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Hi,
The following are the best books for Civil Services Preparation
The basic concepts of different segments of General Studies are derived from NCERT books, as mentioned below:

General Science: 9th and 10th Standard
History: 11th and 12th Standards
Geography: 11th and 12th Standards
Economics: 11th and 12th Standards
Art & Culture: 11th standard
Indian Heritage & Culture
Gazetteer of India – Volume II
L. Basham: The wonder that was India
S. A. A Rizvi : The wonder that was India (volume II)
Books on Indian dance, painting, temples etc of Publications Divisions and National Book Trust (NBT)
Modern Indian History & Post Independent India
NCERT: Modern India
Tarachand – History of Freedom Movement in India, Vol- I to IV, (Publications Division).
Surendernath Sen: 1857 (Publications Division)
Ancient India-Collection of Article (Publications Division)
NBT- Freedom Struggle
Bipan Chandra: India’s Struggle for Independence
Bipan Chandra-Post Independence India
Sumit Sarkar-Modern India
Gazetteer of India- Volume II
World History
NCERT: The Story of Civilization (2 Volumes)
NCERT: Contemporary World History
L. Mukherji: A History of the World
Geography of the World
NCERT books on Indian and world Geography
Physical Geography : Savindra Singh
Geomorphology : Savindra Singh
Oceanography : Sharma and Vatal (NCERT)
Economics and Social Geography: Rupa Publications
Environmental Geography: Savindra Singh
Survey of Indian Agriculture : The Hindu Publications.
Survey of Indian Economy: The Hindu Publications
India Year Book : Publications Division
Governance, Constitution & Polity
D.D. Basu: Indian Constitution.
P.M. Bakshi: Indian Constitution
S.C. Kashyap: Citizens and the Constitution (Publications Division)
B.S. Baviskar & Ash Narain Roy Local Governance – A Global Perspective (Publications Division)
S.C. Kashyap: Our Parliament (NBT)
S.C. Kashyap: Our Constitution (NBT)
S.C. Kashyap: Our Political System (NBT)
M.R. Singh: Indian Federalism (NBT)
Kuldeep Mathur: From Government to Governance (NBT)
International Relations
Rajiv Sikri: Challenge and Strategy- Understanding India’s foreign policy
C. Rajamohan: Crossing the Rubicon
NCERT : Contemporary World Politics (12th Standard)
Governance, Constitution & Polity
Science & Technology
India Yearbook: brought out by Publications Division : Chapter on Science and Technology
Annual Reports of the department of Space, Atomic Energy, Ministry of Environment etc
Indian Economy
NCERT: India’s Economic Development
Mishra and Puri: Indian Economy
Relevant Economic Survey
12th Five Year Plan Document
Bimal Jalan: India’s Economic Policy
Bimal Jalan: Emerging India- Economics, Politics and Reforms.
Any one Economic Newspaper like The Economic Times, Business Standard, Financial Express.
Yojana which comes every month in Hindi, English, Assamese, Bangali, Gujarathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu
Kurukshetra in Hindi/English
Environment and Bio-diversity
NCERT: India’s Physical Environment
Together, Towards a Safer India: CBSE Publication
Encyclopedia of Disaster Management: S.L. Goel (Deep and Deep Publications)
Security
Annual Reports of Ministry of Home Affairs, Defence and External Affairs
Ethics and Integrity
Mohit Bhattacharya- New Horizons of Public Administration
Nicholas Henry- Public Administration and Public Affairs
S.R. Maheshwari and Awasthi -Public Administration
Ramesh K Arora – Ethical Governance in Business and Government
Ramesh K Arora – Ethics in Governance
Ramesh K Arora & Tanjul Saxena – Ethics and Accountability in Government and Business

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