UPPSC Geography Syllabus| UPPCS Geography Optional Syllabus

SECTION-A – PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 

 Geomorphology: 

• Origin and structure of the Earth, 
• Earth movements, 
• Plate tectonics, and Mountain Building, 
• Isostasy; 
• Vulcansim; 
• Weathering and Erosion; 
• The cycle of Erosion, 
• Evolution of landforms; fluvial, glacial, aeolian, marine, and karst 
• Rejuvenation and Polycyclic 
• Landform features. 

Climatology:

• Composition and structure of Atmosphere, 
• Insolation and Heat Budget 
• Atmospheric pressure and winds;
• Moisture and Precipitation; 
• Air masses and fronts
• Cyclone: Origine, Movements, and associated weather;
• Classification of world climates Koppen and Thonthwaite.

Oceanography: 

• Configuration of Ocean floor, 
• Salinity, Ocean Currents, Tides 
• Ocean deposits and coral reefs. 

Soil and Vegetation: 

• Soils-genesis;
• classification and world distribution, 
• Soil Vegetation Symbiosis; 
• Biotic Communities and Succession. 

Ecosystem:

• Concept of Ecosystem, structure, and functioning of the Ecosystem,
• Types of Ecosystem; 
• Major Biomes; 
• Man's impact on the Ecosystem and Global Ecological issues. 

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 

Evolution of Geographical Thought: 

• Contributions of Indian, German, French, British, and Soviet Geographers; 
• Traditional Paradigms:- Determinism, Possibilism, Regionalism,
• Contemporary Paradigms of Geography – positivism and quantitative revolution, models, and systems in Geography, 
• Recent trends in geographic thought with special reference to behavioral, radical, humanism, 
• post-modernism in Feminism and ecological paradigms.

Human Geography: 

• Human habitat in major natural regions; 
• The emergence of Man and Races of Mankind; 
• Cultural evolution and stages; 
• Major cultural realms, Growth, and Distribution of population;
• International migration; 
• Demographic Transition and contemporary population problems. 

 Settlement Geography: 

• Concept of Settlement Geography; 
• Rural settlements – Nature; Origin, Types, and patterns; 
• Urban settlements: Origin, Patterns, Processes, and consequences, 
• Central place theory; 
• Classification of towns; 
• Hierarchy of Urban Centres, Morphology of Towns; 
• Rural-Urban nexus, Umland, and urban fringes; 
• Futuristic trends.

Economic Geography: 

• Fundamental concepts; 
• Concepts of Resources: Classification, Conservation, and Management;
• Nature and Types of Agriculture, 
• Agricultural land use; 
• Location theories; 
• World Agricultural Regions; 
• Major crops; 
• Mineral and Power Resources; Occurrence, Reserve, Utilization and Production patterns; 
• World Energy crisis and search for alternatives; 
• Industries- Theories of Industrial location, 
• Major industrial regions; 
• Major Industries- 
• Iron and Steel.
• Paper and Textiles. 
• Petro- Chemicals, 
• Automobiles,
• Shipbuilding- their location patterns, 
• International Trade, Trade Blocks, Trade routes; 
• Ports and Global Trade Centres; 
• Globalization and World Economic Development Patterns, 
• Concepts and approaches to Sustainable Development. 

Political Geography: 

• Concept of Nation and State; Frontiers, Boundaries, and Buffer zones; 
• Concepts of Heartland and Rimland; 
• Federalism, 
• Contemporary world Geopolitical issues.

 PAPER II (GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA) 

SECTION (A) PHYSICAL and HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Physical Features:

• Geological systems and structure: Relief and drainage, soils and natural vegetation;
• Soil degradation and deforestation, 
• Origin, and mechanism of Indian Monsoon, 
• the climatic region,
•  physiographic region.

Biotic Resources

• Wild Life, National Park, Sanctuaries,
•  biospheric reserves,
•  biodiversity hot-spots.

Subsection-3

• Wetland, 
• tourism- resource and economy,
• natural hazards, 
• disasters and management, 
• environmental issues.

Population and Settlements

• Distribution and growth, 
• structural characteristics of the population, 
• Rural Settlements- types, patterns, and morphology, 
• Urban settlement- criteria and classification of urban Settlement, hierarchy and Umland, Urbanisation, 
• Urban Policy, 
• Urban Planning, the role of Small Towns, 
• Smart City and Smart Village. 

Political organization: 

• a historical perspective on unity and diversity
•  states reorganization;
•  regional consciousness and national integration,
•  the geographical basis of Centre-State relations,
•  International Boundaries of India and related geopolitical issues, 
• India and the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean, India, and the SAARC. 

SECTION (B) 

ECONOMIC and  REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY 

 Agriculture: 

• Salient Features of Indian Agriculture, 
• the problem of wastelands and their reclamation, 
• cropping patterns and intensity,
•  agricultural efficiency and productivity, 
• the impact of the green revolution, 
• agricultural regions, 
• agro-ecological regions,
•  landholding patterns,
• land reforms,
• crop combination regions,
• modernization of agriculture and agricultural planning. 

Resources:

• Distributional patterns and reserves and production trends, 
• the complementarity of minerals, 
• energy resources- coal,
• petroleum, hydro-power, multipurpose river valley projects, energy crisis and search for alternatives, marine resources, and biotic resources.

Industries:

• Industrial development,
• major Industries- Iron and Steel, Textiles, Paper, Cement, Fertilizers, Sugar, and Petro-Chemicals, 
• Industrial Complexes and regions,
•  industrial policy. 

Transport and Trade:

• Railways and Roads networks, 
• problems and prospects of Civil Aviation and Water Transport; 
• Inter-Regional Trade International trade,
• Major Ports and Trade Centres.

Regional Development and Planning: 

• Problems with regional development and planning strategies, 
• multi-level planning, 
• planning regions, 
• planning for Metropolitan, Tribal, Hilly, Drought-prone Regions, 
• Watershed Management, 
• Regional disparities in development,
• Five-Year Plans and planning for sustainable development.

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