MANUJ JINDAL BOOKLIST/SOURCES
GS 1 Sources:
Indian Art and Culture
-- NCERT An Introduction to Indian Art Class XI
-- Nitin Singhania Art and Culture (prelims oriented)
-- NCERT Living craft traditions of India
Ancient India
-- NCERT Ancient India Old edition
Medieval India
-- NCERT Medieval India Old edition
-- Freedom Struggle
-- Spectrum Independence struggle or Bipan Chandra book on freedom struggle
Indian post Independence
-- India Since Independence by Bipan Chandra (not v. imp. do later or in leisure)
World History -- NCERT World History book class XI
Geography –
Fundamentals of Physical Geography XI NCERT
-- Physical Environment XI NCERT
-- Fundamentals of Human Geography XII NCERT
-- India: People and Economy XII NCERT Certificate
-- Physical and Human Geography: GC Leong
-- PMFIAS -- Google and YouTube
-- Amit Sen Gupta geography videos on YT also good for clarifying concepts
Indian Society
-- NCERT Sociology Std XI and XII
-- Ram Ahuja Indian society selective chapters
GS 2
Polity and Governance -- My notes, available on: https://drive.google.com/folderview?i...
-- Laxmikanth selective chapters -- ARC reports (a must) -- Law Commission reports
(selective ones a must) -- PRS Legislative website -- Vision IAS monthly current affairs
compilations
International relations -- India’s foreign relations by Rajiv Sikri is a good classic book -- Any
free compilations by major coaching institutions for IR also good -- First clarify your
theory/conceptual understanding of IR policy of India and then study current affairs...
GS 3
Economy -- Economy by Nitin Singhania
Development topics -- Yojana magazine – a must
Security Issues -- Vision IAS current affairs compilations
Disaster management -- Coaching compilations or ARC report on this topic is sufficient Google and
YT are key portions of your self-study.
GS 4 Ethics Sources
Aspirants should understand that there are two main parts of the Ethics syllabus: (1)
Theoretical (2) Case studies based on real life situations Sources & techniques for studying
for both are totally different. Here is the list that will help you: (1) Theoretical portion -- Read
basic life-stories & major teachings of imp 20 Indian political/moral thinkers, do same for
rest of the world Examples: Gandhiji, Swami Vivekananda, Dr. BR Ambedkar, Chanakya,
Plato, Aristotle, Martin Luther King etc *list not exhaustive (2) -- Lexicon on Ethics is decent
book for definitions but be sure to Google these and make your own notes in simple words -2nd ARC report on Ethics Selective reading only. Read the 'recommendations' boxes for sure
PDF here: https://darpg.gov.in/sites/default/fi...
(3) -- Know 'core' definitions of each term in Ethics syllabus, such as 'probity', 'integrity' etc - Know differences between these -- Have atleast 1-2 examples of each prepared before hand
as well -- Knowing them cold helps in exam for sure, as this is a lengthy paper! (4) -- Michael
Sandel's Harvard ethics videos on YT Google search -- great for clearing fundamentals and
ethical dilemmas -- Learn from the examples and situations here provides -- Most
importantly, be sure to learn how he uses simple 'frameworks' to solve ethical dilemmas (5)
Case studies: -- Unfortunately there is no book for this. -- Fortunately, I can help :p -- Do at
least last 3 years cases that came in UPSC and create common frameworks for common
problems -- Create some pre-defined solutions to similar kind of situations (see below) (6) -For instance, for a problem related to disaster mgmt, solutions will be similar, with some
minor differences... -- Use a process flow / mental model to case studies