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How to Prepare World History UPSC CSE

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  The UPSC has mentioned the  world history syllabus  very briefly. Therefore, most of the questions in the main examination seem to be asked from outside the syllabus. Due to this reason, we have to redraw the syllabus very intelligently. For that, we can take direct help from the world history syllabus of the history optional. Here no need to go depth into these topics but just overall understanding of these topics will help you to  answer the GS world history part . If we analyze previous years UPSC mains Paper 1 question paper, we will see that no question from  world history was asked in 2018, 1 question was asked in 2017  (decolonization in the Malay Peninsula) and 1 question in 2016 (anti-colonial struggle by elite western educated individuals in West Africa). So, considering the trend, it would be wise not to spend too much time and energy for in-depth study of World History. However, no aspirant should go  unprepared for any portion of the syllabus . And the same applies to Wo