Recommended books for IAS PRE and MAINS

We have compiled for you a list of IAS books for general studies to help you in your prepration for the IAS and other services under the UPSC. General studies is a vast subjects so it helps to know the best books for the ias exam.

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION: General Studies

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

Topic Wise Reference On General Studies

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

Other Books for General Studies:
1. India Year Book latest
2. One competitive Magazine
3. Guides like Tata Mc Graw Hill, Spectrum or Unique For General Reference 4. The Pearson General Studies Manual

AGRICULTURE

Suggested Books for Preliminary Exams

1. Soil Science - D.K Das Or Brady
2.Agronomy By Yellamananda Reddy
3.Plant Breeding By B.D. Singh
4.Genetics By B.D.Singh
5.Physiology By Pandey & Singha
6.Indroduction To Horticulture - Kumar
7.Handbook Of Agriculture By ICAR
8. Agricultural Economics and Farm Management
9. Agricultural Extension Education in India

Suggested Books for Mains Exams

Books 1 to 9 in the prelims list are useful for the mains exam too.
10.Pathology - Singh
11.Entomology - Vasantha Raj & David
12.The Hindu - Survey Of Indian Agriculture
13.Agricuture Statistics - Dept. of Agri. and coop. statistics at a glance - http://agricoop.nic.in.

Suggested Anthropology Books for Paper I

Books for (Part I) (Upto Topic 7)
1. Beattie : Other Cultures
2. Beals & Hoijer/ : An Introduction to Anthropology
3. Haviland : An Introduction to Anthropology
4. Vaid : Economy and Social Relations
5. U.S. Mishra : An Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology (in Hindi)
6. Mishra & Hasnain : Unifying Anthropology
7. Honigman : he World of Man
8. Herskovits : Cultural Anthropology
9. Majumdar & Madan : An Introduction to Social Anthropology
10.Sagar Preet : Basic Concepts in Sociology and Anthropology
11. Abhik Ghosh : Meetings with the Other (on Fieldwork Techniques)
12. Gaya and Pandey : Cultural Anthropology

(Part II)
1. Harrison et. al : Human Biology
2. Shukla & Rastogi : Physical Anthropology & Human Genetics
3. Stein & Rowe : An Introduction to Physical Anthropology.
4. Vaid & Pandey : Jaivik Manavshastra (in Hindi)
5. B. Janusch : Origins of Man
6. Virender Kumar : Evolution of Genus Homo
7. Surender Nath : Forensic Anthropology
8. Surender Nath : Nutritional Anthropology
9. M. Harris : Rise of Anthropological Theory
10. U.S. Misra : Anthropological Thought (in Hindi)
11. Herskovits : Cultural Anthropology
12. Booklet published by Jawahar Publishers

Suggested IAS Anthropology Books for Paper II

1. NCERT : Indian Society, Social Change
2. Bhattacharya, D.K. : An Outline of Indian Prehistory
3. Srinivas : Caste in India & Other Essays
4. Srinivas : Social Change in Modern India
5. Y. Singh : Modernisation of Indian Tradition
6. Vidyarthi & Rai : Tribal Cultures of India
7. N. Hasnain : Indian Anthropology
8. N. Hasnain : Tribal India
9. R.C. Verma : Indian Tribes
10. Vaid : Who Cares for Tribal Development (Hindi & English)
11. A.L. Basham : The Wonder that was India
12. G.S. Bhatt : Bharatiya Samajik Vichar (in Hindi)
13. Sagar Preet : Reservation for Backward Classes a Perspective

Topic Wise Reference Books on Anthropology

Anthropology Books for Paper I (Part I) (Upto Topic 7)
1. Beattie : Other Cultures
2. Beals & Hoijer/ : An Introduction to Anthropology
3. Haviland : An Introduction to Anthropology
4. Vaid : Economy and Social Relations
5. U.S. Mishra : An Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology (in Hindi)
6. Mishra & Hasnain : Unifying Anthropology
7. Honigman : he World of Man
8. Herskovits : Cultural Anthropology
9. Majumdar & Madan : An Introduction to Social Anthropologyv 10.Sagar Preet : Basic Concepts in Sociology and Anthropology
11. Abhik Ghosh : Meetings with the Other (on Fieldwork Techniques)

Anthropology Books Paper I (Part II)
1. Harrison et. al : Human Biology
2. Shukla & Rastogi : Physical Anthropology & Human Genetics
3. Stein & Rowe : An Introduction to Physical Anthropology.
4. Vaid & Pandey : Jaivik Manavshastra (in Hindi)
5. B. Janusch : Origins of Man
6. Virender Kumar : Evolution of Genus Homo
7. Surender Nath : Forensic Anthropology
8. Surender Nath : Nutritional Anthropology
9. M. Harris : Rise of Anthropological Theory
10. U.S. Misra : Anthropological Thought (in Hindi)
11. Herskovits : Cultural Anthropology
12. Booklet published by Jawahar Publishers

