IAS Books

Mostly Suggested books for History Exam

1. What is History E.H. Carr
2. Historian’s Craft Marc Block
3. The Past and the present Lawrence Stone

Ancient India:

1. Ancient India (NCERT) Prof. R.S. Sharma
2. The Wonder That was India A.L. Basham
3. Ancient India - An Introductory Outline D.N. Jha
4. History of India, Vol. I Romila Thapar
5. Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India R.S. Sharma (only Conclusion)
6. Material culture & Social Formation in Ancient India R.S. Sharma
7. Indian Feudalism R.S. Sharma
8. Ashoka & Decline of the Maurya Romila Thapar
9. A History of South India K.A. Nilkantha Sastri
10. Ancient India and Indian Archaeology Archaeological Survey of India

Medieval India:

1. Medieval India (NCERT) Satish Chandra
2. Medieval India (Macmillan) Satish Chandra
3.The Wonder That was India (Vol.2) S.A.A. Rizvi
4.The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 Irfan Habib
5.The Mughal Empire J.F. Richards
6.Urban Dynamics H.C. Verma
7.The Marathas Gordon

Modern India:

1.Modern India (NCERT) Bipan Chandra
2.Modern India (Macmillan) Sumit Sarkar
3.Anatomy of the Raj (PPH) Suhash Chakravarty
4.The Raj Syndrome (Penguins) Suhash Chakravarty
5.VAID’s Fundamentals of History Series
a.Administrative History Pravin Kumar
b.Constitutional History Pravin Kumar
c.Social History Pravin Kumar
d.Freedom Struggle Pravin Kumar
6.Peasant Movements in India D.N. Dhanagare
7.India’s Struggle for Independence Bipan Chandra and others
8.Gandhi B.R. Nanda
9.Gandhi Judith Brown
10. Freedom Struggle (NbT) Bipan Chandra & others

World History:
1.The story of Civilization, Vol. 2 (NCERT) Arjun Dev
2.Contemporary World History (NCERT) Arjun Dev & others
3.The Mainstream of Civilization Strayer, Gatzke & Harbison
4.Western Civilizations Burns & others
5.Industry & Empire E.J. Hobsbawm
6.Age of Revolution E.J. Hobsbawm
7.Age of Capital E.J. Hobsbawm
8.Age of Empires E.J. Hobsbawm
9.Social basis of Democracy & Dictatorship B.J. Moore
10.Europe Since Napoleon David Thompson
11.Europe Since 1815 W.C. Craig
12.Europe Since 1870 James Joll.

Suggested books for Geography Exam

Books for Geography Preliminary Exam :
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.

Books for Geography Main Exam : For 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

For 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

Other Books :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