Toppers Booklist for UPSC

Prelims book list

Polity - Laxmikant

Economy - Sri ram IAS book on economics

Environment - Shankar ias book

Geography - 2 NCERT of class 11 + Vajiram handwritten notes

Ancient history - RS Sharma NCERT

Medieval History - Satish Chandra NCERT (for ancient and medieval, i didnt do these as my optional was history)

Modern history - Spectrum

Culture - Class 11 NCERT + Nitin Singhania (Book)

Science and Tech - Vajiram hand written notes

Current affairs - Vision monthly magazine + do extra modules from any institute for environment, economy, S&T current affairs

Mains book list

GS1:

History, Culture, Geography - same sources as above

Society - Society NCERT + internet research on topics in syllabus + Mains365

GS2:

Polity - Laxmikant + Mains 365

Governance - vision value added material + Mains365

IR - Mains365

GS3:

Economy - same as above + Mains 365

Agriculture, PDS - internet research for basic understanding of topics + Mains 365

S&T - same as prelims list

Disaster management - Forum compilation on Disaster management

Internal security - Internet/Vision value added material+ Mains 365

GS4:

Lexicon + examples from GS syallbus, personal life

Case studies - practice from booklets in market

Note: This isnt the only Booklist that you must follow. This is what i followed. You can choose material according to your own convenience (for e.g. someone may find Mrunal sir's economics better - that is upto you). However, your resources must be limited and must be revised again and again to gain maximum results.

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