Anthropology Books for Paper II
1. NCERT : Indian Society, Social Change
2. Bhattacharya, D.K. : An Outline of Indian Prehistory
3. Srinivas : Caste in India & Other Essays
4. Srinivas : Social Change in Modern India
5. Y. Singh : Modernisation of Indian Tradition
6. Vidyarthi & Rai : Tribal Cultures of India
7. N. Hasnain : Indian Anthropology
8. N. Hasnain : Tribal India
9. R.C. Verma : Indian Tribes
10. Vaid : Who Cares for Tribal Development (Hindi & English)
11. A.L. Basham : The Wonder that was India
12. G.S. Bhatt : Bharatiya Samajik Vichar (in Hindi)
13. Sagar Preet : Reservation for Backward Classes a Perspective

Suggested Botany Books for IAS

Microbiology: Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough.
Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author
Cryptograms B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytes gymnosperms) along with both volumes by Pandey and Trivedi
Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar
Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey
Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta
Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar
Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi
Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle
Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh
Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

Suggested Chemistry Books

Books for PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

• Gaseous state, Thermodynamics, Phase rule, solutions, Colligative properties, Electro Chemistry, Catalysis, Colloids - Principals of physical chemistry - Puri, Sharma & Pathawa
• Chemical kinetics - Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj
• Photo chemistry - A text book of physical chemistry (Vol. - IV) - K.L. Kapoor
• Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj.

Books for ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

• Bonding and shape of organic molecules, Stereo chemistry of carbon compound - Reactions and reagents - O.P. Agarwal
• A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry - Peter Sykes
• Rest all the chapters - A text book of organic chemistry - Bahl & Bahl

Books for INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

• Atomic Structure - Principle of physical chemistry - Puri, Sharma & Pathwa
• Advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee
• Chemical Periodicity, Chemical bonding,Coordination compound - Selected topics in inorganic chemistry - Maden, Malik, Tuli
• Theoretical principles of inorganic chemistry - G.S. Manku,
• Extradiction of metals, Principle of inorganic chemistry - Puri, Sharma, Jauhar.
• Rest all the chapters - An advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee
• Pollution and its control - A text book of environmental chemistry and pollution - S.S. Dara.

Topicwise Listing of Suggested Books for Civil Engineering

1. Strength of material -- Gere and Timoshenko
2. Concrete Technology -- M.S. Shetty
3. R.C.C. (WSM) -- Shyal and Goyal
4. R.C.C. (LSM) -- A.K. Jain
   
   
5. Steel Structure -- L.S. Negi
6. Soil Mechanics -- K.R. Arora
7. Fluid Mechanics -- Modi & Seth
8. Theory of Structure (Vol - II) -- Vazirani and Ratwani
9. Irrigation Engineering -- S.K. Garg
10. Prestress Concrete -- N. Krishna Rajee
11. Engineering Hydrology -- K. Subramanya

Suggested Commerce Books

General Study Book List for Commerce

Company Law: N.D.Kapoor
Management: Kunj
Auditing: Dinkar Pagare
Management Concepts: C.V.Gupta

Topicwise Study Books for Commerce

Financial Accounting: Grewal, Monga
Cost Accounting: Maheshwari & Mittal
Taxation: Singhania, Girish Ahuja
Auditing: Kamal Gupta
Financial Institution: Anand Jain
Financial Management: I.M.Panday
Organisation Theory: L.M.Prasad, Rao Narayanan, R.S.Sharma
Industrial Relation: Mamoria, Singh & Chabra, Monappa

Economics Books for IAS Exam

• Dictionary of Economics - Ghaham Bannock; T.E. Baxter, Ray Rees (Penguin)
• Economics (Read Relevant Chapters) - Paul A. Samuelson
• The Hindu: Survey of Agriculture & Survey of Industry
• An Introduction to Economics - A.W. Stonier and D.C. Hauge
• Monetary Theory and Public Policy - Kenneth Kurihara
• Economic Survey : Eighth Five Year Plan: New Industrial Policy - Government of India
• Outline of Monetary Economics (Read Relevant Chapters) - A.C.I. Day
• Public Finance - H.L. Bhatia
• Modern Banking (Read Relevant Chapters) - R.S. Sayers
• Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri
• Macro Economic Analysis - Edward Shepiro
• Indian Economy - R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram
• Money Supply in India: Concepts, Compilation and Analysis (Sec.1-3 New Series only): Functions and Working (Read Relevant Chapters) - Reserve Bank of India
• Economic Growth and Development - Mayer and Baldwin
• Public Finance - K.K. Andley and Sundharam
• International Economics - Bo Soderston
• National Income Accounting - Bakerman
• Economics Choice - Koutsweanik
• Banking - S.B. Gupta
• International Trade - Bo Soderston
• The Economic Times and Economical and Political

IAS Electrical Engineering Books

• Modern Central Engineering - Ogata
• Electrical Technology - Thereja
• Electrical Power - Star
• Physics of Semiconductor Devices - Sze
• Automatic Control System - Kuo
• Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics - Rao
• Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating System - Jordan & Balmain
• Integrated Circuits - D. Roy Choudhary
• Network Analysis - Valkenbury
• Basic Current Analysis - Murthy
• Electromagnetic Waives and Field - R.N. Singh
• Control Systems Engineering - Nagrath Gopal
• Semi Conductor - Nagchoudhary
• Principals of Electronics - V.K. Mehta
• Radio Engineering - G.K. Mithal
• Circuit Analysis - Gupta

