Books For UPSC IAS Civil Services Examination
In my opinion, the below mentioned books are more than enough to cover all important topics.
Always search for the latest Edition.
GS 1Latest Editions
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| Indian Culture | Nithin Singaniya | Amazon — Flipkart | His hand written notes is good. Book has got good feedback.
It 100% exam oriented. “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is High |
| The Wonder That was India 1 | Amazon — Flipkart | Buy it only if you can read 500 pages on Indian Culture.
Good Books if you are a book lover “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is low |
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| The Wonder That was India 2 | Amazon — Flipkart | ||
| Modern Indian History and Freedom Struggle | Spectrum | Amazon — Flipkart | Important For Prelims and Mains
Necessary facts are given in the form of summary. Around 300 pages “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is High |
| Bipin Chandra | Amazon — Flipkart | Bad for Prelims
Good For Mains answer writing. 500+ pages The book is written like a story. One needs lot of patience to read this book. “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is low |
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| Post-Independence India | Bipin Chandra | Amazon — Flipkart | Post Independence Consolidation – Only 5-6 Chapters required.
Under Modern Indian History, some important events like 1962 war, Emergency, etc can be covered from this book. Written like a story Biased Towards Congress “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is High |
| Ramachandra Guha | Amazon — Flipkart | Buy BIPIN or This one. No big difference.
No matter who the author is history doesn’t change |
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| Modern World History | Mastering Modern World History – Norman Lowee | Amazon — Flipkart | It starts from 1917
Pre 1917 available in NCERT (available on mrunal.org) “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is High if you study selectively |
| General topics like Indian Society, Poverty, Urbanization, etc.. | News Papers, notes here and there | ||
| Geography | My Notes OR the below books. [I have compiled notes from below books]
Visit This Link: How to Study Geography General Studies UPSC IAS |
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| Savinder Singh | Amazon — Flipkart | ||
| Spectrum Geography | Amazon — Flipkart | ||
| Certificate Physical Geography | Amazon — Flipkart | ||
| Indian Geography | Indian Geography by Kullar | Amazon — Flipkart | |
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| Indian Constitution | M Laxmikanth | Amazon — Flipkart | “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is Very High |
| DD Basu | Amazon — Flipkart | Read it after Laxmikanth if you have time | |
| India and Neighbors, International Relations | Does the Elephant Dance?: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy | PDF available on net
You don’t need a book to be frank. Most of the questions come from Current Affairs |
Good Book [Not must]
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| Indian Economy | Sanjiv Verma
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Amazon — Flipkart
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Mrunal First.
Books Next Short Book “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is High |
| Ramesh Singh | Amazon — Flipkart | Big Book Compared to Sanjiv Verma
Lot of unnecessary data “Benefit to Cost” Ratio is low compared to Sanjiv verma |
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| Disaster Management to Various Security Forces | Internal Security and Disaster Management By Ashok Kumar | Amazon — Flipkart
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Very Good Book
It will save time Don’t do net digging for these topics |
GS 4 |
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| Ethics | Lexicon Ethics | Amazon — Flipkart | For Basic understanding visit mrunal.org
“Benefit to Cost” Ratio is ok |
Prelims |
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Environment GK
Atlas |
TMH
Shankar Ias Lucent’s GK
Oxford School Atlas |
Amazon — Flipkart
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For Practice and Revision
Selective study Helps you brush up you GK. [Trivial facts of all subjects at one place]
Not requited if you are comfortable with Google Maps |