Resources

UPSC 2021

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Newspapers

• The Hindu
• The Indian Express
• Livemint (Business newspaper)

Magazine

• Yojana
• Kurukshetra
• Science Reporter (for science and tech.)

Govt. website

• PIB (Press Information Bureau)
• PRS

TV Channel/Youtube

• RSTV (mainly The big picture)
• LSTV debates

HISTORY

Modern India

• NCERT – Class 8th (New) – ‘Our Pasts – III’
• NCERT- Class 12th ‘Modern India’ (OLD)

• Tamil Nadu Edition- Class 12th

• Spectrum Modern India – Rajiv Ahir

Medieval India

• NCERT – Class 7th (New) –‘Our Pasts –II’

• NCERT – Class 11th ‘Medieval India’ (OLD)- Satish Chandra

• Tamil Nadu Edition-Class 11th

Ancient India

• NCERT– Class 11th ‘Ancient India’ (OLD)- R.S. Sharma

• NCERT– Class 12th ‘Themes in Indian History- Part I (NEW)- Chapters 1 to 6

• Tamil Nadu Edition – Class 11th

• Reference Book: India’s Struggle for Independence – Bipan Chandra; Plassey to Partition by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

• Ancient and Medieval India –  Poonam Dalal Dahiya

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GEOGRAPHY

• NCERT Social Science, Class 6th (New) ‘The Earth Our Habitat’

• NCERT Social Science, Class 7th (New) ‘Our Environment’

• NCERT Social Science, Class 8th (New) ‘ Resource and Development’

• NCERT Social Science, Class 9th (New) ‘Contemporary India’

• NCERT Social Science, Class 10th (New) ‘Contemporary India-Part II’

• NCERT – Class 11th (New)
  • Fundamentals of Physical Geography
  • India physical environment

• NCERT – Class 12th (New)
  • Fundamentals of Human Geography
  • India – People and Economy

• Atlas: Orient BlackSwan School Atlas (or) Oxford School Atlas

• Reference Books: 

•  Certificate Physical and Indian Geography – Goh Cheng Leong; 

• OLD NCERT Geography – Class 11th and 12th 
• Indian Geography by Mazid Hussain

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POLITY

• NCERT – 6th to 8th (for basic understanding)

• NCERT- Class 9th to 12th (for understanding more on democracy and federalism)

• Indian Polity – M Laxmikanth

• Reference Book: Introduction to Indian Constitution – D.D.Basu

ECONOMICS

• Macroeconomics- Class 12th , NCERT

• NCERT 11th – Indian Economic Development

• NCERT- Class 9thand 10th (for basics)

• Indian Economy – Ramesh Singh Selective Chapters on:
• Introduction (GDP, GNP, growth etc.)
• Evolution of the Indian economy
• Banking
• Inflation & Business Cycle
• Agriculture
• India and the Global Economy (include chapters relating to it)
• Human development
• Technology and environment

For understanding concepts refer to either of these:

• Mrunal.org Economy Section

• Sriram’s IAS Economics Notes

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• The Hindu-Monday Edition (not technical news, only application based science & Tech)

• NCERT- Class 6th to 10th

• NCERT – Biology – 11th (Unit IV & V only – read basic concepts not technical details)

• NCERT Biology – 12th (Chapters 4, 5 and rest from 7 to 16 – all important – read line by line except technical details)

• NCERT – Biology – 12th (OLD) – Chapter 9 onwards

• NCERT – Physics – 11th (Chap 1,5 & 8) and 12th (Chap 15 only)

• NCERT – Chemistry – 11th (Chap 1 & 14 only) and 12th (Chap 14 & 16 only)

• Science reporter- Selectively

 ENVIRONMENT

• ICSE Board- Environmental studies- Class 10th and 11th

• NCERT- Geography Books (in 6th to 12th there are lot of chapters on Environment)

• Science NCERT books mentioned above

• Shankar IAS book

• Current affairs

• downtoearth.org.in

• Reference material : Shankar IAS notes on Environment

SOCIAL ISSUES & NEWPOLICIES/SCHEMES

• vikaspedia.in (lists all schemes Ministry and sector-wise with details)

• India yearbook 2021

• NCERT books mentioned above

• Current affairs (also keep checking  PIB Gists of any coaching institute – very important)

CSAT

• Quantitative Aptitude + Logical Reasoning by R. S. Agrawal (You can purchase it from Amazon)
• 27 years solved papers of CSAT

Ethics (GS - 4)

• Ethics and Integrity - Lexicon
• ADR Report

Note: All these books are available on Amazon you can purchase it