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 Electrical Engineering

Modern Central Engineering - Ogata
Electrical Technology - Thereja
Electrical Power - Star
Physics of Semiconductor Devices - Sze
Automatic Control System – Kuo
Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics - Rao
Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating System - Jordan & Balmain
Integrated Circuits - D. Roy Choudhary
Network Analysis - Valkenbury
Basic Current Analysis - Murthy
Electromagnetic Waives and Field - R.N. Singh
Control Systems Engineering - Nagrath Gopal
Semi Conductor - Nagchoudhary
Principals of Electronics - V.K. Mehta
Radio Engineering - G.K. Mithal
Circuit Analysis - Gupta