Reference Books for UPSC Exam

Will you suggest me good books for Civil Services exam of the UPSC ?

[Raman Vij]

As you want I am here suggesting you me good books for Civil Services exam of the UPSC.

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


Indian Polity book:
Introduction to Indian Constitution – D.D. Basu Related


History of Modern IndiaMain (General Studies)
Freedom Struggle (NBT) – Bipan Chandra
Modern India – IGNOU
India’s struggle for Independence – Bipan Chandra and others.
Modern India – NCERT.


World Geography – including Indian Geography 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


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


Indian Polity and Constitution
Introduction to the Constitution of India – D.D. Basu.
Our Parliament – S.C. Kashyap


Indian Economy
Evolution of Indian Economy – NCERT
Indian Economy – Dutt and Sundharam.
Indian Economy – Mishra and Puri

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

Statistics
Book on Statistics (Class XI) – NCERT


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

Books on Science & Technology:
NCERT : (10 level) : Science, (+2 level) : Biology.
Popular Science Series (CSIR)
Science and Technology in India – Spectrum
Reports Of the Ministry of Science and Technology Yojana
Science Reporter

I want to prepare my self for the IAS exam please provide me the name of the books from upse?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Here are most of the Important Books for UPSC/IAS Examination and Preparation for you.
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.

History of Modern IndiaMain (General Studies)

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.
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.
At least one major national newspaper – either The Times of India or The HinduCurrent Affairs

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 section of the Wednesday edition of the newspaper ‘The Hindu’.Science and Technology

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