Civil Services Books For Botany

• 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

Civil Services Books For Zoology

• 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

Civil Services Books For General Studies

Preliminary IAS (General Studies)

Subject Indian History

Good books

• History books of Classes XI and XII - NCERT

• Freedom Struggle (NET) - Bipin Chandra
Subject World Geography - including Indian Geography
Good books

• Principles of Geography (Class XII-Part I, II)

• General Geography of India (Class XII) Part I - NCERT
• Geography of India - Resources and Regional Development Part II
(Class XII) - NCERT
• Physical Geography - Leong
• Atlas

Subject Indian Polity

Good book

• Introduction to Indian Constitution - D.D. Basu Related

Subject Indian Economy

Good books

• Evolution of Indian Economy - NCERT

• Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam.
• Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri

Subject General Science

Good books

• NCERT books on Science.

• Science and Technology supplements in the Newspapers and
magazines.

Subject Current Events of National and International importance.

Good books

• One major National Daily - Either The Times of India or The Hindu.
• Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
• Current Events - Spectrum

Subject General Mental Ability

Good books
 • No special preparation is required in this area. But some practice may
be done from any exercise books or quantitative aptitude. In fact, an intelligent
calculation is the basic requirement for this topic.

Main (General Studies)

Subject History of Modern India

Good books

• India's struggle for Independence - Bipan Chandra and others.

• Modern India - NCERT.
• Freedom Struggle (NBT) - Bipan Chandra
• Modern India - IGNOU
o If one is hard pressed for time, he/she may
skip the Modern India and Freedom Struggle.

Subject Indian Culture

Good books

• Art and Culture portions of history books and Gazetteer of

India.
• Culture Chapter (s) in the India Year Book.
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture. A good library invariably has
more than one encyclopaedia on Indian Art and Culture selected notes
may be taken from it.
• Books on culture / cultural topics brought out by Publications
Division of Ministry of Information and broadcasting and National
Book Trust.

Subject Current Affairs

Good books

• At least one major national newspaper - either The Times of

India or The Hindu
• Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook
• Current Affairs and News Analysis of BBC.
• Current events - Spectrum

Subject Statistics
Good book

• Book on Statistics (Class XI) - NCERT

Subject Indian Polity and Constitution
Good books

• Introduction to the Constitution of India - D.D. Basu.

• Our Parliament - S.C. Kashyap

Subject Indian Geography and Economy

Good books

• Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) - NCERT

• Yozna
• Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri
• The editorial page of the Economic Times.

Subject Science and Technology

Good books

• Science and Technology section of the Wednesday edition of

the newspaper 'The Hindu'.
• Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum.
• Yozna contains science and environment related topics.

Civil Services Books For 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.

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

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.