indian heritage and culture

these r important books u need to study on this part of gs

i) facets of indian culture....by spectrum....
ii) history of indian culture...by a. l. bhasam
iii) chapter on culture......india year book
iv) current news related with culture and heritage from newspapers and
magazines
remember this section will now have important contribution in first paper

Second Section of General Studies (first paper)includes three aspects of

Indian History.
i) Modern History from middle of eighteenth century
ii) Freedom Struggle of india.
iii) Contemporary History or post independent history
these r important Source Materials
A new look at modern india...B.L.Grover
India struggle for independence.....Bipin Chandra
India after independence.......Bipin Chandra
modern india.......ncert.....Bipin Chandra
India after gandhi....Ram Chandra Guha
Politics in india after indipendence.....ncert 12th pol sci

Third section of General Studies First Paper Mains contains these three
sections
History of Modern World Renaissance and Afterward
Revolutions and World Warsand concepts like Industrial
Revolution,Colonization,Decolonization,Marxism,Socialism,
Capitalism,Democracy,Liberty,Republic

To cover this section u need to follow these books

1) mastering modern world history......norman lowe
2) contemporary world history.....norman lowe
3)modern world....k krishna reddy
remember to understand world history u need to have a fair amount of
knowledge of world map and continents

fourth section of first paper is on Dynamics of Social issues , Social

development and Social capital in context of india. This section is also
important from the point of view of Essay
1) Read Ncert OF 11 AND 12 on Sociology to understand basic concept of
sociology and social changes in india
2)to understand urbanization and related problems read land and economy
ncert of geography
3) social sector from economic survey
4) yojna and kurukshetra do provide time to time relevant material on dynamics
of indian society

Geography
dear all.....Geography is Fifth Section of General Studies Paper One.......There r four
sections //1//physical geography//2//resource geography...global distribution of
resources//3//economic geography....sectors of economy and controlling
factors//4//important geophysical phenomenas and their critical changes........important
books r...//1//old and new ncert on physical geography//2//g .c .leong....physical and
human certificate geography//3//k.siddharth...economic geography//4//savinder
singh...environmental geography//5//11,12 ncert (exclude ncert on practical geography