History Optional (UPSC)
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I am Nikhil Sheth, History faculty at Level Up IAS. This channel is started to cater to the needs of History Optional in UPSC CSE.
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I know that it's little cheeky for me directly to ask this.

Also, all sincere students should definitely try to stay away from Instagram, at least during their first year of preparation. That is what I advise as a teacher. If we need any social media, it is YT and Telegram, where we have content relevant for our exam...

And yet here I am. With Instagram. Do follow only if you are not able to stay away from Instagram..:)
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Students, here is the schedule for Week 24 of History Optional Foundation 2025. We will continue with Modern Indian History in this week.

Sundays are reserved for revision.

Watch lectures here - www.youtube.com/@HistoryOptionalforUPSC

Note: The full History Optional program is available for FREE with classes uploaded daily at 9 am on YouTube channel given above.
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I see that some students are asking for PYQ answer book for History Optional. We have discussed it earlier but let me reiterate.

1. There is no model answer for any question. This is a social science.
2. Even if there is, there is no such good model answer book in the market.
3. Even if there is, pinning your preparation around such a PYQ book is a disaster. It doesnot help in preparation.
We had recently uploaded a video of a speech by Romila Thapar. It was on the impact of Sufis and Nathpanthi Yogis on Punjab during 10th-12th centuries, and how Punjab's religious demography changed during the medieval time.

Although it was a very scholarly video, it received massive views in 3-4 days and then a huge amount of abuse and hate from random people. I know that I personally do not agree with a lot of what Romila Thapar claims, and on some points, I stand diametrically opposite to her viewpoint. (not that I am a historian or something). But that does not mean that people can go on abusing scholars. A scholar must be defended/opposed in scholarly fashion. With debates, discussions, arguments and books. Not with trolling which is really not correct.

I hope that our students here, and aspirants in general, are not involved in such avoidable online abuse. We will continue uploading video clips of eminent historians, known as well as unknown, from left-right-and-centre, the entire spectrum. These vides would not be primarily on the syllabus point directly, but on connected issues. As a student of history for UPSC CSE, you would be aware of something related to the topics, and these videos would provide alternative view or some peripheral analysis or some deeper perspective. It will be fun. But please keep it civil.
A very interesting clip is going to be published today evening. Its a short clip of less than 2 mins, but the content is very interesting, to say the least.

I had never imagined personally ki aise bhi kuchh huwa hoga. Personally, it is both shocking and very rational at the same time.

Stay tuned.