IAS History Books REFERENCE BOOKS FOR HISTORY PRELIMS

BOOKS ON ANCIENT INDIA :
1. Wonder that was India - A.L. Bhashem.
2. Ancient India Social and Culture - Luniya
3. Ancient India - an introductory outline - D.N.Jha.
4. An Advanced History of India - R.C. Majumda, H.C. Raychaudhurai, - Kalikinkar Datta
5. Ancient India - L.MukherjeeBOOKS ON MEDIVAL INDIA
1. Advanced study in the History of Medival India - Volume I, II, III J.L. Mehta
2. Medival India - Volume I & II Satish Chandra
3. Wonder that was India - Rizzvi
4. Medival India - L. MukherjeeBOOKS ON MODERN INDIA
1. Modern Indian History - Groover & Grooover.
2. A struggle for Independence - Bipin Chandra
3. Freedom Struggle - Bipinchandra
4. Modern India - L. MukherjeeNCERT BOOKS
VIII, IX, X,XI,XII HistoryHISTORY BOOKS GUIDE
1. Indian History - Krishna Reddy
2. Indian History - Agnihotri
3. Competition Wizard Workbook.
4. IGNOU Material
5. Y.D.Mishra

REFERENCE BOOKS OVERALL :

BOOKS ON ANCIENT INDIA BOOKS ON MEDIEVAL INDIA

• NCERT (11th)
• The Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhuri & Datta
• The wonder that was India - A. L Bashaon
• Indus Civilization - (a) IGNOU booklet no. 2
• The rise of civilization of India and Pakistan - Bridget and Raymond Allchin
• Ancient India in historical outline (Revised and enlarged edition - 98) - D.N. Jha
• Mauryan : Ashoka and the decline of mouryan empire - Romila Thapar
• Indian Feudalism - R.S. Sharma

• NCERT (11th)
• The Advanced History of India - Majumdar, Raychaudhuri & Datta
• Social life and cultural life of both Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India - J.L. Mehta
• A history of South India - K. A. Nilakanta Shastri
• IGNOU material (specially on agriculture and agrarian relations and culture)

BOOKS ON MODERN INDIA

• NCERT (12th)
• A new look into the modern Indian history - B.L Grover
• Freedom struggle - Bipin Chandra, Varun Dey and Amlesh Tripathy (NBT)
• India's struggle for independence - Bipin Chandra
• Modern India - Sumit Sarkar
• IGNOU material (specially on freedom struggle)

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Economics Books for IAS Exam

• Dictionary of Economics - Ghaham Bannock; T.E. Baxter, Ray Rees (Penguin)
• Economics (Read Relevant Chapters) - Paul A. Samuelson
• The Hindu: Survey of Agriculture & Survey of Industry
• An Introduction to Economics - A.W. Stonier and D.C. Hauge
• Monetary Theory and Public Policy - Kenneth Kurihara
• Economic Survey : Eighth Five Year Plan: New Industrial Policy - Government of India
• Outline of Monetary Economics (Read Relevant Chapters) - A.C.I. Day
• Public Finance - H.L. Bhatia
• Modern Banking (Read Relevant Chapters) - R.S. Sayers
• Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri
• Macro Economic Analysis - Edward Shepiro
• Indian Economy - R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram
• Money Supply in India: Concepts, Compilation and Analysis (Sec.1-3 New Series only): Functions and Working (Read Relevant Chapters) - Reserve Bank of India
• Economic Growth and Development - Mayer and Baldwin
• Public Finance - K.K. Andley and Sundharam
• International Economics - Bo Soderston
• National Income Accounting - Bakerman
• Economics Choice - Koutsweanik
• Banking - S.B. Gupta
• International Trade - Bo Soderston
• The Economic Times and Economical and Political Weekly.

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