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OPTIONALS BOOK LISTS

Below is lists for various optional subjects of UPSC Civil Services Mains Examination. As far as possible we have avoided the temptation

give a list of large number of books for each optional. We believe that repeated reading of few standard texts is good for aspirants.

Inevitably, some Optional subjects demand more books because of their very nature and vast syllabus. In those instances we will give yo

link to the toppers blog (from where we picked the list for Optionals we are totally alien to) so that the blame lies with them but not us

GEOGRAPHY

Paper-I

Physical Geography Majid Hussain/ Savindra Singh1.

Modern Physical Geography Strahler and Strahler (Optional)2.

Certificate Physical and Human Geography Goh Cheng Leong3.

Physical Geography Made Simple Rupa Publication4.

Dictionary of Physical Geography Penguin5.

Evolution of Geographical Thought Majid Hussain6.

Economic and Social Geography Made Simple Rupa Publication7.

Models in Geography Majid Hussain8.

Dictionary of Human Geography9.

Oxford Student Atlas10.

Paper-II

India A Comprehensive Geography - Khullar1.

Regional Planning in India Mahesh Chand2.

India Year Book Publication Division3.

Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines4.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Indian Public Administration Arora and Goyal1.

Public Administration In India 1st Edition - Maheshwari2.

Public Administration In India B L Fadia (optional)3.

Public Administration Laxmikant4.

Administrative Thinkers Prasad and Prasad5.

New Horizons of Public Administration Mohit Bhattacharya6.

Public Administration Fadia and Fadia7.

Public Administration and Public Affairs 12th Edition Nicholas Henry8.

Essentials Of Organizational Behaviour10th Edition Robbins, Sanghi and Judge9.

HISTORY

History of Modern India Shekhar Bandopadhyaya/Bipan Chandra1.

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Indias Struggle For Independence Bipan Chandra and Others2.

Indias Ancient Past R.S. Sharma3.

The Wonder That Was India A.L. Basham4.

Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas - Romila Thapar5.

Medieval India: From Sultanat to Mughals 1- Satish Chandra6.

Medieveal India: From Sultanat to Mughals -2 Satish Chandra7.

Mastering Modern World History Norman Lowe8.

History of the World Arjun Dev9.

Source: Here

SOCIOLOGY

PAPER-I

Sociology Anthony Giddens1.

Sociology Harlombos and Holborn2.

Sociological Thought Francis Abraham and John Henry Morgan3.

Political Theory O P Gauba4.

PAPER-II

Social Change in India M N Srinivas1.

Modernization of Indian Tradition Yogendra Singh2.

Handbook of Indian Sociology Veena Das3.

Indian Society and Culture Nadeem Hasnain4.

Rural Sociology Doshi and Jain5.

Social Background of Indian Nationalism A R Desai6.

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ECONOMICS

Paper-I

Microeconomics Ahuja and Koutsyansis1.

Macroeconomics Ahuja and Mankiw2.

International Economics Salvatore and M.C Vaish3.

Public Finance - Lekhi, Balton and Bhatia4.

Money and Banking Gupta and Ahuja5.

RBI Website6.

For Growth and Development ,I followed Mishra and Puri .There is another book by Lekhi(this book covers the syllabus so it is bit handy)/Debraj Ray-Development Economics extensively used Internet for some new developments in same.

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Paper-II

Indian Economy Mishra and Puri, Dutt and Sundaram, Uma Kapila, Economic Survey, EPW, RBI1.

Any One Business Newspaper - ET, The Economist or Financial Express2.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

A History Of Political Thought: Plato To Marx Mukherjee and Susheela Ramaswamy1.

Introduction to Political Theory O P Gauba2.

Politial Theory Rajeev Bhargava3.

Politics Heywood4.

Global Politics Heywood5.

International Relations -Khanna6.

Foundations of Indian Political Thought V R Mehta7.

Introduction to the Constitution of India - D D Basu8.

