Recordings of the live LINCOLN 2026 batch: Modern Indian History and Indian Polity so far, with the class handouts as reading under the lectures. More classes are still being added.
This is the recording of LINCOLN 2026, the institute's live General Studies batch for the Civil Services examination, taught for Prelims and Mains together. It is not a studio production. The recordings keep the recaps, the questions from the batch and the asides of a live class.
The course is still growing. LINCOLN 2026 is still being taught, and what is here today is two subjects, each from its first class:
The rest of the General Studies syllabus is not on the course today. New classes are added as they are taught, and your enrolment covers every class added while your access lasts, at no extra cost. Buy it for the classes listed below.
Every class is taught for both examinations. The teachers stop on previous-year questions, say which facts Prelims asks for and what a Mains answer on the topic should do, and keep tying History and Polity to each other and to the ethics paper.
The handouts. Each numbered class has the institute's handout under its lecture, as reading on the page, set out in sections with tables. The earlier ones end with practice questions; from History Class 8 on, and in the last Polity classes, they end with previous-year questions and a quick revision sheet. Every handout has been checked against standard references and corrected, and each sits under the class that teaches it: a class taught in parts has its handout divided among the parts. You can highlight in a handout, and your highlights are kept. The History orientation has none.
The recordings. The History orientation and Class 1 were filmed in the classroom, facing the teacher and the digital board. The other History classes were recorded from the teacher's tablet: slides, and notes written as he speaks, with the teacher on camera at times. Polity was taught online on a whiteboard, with the teacher on camera in the corner.
The teaching moves between English and Tamil, as it did live. Polity is mostly in English. History has longer stretches in Tamil, with the terms in English. There are no subtitles.
The outline is arranged by subject, and inside a subject by theme, with the classes in the order they were taught and every class keeping its number. Each lesson also names its session, the batch's own running count, which shows how the two subjects were taken side by side. The History orientation and Polity Class 1 are free to watch.
2 subjects · 8 themes · 45 lectures · 80h 56m of video · 7h 26m of reading
From the arrival of the Europeans to Independence and Partition in 1947.
From why a State needs a constitution to Parliament and the Union executive. Still being taught.
Not yet. LINCOLN 2026 is still being taught, and today the course holds two subjects: Modern Indian History, from the arrival of the Europeans to 1947, and Indian Polity as far as Parliament and the Union executive. Geography, the economy, the rest of Polity and the other parts of the syllabus are not here today. New classes are added as they are taught and open for everyone whose access is running. We do not promise a date or a number, so buy the course for the classes listed on this page; anything added comes on top of them.
No. Every class on the course is open from the first minute of your access, and a class added later opens the day it is uploaded. Take them in the outline's order, follow the session numbers to take the two subjects side by side as the batch did, or go straight to the one topic you came for.
English and Tamil. The teachers move between the two as the class goes on, which is how it was taught. Polity is mostly in English. History has longer stretches in Tamil, with the terms in English. There are no subtitles on the recordings. If you are unsure whether the mix suits you, watch the two free classes first, one from each subject and each teacher: the History orientation, an hour and eight minutes, and Polity Class 1, an hour and forty minutes.
Yes. Both subjects start at the beginning. The History orientation says what to read and how the subject is asked, and Class 1 begins with why the Europeans came to India at all. Polity Class 1 begins with why a State needs a constitution. What the classes do assume is that you are preparing for the examination: they stop on previous-year questions and say what Prelims and Mains each want from a topic.
When your views of a lecture are nearly used, the lecture shows a button, "Ask for more views", and you can add a reason. The institute's answer comes to your Inbox on this site. The two free classes are not counted, so they never run out.
Included: every recorded class on this page and each one added while your access lasts; the class handouts, as reading under the lectures; the AI tutor at the foot of every lesson, which is shown the part of the handout you are reading; and one-to-one calls with a mentor, asked for in Mentor Connect when a mentor has hours open. Not included: there is no live class, no answer evaluation and no test series in this course; the test series are sold separately on this site. The lectures stream in the browser and cannot be downloaded for offline viewing, and the handouts are read on the page rather than downloaded as files. The recordings have no captions.
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