IMPORTANT BOOKS TO READ FOR PREPARATION TO CIVIL

SERVICES
REFERENCE BOOKS FOR GENERAL STUDIES
I.

INDIAN ECONOMY:
1. Economic Development of India NCERT XI standard
2. Indian Economy Mishra and Puri or Dutt and Sundaram
3. Indian Economy PK Dhar
4. Economics Samuel Son
5. India Year Book & Economic Survey (Government Pub.)
6. For the current aspects of Indian economy students have to depend on
news papers and periodicals.

II.

INDIAN POLITY:
1. Our Constitution Subhash
Kashyap
2. An Introduction to Indian Constitution DD Basu
3. Perspectives on Indian Constitution Subash Kashyap
4. III

INDIAN HISTORY:

1. NCERT History books for Classes XI & XII

2. Freedom Struggle Bipan Chandra (NBT Publication)
3. Indias Struggle for Independence Bipan Chandra and Others
4. The Gazetteer of India, Volume 2: History and Culture
5. Indian History for General Studies K Krishna Reddy (Wizard Pub.)
5. IV. GENERAL SCIENCE:
1. NCERT Books on Biology, Physics and Chemistry, Standard IX & X
2. Anatomy & Physiology for Nurses Courses Evelyn Pearce
3. Know Your Body Reader's Digest
4. For current S & T issues, latest Magazines and News Papers can be
referred.
6. V.

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY:

1. NCERT Geography books

for Classes XI & XII
2. Indian Geography

3. Principles of Geography
4. World Geography
5. Atlas of World and India.

6. VI. MENTAL ABILITY:

1. Objective Arithmetic R.S.Agarwal
2. Numerical Ability Tyra
7. VII. CURRENT AFFAIRS:
1. A good National Daily, preferably the Hindu
2. Periodicals Economist, Yojana, Seminar, Frontline, World Focus, South
Asian Journal, Political and Economic Weekly, Mainstream, Down to
Earth, etc.
3. Competition Magazines Competition Wizard, Civil Services Times,
Civil Services Chronicle, etc.
8. REFERENCE BOOKS FOR HISTORY
9. Indian History
1. NCERT History Books for Classes XI and XII
2. Allchins: The Birth of Indian Civiliztion
3. R. S. Sharma: The State and Varna Formation in the Mid-Ganga Plains
4. Romila Thapar: History of India, Volume 1
5. D. N. Jha: An Introductory Outline to Ancient India
6. A. L. Basham: The Wonder that was India, Volume 1
7. S. A. A. Rizvi: The Wonder that was India, Volume 2
8. Satish Chandra: Medieval India, Parts 1 and 2 (Har Anand Pub.)
9. J. L. Mehta: Advanced History of Medieval India, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
10.

Grover and Grover: Modern Indian History

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Bipan Chandra and Others: Indias Struggle for Independence

12.

Sumit Sarkar: Modern India

13.

Shekhar Bandopadhyay: Modern India: From Plassey to Partition

14.

Nilakanta Sastri: History of South India

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R. C. Mazumdar and Others: An Advanced History of India

16.

The Gazetteer of India, Volume 2: History and Culture

17.

K Krishna Reddy: Indian History for Prelims (TMH Publication)

10.

Modern World History

1. NCERT Story of World Civilization, Parts 1 and 2, for Classes IX and X

2. Norman Lowe: Contemporary World History (McMillan Publication)
3. J. E. Swain: A History of World Civilization (OUP)
4. C. D. M. Ketelbey: A History of Modern Times (OUP)
5. Burns and Others: History of World Civilizations, Parts B and C
6. David Thomson: Europe since Napoleon
7. J. M Roberts: The Pelican History of the World
8. Vikas Publications International Relations
9. K Krishna Reddy: Modern World (Wizard Publication)
11.

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1)

New horizons in Public Administration Mohith Bhattachary

2)

Public Administration SP Naidu

3)

Public Administration: Theory and Concepts Sandhana & Sharma

4)

Essentials of Management Koontz & ODonnell

5)

Organizational Behaviour Stephen P Robbins

12.

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR GEOGRAPHY

1)

Physical Geography : Savindher Singh; Strahler & Strahler; W.D.

