The Ultimate UPSC booklist and web resources | All aspirants need is this | Manuj Jindal IAS

00:00 Intro
01:24 GS 1
14:53 GS 2
18:52 GS 3
24:52 GS 4


Booklist:

GS 1

History:

Ancient History:

Old NCERT

• Ancient India – R S Sharma (Old NCERT)

Medieval History

• Medieval India – Satish Chandra (Old NCERT)

New NCERT

• Our pasts – I

• Our pasts – II

• Themes – I

• Themes – II

New TamilNadu History Textbook – Class XI

Art & Culture

• New TN History textbook

• 6th-12th new NCERT history textbooks ALL except Fine Arts book specifically for painting

• Introduction to Indian art (NCERT class 11th)

• Living Craft Traditions of India (NCERT class 12th)

• Indian Culture by Nitin Singhania

• CCRT – to supplement above sources
https://ccrtindia.gov.in/


Modern India History

• Our past III (Both part 1 & part 2 –NCERT class VIII)

• Themes in Indian History – III (NCERT Class XII)

• A brief History of Modern India – Spectrum Publication

• India’s struggle for independence – Bipin Chandra



Post-Independence India

• Politics in India since Independence, NCERT Class 12th

• India since independence – Bipin Chandra

· India After Gandhi by Guha



World History

• Themes in World History: NCERT Class XI

• History of the World by Arjun Dev

· Vision IAS notes on World History



Indian Society

• NCERT Class XI – Sociology: Understanding Society

• NCERT Class XII – Indian Society

• NCERT Class XII – Social Change and Development in India



Geography

Physical Geography:

• Our Environment – Class VII

• The Earth Our Habitat – Class VI

• Fundamentals of Physical Geography (NCERT Class XI)

• Fundamentals of Human Geography (NCERT Class XII)

• Goh Cheng Leong – Certificate Physical and Human Geography

Atlas by Oxford



Indian Geography

• Resource and Development – Class VIII

• Contemporary India – II – Class X

• India Physical Environment (NCERT Class XI)

• India – People and Economy (NCERT Class XII)



GS 2

Polity

• Democratic Politics – IX

• Democratic Politics, II. Class X

• Indian Constitution at Work (NCERT Class XI)



• LAXMIKANTH – Indian Polity

Governance

• Handouts by VisionIAS and InsightsonIndia

• 2nd ARC reports (selective)

· Law Commission Reports selective

• Three Year Action Agenda, 2017- 18 to 2019-20 – NITI Aayog

• Strategy for New India @ 75 – NITI Aayog



Social justice

• Any Basic standard material or Handouts

• Yojana

• Kurukshetra

• Three Year Action Agenda, 2017-18 to 2019-20 – NITI Aayog

• Strategy for New India @ 75 – NITI Aayog



International Relations

• Class 12th Political Science- Contemporary World Politics

• Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri

• Ministry of External Affairs website (Selective Reading)

• Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (Selective Reading)



GS 3:

Economy

• Economics – NCERT Class IX

• Understanding Economic Development (NCERT Class 10th)

• Indian Economic Development (NCERT Class XI)

• Introductory Macroeconomics (NCERT Class XII)

• Nitin Singhania–Indian Economy



Ecology & Environment

• 12th Biology NCERT- Chapter No 13,14,15,16



• 11th Chemistry NCERT – Chapter No 14

• Geography NCERTs – Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Chapters from Std 8-11

• ICSE Environment Education Std 10(Especially for Mains)

Essentials of Ecology by Miller

PMFIAS Notes on Environment



Science and technology

• Class VI to ClassX

• Class XI – Chemistry: Unit 14

• Class XI – Biology: Units 4 & 5

• Class XII – Chemistry: Unit 16

• Class XII – Biology: Units 8, 9 & 10



Agriculture

• Any Basic standard material or Handouts

• Yojana & Kurukshetra (Selective Reading)

• Down to Earth (Selective Reading)



Disaster and disaster management

• Any Basic standard material or Handouts

• NDMA guidelines (Selective Reading)



Internal security

• Any Basic standard material or Handouts

• Challenges to Internal Security of India by Ashok Kumar IPS

• IDSA Website (Selective Reading)

• Ministry of Home Affairs Website (Selective Reading)



General Studies 4

Ethics

• Any standard book like (A Practical Approach to Ethics Integrity and Aptitude By D.K Balaji Or Lexicon for Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude)



• 2nd ARC Reports (Selective Reading)

• Newspaper for contemporary examples

· Michael Sandel on Ethics YouTube



Other good sources:

YT Amit SenGupta

YT Shivin

YT Khan Academy USA

Govt Ministry Websites

ARC Reports

Law Commission Reports

PRS Legislative White Papers

GK Today

Vision IAS booklets – Value Added Section on their website

InsightsonIndia current affairs and online answer writing tool


Also, forgot to mention MRUNAL for Economics revision purposes