Date of Commencement
1st October 2025
Mode
Online
Duration
4 Months
Fee
Rs. 17,000 (Incl. GST)
History Optional Enrichment and Mentorship Programme for 2026
History Optional Enrichment and Mentorship Course for UPSC CSE 2026
This History Optional Enrichment and Mentorship Course for UPSC CSE 2026 is designed as a structured, high-intensity four-month program that bridges the gap between syllabus completion and mastery of answer-writing, map practice, and revision. Its focus lies on converting knowledge into exam-ready performance under close mentorship.
Why Choose This Course?
The period from October 2025 to January 2026 is critical, as the history optional revision and consolidation must be completed before shifting exclusively to prelims preparation in February.
A guided schedule helps aspirants avoid drifting or incomplete revision.
Weekly and fortnightly milestones create a sense of direction and measurable progress.
Mentorship by Chandrabhan Sir provides personalised handholding, immediate resolution of doubts, and systematic answer-writing improvement.
Sectional and full-length tests ensure feedback-driven growth.
Dedicated map practice sessions and activity-based learning strengthen one of the most scoring areas.
Who should join the course?
Aspirants who have already completed the first reading or coverage of the History Optional at least once.
Students looking for revision + value addition + answer-writing improvement, rather than a beginner’s foundation course.
Serious and disciplined candidates who can work in a boot camp model, coordinating with both faculty and peers.
Those aiming to master PYQs of the last 15 years, along with coverage of neglected micro-themes often skipped by students.
Nature of the Course
Daily Targets: Syllabus breakdown into small, trackable goals.
Daily Practice: 2 questions uploaded for practice; answers discussed in detail every weekend.
• Answer-Writing Skill: Training to decode question demands, structure arguments, build analytical narratives, and include maps/flowcharts organically.
• Content Enrichment: Supplementary notes, videos, and textbook references provided.
• Map Practice: 2 tests per week with detailed solutions.
• Testing Cycle: 4 sectional tests (monthly) + 1 full-length simulation at the end.
• Mentorship Support: Continuous doubt-clearing (online/offline) within 24 hours, plus one-to-one guidance.
Features of the Programme
Weekly incremental progress tracking for accountability.
Focus on argument-based answers instead of storytelling.
Integration of maps, diagrams, and flowcharts as natural tools, not forced templates.
Learning orientation beyond rote revision—training aspirants to create a structure and arguments
A cohort-driven approach, creating a group of highly focused peers working under structured discipline.
Detailed Schedule
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 1 | 1/10/25 | Strategy - This day is meant for you to connect with the faculty and clear your doubts regarding the sources to refer to for ancient India, and the revision technique. You must write an email to the faculty | Mentoring |
| 2 | 2/10/25 | Different sources for the study of Ancient History, Sense of Historical consciousness in ancient India, - Evolution of the study of Ancient History - Different Schools of Historiography | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 3 | 3/10/25 | Pre-Historic India - Palaeolithic period and Mesolithic period - Distribution of sites, nature of society, dietary pattern, burials | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 4 | 4/10/25 | Pre-Historic India - Neolithic Revolution - Distribution of sites, nature of society, dietary patterns, and burials. Transition to domestication of plants and animals, Ash mound culture in South India | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 5 | 5/10/25 | Megalithic culture in India | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 6 | 6/10/25 | Chalcolithic culture in Indian subcontinent | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 7 | 7/10/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 2 to Day 6 | |
| 8 | 8/10/25 | Art and culture in pre- historic India | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 9 | 9/10/25 | Indus Valley Civilisation - Beginning of the first urban civilisation in the Indian subcontinent, Origins of the IVC people, various stages in IVC development | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 10 | 10/10/25 | Indus Valley Civilisation - Nature of polity, economy, belief system, subsistence base, seals, theories of decline, distribution of IVC sites | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 11 | 11/10/25 | Art and culture in IVC | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 12 | 12/10/25 | Vedic Age - Aryans Origin, Geographical spread of the Aryans in the Indian subcontinent, Vedic culture, religion, polity, society, economy | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 13 | 13/10/25 | IVC - Vedic age continuum and contradictions | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 14 | 14/10/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 7 to Day 13 | |
| 15 | 15/10/25 | Vedic Literature, Upanishadic philosophy | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 16 | 16/10/25 | Age of revolutions (600 BC) - Iron revolution - second urbanisation, craft proliferation, craft institutionalisation, Changing social dynamics | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 17 | 17/10/25 | Age of Revolutions - Political Revolution - Rise of the Mahajanapadas and Republics.Magadha’s prominence – Seat of power in north India | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 18 | 18/10/25 | Age of Revolutions (600 BC) - Beginning of script, coinage, and new trade routes | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 19 | 19/10/25 | Age of Revolutions (600 BC) - rise of heterodox sects, Buddhism, Jainism | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 20 | 20/10/25 | Buddhist and Jaina literature | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 21 | 21/10/25 | Age of foreign invasions - The Achaemenid Empire and India, Alexander’s invasion and impact, Contact with the Greco-Roman world | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 22 | 22/10/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 14 to Day 21 | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 23 | 23/10/25 | Mauryan Empire - Political condition in India on the eve of the establishment of the Mauryan Empire, Establishment and expansion, -New orientation to statecraft - Arthashastra | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 24 | 24/10/25 | Mauryan Empire - Mauryan centralisation, elaborate bureaucracy, the role of the state in the economy, | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 25 | 25/10/25 | Mauryan society and belief system, Megasthenes' account, Ashoka - Paternal despotism, Inscriptions, Dhamma, foreign contacts | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 26 | 26/10/25 | Art and Culture during Mauryan age | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 27 | 27/10/25 | Post Mauryan age (200 BCE - 300 CE) - Regional kingdoms - Sungas and Kanvas, Kharvela | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 28 | 28/10/25 | Post Mauryan age (200 BCE - 300 CE) - Arrival of Indo Greeks, their conquests, influences, Mercantile age - rise of guilds, monetised economy, prosperous trade, - Assimilative art and culture | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 29 | 29/10/25 | Satavahanas – Origin, establishment as political class, Conflict with Western Kashatrapas, politico- admin | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 30 | 30/10/25 | Religion, society, art and culture during Western Khsatrapas and Satavhanas | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 31 | 31/10/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 23 to Day 30 | |
