The following volume on World history is a comprehensive compilation of important topics as well as concepts. World history is often considered a complex subject by students. These notes have attempted to simplify the subjects so that students are encouraged to write well informed and lucid answers in GS paper 1 and even essay paper.

The UPSC Mains World History book contains following topics:

1. American Revolution
2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3. French Revolution
4. APPENDIX : An Essay on Significance of The Revolution
5. Nationalism in Europe
6. COLONIALISM & IMPERIALISM
7. World War – I
8. Russian Revolution
9. Inter War (1919-1939)
10. World War – II
11. Decolonisation
12. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES
13. Cold War
14. Post-cold war
15. APPENDIX: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: A TIMELINE