Indias Struggle For Idependence Bipan Chandra9.

Indian Government and Politics B L Fadia10.

Does The Elephant Dance? Contemporary India Foreign Policy Malone11.

MEDICAL SCIENCE

Human AnatomyB D Chaurasia books of Anatomy (all three volumes); Embryology from I B Singh;1.

Human Physiology- Ganong; Guyton and A.K.Jain book2.

Biochemistry- by U. Satyanarayans book.3.

Pathology- Pathological basis of disease by Robbins and Cotran, one can also refer to Harshmohans book also.4.

Pharmacology- K D Tripathis book or even Lipincott is very good for memory point of view.5.

Microbiology- D R Aroras book. And same authors book for medical parasitology.6.

Forensic medicine- Essentials of Forensic medicine and Toxicology by Dr. K S Narayan Reddy. It is better to go by the tables that

been given in this book as question are asked directly from there and it is advisable to not to miss them.

7.

(Community medicine)Preventive and social medicine- K Parks book is sufficient enough. There is no need to refer any special

for the programs of Govt. of India as K Park deals with them in good detail and one has to follow a word limit in writing questions

8.

General Medicine- there are various books for medicine and no one is complete. I would highly recommend reading only those bo

which you have referred during your graduation years. Like I followed CMDT(no need to buy latest edition), textbook of medicine

N Chugh, Emergency medicine by S N Chugh. I would recommend making notes on certain medical emergencies like asthma, CO

Status epilepticus, poisoning cases etc. It is better to avoid reading Harrison as one need to prepare any question optimally and no

totally. For Infectious diseases one should refer book from Indian author as presentation of Infectious diseases is a bit different in o

country than west so avoid CMDT or Harrision for that.

9.

General Surgery- Manipals manual of surgery. For Differential diagnosis part one can refer to clinical surgery by S Das10.

Pediatrics- Essential pediatrics by O P Ghai, Paul and Bagga. For d/d one can refer to DR. Mayoor K cheda book.11.

Deramatology- illustrated synopsis of Dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases by Neena Khanna.12.

Obstetrics and gynecology including family planning- Obstetrics by D C Dutta. And for gynecology either D C Duttas book or S

Gynecology. Practice questions in flow chart format like that has been given in D C dutta as it is the standard format to prepare for

answer writing in medical science paper.

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COMMERCE

PAPER-1

Accounting1.

Corporate Accounting Naseem Ahmed (A very good & simple book to cover entire topics, selected topics only)

Accounting Standards- D. S. Rawat (Cover AS 1-20, 22 & 26 in detail & practice numerical also)

2. Cost Accounting

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Cost Accounting; Theory & Problems- Maheshwari & Mittal (Selected topics to cover syllabus of UPSC only)

3. Auditing

Students Guide to Auditing- Aruna Jha (Taxmann) (Selected topics only)

4. Taxation- Income Tax, Service Tax & VAT

Income Tax book by- V.K. Singhania or Girish Ahuja

Following is the link for a Income Tax book by Mr. Bhavin Pathak. This book is written in a wonderful way and one should down

for covering Income Tax part from this book.

5. Financial Management

Financial Management; Text & Problems- Khan & Jain (ALL CHAPTERS,sufficient to cover the entire syllabus)

6. Financial Markets & Institutions

Indian Financial System- M.Y. Khan

OR Selected Topics to cover syllabus only

Financial Institutions & Markets- L.M. Bhole

Source: Here

PAPER-II

1. Organisation Theory & Behaviour

Organisation Theory & Behaviour- B.P. Singh & T.N. Chabra

Organisation Behaviour- L.M. Prasad

2. Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management- C.B.Gupta

Human Resource Management- K. Ashwathapa (Tata McGraw Hill)

3. Industrial Relations

Industrial Relations- T.N. Chabra & R.K.Suri

Dynamics of Industrial Relations- C.B. Mamoria & Satish Mamoria

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