Suggested Geography Books for IAS

Booklist in the perspective of changed syllabus Geomorphology

The Earth's Dynamic Surface - By K. Siddhartha
Geomorphology - By Bloom
Geomorphology - By Sparks
Economic Geology - By Shackleton
Environmental Geology - By Valdiya
Climatology
Atmosphere Weather and Climate - By K. Siddhartha
Climate History and Modem Man - By Chorley
Science and Wonders of Atmosphere – By Gedzelman
Bio & Environmental Geog. Biosphere A Geography of Life - By Dr. Thomas and K. Siddhartha
Environmental Geology -ByValdiya
Living in the Environment - By Miller
Settlement Geography- Cities Urbanization and Urban System - By K. Siddhartha & S. Mukherjee
Urban Geography - By Herbert Thomas
Indian Industrial Geography Indian industry a geographical perspective - By S. Mukherjee and K. Siddhartha
Indian Economy - By Uma Kapila
General Reading environmental concerns and strategies - By T. N. Khoshoo
Development Indicators -Oxford University Press.
Environmental Hazards - published by Ministry of Environment and forest.

How to prepare
These changes are not at all mind boggling. They can be tackled with élan if thoughtful inputs goes into the preparation. And here comes the role of coaching institutes. Quality education to IAS aspirants will be of paramount importance in their preparation. What an individual candidate can accumulate in a year or so, institutes can make the candidate assimilate in a couple of months.
Also, to add to our discussion, these changes in the syllabus are also beneficial to the aspirants in some way. Like, as Geography is tending to become multi-disciplinary it would provide more coverage for general studies. Furthermore, the non-serious candidates can be weeded out by this process. =============================X===========================

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION :

1. 6th to 12th NCERT Books for Geography.
2. Certificate of Physical Geography - Goh Cheng Leong.
3. Physical Geography -Savindra Singh
4.Physical Geography - Made simple series - Rupa Publications
5. Economic & Commercial Geography - Made Simple Series - Rupa Publications.
6. Human and Economic Geography - Leong & Norgan
7. Human Geography - Majid Hussain.
8. Geographical thoughts - Majid Hussain.
9. Field Work - 11 th NCERT.
10. Cartography - R.L. Singh
11. Geography of India - Gopal Singh
12. Economic & Commercial Geography of India - C.B. Memoria
13. Orient longman - Atlas.
14. TTK - Atlas
15. Dictionary of Geography - Penguin
16. Spectrum guide for Geography.
17. Siddhartha - Preliminary Question Bank.
18. Geography Guide - Narmadeshwar Prasad.
19. Brilliants

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR MAINS EXAMINATION :

Geography Books Paper - I

• Physical geography - Savinder Singh
• The Earth's dynamic surface - K. Sidhartha
• Physical geography - Strahler & Strahler
• Climatology - D.S. Lal
• Physical geography made simple - Rupa
• Oceanography - Sharma & Vital
• Biogeography - Savinder Singh
• Evolution of geographical thoughts - Majid Hussain and Adhikari
• Economic geography - K. Sidhartha
• Economic and social geography made simple - Rupa
• Urban geography - K. Sidhartha
• Human geography - Majid Hussain
• Geography of population - R.C. Chandra
• Regional Planning in India - hand & Puri
• Political geography - Dixit

Geography Books Paper - II

• Physical environment - NCERT
• NCERT Class XII
• India: Physical aspects - K Sidhartha
• Geography of India - Mamoria
• Agricultural geography - Majid Hussain
• Agricultural problems in India - Sadhu and Singh
• Economic & Commercial geography of India - Mamoria
• India's urbanisation and urban systems - R. Ramachandran
• Regional planning in India - Chand and Puri
• Political geography - Dixit
• India: political aspects - K. Sidhartha

REFERENCE BOOKS OVERALL :

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

• NCERT Vol -1
• Physical Geography - Bunnett
• Certificate physical and human geography - Goh, Cheng Leong
• Physical Geography made simple

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

• Human and Economic Geography - NCERT
• Economic Geography, Economic and Social Geography made simple
• Penguim masters studies on geography
• The Cultural Landscape - Rubeistein

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

• Indian geography - Rammorthy Gopalakrishnan
• Physical geography of India - S.M. Mathur
• General geography - NCERT
• Mineral of India - NBT (Wadia)
• Resources and regional development - NCERT
• Catography - R.L. Singh
• World regional geography - Fellnan
• Work book - K. Siddhartha and S. Mukherjee
• Question Bank - Surendra Singh, 1000
• Geography quiz - Muthiah

Geology Books for IAS

• Geology: An Introduction - Kronaris and Krambine
• Text Book of Geology - P.K. Mukherjee
• Text Book of Physical Geology - Mahapatra
• Geomorphology - Woolridge or Tharnbury
• Principles of Petrology - G.W. Turrel
• Petrography - Williams
• Mineral and Crystal Science - V.C. Jesh
• Sedimentary Rocks - Petti John
• Underground Hydrology - David Keith Toad
• Igneous Rocks and Metromorphic Petrology - Turner
• Ocean - Squaredrop, Johnson and Bliming
• Simple Geological Structure - Plate and Charlincr
• Soil Minerology - I. E. Grim
• A Dictionary of Geology - Morrison

IAS History Books

REFERENCE BOOKS FOR HISTORY PRELIMS :

