Book List
General Studies.

INDIAN HISTORY

  1. Ancient India NCERT book by R.S.Sharma
  2. Medieval India –NCERT book by Satish Chandra
  3.  Modern India- NCERT book by Bipin Chandra
  4.  India Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra
  5.  Modern India –Grover & Grover
  6.  IGNOU – Freedom movement part only
  7.  SYNERGY IAS’s Hand Book on Modern India by O.P.Siddharth
  8.  SYNERGY IAS’s Modern India Question Papers by O.P.Siddharth

GEOGRAPHY

  1. Geography Books All NCERT books from VI – XII Std. From Class IX- XII compulsory
  2.  Geography of India - Gopal Singh
  3.  Economic & Commercial Geography of India - C.B. Mamoria
  4. Certificate and physical Geography – Goh Chong Leoh
  5.  One School Atlas - Orient Longman or Oxford

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

  1.  NCERT School books on Science and Technology
  2.  Science (X std) Biology XI &XII
  3.  Science and Technology
  4.  Physics XII std
  5.  Tata McGraw Hill Guide Science Part  and Questions
  6.  Popular Science Series (CSIR)
  7.  Reports of the Ministry of Science and Technology  Yojana
  8.  Science Reporter
  9.  Official Web Sites of CSIR and its Associated Organisations
  10.  Science and Technology part in The Hindu news paper

POLITY

  1. Indian Political System- NCERT (+1 level)
  2. Indian Constitution D.D. Basu
  3. Indian Constitution by P.M.Bakshi
  4. Indian Polity by Laxmikanth
  5. Our Constitution of India- Subhash Kashyap  - Publication Division
  6. Our Parliament C. Kashyap- Publication Division
  7. Indian Constitution - P.M. Bakshi
  8. Perspective on Constitution: Subhash Kashyap
  9. Frontline Magazine

ECONOMY

  1. Evolution of Indian Economy by C Dhingra -NCERT (+1 level)
  2.  Mishra & Puri or Dutt & Sundaram - Indian Economy or India Economy by Madan Lal Dhingra
  3. Economic Survey
  4. The Economic Times - News Paper
  5.  Business Standard
  6. Business line -- News Paper
  7. National journal - Kurukshetra, Yojana etc.

MENTAL ABILITY

  • Any one of the Mental Ability Guide.
  • Mental Ability - Quantitative Aptitude by R.S. Agarwal
  • Statistical Part NCERT (XI std) Elementary Statistics S.C.Gupta: Statistical Methods

Note from SYNERGY: After the introduction of Negative marking system Mental Ability acquires greater importance. After answering WELL KNOWN QUESTIONS candidates can try to answer these questions in the remaining time. So till then, the usually less important topic for Prelims now gets importance

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Some magazines and Newspapers

  • The Hindu / The Times of India
  • Frontline
  • Any One Competitive Magazine
  • Yojana/ Kurukshetra
  • Civil Services Today
  • Civil Services Times
  • SYNERGY IAS’s weekly Current affairs and Questions on Current Affairs

India and World

  • Journal of Peace Studies
  • World Focus
  • Strategic Analysis
  • South Asian Journal