Thornbury

2)

Climatology

: Lal; Critchfield

3)

Oceanography

: Vattal & Sharma

4)

Regional Geography of World: Dharshan Singh Munku

5)

Indian Geography

: Khuller; Gopal Singh

6)

World Geography

: Leong & Morgan

7)

Human Geography : Majid Hussain

8)

Geography of Population : R.C. Chandana

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Regional Planning: Chand & Puri

10)

Political Geography

: R.D.Dixit

13.
14. 1) Civil services Chronicle
2) The Hindu
3) DD News
4) Frontline
5) Yojana
6) Kurukshetra
7) Indian express
8) Economic and Political weekly-EPW
9)Sci and tech
- www.sciencemag.org, www.nature.com, www.scitechdaily.com,
Science reporter, Vigyan Pragti
10) Geography - Geography and You, www.censusindia.gov.in
11) International relations - World Focus, France 24, ww.mea.gov.in
15. 1. Indian History - India Struggle for Independence by Bipin
Chandra; NCERT Books (XI & XII)
2. Geography - Spectrum
3. Indian Polity - DD Basu, Constitution of India by Bakshi
4. Indian Economy - 11th & 12th Books (NCERT), Pratiyogita Darpan
Special Edition
5. General Science - Tata Mc Graw Hill Guide Books of 9th and 10th
Standard.
6. Mental Ability - Quantitative Aptitude by R.S. Aggarwal
7. Current Affairs - Some magazines and Newspapers
8. India- Yearbook Published from Publication Division

some newspapers/ magazines you may count in:

I. The Hindu/The Times of India
II. Frontline
Service Chronicle
IV. Chanakya
V. Competition WIZARD
Civil Services Today

III. Civil
VI.

Guides you may Like to Read:

1. Tata McGraw Hill for GS
Spectrum
3. Unique
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2. Arihant for CSAT

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( Topic Wise Reference On General Studies)

17.
Books on Indian History & Culture:
NCERT (+ 2 level) Ancient India, Medieval India, Modern India.
Publication Division: Gazetteer of India (Vol 2: History & Culture)

Gandhi Nehru Tagore & Ambedkar Gopal Krishna

Bipin Chandra - Modern India
A.C.Banerjee - History of Modern India Raghavan Aiyer Mahatma
Gandhi.

18. Best IAS Websites for UPSC Civil Services Exam Online
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ClearIAS.com
cleariasexam.com
Mrunal.org
gktoday.in
insightsonindia.com
iasbaba.com
IASexamportal.com
iasscore.in
swapsushias.blogspot.in
iaspassion.com
iaskracker.com
jagranjosh.com
UPSCguide.com

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CivilServiceIndia.com
ias100.in
halfmantr.com
civilsdaily.com
prepareias.in
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iksa.in
visionias.in
tcyonline.com
testfunda.com
byjusclasses.com

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interviewprep4ias.com
upscdiscussions.com

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iasdream.com
jhinujha.wordpress.com
irasinghal.blogspot.in
unravellingcse.wordpress.com

IAS Forum Websites

iasforums.com
upscforums.com
forumias.com

7. IAS Toppers Blogs

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thesupermanreturns.wordpres
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rijubafna.com
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youtube.com/user/unacademy
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lohitmatani.wordpress.com

9. Useful Government Websites For Civil Service Preparation*

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ncert.nic.in
nios.ac.in
egyankosh.ac.in IGNOU
Books.
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yojana.gov.in Yojana and
Kurukshetra.
5.
upsc.gov.in Official Website
of UPSC.

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pib.nic.in for government

updates.
7.
prsindia.org for tracking bills
in Parliament.
8.
idsa.in for Defense and
Foreign relations.
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gatewayhouse.in
10. envfor.nic.in

11. mea.gov.in Ministry of

External Affairs.
12. indiabudget.nic.in
13. ptinews.com Press Trust of
India.
14. pdgroup.upkar.in Pratiyogita
Darpan.

15. ibef.org for economy and

business.
16. vikaspedia.in Knowledge
initiative by InDG.
17. makeinindia.com Make in
India initiative for manufacturing
related info.

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