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GENERAL STUDIES

General Science - NCERT Books	History of India and Indian National Movement NCERT Books - XII India’s Struggle for Independence – Bipin Chandra
Indian and World Geography NCERT Books – XI & XII Certificate of Physical Geography – Goh Cheng Leong Geography through Maps Atlas – Oxford, Orient Longman	Indian Polity Constitution of India – P.M Bakshi Introduction to Constitution of India – Durga Das Basu Our Parliament – Subash Kashyap Constitution of India – Subash
Indian Economy NCERT Books – IX : Indian Economic Development NCERT Books – XII: Macroeconomics Indian Economy – by any one of the following authors R Dutt and Sundaram I.C Dhingra Mishra & Puri Economic Survey (Government of India)	General Mental Ability – R.S Agarwal

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public Administration- Fadia & Fadia
New Horizons of Public Administration- Mohit Bhattacharya
Indian Administration- Sriram Maheswari
Introduction to the Constitution of India- Durga Dass Basu
Indian Public Administration- Ramesh.K.Arora & Rajni Goel (Institutions and Issues)
IGNOU Booklets
Selected Articles from Indian Journal of Public Administration (Only for Mains)

HISTORY

Ancient INDIA
   NCERT
   History of India (Vol - I)- Romila Thapar
   The Wonder that was India (Vol - I)- A. L. Basham :
Medieval INDIA
   NCERT
   Sathish Chandra
Modern INDIA
   NCERT
   Modern India (1885 - 1947) - Sumit Sarkar
   India's Struggle for Independence- Bipin Chandra
   History of Modern India- B. L. Grover

GEOGRAPHY

Physical Geography- +1 NCERT, Savindra Singh, Majid Hussain, D. S. Lal, Sharma & Vattal, Rupa series
Human Geography- NCERT, Majid Hussain, Goh Cheng Leong, Leong & Morgan, Made Simple Rupa series
World Regional Geography- +1 NCERT (Vol - II), 6, 7, 8 th NCERT, Tikka
Indian Geography- X, XI - NCERT, Kuller, C. B. Mamoria, Gopal Singh
Geographical Thought- NCERT, Majid Hussain
Cartography- NCERT, R. L. Singh

Main Paper - I
Physical Geography- NCERT, Spectrum, Savindra Singh, Majid Hussain, D. S. Lal, Sharma & Vattal
Human Geography- NCERT, Spectrum, Majid Hussain, Leong & Morgan, Urbanization, Economic Geography

Main Paper - II
NCERT - X, XII
Geography of India- Khullar, C. B. Mamoria
ATLAS
Orient Long Mann
Oxford
TTK Atlas