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Civil Services Books For Botany

Microbiology: Powars's two books on microbiology are more than enough.

Pathology: Singh's book along with a foreign author

Cryptograms B.R. Vasista (alage and fungi), P.C. Vashishta (Pteridophytesgymnosperms) along with both volumes by Pandey and Trivedi

Embryology: Bhojwani and Bhatnagar

Plant Anatomy: Esau or B.P. Pandey

Taxonomy: Nair along with Datta

Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose and Easy or Powar

Genetics: Strickberger or Vir Bala Rastogi

Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh

Economic Botany: Kochar or Verma

Civil Services Books For Zoology

Cell and molecular bilogy - De Robertis, C.B. Powar

Genitics - P.K. Gupta, Gardner, Ahluwalia, Vir Bala Rastogi

Invertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan

Vertebrates - R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan and Varma

Comparative anatomy of vertebrate zoology - Kent

Animal physiology - H.R. Singh, Vander

Biochemistry - Harper, Leninger, Stryer, Rao

Embryology - Balinsky, A.K. Berry, Vir Bala Rastogi

Organic evolution - Veer Bala Rastogi

Ecology - P.D. Sharma, Odum, Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj, Kotpal and Bali

Economic Zoology - Shukla and Upadhaya, Kotpal Series, Kotpal- Khetrapal -

Aggarwal

Ethology - Reena Mathur, Magazines like Science Reporter, Nature etc.

General Zoology - Storer and Usurger

Physiology - H.R. Singh

Evolution - Vir Bala Rastogi

A Dictionary of Entomology - Leftwich

Civil Services Books For General Studies

Preliminary IAS (General Studies)

Subject Indian History

Good books

History books of Classes XI and XII - NCERT

Freedom Struggle (NET) - Bipin Chandra

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Subject World Geography - including Indian Geography

Good books

Principles of Geography (Class XII-Part I, II)

General Geography of India (Class XII) Part I - NCERT

Geography of India - Resources and Regional Development Part II(Class XII) - NCERT

Physical Geography - Leong

Atlas

Subject Indian Polity

Good book

Introduction to Indian Constitution - D.D. Basu Related

Subject Indian Economy

Good books

Evolution of Indian Economy - NCERT

Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam.

Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri

Subject General Science

Good books

NCERT books on Science.

Science and Technology supplements in the Newspapers and

magazines.

Subject Current Events of National and International importance.

Good books

One major National Daily - Either The Times of India or The Hindu.

Newsweeklies like India Today or/and Outlook

Current Events - Spectrum

Subject General Mental Ability

Good books

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Subject Indian Polity and Constitution

Good books

Introduction to the Constitution of India - D.D. Basu.

Our Parliament - S.C. Kashyap

Subject Indian Geography and Economy

Good books

Indian Geography (Class XI and XII) - NCERT

Yozna

Indian Economy - Dutt and Sundharam/Mishra and Puri

The editorial page of the Economic Times.

Subject Science and Technology

Good books

Science and Technology section of the Wednesday edition of

the newspaper 'The Hindu'.

Science and Technology Published by the Spectrum.

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

Chemical kinetics - Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj

Photo chemistry - A text book of physical chemistry (Vol. - IV) - K.L. Kapoor

Advance physical chemistry - Gurdeep Raj.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Bonding and shape of organic molecules, Stereo chemistry of carbon compound -

Reactions and reagents - O.P. Agarwal

A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry - Peter Sykes

Rest all the chapters - A text book of organic chemistry - Bahl & Bahl

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Atomic Structure - Principle of physical chemistry - Puri, Sharma & Pathwa Advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee

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Chemical Periodicity, Chemical bonding,Coordination compound - Selected topics in

inorganic chemistry - Maden, Malik, Tuli

Theoretical principles of inorganic chemistry - G.S. Manku,

Extradiction of metals, Principle of inorganic chemistry - Puri, Sharma, Jauhar.

Rest all the chapters - An advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee

Pollution and its control - A text book of environmental chemistry and pollution -S.S. Dara.