HSEE Syllabus 2023 - Latest Syllabus, Section Wise Detailed Syllabus

Indian Society and Culture

• Indian Traditions and Knowledge Systems (Classical dance forms, Architecture, Education, Ethics, Language and Grammar, Painting, Music, Theatre, Textiles Indian Literature, Mathematical and Medical systems)

• Indian Philosophy and Thinkers (Jainism, Buddhism, Orthodox Systems, Sikhism, Sufism, Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)

• Medieval and Modern Indian History (Delhi Sultanate and Mughal era; British Raj; Uprising of 1857; (Social) Reform, and Resistance Movements; Indian National Movement and the Emergence of the Indian nation)

• Social Change in India (Sanskritization, Modernisation, Westernization and Secularization, Social Movements and Regionalism, Panchayati Raj Institutions & Governance, Affirmative Action Programme of the Government, Commissions and Policy Interventions)

• Structure of Indian Society (Caste, Class and Tribe, Institutions of Marriage, Family and Kinship, Political institutions, Demographic Indicators and Trends)

Indian Economy

• Money, Banking and Public Finance (Concepts of money and measures of the money supply)

• Foreign Trade and International Economy (balance of payments, foreign exchange reserves and trade policy, I.M.F., W.T.O., international aid)

• Sectoral Development (agriculture – Green Revolution and technological changes, current issues and policies; industry-evolution of industrial policies in India (from 1948), strategies for industrial development, public and private sectors, small and medium industries, infrastructure, transport and communication, service sector etc)

• Economic Growth and Development (Meaning and measurement of economic growth, stages of development, national income concepts and trends, trends in savings and investment; human development index, national policy on education, health and health care policies. Planning in India: Five-Year Plans - objectives, priorities and problems)

• Major Economic problems (Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality - concepts, measurement, trends, sectoral distribution and policies, inflation - trends, causes and remedies)

• Main Features of Indian Economy (Natural resources; human resources -population size and composition, literacy and education, occupational distribution)

• Understanding the Economy (Scarcity, opportunity cost, resource allocation, economic systems and their characteristics, features of market economies, forces of demand and supply, the elasticity of demand and supply)