries related to historical map entries - Precise, informative write-up on each entry - Solved Questions from 2013 to 2017 Map Entries for History Optional Contents 1. Hominid Fossil Sites 2. Palaeolithic Sites - I 3. Palaeolithic Sites - II 4. Palaeolithic Sites - III 5. Palaeolithic Sites - IV 6. Mesolithic Sites - I 7. Mesolithic Sites - II 8. Mesolithic Sites - III 9. Neolithic Sites - I 10. Neolithic Sites - II 11. Neolithic Sites - III 12. Neolithic Sites - IV 13. Neolithic Sites - V 14. Indus Valley Civilisation Sites - I 15. Indus Valley Civilisation Sites - II 16. Indus Valley Civilisation Sites - III 17. Indus Valley Civilisation Sites - IV 18. Chalcolithic Sites - I 19. Chalcolithic Sites - II 20. Chalcolithic Sites - III 21. Chalcolithic Sites - IV 22. Megalithic Sites - I 23. Megalithic Sites - II 24. Megalithic Sites - III 25. Painted Grey Ware (PGW) Sites - I 26. Painted Grey Ware (PGW) Sites - II 38. Ancient Capital - V 39. Ancient Capital - VI 40. Ancient Capital - VII 41. Inscription Sites - I 42. Inscription Sites - II 43. Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka - I 44. Major Rock Edicts of Ashoka - II 45. Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka - I 46. Minor Rock Edicts of Ashoka - II 47. Pillar Edicts of Ashoka 48. Ashoka's Inscriptions for Famine Relief 49. Rock Cut Cave / Cave Paintings - I 50. Rock Cut Cave / Cave Paintings - II 51. Ancient Port Cities - I 52. Ancient Port Cities - II 53. Ancient Cities and Trade Centres - I 54. Ancient Cities and Trade Centres - II 55. Ancient Cities and Trade Centres - III 56. Ancient Cities and Trade Centres - IV 57. Ancient Cities and Trade Centres - V 58. Temple Sites - I 59. Temple Sites - II 60. Temple Sites - III 61. Temple Sites - IV 62. Ancient Education Centres 63. Fort Cities 27. Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) Sites - I 64. UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Ancient and 28. Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) Sites - II 29. Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) Sites - III 30. Buddhist Sites - I 31. Buddhist Sites - II 32. Buddhist Sites - III 33. Jain Sites 34. Ancient Capital - I 35. Ancient Capital - II 36. Ancient Capital - III 37. Ancient Capital - IV Early Medieval India - I 65. UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Ancient and Early Medieval India - II 66. UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Ancient and Early Medieval India - III Previous Years' MAP Solved Questions - History Optional (Mains)-2017 - History Optional (Mains)-2016 - History Optional (Mains)-2015 - History Optional (Mains)-2014 - History Optional (Mains)-2013

History is a popular optional subject in Civil Services Mains Examination and Allied Civil Services. History Optional includes a compulsory question of 50 marks on map entries in Paper-I. However, to locate and remember the entries is a challenging task in itself and the cumbersome process of preparing notes for them adds to the woes of a civil services aspirant. It requires ample amount of precious time and energy for these tasks. ?Map Entries for History Optional? 2nd edition contains more than 450 map entries with descriptive notes, in a concise and lucid form. The book will properly cater to the requirements of the candidates to score high marks in History Optional. Salient features: - Specific focus on the civil services examination - Over 450 entries related to historical map entries - Precise, informative write-up on each entry - Solved Questions from 2013 to 2019.

India Map Entries in Geography is a book that compiles a number of questions based on geographical and political features of India constitute an important segment in the optional geography paper of the Civil Services Main Examination. With over 2100 entries related to India, this book will be indispensable for aspirants. It will equip them to plot the entries accurately and also enable them to write a precise and informative note on each entry. It is Written by a well known expert on Geography Majid Husain, the book will also be of interest to readers who have a general interest in geography. This edition has been updated with the solved Map based Questions from 2013 onwards. Features ? Over 2100 entries related to India and its geographical features ? Precise, informative write-up on each entry (mountains, rivers, forests, cities, biospheres etc.) ? Includes solved Map based Questions of Geography Optional Paper from 2013 onwards

Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a comprehensive overview of the cartographic practices of Europeans, Russians, and the Ottomans, both at home and in overseas territories, from 1650 to 1800. The social and intellectual changes that swept Enlightenment Europe also transformed many of its mapmaking practices. A new emphasis on geometric principles gave rise to improved tools for measuring and mapping the world, even as large-scale cartographic projects became possible under the aegis of powerful states. Yet older mapping practices persisted: Enlightenment cartography encompassed a wide variety of processes for making, circulating, and using maps of different types. The volume’s more than four hundred encyclopedic articles explore the era’s mapping, covering topics both detailed—such as geodetic surveying, thematic mapping, and map collecting—and broad, such as women and cartography, cartography and the economy, and the art and design of maps. Copious bibliographical references and nearly one thousand full-color illustrations complement the detailed entries.

GKP's History Optional Modern India & World history is a book that deals with the History Optional Questions that have come in the UPSC Examination from 1979 to 2019. The answer to each and every question has been conceptualized very minutely keeping in mind the demand of the question and the expectations of the UPSC while evaluating the answer. In any examination, time management plays an imperative role. Accordingly, this book is structured, the answers that are lucid and condensed and would be very handy for the last minute revision. We hope this book will help the students grasp the subject of History in a very practical manner and facilitate them in comprehending the 'why' and 'how' behind very historical episode. Features: As per the exam pattern Includes questions from 1979-2019 examination

Forged in an age of faith and war and tempered by great statesmen, religious leaders and artists, medieval civilizations witnessed remarkable transformations. Far from being a homogeneous world of knights and castles, the era saw a multitude of contrasting and often competing cultures, many of which became the foundation stones for the emergence of modern societies. From the expansion of Islam across the Mediterranean to the appearance of centralized states and Christian monarchies, the Atlas of the Medieval World draws from new archival and archaeological evidence to reveal a period of astonishing cultural vibrancy and political diversity. Alongside stunning maps covering nearly a millennium of one of the most formative phases in history, hundreds of exquisite pictures of art and architecture accompany expertly written text edited by Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Early Medieval History at Cambridge University to bring an extraordinary period to life as no reference has before. The Arab invasions of Europe, the empire of Charlemagne, the African kingdoms of Songhai and Mali, the Crusades, the Viking and Mongol invasions, the Delhi sultanate and the T'ang and Ming empires are just a few of the subjects explained in the Atlas of the Medieval World. What's more, cultural and economic trends such as the spread of literacy and the growth of towns receive equal attention alongside the emergence of kingdoms and the march of armies to form a comprehensive history of all major societies outside of the Americas during the Middle Ages.

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and development, technology and social media impacts, law and human rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology, architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional and global scales.