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DEDICATED
To
MY TEACHER AND INSPIRATION
SHRI (LATE) MAJID HUSAIN SIR
&
My Parents
Shri. Mohd. Ibadullah
Smt. Nusrat Sultana
About the Contributor
Mohd. Rizwan Ahmed, Director of IAS mentors Academy,
Hyderabad. He has been teaching civil services aspirants for last 14
years and has successfully guided thousands of aspirants in
achieving their dreams. He is well know name among the students
for expertise in Geography and mentoring students.
Mohd. Rizwan Ahmed, M.Tech. in Remote Sensing and GIS, and
continuously involved in research in Geography and Ecology. He is
teaching Geography optional, General Studies–Geography, Ecology
and Disaster management.
He is associated as a faculty with some the most reputed
institutes for civil services coaching, like RCReddy IAS study circle,
21st century IAS academy, Hyderabad and Universal coaching,
Bangalore.
Apart from offline training, he is one of the top educators on
India’s largest online Platform UNACADEMY.
He has a credit of training some of the top rankers in recent
years.
Acknowledgements
The merit of the candidates appearing in the Preliminary
examinations is decided on the first paper that has a substantial
number of questions from Geography. Late Prof Majid Husain, a
renowned name in the world of Geography and especially popular
amongst the candidates making Geography their optional shall be
remembered for a long time for his commitment and valuable
contribution. He wrote the books in a very simplified language and
covered the latest of latest topics in Geography.
After his demise, the revision and updation of his writings would
have come to a stop without the efforts of the team of McGraw-Hill.
The family of the author extend their thanks to Mohd. Rizwan
Ahmed for agreeing to edit the book with the topics and revision of
the objective questions as per the latest trends. Thanks are also due
to all the friends and family members who encouraged in the revision
of the book.
It is hoped that the revised edition shall be of immense help to all
the aspirants of civil services and other competitive examinations as
well. The book shall also be useful to those teaching and learning
Geography.
May the almighty grant highest standards in heaven to the
demised soul of the author.
Hoor Bano Naiyer
(w/o Late Prof. Majid Husain)
This book is the culmination of my experience of teaching
Geography for civil services aspirants for last14 years accompanied
with encouragement from my well wishers. I found myself at top
experiencing the feeling of fulfillment, when I realised my name
appears on the cover of this book along with name of my teacher
and guruLate shri Majid Husain sir.
At this moment of accomplishment I am greatly indebted to my
teacher, Late shri Majid Husain sir.
My earnest thanks to Shri RCReddy sir, Shri Raja Reddy sir, of
RCReddy IAS study circle for their support. I am thankful Shri
Krishna Pradeep, director, 21st century IAS Academy for his
continous encouragement. I extent my thanks to Shri Upendra
shetty, director, UCCBangalore, Shri Gopalakrishna, director, Brain
tree, Hyderabad for their support.
I greatly appreciate and acknowledge the support received from
UNACADEMY. I am equally thankful toMr. Gaurav Munjal, Mr.
Roman Saini and Mr. Abhishek Srivastava of Unacademy for their
support.
I would like to thank the McGraw-Hill team, Ms Shukti Mukherjee,
Ms Jyoti Nagpal, Ms Shreya Soni andMr Dharmender Sharma for
their constant support.
It’s my fortune to gratefully acknowledge the support of my
friends and collegues, Mr. MA Kareem, Mr. MD Pasha, Mr.
Balakrishna, Mr. Teja Deepak, Mr Sanjay, Mr. Ranaganathan, Mr.
Vishnu Varthan, Mr. P Satish, Mr. Fazal and all others.
Finally, I acknowledge the people who mean a lot to me, my
parents, for showing faith in me and giving me liberty to choose what
I desired. I salute you all for the selfless love, care, pain and sacrifice
you did to shape my life. Also, I express my thanks to my sisters for
their support and valuable prayers.
I owe thanks to a very special person, my wife, for her continued
and unfailing love, support and understanding during my pursuit of
this work that made the completion of book possible. I greatly value
her contribution and deeply appreciate her belief in me. I appreciate,
my little daughters Asmara and Ayeza for abiding my ignorance and
the patience during my book writing. Words would never say how
grateful I am to both of you.
My heart felt regard goes to my father in law, mother in law for
their love and moral support.
I thank the Almighty for giving me the strength and patience to
work through all these years.
Mohd. Rizwan Ahmed
