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Perspectives in Human Geography

L-1: Evolution Of Geographical Thought

L-2: Meaning, Definition, Aims & Purpose of Geography

L-3: Contribution of Greek Scholars in Geography

L-4: Contributions of Arab Geographers in Geography

L-5: Impact of Voyages, Discoveries, and Renaissance

L-6: Geographical Thinking with Reference to Varenius and Kant

L-7: German School of Geographical Thought

L-8: French School of Geographical Thought

L-9: British School of Geographical Thought

L-10: American School of Geographical Thought

L-11: Russian School of Geographical Thought

L-12: Evolution of Geographical Thought in India

L-13: Spatial Organisation

L-14: Aerial Differentiation

L-15: Regional Synthesis

L-16: Dichotomy and Dualism

L-17: Contributions of Humboldt and Carl Ritter

L-18: Approaches of Geography: Systematic & Regional Approach

L-19: Regional Geography vs. Systematic Geography

L-20: Richard Hartshorne vs. Fred K. Schaefer Debate

L-21: Quantitative Revolution

L-22: Criticism of Quantification in Geography

L-23: Locational Analysis

L-24: Critical Revolution

L-25: Behavioural Approach (Behaviouralism)

L-26: Humanistic Approach (Humanism)

L-27: Radical Approach (Radicalism)

L-28: Welfare Approach

L-29: Welfare Geography vs Humanistic Geography

L-30: Environmentalism

L-31: Neo-Determinism and Probabilism

L-32: Cultural Regions of the World

L-33: Languages Religions and Secularization

L-34: Human Development Index

L-35: Social Well-Being and Human Development

Economic Geography

World economic development,  World agriculture & World industries.

L-1: Economic Geography: Evolution, and Approaches

L-2: Themes in Economic Geography

L-3: Spatial Concepts of Economic Geography

L-4: Major Theoretical Perspectives in Economic Geography

L-5: Sectors of Economy: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary

L-6: World economic development: measurement and problems

L-7: Problems in World Economic Development

L-8: World Resources & Distribution

L-9: World Industries: Locational Patterns and Problems

L-10: Patterns of world trade

L-11: World Agriculture: typology of agricultural regions

L-12: Agricultural inputs and productivity

L-13: Food and nutrition problems

L-14: Food Security

L-15: Famine – Causes and Effects

L-16: Energy Crisis

L-17: Limits to Growth Model

L-18: The New Economic Geography (NEG)

L-19: The New International Division of Labor (NIDL)

L-20: Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, and Lebensraum

Population and Settlement Geography

In this section of Geography Optional, You have to do integrated study of Paper 1(Part B) and Paper 2 i.e. “Population and Settlement Geography” of Human Geography {Paper 1(Part B)} with  Cultural Setting (Chapter 6) & Settlements (Chapter 7) of Geography of India.

L-1 : Definition and Core Areas of Population Geography

L-2 : Development of Population Geography

L-3 : Development of Population Geography in India

L-4 : Growth & Distribution of World Population

L-5 : Population distribution in the world

L-6 : Pattern of Population Density and Density Zones

L-7 : Population Growth in India

L-8 : Population Distribution and Density in India

L-9 : Factors influencing population distribution and density

L-10 : Population in India: Distribution & Density

L-11 : World Migration: Causes and Consequences

L-12 : Migration in India

L-13 : Theories of Migration

L-14 : Demographic Attributes

L-15 : Fertility: Measures and Determinants

L-16 : Age Composition of the Population

L-17 : Sex Composition & Age-Sex Pyramid

L-18 : Economic Composition & Work Participation Rate

L-19 : Concept, Determinants and Spatial Patterns of Religion

L-20 : Concept, Determinants and Spatial Patterns of Caste and Tribe Composition

L-21 : Over, Under and Optimum Population

L-22 : Optimum Population Theory

L-23 : Epidemiological and Health Transition Theory

L-24 : Ackerman’s Conception of Population-Resource Regions

L-25 : Neo-Malthusian Theory: Concepts, Thinkers & Case Studies

L-26 : Social well-being and Quality of life

L-27 : Population as Social Capital

Cultural Setting: Topic-wise PYQs

L-1: Historical Perspective of Indian Society

L-2: Racial, Linguistic and Ethnic Diversity in India

L-3: Racial Groups of India: Race of Indian

L-4: Linguistic Diversity in India

L-5: Religious Minorities in India

L-6: Important Tribes of India

L-7: Tribal Areas and their Problems in India

L-8: Culture: Meaning, Types, Aspects, and Hierarchy

L-9: Major Cultural Regions of the World

L-10: Cultural Regions of India

L-11: Ravenstein’s Laws of Population Migration (with reference to India)

