Prelims

Important
History Indian Freedom Struggle (Bipin Chandra) + Spectrum Modern India (for revision)
Polity - laxmikanth
Economy Sriram IAS printed material + Economic Survey
Geography NCERTS + Goh Cheng Leong+ any class notes (DB KUMAR/VAJIRAM/SRIRAM)
Environment Shankar IAS Book

Not so important
S&T - preferrably class notes + Spectrum/wizard material (If u have time)
General Science - NCERTS / lucent publication (if time permits)
Current Affairs Newspapers


Mains


CSE Mains General Studies Paper - I
(Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)

MODERN HISTORY
Freedom struggle Indian freedom struggle (Bipin chandra) + spctrum modern india
Post Independence india since independence (Bipin chandra) + Ramchandra Guha (Selected
chapters)
Culture - nitin singalia written notes / CCRT website or any other source with many diagrams +
NCERT + Indianetzone website
World history
Ncert our civilization 2 books (9/10) + 12
th
ncert + Baliyan notes
Major political science concepts - old ncert
Norman lowe authored book (if u have time)
GEOGRAPHY
4 NCERTS --- indian physical G. + Physical G + India people economy
Khullar selected topics
location of industries Mrunal
Distribution of key natural resources varun notes any notes

CSE Mains General Studies Paper II (news paper is important)
(Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)

Polity lakshmikanth +
Representation of peoples act visionIAS or vajiram or srirams anything
Separation of powers visionIAS printed material
Federal structure, devolution of powers lakshmikanth + Vision India pub ad test series relevant
ques [Purpose current affairs]
Comparison of diff constitutions of world vajiram notes and material (but thisis not that good)
Statutory, lakshmikanth not enough
Child, women, SHG, poverty, food security yojana issues on each topic you can prefer other
material also
Schemes Gktoday material on schems / year book/ eco survey
Governance, transparency, e-governance, civil services any book of pub ad

International relations
News paper (especially raja mohan coloumns in indian express)
Idsa website selected articles
Ministry of external affairs website joint statements etc
Example : http://mea.gov.in/bilateral-
documents.htm?dtl/18267/Joint+Statement+by+India+and+Thailand+on+the+State+Visit+of+Prime+Minister+
of+Thailand+Yingluck+Shinawatra+to+India
Indian diaspora & International institutions any notes (Ex: vision ias)
And srirams/vajiram international relations book released just before mains exam

CSE Mains General Studies Paper - III
(Technology, Economic Development, Bio diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)

Economy srirams material + any good economy book for selected chapters (Ex mishra and Puri)
Govt budgeting any pub ad book
Farm subsidies, food security, pds etc srirams material + yojanas
Food processing mrunal.org
Animal rearing any notes
Land reforms bipin chandra india after independence
Cropping patterns, agriculture etc any class notes
Environment shankar ias + news
Disaster mgmt srirams material + Khullar +news
S & T news + any class notes (prefarrably vajiram) , RSTV science monitor
Security Issues Vajiram material
GK today
General Studies -IV 300 Marks (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
I am not sure about this paper. But i am giving a rough list
Ethics basics Srirams material + ethics ARC report
Moral thinkers srirams material (not that great) + IGNOU
Psychology any good notes
Case studies synergy notes (Mohanty sir )
Mrunal

Ethics text book/ sk mishra/ lukmaan ias