Preliminary IAS (General Studies) Subject Indian History Good books History books of Classes XI and XII - NCERT

Freedom Struggle (NET) - Bipin Chandra 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) - NC ERT 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 f rom any exercise books or quantitative aptitude. In fact, an intelligent calcula tion 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 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 enc yclopaedia on Indian Art and Culture selected notes may be taken from it. Books on culture / cultural topics brought out by Publications Division of Minis try 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 Hi ndu'. Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum. Yozna contains science and environment related topics.

remaining books will depend on the optionals he selected.