BOOKS ON ANCIENT INDIA :
1. Wonder that was India - A.L. Bhashem.
2. Ancient India Social and Culture - Luniya
3. Ancient India - an introductory outline - D.N.Jha.
4. An Advanced History of India - R.C. Majumda, H.C. Raychaudhurai, - Kalikinkar Datta
5. Ancient India - L.Mukherjee
BOOKS ON MEDIVAL INDIA
1. Advanced study in the History of Medival India - Volume I, II, III J.L. Mehta
2. Medival India - Volume I & II Satish Chandra
3. Wonder that was India - Rizzvi
4. Medival India - L. Mukherjee
BOOKS ON MODERN INDIA
1. Modern Indian History - Groover & Grooover.
2. A struggle for Independence - Bipin Chandra
3. Freedom Struggle - Bipinchandra
4. Modern India - L. Mukherjee
NCERT BOOKS
VIII, IX, X,XI,XII History
HISTORY BOOKS GUIDE
1. Indian History - Krishna Reddy
2. Indian History - Agnihotri
3. Competition Wizard Workbook.
4. IGNOU Material
5. Y.D.Mishra

REFERENCE BOOKS OVERALL :

BOOKS ON ANCIENT INDIA

• NCERT (11th)
• The Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhuri & Datta
• The wonder that was India - A. L Bashaon
• Indus Civilization - (a) IGNOU booklet no. 2
• The rise of civilization of India and Pakistan - Bridget and Raymond Allchin
• Ancient India in historical outline (Revised and enlarged edition - 98) - D.N. Jha
• Mauryan : Ashoka and the decline of mouryan empire - Romila Thapar
• Indian Feudalism - R.S. Sharma

BOOKS ON MEDIEVAL INDIA

• NCERT (11th)
• The Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhuri & Datta
• Social life and cultural life of both Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India - J.L. Mehta
• A history of South India - K. A. Nilakanta Shastri
• IGNOU material (specially on agriculture and agrarian relations and culture)

BOOKS ON MODERN INDIA

• NCERT (12th)
• A new look into the modern Indian history - B.L Grover
• Freedom struggle - Bipin Chandra, Varun Dey and Amlesh Tripathy (NBT)
• India's struggle for independence - Bipin Chandra
• Modern India - Sumit Sarkar
• IGNOU material (specially on freedom struggle)

Law Books for IAS

Topicwise Listing of Suggested Law Books

Books on Indian Penal Code
-- Atchuthen Pillai
-- Ratanlal Dhiraj Lal

Books on Law of Tort
-- Atchuthen Pillai
-- R.K. Bangia
-- Winfield

Books on Constitutional Law
-- V.N. Shukla
-- S.K. Kapoor
-- J.N. Pandey

Books on Merchantile Law
-- R.K. Bangia
-- Avatar Singh
-- Pollack and Mulla

Books on Jurisprudence
-- P.K. Tripathi
-- Dias

Maths Books for IAS

Maths Paper-I

1. Linear Algebra - K.C. Prasad, K B Datta
2.Calculus - Santhi Narayan
3.Analytic Geometry - Shantinarayan, HC Sinha, DK Jha and Sharma
4.Ordinary Differential eqs:- MD Raising Lumina, Golden seris-NP Bali
5. Dynamics, Statitics and Hydrostatics - M.Ray
6. Vector analysis - Shantinarayan

Maths Paper-II

1.Algebra - K C Prasad, KB Datta
2. Real Analysis - Shantinarayan,Royden
3. Complex Analysis - GK Ranganath
4. Linear Programming - SD sharma
5.Partial Diff.eqs. - Singhania
6. Numerical analysis and Computer Progg. - V. Rajaraman, SS Shasri
7. Mechanics & Fluid dynamics - AP Mathur, Azaroff leonid

Other Books for Maths

• Modern Algebra - A. R. Vashisth
• Algebra - J. N. Sharma and S. N. Goyal
• Linear Algebra - Schaum Series (Lipshutz) or Sharma and Vashisth
• Matrices - Schaum Series (Frank Ayres) or Vashisth
• Calculus - I. A. Menon
• Coordinate Geometry - R. L. Soni
• Differential Calculus - Gorakh Prasad
• Analytical Solid Geometry - Shanti Narayanan
• Text Book of Coordinate Geometry - Rai Ballabh
• Mechanism - D. S. Mathur
• Statistical Mechanism - Carson Horg .
• Solid Mechanism - Kazmioo
• Mathematics Dictionary - James
• Differential Equations - Schaum Series (Frank Ayres) or N.M. Kapur or Raisinghania
• Numerical Analysis - S.S. Sastry
• Complex Analysis - Schaum Series or J.N. Sharma
• Operations Research - Kanti Swaroop or Manmohan

IAS Books for Mechanical Engineering

• Theory of Mechanics - S S Rattan
• Theory of Mechanism and Mechanics - Jagdish Lal.
• Mechanic of Solids - Popru
• Manufacturing Science - Ghosh and Malik
• Manufacturing Technology - P N Rao
• Production Manangement - R K Jain
• Principals of Manufacturing Material & Process - Campbeu
• Fundamentals of Classed Thermodynamics - Van Wylen
• Heat Transfer - Gupta Prakash
• Heat and Mass Transfer - R. Yadav
• Energy Conversion - Sukhalmoy
• Environmental Pollution Central Engineering C S Rao
• Surveying and Levelling - T P Kanetakar
• Heat Conversion - Arora & Kundwar
• Manufacturing Science - R K Jain
• Thermodynamics - R Yadav

