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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This is a new series that I am thinking about. Herein we discuss the story behind some important PYQs to improve students' perspective.

This is just an experiment to bring in deeper insight. All comments regarding it's usefulness as well as any suggestion for improvement are most welcome on Youtube. They will help us to decide the future format of the idea.

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Third episode of Behind The Question is out. In this series, we try to decode the mind of the examiner in less than 15 minutes.

In the latest episode, we discuss a PYQ from 2023 World History section on Marxian Socialism. Do watch it. I am sure it will be extremely useful for World History.

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Allahabad school of history.

Just got this book. It seems very interesting. The contribution of great historians of the 1920s to 1950s, just before the Marxist school started to become prominent. Details of Beni Prasad and Ishwari Prasad are quite fascinsting.

While answering UPSC questions in Optional, if you have an inkling of politics Behind the Question, it becomes earlier to tackle it properly. Students are not advised to go through such books. It is for us teachers to keep reading and updating.

In our regular Behind the Question (BTQ) series on Youtube, we dig down deeper to find out what is in the mind of UPSC when they ask any particular PYQ. Stay tuned.

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Episode 4 of BTQ being released soon. Was Alberuni right to criticize India? What is the politics behind the question? We will try to answer the question using UPSC PYQ from 2023 Paper I. Stay tuned.

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