PAPER 1:
History & Culture1. Intro to Indian Art - NCERT
2. Facets of Indian Culture - Spectrum
3. India's struggle for Independence - Bipan Chandra
4. India after Independence - Bipan Chandra (Select Chapters)
5. India after Gandhi - Ramchandra Guha (Reference)
6. Contemporary World History - Arjun Dev - OR - Old NCERT World History - Story of Civilization Part 1 & 2 (same author)
7. Norman Lowe - Mastering World History
Social Issues1. Intro to Sociology - NCERT XIth
2. Social Problems in India - Ram Ahuja
Geography1. World Geo - Go Cheng Leong
2. Geo NCERT's 7th-12th
3. Principles of Geography - NCERT 11th Book
4. Economic Geography of the World (11th Class NCERT)
5. Physical Geography of India (NCERT)
6. Environment & Economic Geography (NCERT - 9th Class)
7. Cultural & Economic Geography of India (NCERT)
8. Geography & You Magazine (Reference)
PAPER 2 :Polity, Governance1. Indian Polity - Laxmikanth
2. Governance - Laxmikanth
3. Government to Governance - Kuldeep Mathur
4. Democracy at Work - 12th NCERT (AS Narang)
5. Social Thoery, Development Administration & Ethics by Mohit Bhattacharya
6. 2nd ARC Reports (Selected reading like Chapters 11 (e-governance) and 12(citizen centric administration)) AND Puncchi Commission Report
International Relations1. IDSA Website
2. Challenges foreign policy - Rajeev Sikri
3. The Hindu, Indian Express
4. Columnists like - C Raja Mohan, Brahma Chellaney
5. World Focus Magazine (Select articles)
PAPER 3 :Economy 1. NCERTs 11th & 12th
2. Indian Economy - Ramesh Singh
3. Economic Survey
4. Indian Economy : Performance and Policies by Uma Kapila (Reference)
Topics like Food Processing - MOFPI website -
www.mofpi.nic.in/ (Ministry of Food Processing Industries)
Science & Technology1. Newspaper
2. Ministry of S & T Website
3. Department of Space Website
4. MoEF Website
Security Issues1. Newspaper
2. Magazine - Frontline, Yojana Selected Articles
3. Home Ministry Website
4. IDSA website
5. ARC Reports (Selected ones - Chapter 5(Public Order), 7(Conflict Resolution), 8(Combating Terrorism))
Disaster Management
ARC report
NDMA Website
PAPER 4 :ARC reports
Class Notes of various institutes
Chronicle Issues on Ethics
These are some of the resources I know. Reading all these is probably impossible. I compiled these for everyone's reference. People may suggest amendments to this list.
ATB !!
