Saturday, May 12, 2012

Book list : General Studies

By Ashish Thakare I.A.S.
General Studies :

 Indian History :
1) India’s Struggle for Independence – Bipin Chandra
2) NCERT history textbook class 12th Old edition
 Geography:
1) NCERT – 11th and 12th textbook
 Current Affairs :
1) Any good newspaper – I referred Indian Express and The Hindu
2) Civil Services Chronicle magazine
3) Yojana magazine
4) India Year Book (of the current year)
 Science and Technology :
1) Any good book – e.g. Jawahar Publications or good class notes
2) Wikipedia  - search the topic given in the syllabus
 Indian Polity :
1) Indian Constitution – D D Basu
2) Newspapers
 Indian and the World ; and International Relations
1) Newspapers
2) Chronicle magazine
 Statistics:
1) Spectrums book on statistics
2) NCERT textbook class 11th

5 comments:

  1. sir recently i came across the material by NIOS(national institute of open schooling)kindly have a look at it and tell us its relevance for upsc http://www.nios.ac.in/srsec_cour.htm

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  2. Aditya it seems that such material will not have direct benefit as far as UPSC concerned. I will recommend traditional reading like NCERT than material from such source.

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    1. Sir,I find Indian express more informative and interesting than Hindu or Times.So can i continue with indian express only or should i refer hindu also?

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    2. Hi Akshay,
      you can continue with Indian Express, but then you can supplement it with the Hindu (Hindu covers some policy and international affairs news in better way than express)

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  3. Hi sir,
    my name is Mohsin shaikh.
    Thank you for your valuable guidance.
    which is the good book for economics?
    Actually i am from engineering background.so i need the book for economics which easy to understand.
    and again thanks for your post.

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