History optional, one of the most sought after optional for UPSC CS mains Examination , taken by Justin George sir is available on both online and offline mode.Gallant IAS provides India’s best history optional course with comprehensive study material, test series and mentorship.
It covers ancient India, and Medieval India in Paper 1and Modern India and world history in Paper 2 .
Also course covers Map sites from 400 to 500 sites. There are exclusive sessions for solving map.History optional has the advantages of 85% overlapping with GS syllabus, simple and easy topics, no backgrounds required to start, No formulas or theories to learn by-heart, no need to invest lot of time in current affairs coverage, etc.
Aspirants with any degree background can take history optional. Also it’s a scoring optional, recent Topper Sruti Sharama AIR 1 (CSE 2021) proves it. We conduct sessions on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
History Optional Coaching in Kerala, India
Every session is followed by answer writing and feedback sittings. Justin George sir is one of the best history faculty who leads to many successful aspirants to civil service. Over a span of 10 years, he helped many UPSC aspirants to clear Civil service exam and secure top ranks in it.
One of the most popular history optional course is available in India for a very affordable fee. Go with it, thank you
History Optional | Syllabus | Paper 1
History Optional | Syllabus | Paper 2
Course Curriculum
History Optional 2022-23 | |||
Orientation | History Optional | 00:53:00 | ||
Syllabus Introduction | Paper 1 | History Optional | 00:44:00 | ||
History Optional 2022 | Paper 1 | Syllabus | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Syllabus Introduction | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:47:00 | ||
HISTORY optional 2022 | Paper II | syllabus |PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
MAP | |||
How to approach map | History Optional | 00:27:00 | ||
Mapping Session Cultural Sites | History Optional | WN43 | 00:53:00 | ||
Pre-historic Sites | Part – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 00:27:00 | ||
Pre-historic & Indus Sites | Map Sessions | Part – 2 | History Optional 2022 | 00:33:00 | ||
Map Session – Inscriptions | Part 1 | History Optional | 00:17:00 | ||
Mapping Session Cultural Sites | Part-2 | History Optional | 00:44:00 | ||
Vedic Sites | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:19:00 | ||
Mahajanapadas | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:24:00 | ||
Jain Sites | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:19:00 | ||
Maurya Sites | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:24:00 | ||
Sangam to Satavahana Sites | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:19:00 | ||
Ancient Caves | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:57:00 | ||
Ancient Port Cities | Map Solving Session | History Optional 2022 | 00:34:00 | ||
Paper 1 Section A | Ancient India | |||
Sources | Unit – 1 | Section A | Paper 1 | History Optional | 01:15:00 | ||
Pre-History & Proto-history | Part – 1 | Module – 2 | Section A | Paper – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 00:52:00 | ||
Pre-History & Proto-history | Part – 2 | Module – 2 | Section – A | Paper – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 00:32:00 | ||
Pre-history and Proto-history | Module 2 | Paper 1 | History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Indus Valley Civilization | Part – 1 | Module – 3 | Section – A | Paper – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 01:01:00 | ||
Indus Valley Civilization | Part – 2 | Module – 3 | Section – A | Paper – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 01:03:00 | ||
Indus Valley Civilization | Part – 3 | Module – 3 | Section – A | Paper – 1 | History Optional 2022 | 00:28:00 | ||
Indus Valley Civilization Module 3 | Ancient India | Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Vedic Age | Unit – 4 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:58:00 | ||
Vedic Age | Unit – 4 | Part-2 | Section A | Paper 1 | History Optional | 00:28:00 | ||
Vedic Civilisation | Ancient India | Module 3 | PDF | 03:00:00 | ||
Megalithic Culture | Unit – 5 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:15:00 | ||
Megalithic Culture _ Module 4 _ Paper 1 A _ Optional 2023.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Mahajanapadas | Unit – 6 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:22:00 | ||
Buddhism and Jainism | Unit – 7 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Buddhism and Jainism |Module 6 |Paper 1 A | History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Buddhism and Jainism | Unit – 7 | Part -2 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:11:00 | ||
Mauryan Empire | Unit – 8 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Maurya Empire | Module 7 | Paper1 A| History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Post Mauryan Period | Unit – 9 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Post Maurya Age | Module – 8 | Part – 2 | Paper – 1 | Section – A | History Optional | 00:20:00 | ||
Post Mauryan Developments _ Module 8 _ Ancient India _ Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Early State in Eastern India, Deccan and South India | Module – 9 | Part – 1 | Paper – 1 | Section – A | History Optional | 00:50:00 | ||
Early State in Eastern India, Deccan and South India | Module – 9 | Part – 2 | Paper – 1 | Section – A | History Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Gupta Empire| Unit – 10 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:58:00 | ||
Guptas Vakatakas _Module 10 _ Ancient India _ History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Post Gupta Kingdoms | Unit – 11 | Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:12:00 | ||
Post Gupta Kingdoms | Unit – 11 | Part-2 | Section A | Paper 1 | History Optional | 00:36:00 | ||
Regional states during & post Gupta Age _ Module 11 _ Ancient India _ History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Themes in Early Indian Cultural History | Module – 12 | Paper – 1| History Optional | 01:05:00 | ||
Historiography | |||
Historiography | Part 1| Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:13:00 | ||
Historiography | Part 2| Section A | Paper 1| History Optional | WN43 | 00:25:00 | ||
Paper 1 Section B | Medieval India | |||
