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POWER 50 is fifty capsules across fifty days: the whole PSIR syllabus revised once, in the order the syllabus is actually built. One topic a day, and the method works only if you keep to it — read the capsule, write the same day, don’t break the chain. PSIR Dynamics 2026 and the PYQ Vault run alongside it, the Vault taking you through 560 previous-year questions over the same fifty days, roughly eleven a day.
Day 41 — India & South Asia, Part I
Three neighbours, three different problems. Part A reads India–Pakistan at three levels — system, state and individual — with Basrur, Ganguly and Paul, Harshe, Shyam Saran and Raja Mohan on why the rivalry survives every attempt to end it, and then works through the chronology from 1947 to 2025, Kashmir as symptom rather than cause, Siachen, Sir Creek and Gilgit-Baltistan, terrorism as policy, the Indus Waters Treaty and the abeyance of April 2025 down to the arbitration clash and where the argument stands in 2026, Operation Sindoor and the doctrine debate around it, CPEC, Balochistan, and Basrur’s options of defeat, containment, negotiation and the symmetric alternative. Part B sets what India and Bangladesh have built against what remains unresolved — illegal migration, Farakka and Teesta, China’s entry into Dhaka, and the extradition question after Hasina read through the 2013 treaty. Part C is Afghanistan: the takeover, the New Great Game, and what Sareen, Katju and Chaudhuri each say India should now do. The capsule’s own list of how UPSC has asked this unit runs to eight questions between 2017 and 2025 — four 10-markers and four 15-markers.
Write before the evening:
- China’s growing footprint and a tangible shift in power dynamics in Bangladesh has weakened India’s leverage in Dhaka. Comment. (UPSC 2025, 10m)
- What steps has India taken to regain its foothold in Afghanistan since the Taliban has taken over the country in August 2021? (UPSC 2023, 15m)
- “Despite the differences between India and Pakistan on various issues, Indus Water Treaty has stood the test of times.” In the light of this statement, discuss the recent developments over this issue. (UPSC 2017, 15m)
If you go blank on a point, it is covered in full in the Foundation and OGP class notes and handouts — revise it, then write.
