REFERENCE BOOKS

NEED NOT STUDY ALL BOOKS. CAN USE SELECTIVELY IN TUNE WITH
CLASSROOM SESSIONS

General Studies & CSAT

Sr.
No.

Type

Subject

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Prelims &Mains
Mains
Prelims &Mains
Prelims &Mains
Prelims &Mains
Mains
Mains
Mains
Prelims &Mains

Indian Polity
Governance
History
History
History
History
World History
World History
Geography

10

Prelims &Mains

Geography

11
12
13

Prelims &Mains
Prelims &Mains
Prelims &Mains

14

Prelims &Mains

15

Prelims &Mains

16

Prelims

Economics
Economics
Economics
Science &
Technology
International
Relations
Quantitative
Aptitude

17

Prelims

Reasoning

18

Prelims &Mains

Current Affairs

Book Name

Author

Publisher

Indian Polity
Governance in India
Class 9, 10 & 12
Indias Struggle for Independence
A Brief History of Modern India
India Since Independence
Themes in World History
History of the World
Class 7, 9, 10, 11 & 12
Certificate Physical Geography and
Human Geography
Indian Economy
Indian Economic Development
Introduction to Macro Economics

Lakshmikanth
Lakshmikanth

Science

Class 10, 11, 12

NCERT

Contemporary World Politics

Class 12

NCERT

Quantitative Aptitude

R.S. Aggarwal

S. Chand

R.S. Aggarwal

S. Chand

A Modern approach to Verbal & Non

Verbal Reasoning
Any National Daily Newspaper

McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill
NCERT
Penguin
Spectrum
Penguin
NCERT
Orient Blackswan
NCERT
Oxford University
Press

Bipan Chandra
Rajiv Ahir
Bipan Chandra
Class 11
Arjun Dev
Goh Cheng
Leong
Sankarganesh
Class 11
Class 12

NCERT
NCERT

Geography Optional
Sr.
No.

Book Name

1
2
3
4
5
6

NCERT School Text Books

Certificate Physical Geography and Human Geography
Physical Geography
Models in Geography
Geography of India
Student Atlas

Author
Class 9, 10, 11, 12
Goh Cheng Leong
Savindra Singh
Majid Hussain
Majid Hussain

Publisher
NCERT
Oxford University Press
Prayag Pustak Bhavan
Rawat
McGraw Hill
Oxford University Press

Public Administration Optional

Sr.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Book Name
New Horizons of Public Administration
Administrative Thinkers
Public Administration: Administrative Theories and
Concepts
Indian Public Administration
Introduction to the Constitution of India
The Constitution of India
Indian Administration

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th

Author

Publisher

Mohit Bhattacharya
Prasad & Prasad

Jawahar
Sterling

B.L. Fadia & kuldeep Fadia

Sahitya Bhawan

Ramesh K. Arora, Rajni Goyal

D D Basu
P M Bakshi
S. R. Maheshwari

New Age International

LexisNexis
Universal Law
Orient Blackswan

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