IAS Books for Medical Science

Topicwise Suggested Reading for Medicine

• Anatomy - Megraper or Snell
• Human Anatomy (3 Vol.) - Chaurasia
• Medical Physiology - Gyston
• Human Physiology - Chatterjee
• Pathology - Muirs or Robbins
• Microbiology - Anand Narayan or Chatterjee
• Principal and Practice of Medicines - Davidson
• Social and Preventive Medicine - Park & Park
• Surgery - Love and Bailey
• Essentials of Bio-chemistry - M C Pant
• Review in Bio-chemistry - Harper
• Heinmann Medical Dictionary - Janife
• Heinmann Dental Dictionary - Lennox

Medical Books for Prelims

• Human anatomy: Chaurasia (III Volumes) and Histology (Inderbir Singh) - Basic Gray and Neuroanatomy (Inderbir Singh) for selected topics.
• Physiology: Ganong
• BioChemistry: Harper
• Microbiology: Anantha Narayan (Introduction to Microbiology), Parasitology (Jayaram Panikkar)
• Pathology: Robbins (Big Robbins)
• Medicine: Harrison (No other book may be useful)
• Surgery: Bailey (No other book may be useful)
• SPM: Park (No other book may be useful)

NB : Latest volumes are more useful.

Miscellaneous:
1) Question Banks: Question banks without keys are available across the market (Jawahar). Bhatia has published a book, with keys. But it contains questions till 1999 only, also keys are often wrong. The III volume Bhatia series also have UPSC questions spread over the entire series.
2) AIIMS question bank will be also useful for solving MCQS. Books that are published (like Mudit Khanna) for AIIMS entrance will be also useful for revision.

Medical Books for Mains

Go back to those old MBBS days. If you could get hold of any old notes from medical colleges of those rough professors, it will serve you better than any texts. Also, apply the old logic, draw pictures as far as possible. Go back to selections, and read the topic carefully.

• Human anatomy: Chaurasia (III Volumes) and Histology (Inderbir Singh)
• Physiology: Ganong
• BioChemistry: Harper
• Microbiology: Anantha Narayan (Introduction to Microbiology), Parasitology (Jayaram Panikkar)
• Pathology: Robbins (Big Robbins)
• Medicine: George Mathew (Notes in medicine), Harrison if needed
• Surgery: Bailey (Das will be also useful for some areas)
• SPM: Park

Philosophy Books for IAS

Philosophy Books for Prelims

Section- A Problem of Philosophy
1. Dr. C.D. Sharma (Indian Philosophy)
2. Dr. Deo Raj (Indian Philosophy)
3. Dr. Y.Masiaha (Western Philosophy)
4. Dr. Daya Krishna (Western Philosophy)
5. Dr. Franckena Thilly (Western Philosophy)
6. Dr. B.K. Lal (Contemporary Western Philosophy)

Section- B Logic
1. Dr. Irvin M. Copi
2. Ashok Verma (Symbolic logic)

Section- C Ethics
1. Dr. Divakar Pathak (Indian Ethic)
2. Dr. V.P. Verma (Western Ethic)
3. Dr. B.N. Singh (Ethics)
4. Lilly (Ethics)

Section- A Western Philosophy
1. By Franckena Thilly
2. Dr. C.D. Sharma
3. Dr. Dayakrishna
4. Dr. Y.Masiaha
5. Dr. B.K. Lal
6. Dr. Lakshmi Saxena
7. D.M.Dutt

Section- B Indian Philosophy
1. Dr. C.D. Sharma
2. Dr. Deo Raj
3. Dr. Hiriyanna
4. Dr. Radha Krishnan
5. D.M.Dutt

Section- C Socio Political Philosophy
1. Dr. J.P. Sood Vol IV
2.Dr. Shiv Bhanu Singh
3. Dr. O.P.Gauba
4. NCERT Books

Sec. B Philosophy of Religion
1. Dr. Y.Masiaha
2. John Hick
3. Dr. V.P. Verma

Specific Books on Philosophy — Six ways of knowing by D.M. Datta.

Physics Books for IAS

• Physics Vol I&II by David Haliday and Resnick (for basic concepts)
• Any practice book for objective questions.
• Any IIT/Engineering entrance type objective questions book in physics will do
• Mechanics - D.S. Mathur, B.S. Agarwal
• Waves and Oscillations - Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
• Optics - Brijlal& Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal, Ajoy & Ghatak
• Thermal Physics - Singal, Agarwal & Prakash, B.S. Agarwal, Shah & Srivastava
• Electricity & Magnetism: D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith
• Any fundamental book on electrical engineering like B.L Thareja (Vol 1) or Vincent Del Tero
• Modern Physics - A Beiser (Concepts of modern physics), S.L. Gupta, B.S. Agarwal, J.B. Rajan
• Electronics - Milman & Halkias, S. Ramnam, Ryder or Bolstead, Malvina
• Properties of Matter - B. Aggarwal
• Atomic Physics - J. B. Rajan
• Fundamental of Magnetism electricity - B.N. Basudeva
• A Text Book of Suond - Khanna & Bedi
• Nuclear Physics - D.C. Tayal
• Introduction of Electrodynamics - Griffith
• Advanced Level Physics - Nelkon & Parkar
• University Physics - Zeemasky
• Numerical Problems - B. Lal & Subrahmanyam
• Quantum Mechnaics - A Ghatak
• A Dictionary of Physics - Goldstein

