Important Books for IAS

Topics Author’s Name

NCERT’s (old, 11th & 12th stds.)

INDIAN ECONOMY S.N. Lal’s
Mishra & Puri/ Dutt & Sundaram

Old NCERT’s (11th& 12th stds. )

MODERN HISTORY Bipin Chandra’s book
Sumit Sarkar’s book

Deenanath Verma’s
WORLD HISTORY
Akhil Murthy’s

INDIAN ART & CULTURE Spectrum Publications

NCERT’S books (11th & 12th stds. Books)

SOCIAL ISSUES
Ram Ahuja’s

Oxford School Atlas

Orient Longman
INDIAN GEOGRAPHY K.Siddharatha’s Map book
NCERT’s (11th & 12th books)
Mahesh Barnwal

Above Atlas
WORLD GEOGRAPHY Mahesh Barnwal book
Khullar’s (‘Indian Geography’)

9TH TO 12 th NCERT’s books (old & new)

M.Luxmikant’s
INDIAN POLITY & GOVERNANCE Braj Kishore Sharma’s
Bare Acts
D.D. Basu’s

Chronicle (special issues)

Related Ministries’ Annual Reports
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Planning Commission’s documents
INDIA YEAR BOOK

Pushpesh Pant’s
INDIA & WORLD and INTERNATIONAL
Tapan Biswal’s
RELATIONS
B.P.Dutt’s
 ‘World Focus’ magazine

‘Vivas Panorama’ (basics updated)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Magazines

NCERT’s
BIODIVERSITY
IGNOU- 2 issues

DISASTER MANAGEMENT Savinder Singh’s

INTERNAL SECURITY Chronicle (special issues)

GENERAL SCIENCE 6TH-12TH stds. NCERT’s

Drishti’s notes
ETHICS, INTEGRITY and APTITUDE: Subba Rao and Roy Chowdhury
Ramesh Arora

CURRENT AFFAIRS Website updates

The Hindu (English Newspaper)

Dainik Jagran
Newspaper
Hindustan
Dainik Bhaskar
Magazines & Other Free Resources For IAS Prelims and Mains
Drishti Current Affairs Today
Magazines Yojana
Kurukshetra

UPSC
Previous Year Question Paper
PCS

Ncert Books

NIOS Online Materials. (National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS))

India Year Book

(EMPLOYMENT NEWS )Rojgarsamachar

Economic survey

Budget