Books for General studies prelims and mains

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General Studies for prelims:

1. Indian History - India Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra; NCERT Books

2. Geography - Spectrum

3. Indian Polity - Constitution of India by Bakshi

4. Indian Economy - Plus One, Plus Two Books, Pratiyogita Darpan

5. General Science - Tata Mc Graw Hill Guide

6. Mental Ability - Quantitative Apitude by R.S. Aggarwal

7. Current Affairs - Some magazines and Newspapers

i. The Hindu/The Times of India

ii. Frontline

iii. Civil Service Chronicle

iv. Chanakya

v. Competition WIZARD

vi. Civil Services Today

8. Guides

1. Tata Mc Graw Hill

2. Spectrum

3. Unique

Topic Wise Reference:

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

Geography:

NCERT : Physical Geography of India for X - XII Std

A Good School Atlas

Sharma & Cotinho : Economic and Commercial Geography of India.

Khullar : India- A Comprehnsive Geography

Charles Farro : General Principles of World Geography

Charles Farro : Monsoon Asia Reports published by Centre for Science and Enviornment And Tata Energy Research Institute

National journal - Kurukshetra, Yojana etc.

Down to earth

Indian Economy:

NCERT (+1 level)—Evolution of Indian Economy(I C Dhingra).

Mishra & Puri or Dutt & Sundaram - Indian Economy

Economic Survey

The Economic Times,Business Standard

Yojana

Social and National Issues :

Social Problem - Ram Ahuja

Social Welfare Magazine - Published by ministry of social welfare

Yojana/Kurukshetra

IIPa Journal

Indian Polity:

NCERT (+1 level)—Indian Political System

N.L. Madan : Bhartiya Rajya Vyavastha

D.D. Basu—Indian Constitution

Kashyap—Constitution of India

Publication Division—Subhash C. Kashyap : Our Parliament

P.M. Bakshi—Indian Constitution

Our Constitution : Subhash C. kashyap

Perspective on Constitution : S.C. Kashyap

Frontline Magazine

IIPa Journal

Science & Technology:

NCERT : (10 level) : Science, (+2 level) : Biology.

Popular Science Series (CSIR)

Reports Of the Ministry of Science and Technology Yojana

Science Reporter

Science and Technology in India - Spectrum

Statistics:

(NCERT +1 level) Elementary Statistics

S.C.Gupta : Statistical Methods

India and the World :

Journal of peace Studies

World Focus

Strategic Analysis

South Asian Journal

Other Books :

1. India Year Book latest

2. One competitive Magazine

3. Guides like Tata Mc Graw Hill, Spectrum or Unique For General Reference