Early Medieval India 750-1200 | Unit -1 | Part-1 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optiona | 00:54:00 | ||
Early Medieval India 750-1200 | Unit – 1 | Part-2 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:41:00 | ||
Early Medieval India 750-1200 | Unit – 1 | Part-3 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:43:00 | ||
Early Medieval India (North India 750-1200 AD) |Module 1 | Medieval India | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Cultural traditions in india| Unit – 2 | Part-1 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:49:00 | ||
Establishment of Delhi Sultanate | Unit – 3 | Part-1| Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:40:00 | ||
Establishment of Delhi Sultanate | Unit – 3 | Part-2 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1 | History Optional | 00:41:00 | ||
Thirteenth Century | Unit – 3 | Part-3| Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:11:00 | ||
The Fourteenth Century| Unit – 4 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 01:24:00 | ||
The Fourteenth Century | Unit – 4 | Part -2 | Medieval India | Section B | Paper 1| History Optional | 00:13:00 | ||
The Fourteenth Century | Module 4 | Medieval India | History Optional | PDF | 00:00:00 | ||
Society, Culture and Economy in 13th and 14th Century | Module – 5 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Fifteenth Century | Part – 1 | Module – 6 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:59:00 | ||
Fifteenth Century | Part – 2 | Module – 6 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:07:00 | ||
The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century | Module – 7 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:41:00 | ||
Akbar | Module – 8 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:55:00 | ||
Akbar | Module 8 | medieval India | History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Mughal Empire in 17th Century AD | Module – 9 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:57:00 | ||
Economy & Society in the 16th & 17th Centuries | Module – 10 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:18:00 | ||
Culture in The Mughal Empire | Part – 1 | Module – 11 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:33:00 | ||
Eighteenth Century | Module – 12 | Paper – 1 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:07:00 | ||
Paper 2 Section A | Modern India | |||
European Penetration into India |Part 1 |Module 1 | Section A |Paper 2 | 01:43:00 | ||
European Penetration into India |Part 2 |Module 1 | Section A |Paper 2 | 01:00:00 | ||
European Penetration into India |Part 3 |Module 1 | Section A |Paper 2 | 00:56:00 | ||
European Penetration into India | Part 4 | Module 1 | Section A | Paper 2 | 01:00:00 | ||
1. European Penetration part 1 | History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
1. European Penetration part 2 | History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
British Expansion In India | Part 1.1 | Module 2 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:40:00 | ||
British Expansion in India | Part 1.2 | Module 2 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:44:00 | ||
British Expansion in India | Part 2.1| Module 2 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:08:00 | ||
British Expansion in India | Part 2.2| Module 2 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:56:00 | ||
2. BRITISH EXPANSION IN INDIA.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Early Structure of the British | Part 3.1| Module 3 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:47:00 | ||
Early Structure of the British | Part 3.2| Module 3 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:50:00 | ||
Early Structure of the British | Part 3.3| Module 3 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:35:00 | ||
Early Structure of the British | Part 3.4| Module 3 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:45:00 | ||
3. Early structure of the British Raj | Part 1| History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
3A. Early structure of the British Raj Part-II.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Economic Impact Of British Rule | Part 1| Module 4 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:12:00 | ||
Economic Impact Of British Rule | Part 2| Module 4 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:49:00 | ||
Economic Impact Of British Rule | Part 3| Module 4 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:46:00 | ||
Economic Impact Of British Rule | Part 4| Module 4 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:24:00 | ||
4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule Part 1.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule | Part 2| History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Social and Cultural Developments| Part 1| Module 5 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:56:00 | ||
Social and Cultural Developments| Part 2| Module 5 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Social and Cultural Developments| Part 3| Module 5 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:17:00 | ||
Social and Cultural Developments| Part 4| Module 5 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
5. Social and Cultural developments Part-I & II.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Social and Religious Reform movements| Part 1| Module 6 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:41:00 | ||
Social and Religious Reform movements| Part 2| Module 6 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:43:00 | ||
Social and Religious Reform movements| Part 3| Module 6 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:53:00 | ||
Social and Religious Reform movements| Part 4| Module 6 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:58:00 | ||
Social and Religious Reform movements| Part 5| Module 6 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
6. Socio-religious movement Module 6 |Paper 2 A |History Optional 2023-PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Indian Response to British Rule| Part 1| Module 7 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:42:00 | ||
Indian Response to British Rule| Part 2| Module 7 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:29:00 | ||
Indian Response to British Rule| Part 3 | Module 7 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:47:00 | ||
