UPPCS Mains - Art & Culture Smart Notes
General Studies Paper I - Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Performing Arts, Literature, Epigraphy and Philosophy
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Eleven chapters take you from architecture — Harappan and Mauryan building, the temple styles, and Indo-Islamic, colonial and modern forms — through sculpture, painting, the performing arts and literature, to inscriptions, coins and pottery, ancient science and technology, philosophy and the Bhakti and Sufi movements, and foreign travellers and ancient universities. Each chapter opens with an overview and a topic flow, so you see how the topics connect before you read them.
Built from NCERT, standard reference books, keywords from the syllabus and previous-year question papers, with UNESCO World Heritage listings updated to 2026.
- 11 chapters, 50 topics covering the GS-I syllabus for Art & Culture
- 117 figures and maps, 48 tables
- Chapter overview and topic flow at the start of every chapter
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara temples; Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati schools
- Mughal, Rajput and Pahari painting, Hindustani and Carnatic music, the Natya Shastra
- Ashokan edicts, Brahmi and Kharosthi, punch-marked coins, Bhakti and Sufi movements
- Based on NCERT, standard books, syllabus keywords and previous-year papers
- UNESCO World Heritage listings updated to 2026, including Sarnath
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