Raus IAS Academy Suggested Books List

Rau’s IAS Academy Suggested Books List for UPSC Exam

List of Books for UPSC examination preparation- this list is just for reference, article build from reference published in the booklet of Rau’s Study Kit and from student inputs of Rau’s IAS Academy, this article is only to give, a brief idea to beginners about what sought of books need to refer for preparing Exams.

Index NCERT Books Suggested General Studies-1 (Paper 2) General Studies-2 (Paper 3) General Studies-3 (Paper-4) General Studies-4 (Paper-5) Other References

NCERT Books Suggested

NCERT Books (You can download them free or buy @ Amazon) 

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1.)	General Science: 9th and 10th standards
2.)	Biology: 11th and 12th Standards
3.)	History: 11th and 12th Standards
4.)	Geography: 11th and 12th Standards
5.)	Economics: 11th and 12th Standards

(You can download them free or buy @ Amazon)

General Studies -1 (Paper 2)

Indian Heritage and Culture

1.)	Gazetteer of India-Volume II
2.)	Basham: The wonder that was India
3.)	A.A Rizvi: The wonder that was India (volume II)
4.)	Books on Indian dance, Printing, Temples etc of Publications Divisions and National Book Trust (NBT)

Modern Indian History and Post-Independent India

1.)	NCERT: Modern India
2.)	L.Grover: Modern India
3.)	NBT: Freedom Struggle
4.)	Bipan Chandra India’s Struggle for Independence
5.)	Bipan Chandra: Post Independent India
6.)	C Guha: India after Gandhi
7.)	Gazetteer of India: Volume II

World History

1.)	NCERT: The story of Civilization (2volumes)
2.)	NCERT: Contemporary World History
3.)	Mukherji: A history of the world

Geography of the world

1.)	NCERT books on Indian and world Geography (11th and 12th Standards)
2.)	C.Leong: Physical and Human Certificate Geography

Other References

1.)	Survey of Indian Agriculture: The Hindu Publications
2.)	Survey of Indian Economy: The Hindu Publications
3.)	India Year Book: Publications Division
4.)	Indian Society
5.)	NCERT: sociology (12th standard)
6.)	C.Dubey: Indian Society (NBT)

General Studies-2 (Paper 3)

Governance, Constitution and Polity

1.)	D.Basu: Indian Constitution
2.)	M. Bakshi: Indian Constitution
3.)	C .Kashyap: Citizens and the Constitution (Publications Division)
4.)	S. Baviskar and Ash Narain Roy Local Governance – A Global Perspective (Publications Division)
5.)	C. Kashyap: Our Parliament(NBT)
6.)	C. Kashyap: Our Constitution(NBT)
7.)	C. Kashyap: Our Political system(NBT)
8.)	P. Singh: Indian Federalism (NBT)
9.)	Kuldeep Mathur: From government to Governance (NBT)

International Relations

1.)	Rajiv Sikri: Challenge and Strategy-Understanding India’s Foreign policy
2.)	Rajamohan: Crossing the Rubicon

General Studies -3 (Paper-4)

Science and technology

1.)	India Yearbook: Bought out by Publications Division : Chapter on Science and technology
2.)	Annual Reports of department of Space, Atomic Energy, Ministry of Environment etc (for Latest Reports refer website: mha.nic.in)
3.)	Economic Survey

Indian Economy

1.)	NCERT: Indi’s Economic development
2.)	Mishra and Puri: Indian economy
3.)	Dutt and Sunderam: Indian Economy
4.)	Relevant Economic Survey
5.)	12th Five Year Plan Document
6.)	Bimal Jalan: India’s Economy Challenges and prospects
7.)	Any one Economic News paper like the Economic Times, Business standards, Financial Express
8.)	Yojana which comes every month in Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Guajarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu
9.)	Kurukshetra in Hindi/English

Environment and Bio-diversity

1.)	NCERT: India’s Physical Environment
2.)	Together, Towards a Safer India : CBSE Publication  (Other Link)  PDF English
3.)	Encyclopedia of Disaster Management: S.L. Geol(Deep and Deep Publications)
4.)	Economic Survey

Security

1.)	Annual Reports of Ministry of Home Affair, Defense and External Affairs (for Latest Refer mha.nic.in)

General Studies -4 (Paper-5)

Ethics and Integrity

1.)	NCERT : Psychology (11th and 12th Standards)
2.)	Ramesh K. Arora - Ethical Governance in Business and Government
3.)	Ramesh K. Arora - Ethics in Governance
4.)	Ramesh K. Arora and Tanjul Saxena - Ethics and accountability in government and Business
5.)	Stephen Law: The World’s greatest Thinkers

News papers

A Regular Study of Newspapers with focus on issues before society and issues raised by civic society groups will be beneficial. All events of National and international importance which effect human lives at large are important from the point of view of general studies

1.)	The Hindu
2.)	The Times of India

Magazines

1.)	Pratiyogita Darpan: Special issues of Pratiyogita Darpan (latest issues in History, geography, Indian polity and Indian Economy)
2.)	Frontline
3.)	World Focus (For International relations)
4.)	The Economists (For International Relations)
5.)	Down to earth (For science and technology)

Electronic news

1.)	Doorshan News
2.)	(Lok Sabha TV) and (Raja Sabha TV)
3.)	BBC world News (6:20am to 7:00am and 7:30 pm to 8:30pm in Hindi)
4.)	All Indian Radio News (9:00pm to 9:30pm in English)

Other references

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3.)	Free Resources for UPSC Exam (Websites, Blogs, Discussion Forums, Etc)
4.)	Free Website list for UPSC
5.)	Top Coaching Centres- Delhi, Hyderabad, All over India

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