Thinker
I. P. Desai
I. P. Desai is central to 6 previous-year questions, spanning 2012 to 2024 across Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
6Questions
2012–24Years tested
IIPaper
1Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside I. P. Desai
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
joint family 3nuclear family 3functional jointness 2nuclearisation 2changing gender rolesdevelopmental cycle of domestic groupsdual-earner householdfamilyfamily and household distinctionfamily cyclefunctional joint familyhouseholdhousehold as unit of productionhousehold dimensionindividualisationjoint and nuclear householdjointnessjointness and residence
Where I. P. Desai appears in the syllabus
Every question on I. P. Desai
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2015
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