🌏General Knowledge: India & the World, The Story So Far

From the Indus Valley cities and the Vedic age to the Mauryas, the Guptas and the great dynasties of south India and Karnataka.

The Delhi Sultanate, the Vijayanagara Empire, the Bhakti and Sufi saints, the Mughals, the Marathas and the kingdom of Mysore.

How the East India Company took power, the revolt of 1857, social reform, the Congress and Gandhian movements, the revolutionaries, and Independence in 1947.

How the Constitution was made, the Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Duties, key Articles and Schedules, landmark amendments and the basic structure doctrine.

The President, Prime Minister and Parliament, the courts, constitutional bodies like the Election Commission and CAG, NITI Aayog, federalism, Panchayati Raj and the Karnataka legislature.

Five-Year Plans, the Green Revolution, bank nationalisation, the 1991 reforms, the RBI and monetary policy, GST, demonetisation, and India's digital public infrastructure and key schemes.

Wars and nuclear tests, the Emergency, linguistic states and the making of Karnataka, India's prime ministers, the space programme, and rights-based laws such as RTI, RTE and NEP 2020.

How new ideas, the American and French Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the making of Italy and Germany, and the Russian Revolution shaped the modern world.

The two World Wars, the League of Nations and the Great Depression, decolonisation, the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement and the end of the Soviet Union.

How the UN works, its principal organs and specialised agencies with their headquarters, the IMF, World Bank and WTO, and the regional and global groupings India belongs to.

Major global events since 2000: terrorism and its aftermath, the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of China, the Arab Spring, Brexit, climate agreements, the COVID-19 pandemic and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, explained factually.

Continents and oceans, world records of nature, important straits and boundary lines, India's neighbours with capitals and currencies, and a short list of famous books.

A timed test covering the whole course. Pass it to complete the course and earn your certificate.