Indian Response to British Rule| Part 4| Module 7 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:16:00 | ||
Indian Response to British Rule| Part 5 | Module 7 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
7. Indian Response to British Rule Part 1 & 2 | Modern India | History Optional | PDF | 00:05:00 | ||
7.Indian Response to British Rule Part 3 | Modern India | History Optional | PDF | 00:05:00 | ||
7. Indian Response to British Rule Part 4 | Modern India | History Optional | PDF | 00:05:00 | ||
Answer writing strategy | History Optional | 00:32:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 1 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:21:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 2 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:18:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 3 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:33:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 4 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:42:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 5 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 6 Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 7 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Early Indian Nationalism | Part 8 | Module 8 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:32:00 | ||
8.Early Indian Nationalism | part 1 | Module 8 |Paper 2 A |History Optional 2023.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
8. Early Indian Nationalism| part 2 | Module 8 |Paper 2 A |History Optional 2023.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 1 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:44:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 2 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:09:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian leadership Part-1 & 2 | Module 9 Paper 2A | History Optional 2023.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 3 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 4 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 5 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:39:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 6 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:43:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 7 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:42:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 8 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:36:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 9 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:37:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 10 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 11 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian leadership Part-1 & 2 | Module 9 Paper 2A | History Optional 2023.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
9B. NATIONALISM UNDER GANDHIAN LEADRSHIP_MODERN INDIA_HISTORY OPTIONAL.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
9 C.NATIONALISM UNDER GANDHIAN LEADRSHIP_MODERN INDIA_HISTORY OPTIONAL.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 12 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 13 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 14 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:53:00 | ||
Nationalism Under Gandhian Leadership | Part 15 | Module 9 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Thesis| Case Studies by Students | Part 1 | Module 9 | Concluding Portions | History Optional | 00:52:00 | ||
Constitutional Development| Part 1 | Module 10 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:51:00 | ||
Constitutional Development| Part 2 | Module 10 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:34:00 | ||
Constitutional Development| Part 3 | Module 10 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:12:00 | ||
10. Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Politics of Separatism and Independence| Part 1 | Module 12 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:54:00 | ||
Politics of Separatism and Independence| Part 2 | Module 12 | Section A | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Paper 2 Section B | World History | |||
Enlightenment | Part – 1 | Module – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Enlightenment | Part – 2 | Module – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:00:00 | ||
Enlightenment | Part – 3 | Module – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:20:00 | ||
Enlightenment | Part 4 | Module 1 | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:34:00 | ||
Renaissance |Enlightenment | Module 1|Paper 2 |History Optional.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Kant – Value Edition Session | The Renaissance | Module – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:18:00 | ||
Renaissance Value Addition.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
French Revolution | Module – 2 | Part – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 01:23:00 | ||
French Revolution | Module 2 | Part 2 | History Optional | 00:10:00 | ||
French Revolution |Module 2 |Paper 2 |History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
American Revolution | Module 2 | Part 1 | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:22:00 | ||
American Revolution | Module 2 | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:23:00 | ||
2.2 American-Revolution.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
American Civil War | Module – 2 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:35:00 | ||
American Civil War |Module 2 |Paper 2 | History Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Early European State System & Chartist Movement | Module 2 | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:32:00 | ||
Industrial Revolution | Module – 3 | Part – 1 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:54:00 | ||
Industrial Revolution | Module – 3 | Part – 2 | Paper – 2 | Section – B | History Optional | 00:59:00 | ||
Industrial Revolution | Module 3 | Paper 2 | History | Optional | PDF | 00:10:00 | ||
Nation States | Unification of Italy | Part 1| Module 4 | Paper 2 | History Optional | 01:24:00 | ||
Unification of Italy | Module 6 | World History | PcM.pdf | 00:10:00 | ||
Answers | |||
Test | |||
General Instructions and Quick test | 00:20:00 | ||
Answer Writing Session – Content Enrichment | History Optional | 00:50:00 | ||
Q&A Session | Paper 2 | History Optional | 00:20:00 | ||