References
for Civil Services Exam
General
Studies: (Both
prelims and mains).
History
& Culture:
1.
A New Look At Modern Indian History by
B.L.Grover & S.Grover./Spectrum’s Modern Indian history./History of Modern
India by Bipan Chandra.(Any one of these three ).
2.
India’s Struggle For Independence by Bipan
Chandra .
3.
Facets of Indian Culture (Spectrum Publications).
Geography:
1.
Physical Geography by G.C.Leong.
2.
NCERT Class 11th
·
Fundamentals of Physical Geography
·
India Physical Environment.
3.
NCERT Class 12th
·
Human Geography
·
India People and Economy
4.
The orient Blackswan School Atlas/Oxford School
Atlas(Recent edition).
5.
Refer Magazines and Newspapers for Places in
News/weather phenomena/strategic and economic importance of Geographical
locations.
6.
A comprehensive geography of India by
Khullar(Selected topics can be read).
Economics:
1.
NCERT Class 12th Macroeconomics.( For
Fundamental Concepts).
2.
Economic Survey-2012.(Ministry of finance).
3.
Pratiyogita Darpan’s Indian Economy Special
Issue.
4.
NCERT Class 11th Indian Economic
Development.
5.
Detail analysis of Annual Budget Document.
6.
Some concepts from “Indian Economy by Mishra and
Puri “ or “Indian Economy by Dutt and Sundaram”.
Polity
& Governance/Constitution:
1.
Democratic Politics(NCERT class 10th).
2.
Indian Polity by Laxmikanth.
3.
Our parliament by Subhash Kashyap.
4.
The constitution of India by P.M.Bakshi.(Bare
act).
5.
www.prsindia.org for recent Bills/acts/Constitutional
amendments/Draft bills and other discussions.
Science
& Technology:
1.
NCERT class 9th and 10th .
2.
For recent S&T developments refer THE HINDU
newspaper, Civil services times magazine,Down
to earth,Frontline and Wikipedia.
3.
Department of science and technology website.
International
Relations:
1.
Ministry of External affairs website www.mea.gov.in
(for bilateral relations).
2.
India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect &
prospect by Sumit Ganguly.
Or
International relations by Tapan Biswal (These
books are good for basic understanding of foreign policy)
3.
World
Focus magazine .
4.
THE HINDU.
5.
Frontline.
6.
Civil Services Times.
8.
Department of commerce website http://www. http://commerce.nic.in/ ( for FTA,CECA,CEPA,WTO
and other bilateral trade issues etc.)
Environment:
1.
Textbook of Environmental studies by ERACH
Bharucha.[UGC]
3. Newspapers
and magazines for environment conventions,conferences,protocols and climate
issues.
Current
affairs of National and International importance:
Newspapers:
1.
THE HINDU.
2.
The Economic Times.
3.
The Indian Express(Delhi edition)
Magazines:
1.
YOJANA .(http://www.yojana.gov.in).
2.
Kurukshetra.
3.
Frontline.(http://www.frontlineonnet.com)
4.
World Focus.
5.
Civil Services times
7.
Down to Earth.( http://www.downtoearth.org.in)
Statistics:
1. NCERT mathematics textbooks.
CSAT:
1.
Quantitative aptitude for CAT by Arun Sharma
(Upto Level 2 is sufficient).(This book is optional)
2.
Quantitative aptitude By R.S.Agarwal.
3.
CSAT by Arun Sharma or any other standard book
which have good number of questions.
Miscellaneous:
(Must).
1.
India
2012,a reference annual by Publication Division,Ministry of I&B.
2.
Lok Sabha TV discussions
3.
NDTV profit
discussions or any other good discussions regarding social,economic and
political issues.
