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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: read the capsule, write the same day, don’t break the chain. PSIR Dynamics 2026 runs alongside it, as does the PYQ Vault — 560 previous-year questions across the same fifty days, roughly eleven a day.
Day 44 — India & the Global South
Today’s capsule takes the entire Southern account in one pass. It begins with the Global South as a political and ideological position rather than a geographical label, and with South–South cooperation — its basis, its importance, and the instruments India uses: ITEC, development assistance, lines of credit and technology transfer. Africa carries the largest section: Rani D. Mullen’s three phases read through the levels-of-analysis frame, the drivers of India’s renewed interest, the chronology from 1893 to the AfCFTA, the Ten Guiding Principles of 2018 alongside Agenda 2063, and the structural contrast between the Chinese and Indian models along with the areas of concern. Latin America and the Caribbean follow as the region long treated as the last frontier of India’s foreign policy — why it matters, how engagement has evolved, and what still holds it back. The final part is the platform-and-trade account: the IBSA Dialogue Forum, India’s WTO record and the stalled Doha Round, the TRIPS waiver debate, the tariff shock of 2025–26 and the trade agreements built as a hedge against it, and the New International Economic Order from the 1974 demand to its recast form today. Between 2016 and 2025, this unit carried 6 × 10-markers, 9 × 15-markers and 3 × 20-markers.
Write before the evening:
- Discuss some of the key drivers of India’s new interests in Africa which might help in developing long-term comparative advantage over China. (UPSC 2025, 15m)
- Discuss the potential role that India could play as the leader of the Global South in realising the goal of establishing a new international economic order in the 21st century. (UPSC 2024, 15m)
- Trump’s unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on scores of countries poses impending threat to the future of the rule-based multilateral global trading system under the WTO. What options do the WTO members have to salvage the organization? (UPSC 2025, 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.
