Suggested Readings
Geography

PRELIMINARY

1. VI to XII NCERT Books for Geography.
2. Certificate of Physical Geography - Goh Cheng Leong.
3. Physical Geography -Savindra Singh
4.Physical Geography - Made simple series - Rupa Publications
5. Economic & Commercial Geography - Made Simple Series - Rupa Publications.
6. Human and Economic Geography - Leong & Morgan
7. Human Geography - Majid Hussain.
8. Geographical thoughts - Majid Hussain.
9. Field Work – XI th NCERT.
10. Cartography - R.L. Singh
11. Geography of India - Gopal Singh
12. Economic & Commercial Geography of India - C.B. Mamoria
13. Orient Longman - Atlas.
14. TTK - Atlas
15. Dictionary of Geography - Penguin
16. Spectrum guide for Geography.
17. Siddhartha – Preliminary Exam Question Bank.
18. Oxford Atlas
19. Sharma & Cotinho: Economic and Commercial Geography of India.
20. India A Comprehensive Geography. Khullar
21. Charles Farro: General Principles of World Geography
22.Charles Farro: Monsoon Asia Reports published by Centre for Science 23. Environment And Tata Energy Research Institute
24.National journal - Kurukshetra, Yojana etc.
25.Down to earth

Books for Mains

Paper - I

  1. Physical geography - Savindera Singh
  2. Earth's dynamic surface - K. Siddhartha
  3. Physical geography - Strahler & Strahler
  4. Climatology - D.S. Lal
  5. Physical geography made simple - Rupa
  6. Oceanography - Sharma & Vital
  7. Biogeography - Savindera Singh
  8. Evolution of geographical thoughts - Majid Hussain and Adhikari
  9. Economic geography - K. Siddhartha
  10. Economic and social geography made simple - Rupa
  11. Urban geography - K. Siddhartha
  12. Human geography - Majid Hussain
  13. Geography of population - R.C. Chandra
  14. Regional Planning in India - Chand & Puri
  15. Political geography - Dixit

Paper - II

  1. Physical environment - NCERT
  2. NCERT Class XII
  3. India: Physical aspects - K Siddhartha
  4. Geography of India - Mamoria
  5. Agricultural geography - Majid Hussain
  6. Agricultural problems in India - Sadhu and Singh
  7. Economic & Commercial geography of India - Mamoria
  8. India's urbanisation and urban systems - R. Ramachandran
  9. Regional planning in India - Chand and Puri
  10. Political geography - Dixit
  11. India: political aspects - K. Siddhartha

Overall Reference Books

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

  1. NCERT Vol -1
  2. Physical Geography - Bunnett
  3. Certificate physical and human geography - Goh, Cheng Leong
  4. Physical Geography made simple

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

  1. Human and Economic Geography - NCERT
  2. Economic Geography, Economic and Social Geography made simple
  3. Penguin masters studies on geography
  4. The Cultural Landscape - Rubenstein

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

  1. Indian geography - Ramamurthy Gopalakrishnan
  2. Physical geography of India - S.M. Mathur
  3. General geography - NCERT
  4. Mineral of India - NBT by Wadia
  5. Resources and regional development - NCERT
  6. Cartography - R.L. Singh
  7. World regional geography - Fellnan
  8. Work book - K. Siddhartha and S. Mukherjee
  9. Question Bank - Surendra Singh, 1000
Geography quiz - Muthiah