L-12: Rationale, Elements of Population Policy

L-13: Population Policy of India

L-14: Concept, Determinants and Spatial Patterns of Sources of Literacy

L-15: Concept, Determinants and Spatial Patterns of Caste and Tribe Composition

L-16: Concept, Determinants and Spatial Patterns of Religion

Settlement Geography: Topic-wise PYQs {Paper-1}

Settlement Geography: Topic-wise PYQs {Paper-2}

L-1: The Settlement: Meaning, Nature and Conceptual Understanding

L-2: Origin and Growth of Settlements

L-3: Settlement Geography: Concept, Evolution, and Major Approaches

L-4: Theories of the Evolution of Human Settlements

L-5: Classification of Settlements

L-6: Rural Settlement and Urban Settlement

L-7: Rural-Urban Distribution of Population

L-8: Morphology of Rural Settlement

L-9: Types of Rural Settlement

L-10: Pattern of Rural Settlement

L-11: Social Morphology of Rural Settlements in India

L-12: Environmental issues in Rural Settlement

L-13: Urban Morphology & Theories of Urban Morphology

L-14: Urban Morphology of Indian Cities

L-15: Hierarchy of Urban Settlements

L-16: Classification of Urban Settlements

L-17: Concept of Primate City and Rank-Size Rule

L-18: Rural-Urban Fringe

L-19: Sphere of Urban Influence

L-20: Functional Classification of Towns and Cities

L-21: Central Place Theory of Christaller and Losch

L-22: Conurbations and Metropolitan Regions

L-23: Satellite Towns

L-24: Urban Sprawl: Concept, Characteristics, Causes and Impacts

L-25: Rural-Urban Distribution of Population

L-26: Slums, Slum Development and Associated Problems

L-27: Urbanization: Trend and Pattern

L-28: Problems and remedies of Urbanization

L-29: Sustainable Development of Cities

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Regional Development and Planning

In this section of Geography Optional, You have to do integrated study of Paper 1(Part B) and Paper 2 i.e. “Regional Planning” of Human Geography {Paper 1(Part B)} with Regional Development and Planning (Chapter 8) of Geography of India.

L-1 : Concept of Region

L-2 : Types of regions

L-3 : Methods of regionalization

L-4 : Growth centers and growth poles

L-5 : Regional imbalances

L-6 : Theories of Regional Imbalance

L-7 : Regional development strategies

L-8 : Environmental issues in regional planning

L-9 : Planning for sustainable development

L-10 : Planning as a tool for regional imbalance

L-11 : Experience of Regional Planning: Five Year Plans

L-12 : Backward Area Planning

L-13 : Hill Area Development

L-14 : Drought Prone Area Development

L-15 : Tribal Area Development

L-16 : Regional planning and development of island territories

L-17 : Integrated rural development programmes

L-18 : Command area development

L-19 : Watershed management

L-20 : Multi-level planning & Decentralised Planning

Models, Theories and Laws

L-1 : System Analysis In Geography

L-2 : Malthusian Demographic Theory

L-3 : Marxian Demographic Theory

L-4 : Demographic Transition Theory

L-5 : Central Place theories of Christaller and Losch

L-6 : Von Thunen Model Of Agricultural Location

L-7 : Weber Model Of Industrial Location

L-8 : Heartland And Rimland theory

L-9 : Perroux and Boudeville

L-10 : Rostow’s Model of Stages of Growth

L-11 : Laws Of International Boundaries And Frontiers

L-12 : Organic State Theory (Friedrich Ratzel)

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