Physics Books for Paper 1

• Classical Mechnism -Gupta, Kumar & Sharma
  - Takewale & Puranik
  -H.Goldstein
• Mechanics - Kleppner & Kolenkov
  -D.S. Mathur
• Wave/Spl.Relatively - D.S. Mathur/Kleppner&Kolenkov
• Special Relativity-R.Resnic
  -Gupta & Goyal
• Optics-Ajay Ghatak
  -B.S. Agarwal
• Electrodyanamics - David Griffiths
• EM Theory -Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash
• Thermal Physics - P.K Chakraborty
  - Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal
  -Statistical Physics -B.B laud

Physics Books for Paper 2

• Quantum Physics- Resnick & Eisberg
• Concept of Mordern Physics - Arthut Bevser
• Quantum Mechanics -Ghatak & Loknathan
  -Chatwal & Anand/Satya Prakash
• Atomic & Molecular Spectra -Rajkumar
• Nuclear Physics -S.B Patel
• Solid State Physics -Kittel
• Electronics -Allon Mottershed
• Objective Physics -H.C. Verma/TMH

Political Science Books for IAS

General Books For Political Science

by Subhash C Kashyap ---
1. Our Constitution
2. Our Parliament
3. Perspective on Constitution (ED)

by P.M Bakshi --
1.Constitution
by D.D. Basu --
1. Introduction to the Constitution
Others
IIPA Journal
The Hindu
Frontline

Topic Wise Books For Pol. Science

Political Theory and Indian Politics

• George H. Sabine ( Western political theory)
• Eddy Ashrivatham (Political theory)
• C.L. Wayper (Political thought)
• O.P. Gauba (An introduction to political thought)
• R.M. Bhagat (Western political thought)
• Amal Roy and Mohit Bhattacharya (political theory, ideas and institutions)
• S.P. Varma (Modern political theory)
• J.C. Jauhary (Comparative politics)
• A.S. Sandhu (Political theory)
• Pukharaj Jain (Political thought)

Indian Constitution And Politics

• M.V. Paylee (Indian Constitution)
• D.D Basu (An introduction to Indian constitution)
• V.N. Shukla (Constitution of India, couple of chapters are really relevant)
• A.C. Kapoor (Comparative Governments)
• V.P. Varma (Indian political theory)
• K.R. Bombwal (Comparative constitutions)
• Bipin Chandra (Freedom struggle)
• Simit Sarkar (Modern India)
• A.R. Desai (Social background of Indian Nationalism)
• Paul Brass (Politics in India since independence)
• Independent India : First Fifty Years - Hiranyamay Kelkar
• Indian foreign policy agenda for 21st century (1998 Foreign service institute) - Lalit Mansingh
• India's foreign policy in a changing world (1999) - V.P. Dutt
• People's right and the state in the third world - Manjooran Mohanty & Partha Mukherjee
• World politics in the twentieth century - Paul Kenedy
• Nuclear India (1998) Jasjit Singh

Suggested Pol. Science Books For Prelims

Section A:
1.(a) (b) (c) 'Political Theory', —Eddy Ashirvatham
'Political Theory' —O.P. Gauba
'Political Theory' —Amal Ray, Mohit Bhattacharya.

2.(a) (b) (c) As above
(d) 'Comparative Politics' —R. Chilkote

Section B:
1.Political Theory —Amal Ray & Mohit Bhattachary.
2.Introduction to Indian Constitution —D.D. Basu
3.(a) India's Struggle for Independence —Bipan Chandra.
(b) Introduction to Indian constitution —D.D. Basu.
(c) Our Parliament —S.C. Kashyap
(d) Our Constitution —S.C. Kashyap
(e) Comparative Govt. & Politics — V.N. Khanna
(f) Comparative Govt. & Politics —K.R. Bombwal

Suggested Pol. Science Books For Mains

Political Science Paper I Section A
1.(a) A History of Political thought
—Subrata Mukherjee, Susheela Ramaswamy
(b) A History of Political thought —J.P. Suda
(c) For Manu & Kautilya : Foundations of Indian Political thought — V.R. Mehta
2.(a) Modern Political Theory —S.P. Verma
(b) Modern Political Theory —Madan Gandhi
3.(a) Political Theory —Eddy Ashirvatham
(b) Political Theory —J.C. Johri
(c) Political Theory —Ray & Bhattacharya
(d) Political Theory —O.P. Gauba

Political Science Paper I Section B
1.(a) Comparative Govt. & Politics —J.C. Johri
(a) Comparative Govt. & Politics —Ronald Chilkote
2.(a) Modern Indian Political Thinkers —V.P. Verma
(b) Foundations of Indian Political Thought —V.R. Mehta
(c) Indian Govt. and Politics —A.S. Narang
(c) Indian Govt. and Politics —J.R. Siwach
(c) Indian Govt and Politics —M.P. Singh, Himanshu Roy
(d) Politics in India —Rajani Kothari
(e) Govt. and Politics of India —W.H. Morris Jones

Political Science Paper II Section A
1.(a) Theoretical aspects of International Politics —Mahendra Kumar
(b) Politics among Nations —Morganthu
(c) International Politics —Schuman

Political Science Paper II Section B
1.(a) International Politics —Bookhives
(b) Regular subscription of Frontline & World Focus (magazine)

Majority of Books referred for both mains and Prelims Syllabus are availabe in HIndi Medium also.