| 32 | 1/11/25 | Beginning of the system of Land Grants - Types of LGs, their implications, Transition from Ancient to Early Medieval India | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 33 | 2/11/25 | Age of Imperial Guptas – Origin, expansion and consolidation - Inscriptions and coins as primary sources, Politico – admin, | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 34 | 3/11/25 | Age of Imperial Guptas - Golden age, Classical age, Crystallisation of Hinduism, Social Orthodoxy, Economy | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 35 | 4/11/25 | Age of Imperial Guptas - Hindu philosophy, law schools, Gupta - Vakataka politics, Fa- hein and Itsing’s account | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 36 | 5/11/25 | Art and Culture during the Gupta Age - Architecture, Literature | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 37 | 6/11/25 | History of Deccan and South India - - Chalukyas of Badami - politico-admin, religion, Two-front conflict with Pallavas and Pushyabhutis | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 38 | 7/11/25 | Pallavas - Politico- administration, religion, art, society | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 39 | 8/11/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 32 to Day 38 | |
| 40 | 9/11/25 | Art and Culture during Chalukyas and Pallavas | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 41 | 10/11/25 | Sangam age - literature, polity, economy, society, belief system | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 42 | 11/11/25 | Age of Harsha - Maukharis and rise of Pushyabhutis, Harsha confederate polity, patronage to Buddhism, welfarism, Was Harsha the last great king in the north?, Hiuen Tsang and Banabhatta’s account | |
| End Of Section 1 - Ancient India | |||
| 43 | 12/11/25 | Full-length test of Section 1 | |
| 44 | 13/11/25 | Discussion of Full- Length Test 1 | |
| Section 2 | Modern World History | ||
| 45 | 14/11/25 | Background to the emergence of modernity in Europe - Dark Ages, Rise of Feudalism, Renaissance, Reformation | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 46 | 15/11/25 | Enlightenment and Modern ideas - Background to the emergence of enlightenment, Enlightenment in the age of enlightenment | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 47 | 16/11/25 | Major thinkers and philosophers during the Enlightenment - John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Rousseau, | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 48 | 17/11/25 | Kant, Montesquieu, Bentham, Adam Smith, Physiocrats, Voltaire, David Hume | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 49 | 18/11/25 | Enlightened Despotism - Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 50 | 19/11/25 | Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx) | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 51 | 20/11/25 | Marxism , Role of Engels in spreading communism | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 52 | 21/11/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 45 to Day 51 | |
| 53 | 22/11/25 | Modern political ideologies - Imperialism, Colonialism, Neo- imperialism, Neo- colonialism | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 54 | 23/11/25 | American Revolution and the Constitution | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 55 | 24/11/25 | American Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery, Civil rights movement | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 56 | 25/11/25 | French revolution and aftermath - different stages, rise of modern ideologies | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 57 | 26/11/25 | Napoleonic era (1789- 1815) | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 58 | 27/11/25 | Vienna Congress 1814-1815, July Revolution, 1830 and its impact; February Revolution 1848 and Revolutions of 1848 | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 59 | 28/11/25 | Industrial Revolution - Phases in the rise of modern Industries in England, Impact on English society | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 60 | 29/11/25 | Second Industrial Revolution, Industrialisation in USA, Germany, Russia, Japan | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 61 | 30/11/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 53 to Day 60 | |
| 62 | 1/12/25 | Rise of modern nation- states - Rise of Nationalism in 19th century | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 63 | 2/12/25 | Italian Unification | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 64 | 3/12/25 | German Unification | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 65 | 4/12/25 | Eastern Question and Balkan conundrum | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 66 | 5/12/25 | World War I: Causes and consequences | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 67 | 6/12/25 | Between World Wars - Efforts towards the establishment of peace - League of Nations, treaties and conventions, policy of appeasement, the great depression and its impact | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 68 | 7/12/25 | Revolution and Counter-Revolution - Rise of Fascism and Nazism | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 69 | 8/12/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 62 to Day 68 |
| Day | Date | Syllabus | Activity |
| 70 | 9/12/25 | Russian Revolution, 1917, Lenin’s era and Stalin’s era | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 71 | 10/12/25 | World War II: Causes and consequence | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 72 | 11/12/25 | Rise of an international world order - United Nations | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 73 | 12/12/25 | European consolidation and unity - Formation of EU | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 74 | 13/12/25 | Cold War from 1945 - 1962 | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 75 | 14/12/25 | Cold War from 1962 to 1991 | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 76 | 15/12/25 | End of Cold War and rise of US ascendancy | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 77 | 16/12/25 | Discussion of Questions from Day 70 to Day 76 | |
| 78 | 17/12/25 | Emergence of Third World and Non- alignment | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 79 | 18/12/25 | Decolonisation - South East Asia, Latin America | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| 80 | 19/12/25 | Decolonisation - Africa | Daily answer writing - 2 questions |
| End of Section 2 - Modern World History | |||
| 81 | Full Length test of Section 2 | ||
| 82 | Discussion of Full- length Test 2 | ||
| Section 3 and Section 4 To be updated soon |
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