Important Books for UPSC/IAS Examination
and Preparation
The Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC) is India’s central agency authorized to conduct the
Civil Services Examination, Engineering Services Examination, Combined
Defence Services Examination, National Defence
Academy Examination, Naval Academy Examination and Combined Medical
Services Examination. In this post I am going to share a complete list of
recommended books for UPSC/IAS examination and preparation.
List
Of Civil Services Books For General Studies
Preliminary
IAS (General Studies)
§ History books of Classes XI and XII – NCERT
§ Freedom Struggle (NET) – Bipin Chandra
World
Geography – including Indian Geography Good books
§ Principles of Geography (Class XII-Part I, II)
§ General Geography of India (Class XII) Part I – NCERT
§ Geography of India – Resources and Regional Development Part II (Class XII) – NCERT
§ Physical Geography – Leong
§ Atlas
Indian
Polity Good book
§ Introduction to Indian Constitution – D.D. Basu Related
Indian
Economy
§ Evolution of Indian Economy – NCERT
§ Indian Economy – Dutt and Sundharam.
§ Indian Economy – Mishra and Puri
General
Science
§ NCERT books on Science.
§ Science and
Technology supplements in the Newspapers and magazines.
Current
Events of National and International importance
§ One major National Daily – Either The Times of India or The Hindu.
§ Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
§ Current Events – Spectrum
General
Mental Ability
§ No special preparation is required in this area. But some
practice may be done from any exercise books or quantitative aptitude. In fact,
an intelligent calculation is the basic requirement for this topic.
Main
(General Studies)
History
of Modern India
§ India’s struggle for Independence – Bipan Chandra and
others.
§ Modern India – NCERT.
§ Freedom Struggle (NBT) – Bipan Chandra
§ Modern India – IGNOU
Note:
-If one is hard pressed for time, he/she may
skip the Modern India and Freedom Struggle.
Indian
Culture
§ Art and Culture portions of history books and Gazetteer
of India.
§ Culture Chapter (s) in the India Year Book.
§ Encyclopedia of Indian Culture. A good library invariably
has more than one encyclopaedia on Indian Art and Culture selected notes may be
taken from it.
§ Books on culture / cultural topics brought out by
Publications Division of Ministry of Information and broadcasting and National
Book Trust.
Current
Affairs
§ At least one major national newspaper – either The
Times of India or The Hindu
§ Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
§ Current Affairs and News Analysis of BBC.
§ Current events – Spectrum
Statistics
§ Book on Statistics (Class XI) – NCERT
Indian
Polity and Constitution
§ Introduction to the Constitution of India –
D.D. Basu.
§ Our Parliament – S.C. Kashyap
Indian
Geography and Economy
§ Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) – NCERT
§ Yozna
§ Indian Economy – Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri
§ The editorial page of the Economic Times.
Science and
Technology
§ Science and Technology section of the Wednesday edition of the
newspaper ‘The Hindu’.
§ Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum.
§ Yozna contains science and
environment related topics.
1. Indian History – India Struggle for
Independence by Bipin Chandra; NCERT Books ( XI & XII
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
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
Books
on 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
Books
on 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
Books
on Social and National Issues :
§ Social Problem – Ram Ahuja
§ Social Welfare Magazine – Published by ministry of social
welfare
§ Yojana/Kurukshetra
§ IIPa Journal
Books
on 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
Books
on 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
§ Books on Statistics:
§ (NCERT +1 level) Elementary Statistics
§ S.C.Gupta : Statistical Methods
Books
on India and the World :
§ Journal of peace Studies
§ World Focus
§ Strategic Analysis
§ South Asian Journal
Other
Books for General Studies:
1. India Year Book latest
2. One competitive Magazine
3. Guides like Tata Mc Graw Hill, Spectrum or
Unique For General Reference 4. The Pearson General Studies Manual.
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