Psychology Books for IAS

Listed below are civil service exam reference books on psychology.

Books on General Psychology

1. Morgan & King
2. Atkinson
3. Baron
4. Eysench - "Psychology-Ashrdent's Handbook"
5. Chaplin and Kraweik - Systems and theories of psychology

Books for specific topics

1. Theories of personality - Hall and Lindxy
2. Abnormal psychology and modern life - Cokman Vead, well being & Mental disorders, therapeutic approaches and coping mechanisms.
3. Community psychology - Pande
4. Organisational behaviour - Stephen P. Robbins
5. Educational psychology - Mattur
6. Social psychology - Baros & Bryne
7. Psychological testing - A.K. Singh
8. Statistical Analysis Garette
9. Development psychology - Hurlock

Psychology Books for IAS

Listed below are civil service exam reference books on psychology.

Books on General Psychology

1. Morgan & King
2. Atkinson
3. Baron
4. Eysench - "Psychology-Ashrdent's Handbook"
5. Chaplin and Kraweik - Systems and theories of psychology

Books for specific topics

1. Theories of personality - Hall and Lindxy
2. Abnormal psychology and modern life - Cokman Vead, well being & Mental disorders, therapeutic approaches and coping mechanisms.
3. Community psychology - Pande
4. Organisational behaviour - Stephen P. Robbins
5. Educational psychology - Mattur
6. Social psychology - Baros & Bryne
7. Psychological testing - A.K. Singh
8. Statistical Analysis Garette
9. Development psychology - Hurlock

Public Administration Books for IAS

Reference Books For Preliminary Examination Pub AD

1. Indian Administration

- Ramesh K. Arora & Rajni Goyal.

2. Indian Administration

- S.R. Maheswari.

3. Administrative Theory

- Avasti & Avasti

4. Public Administration

- Avasti & Maheswari.

5. Administrative Thinkers

- R. Prasad and Prasad.

6. Administrative Thinkers

- S.R. Maheswari.

7. Public Administration - Sadan and Sharma
8. Local Government - S.R. Maheswari.
9. New Horizons of Public Administration - Mohit Bhattacharya.
10. Public Administration Theory and concepts - Rumki Basu
11. Public Administration (Manual) (TATA MC Graw Hill) - Laxmikanth.
12. Indian Constitution - D.D. Basup (or) Pandey.
13. Public Administration and Public Affairs - Nicholas Henry.
14. Modern Public Administration - Nigro and Nigro.

General Reference Books for Public Administration

To put the subject in its proper context the historical development (evolution of public administration discipline) of the subject should be studied with great emphasis.

• Public administration in theory and practice - M.P. Sharma and B.L Sadan
• Public administration - Mohit Bhattacharya
• Modern public administration - Nigro and Nigro
• Theories and principles of administration : Administrative thinkers - Prasad & Prasad
• Principles of management - Terry and Frankline
• Administrative Behaviors: Managing organizational behavior - Paul Hersey & Kenneth Blanchard
• Personal Administration - Public personal administration - O. Glennstal
• Financial administration: Financial administration of India - M.J.K. Thavaray
• Comparative administration : public administration a comparative perspective - Ferrel Heady or Comparative public administration - Ramesh
• Control over administration : Public administration - Avasthi & Maheswari
• Central administration in India: Central administration - A. Avasthi
• Civil Services in India : Indian administration - S.R. Maheswari, State
• District and local administration: State administration - J.D. Shukla
• District administration -- S. S. Khera
• Local Government in India - S.R. Maheshwari
• Laxmikant's guide (for clearing conepts)
• IGNOU Study Materials
• IJPA articles on relevant topics
• Current News Papers

IAS Sociology Books,

Sociology Books For Preliminary Examination

1. IGNOU Material
2. Sociology - Sachideva & Vidhya Bushan.
3. Sociology - T.B. Bottomore.
4. Sociology Themes & Perspectives - Moralambose & R.M. Heald.
5. Unique Guide.
6. Dhilion Guide.
7. Spectrum Guide.
8. Sociology Dictionary - William P. Scott.
9. Social Demography - Asha & Bandhi.
10. Social Anthropology - Madan & Majumdar.
11. Political System - Smelser.
11.Cultural Anthropology -Madan and Majumdar
12.Sociology - Horton and Hunt
13. Harlambus - Introduction to Sociology
14. Tribal India - L.P. Vidhyarthi
15. Modernisation of Indian Tradition - Y. Singh
16. NCERT tests on sociology
17. Oxford Dictionary / Collins
18. Chapters from a good book on Demography and Urban geography

Sociology SociologyGuide.com - A free guide to sociology Examinations.

