Basic Books for IAS Exam

Hey ! can you please provide me the names of the basic books which are required for the prepsaration of IAS exam???? Reply??

[Kiran Chandar]

Hi ! as you are looking for the Books for the Preparartion of IAS exam …

So here I am providing you the names of the books..

Dear friend
for IAS preparation according to subjects the books required are as follows:

Subject 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

Subject Indian Polity
Good book

• Introduction to Indian Constitution - D.D. Basu Related

Subject Indian Economy
Good books

• Evolution of Indian Economy - NCERT
• Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam.
• Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri

Subject General Science
Good books

• NCERT books on Science.
• Science and Technology supplements in the Newspapers and magazines.

Subject Current Events of National and International importance.
Good books

• One major National Daily - Either The Times of India or The Hindu.
• Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
• Current Events - Spectrum

Subject General Mental Ability
Good books

• 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)
Subject History of Modern India
Good books

• India's struggle for Independence - Bipan Chandra and others.
• Modern India - NCERT.
• Freedom Struggle (NBT) - Bipan Chandra
• Modern India - IGNOU

o If one is hard pressed for time, he/she may
skip the Modern India and Freedom Struggle.

Subject Indian Culture
Good books

• Art and Culture portions of history books and Gazetteer of India.
• Culture Chapter (s) in the India Year Book.
• Encyclopaedia 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.

Subject Current Affairs
Good books

• 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

Subject Statistics
Good book

• Book on Statistics (Class XI) - NCERT

Subject Indian Polity and Constitution
Good books

• Introduction to the Constitution of India - D.D. Basu.
• Our Parliament - S.C. Kashyap

Subject Indian Geography and Economy
Good books

• Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) - NCERT
• Yozna
• Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri
• The editorial page of the Economic Times.

Subject Science and Technology
Good books

• 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.