Satyam Gandhi AIR 10 PSIR strategy

Hello everyone.

Myself Satyam Gandhi, AIR 10 UPSC CSE 2020.

I will be sharing my strategy, answer copies, notes, tips and tricks for the next few weeks. I will also conduct few live doubt clearance sessions for aspirants.

All the best to everyone.

Jai Hind!

MY COMPREHENSIVE SOURCES FOR PSIR OPTIONAL

PAPER 1 PART A:-

- Political Theory by OP Gauba.

- Shubhra Ranjan notes for western political thought.

- History of political thought: from Plato to Marx by S. Mukherjee( Value addition for thinkers mentioned in syllabus; can be skipped if you don’t have time)

- Modern Indian Political Thought by Bidyut Chakarbarty( primary source for Indian political thought- read selectively for thinkers mentioned in syllabus).

- Ancient Indian Political thought by VR Mehta (only for value addition;skip if you don’t have time)

- Shubhra Ranjan IAS crash course notes and model answers( immensely beneficial. She is very good in static portion).

- Supplemented it with toppers notes of Tushar gupta.

PAPER 1 PART B

- Shubhra Ranjan Notes (primary material)

- M Laxmikanth Indian polity

- Shubhra Ranjan IAS crash course and model answers

- Tushar gupta notes

- Value addition:- Newspapers

PAPER 2 PART A:-

- Global Politics by Andrew Heywood ( primary material for static topics, used extensively).

- Shubhra Ranjan institute notes.

- Globalisation of World Politics by Baylis and Smith for selected topics( selective reading of IR theories).

- Tushar gupta notes( for value addition; contains some very unique points).

- SR Crash course notes and model answers( Model answers were useful)

- Foreign policy magazine and indian express for dynamic portion + extensive use of google to read articles.

PAPER 2 PART B:-

- Only IAS material ( primary source, make very short notes in organised format ).

- Oxford handbook of Indian foreign policy by Malone, CRaja mohan ( used it selectively for topics mentioned in syllabus/ significant issues).

- Current affairs for value addition:- Indian express and The Hindu were my primary source. Rest i used google to read articles from various websites including ORF.

- Tushar gupta notes( very beneficial)

- Shubhra Ranjan Crash Course model answers were useful.

Note:-

- Don’t get bogged down after seeing such an extensive booklist.

- You don’t have to read any book/source cover to cover. Just read selectively for topics mentioned in the syllabus.

- I will be uploading a video regarding PSIR strategy very soon.

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