Reference Books For Sociology Mains Exam

1. Ram Ahuja: Society in India
2. Ram Ahuja: Social problems in India
3. IGNOU notes (especially for thinkers and topic on Indian system)
4. Caste its 20th Century Avatar - M.N. Srinivas
5. participation as freedom - Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze
6. Y. Singh - Modernisation of Indian Tradition
7. Y. Singh - Social tradition in India
8. L.P. Vidhyarthi - Tribal India
9. Yojana (Independence day special 2001 on population)
10. Y. Singh - Social Change in India
11. Niel J. Smelser for Economy and Society
12. Abraham and Francis - Sociological theory

General Reference Books For Sociology

• Sociology - T.B. Bottomore
• Sociology - Harry M. Johnson
• Sociology: An introduction and analysis - Maclver and Page
• Handbook of sociology - Ogburn and Ninkoff
• Social anthropology - Madan and Majumdar
• Social Thought - Abraham and Morgan
• Social structure - M.N. Srinivas
• Dictionary of sociology - Dunean and Mitchel or Penguin

Topicwise Suggested Sociology Books

• Introductory sociology: T.B. Bottmore
• Basic contribution of sociological and anthropological thinkers: dictionary of sociology, Social and cultural process: Maclver and Page and Madan & Majumdar
• Deviance and central: Social stratification - Harlambos and T.B. Bottomore
• Illustrations - Johnson
• Political institutions - Bottomore
• Religious and social institutions - Madan & Majumdar
• Basic Concepts of Indian sociology - Y Singh (Modernization of Indian Tradition), Villavge, Town, City, Maclver & Page

IAS Statistics Books

• Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications - Paul Meyer
• An Introduction to Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics -V K Rohtagi
• Fundamentals of Statistics (2 Vol.)- A M Goon, M K Gupta and B Dass Gupta
• An Outline of Statistical Theory (2 Vol.) -A M Goon, M K Gupta and B .Dass Gupta
• Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics-A C Gupta and V K Kapoor
• Fundamentals of Applied Statistics-S C Gupta and V K Kapoor
• Sampling Techniques-William G. Cochran
• Sampling Theory of Surveys with applications - B. V Sukhatme & B V Sukhatme.

Zoology Books for IAS Exam

Suggested Zoology Reading List

• Cell and molecular bilogy - De Robertis, C.B. Powar
• Genitics - P.K. Gupta, Gardner, Ahluwalia, Vir Bala Rastogi
• Invertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan
• Vertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan and Varma
• Comparative anatomy of vertebrate zoology - Kent
• Animal physiology - H.R. Singh, Vander
• Biochemistry - Harper, Leninger, Stryer, Rao
• Embryology - Balinsky, A.K. Berry, Vir Bala Rastogi
• Organic evolution - Veer Bala Rastogi
• Ecology - P.D. Sharma, Odum, Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj, Kotpal and Bali
• Economic Zoology - Shukla and Upadhaya, Kotpal Series, Kotpal- Khetrapal - Aggarwal
• Ethology - Reena Mathur, Magazines like Science Reporter, Nature etc.
• General Zoology - Storer and Usurger
• Physiology - H.R. Singh
• Evolution - Vir Bala Rastogi
• A Dictionary of Entomology - Leftwich

Pali Books for IAS Exam

• History of Indian Literature

(Vol. II) - Winternitz

• Origin of Pali Literature

(Vol. I & II) - B.C. Lal

• Compendium of Abidhamma Philosophy

- B. Jagdish Kashyap

• Pali Essays

- Hari Shanker Shukia

• Pali Grammar - L.N. Tiwari

Urdu Books for IAS Exam

Urdu Books Paper I

• Urdu ki Lisani Tashkil

- Mirza Khalil Ahmad Beg

[Educational Book House, Aligarh]

• Mokqadwa; Tarikh-e-Zuban-e-Urdu

- Prof. Maswood Husain Khan

[Educational Book House, Aligarh]

• Ansaf-e-SuKhan aur Sher Haiyyaten

- Shamian Ahmed

Urdu Books Paper II

• Urdu Shairi ka Tauqidi Mutala - Suenbul Nigar

[Educational Book House, Aligarh]

• Urdu Nasr ka Tauqidi Mutala - Suenbul Nigar

[Educational Book House, Aligarh]

• Urdu Adab Ki Tarikh - Noorul Hasan Naqvi [Educational Book House, Aligarh]

Management Books for IAS Exam

Management Books Paper I

1. Organisational Design: Khandwala; Madhukar Shukla (both)
2. Organisational Behaviour: Luthans and Robbins- for some portions Blanchart is also good.
3. Strategic Cost Management: Business Today supplements
4. Economics: Any good economics book
5. Management: Terry and Franklin; Koontz and Donnel ; Koontz and weihrich (any one)
6. Strategic Management: Michael Porter

Management Books Paper II

1. Marketing: Kotler and any one Indian author book(Saxena/Ramaswami etc.)
2. Financial: Pandey/Chandra/Khan & Jain/Bearley - Any two
3. Information Technology: Any good book which gives holistic view covering all the topics along with Internet based notes.
4. International: Business Media and Government Rules on export procedures, transfer pricing etc.
5. Operations: Adams/Taha
6. HRD: Mammoria/Monappa/Prasad/Flippo - Any two.