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Civil Services Books For Botany ã Microbiology : Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough. ã Pathology : Singh's book along with a foreign author ã Cryptograms B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytesgymnosperms) along with both volumes by Pandey and Trivedi ã Embryology : Bhojwani and Bhatnagar ã Plant Anatomy : Esau or B.P. Pandey ã Taxonomy : Nair along with Datta ã Cell Biology : De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar ã Genetics : Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi ã Physiology and Biochemistry : Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle ã Ecology : Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh ã Economic Botany : Kochar or Verma Civil Services Books For Zoology ã Cell and molecular bilogy - De Robertis, C.B. Powar ã Genitics - P.K. Gupta, Gardner, Ahluwalia, Vir Bala Rastogi ã Invertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan ã Vertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan and Varma ã Comparative anatomy of vertebrate zoology - Kent ã Animal physiology - H.R. Singh, Vander ã Biochemistry - Harper, Leninger, Stryer, Rao ã Embryology - Balinsky, A.K. Berry, Vir Bala Rastogi ã Organic evolution - Veer Bala Rastogi ã Ecology - P.D. Sharma, Odum, Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj, Kotpal and Bali ã Economic Zoology - Shukla and Upadhaya, Kotpal Series, Kotpal- Khetrapal -Aggarwal ã Ethology - Reena Mathur, Magazines like Science Reporter, Nature etc. ã General Zoology - Storer and Usurger ã Physiology - H.R. Singh ã Evolution - Vir Bala Rastogi ã A Dictionary of Entomology - Leftwich Civil Services Books For General Studies Preliminary IAS (General Studies)Subject Indian HistoryGood books ã History books of Classes XI and XII - NCERT ã Freedom Struggle (NET) - Bipin Chandra Subject World Geography - including Indian GeographyGood books ã Principles of Geography (Class XII-Part I, II) ã General Geography of India (Class XII) Part I - NCERT ã Geography of India - Resources and Regional Development Part II(Class XII) - NCERT ã Physical Geography - Leong ã Atlas Subject Indian PolityGood book ã Introduction to Indian Constitution - D.D. Basu Related Subject Indian EconomyGood books ã Evolution of Indian Economy - NCERT ã Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam. ã Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri Subject General ScienceGood books ã NCERT books on Science. ã Science and Technology supplements in the Newspapers andmagazines. Subject Current Events of National and International importance.Good books ã One major National Daily - Either The Times of India or The Hindu. ã Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook ã Current Events - Spectrum Subject General Mental AbilityGood books ã No special preparation is required in this area. But some practice may be done from any exercise books or quantitative aptitude. In fact, an intelligentcalculation is the basic requirement for this topic. Main (General Studies)Subject History of Modern IndiaGood books ã India's struggle for Independence - Bipan Chandra and others. ã Modern India - NCERT. ã Freedom Struggle (NBT) - Bipan Chandra ã Modern India - IGNOU o If one is hard pressed for time, he/she mayskip the Modern India and Freedom Struggle. Subject Indian CultureGood books ã Art and Culture portions of history books and Gazetteer of India. ã Culture Chapter (s) in the India Year Book. ã Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture. A good library invariably hasmore than one encyclopaedia on Indian Art and Culture selected notesmay be taken from it. ã Books on culture / cultural topics brought out by PublicationsDivision of Ministry of Information and broadcasting and NationalBook Trust. Subject Current AffairsGood books ã At least one major national newspaper - either The Times of India or The Hindu ã Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook ã Current Affairs and News Analysis of BBC. ã Current events - Spectrum Subject StatisticsGood book ã Book on Statistics (Class XI) - NCERT Subject Indian Polity and ConstitutionGood books ã Introduction to the Constitution of India - D.D. Basu. ã Our Parliament - S.C. Kashyap Subject Indian Geography and EconomyGood books ã Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) - NCERT ã Yozna ã Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri ã The editorial page of the Economic Times. Subject Science and TechnologyGood books ã Science and Technology section of the Wednesday edition of the newspaper 'The Hindu'. ã Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum. ã Yozna contains science and environment related topics. Civil Services Books For Chemistry Gaseous state, Thermodynamics, Phase rule, solutions, Colligative properties,Electro Chemistry, Catalysis, Colloids - Principals of physical chemistry -Puri, Sharma & Pathawa ã Chemical kinetics - Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj ã Photo chemistry - A text book of physical chemistry (Vol. - IV) - K.L. Kapoor ã Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj . ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ã Bonding and shape of organic molecules, Stereo chemistry of carbon compound - Reactions and reagents - O.P. Agarwal ã A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry - Peter Sykes ã Rest all the chapters - A text book of organic chemistry - Bahl & BahlINORGANIC CHEMISTRY ã Atomic Structure - Principle of physical chemistry - Puri, Sharma & Pathwa ã Advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee
