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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 Singh 1.
Modern Physical Geography Strahler and Strahler (Optional) 2.
Certificate Physical and Human Geography Goh Cheng Leong 3.
Physical Geography Made Simple Rupa Publication 4.
Dictionary of Physical Geography Penguin 5.
Evolution of Geographical Thought Majid Hussain 6.
Economic and Social Geography Made Simple Rupa Publication 7.
Models in Geography Majid Hussain 8.
Dictionary of Human Geography 9.
Oxford Student Atlas 10.
Paper-II
India A Comprehensive Geography - Khullar 1.
Regional Planning in India Mahesh Chand 2.
India Year Book Publication Division 3.
Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines 4.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Indian Public Administration Arora and Goyal 1.
Public Administration In India 1st Edition - Maheshwari 2.
Public Administration In India B L Fadia (optional) 3.
Public Administration Laxmikant 4.
Administrative Thinkers Prasad and Prasad 5.
New Horizons of Public Administration Mohit Bhattacharya 6.
Public Administration Fadia and Fadia 7.
Public Administration and Public Affairs 12th Edition Nicholas Henry 8.
Essentials Of Organizational Behaviour10th Edition Robbins, Sanghi and Judge 9.
HISTORY
History of Modern India Shekhar Bandopadhyaya/Bipan Chandra 1.
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Indias Struggle For Independence Bipan Chandra and Others 2.
Indias Ancient Past R.S. Sharma 3.
The Wonder That Was India A.L. Basham 4.
Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas - Romila Thapar 5.
Medieval India: From Sultanat to Mughals 1- Satish Chandra 6.
Medieveal India: From Sultanat to Mughals -2 Satish Chandra 7.
Mastering Modern World History Norman Lowe 8.
History of the World Arjun Dev 9.
Source: Here
SOCIOLOGY
PAPER-I
Sociology Anthony Giddens 1.
Sociology Harlombos and Holborn 2.
Sociological Thought Francis Abraham and John Henry Morgan 3.
Political Theory O P Gauba 4.
PAPER-II
Social Change in India M N Srinivas 1.
Modernization of Indian Tradition Yogendra Singh 2.
Handbook of Indian Sociology Veena Das 3.
Indian Society and Culture Nadeem Hasnain 4.
Rural Sociology Doshi and Jain 5.
Social Background of Indian Nationalism A R Desai 6.
Source: One, Two
ECONOMICS
Paper-I
Microeconomics Ahuja and Koutsyansis 1.
Macroeconomics Ahuja and Mankiw 2.
International Economics Salvatore and M.C Vaish 3.
Public Finance - Lekhi, Balton and Bhatia 4.
Money and Banking Gupta and Ahuja 5.
RBI Website 6.
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.
7.
Paper-II
Indian Economy Mishra and Puri, Dutt and Sundaram, Uma Kapila, Economic Survey, EPW, RBI 1.
Any One Business Newspaper - ET, The Economist or Financial Express 2.
SOURCE: Here
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
A History Of Political Thought: Plato To Marx Mukherjee and Susheela Ramaswamy 1.
Introduction to Political Theory O P Gauba 2.
Politial Theory Rajeev Bhargava 3.
Politics Heywood 4.
Global Politics Heywood 5.
International Relations -Khanna 6.
Foundations of Indian Political Thought V R Mehta 7.
Introduction to the Constitution of India - D D Basu 8.
Indias Struggle For Idependence Bipan Chandra 9.
Indian Government and Politics B L Fadia 10.
Does The Elephant Dance? Contemporary India Foreign Policy Malone 11.
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 book 2.
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 Das 10.
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.
13.
Source: Here
COMMERCE
PAPER-1
Accounting 1.
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
Source: Here
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