Book list for Civil Service Preliminary Examination

Subject :: Geography

Geography
Physical Geography
1. NCERT, volume-1
2. Physical geography : Bunnett.
3. Certifical physical and human geography:Goh,Cheng Leong.
4. Physical geopraphy made simple.
Human and Economic Geography
1. Human and economic geography:NCERT
2. Economic geography
3. Economic and social geography made simple
4. Pengium Masters Studies on Geography
5. The Culture Landscape : Rubeinstein.
Indian geography

1. Indian geography:Rammorthy gopalkerishnan

2. Physical Geology of India:S.M.Mathur
3. General Geography:NCERT
4. Mineral of India: NBT(WADI)
5. Resources&Regional Development:NCERT
6. Cartography: R.L.Sigh
7. World Regional Geography:Fellman

• Book list for Civil Service Main Examination

Subject :: Geography

Physical Geography : Strahler & Strahler; Arthur Strahler; Thornbury’s

(Geomorphology).
2.Human & Economic Geography : Leong & Morgan (Social & Economic
Geography-Made simple
3. Oceanography : Batal & Sharma
4. Political Geography : Dixit
5.Ecology : Odum
6.Climatology : S.D.Lal
7.Indian Economic Geography : Sharma & Kutio,C.B. Memoria
8.Soil Genesis : Daji
 9.Geography of India : Dr.Gopal Singh
10. Penguin dictionaryfor Geography
11. Good atlas

Book list for Civil Service Main Examination

Subject :: Public Administration

Nicholas Henry – Public Administration and Public Affairs

Ferrel Heady – Public Administration : A Comparative Perspective
S.P. Naidu – Public Administration : Concepts and Theories
Mohit Bhattacharya – Restructuring Public Administration : Essays in
Rehabilitation
Prasad and Prasad – Administration Thinkers
B.L. Fadia – Public Administration
R.K. Arora and – Indian Public Administration : Institution and Issues
Mohinder Singh Theory and Practice
Mohit Bhattacharya - Development Administration : Search for
Alternatives
Hoshiar Singh - Local Government
D.D. Basu - Introduction to the Constitution of India
S.C. Kasyap - Our Constitution
S.C. Kasyap - Our Parliament
Journals
1.IIPA Journals
2. Indian Journal of Political Science
3.Economic and Political Weekly
4. Yojana
5. Kurukshetra

Books: Paper I
1. Organisational Design: Khandwala; Madhukar Shukla (both)
2. Organisational Behaviour: Luthans and Robbins- for some portions Blanchart is also good.
3. Strategic Cost Management: Business Today supplements
4. Economics: Any good economics book
5. Management: Terry and Franklin; Koontz and Donnel ; Koontz and weihrich (any one)
6. Strategic Management: Michael Porter’s any one book (search Internet for his book list) and
any one book.

Paper II
1. Marketing: Kotler and any one Indian author book(Saxena/Ramaswami etc.).
2. Financial: Pandey/Chandra/Khan & Jain/Bearley-Any two
3. Information Technology: Any good book which gives holistic view covering all the topics
along with Internet based notes.
4. International: Business Media and Government Rules on export procedures, transfer pricing
etc.
5. Operations: Adams/Taha
6. HRD: Mammoria/Monappa/Prasad/Flippo-Any two.