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Our suggested Standard Books for UPSC consists of the most reputed and suggested books by toppers and mentors from all over India.

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Subject	Sr.No	Class	Name of the NCERT Bookt
Geography: Geography of the World	1	VI	Land and People Part-I (Old)
	2	VII	Land and People Part-II (Old)
	3		Goh Cheng Leong (ICSE book) Chapter 15-25
Geography: Physical Geography	4	VI	The Earth Our Habitat (New)
	5	VII	Our Environment (New)
	6	VII	Resource and Development (New)
	7	XI	Fundamentals of Physical Geography (New)
Geography: Indian Geography	8	IX	Contemporary India-I
	9	X	Contemporary India-II
	10	XI	Indian Physical Environment (New)
	11	XII	India-People and Economy (New)
Ancient & Medieval History	12	VI	Ancient India (Old)
	13	VI	Our Pasts-I (New)
	14	VII	Medieval India (Old)
	15	VII	Our Pasts-II (New)
	16	VIII	Our Pasts-III (New)
	17	XI	Ancient India (Old)
	18	XI	Medieval India (Old)
	19	XII	Themes in Indian History-I (New) (Themes 4)
	20	XII	Themes in Indian History-II (New) (Themes 5,6,7,8,9)
Indian Art & Culture	21	XI	An Introduction to Indian Art-I (New)
World History	22	IX	India and Contemporary World Part-I
	23	X	India and Contemporary World Part-II
History: Modern India	24	VIII	Modern India (Old)
	25	XII	Modern India (Old)
	26	XII	Themes in Indian History-III (New) (Themes 11,13,14)
Polity: Indian Polity & Constitution	27	IX	Democratic Politics-I
	28	X	Democratic Politics-II
	29	XI	Indian Constitution at Work (New)
	30	XII	Politics in India since Independence (New)
	31	XII	Contemporary World Politics (New)
Indian Economy	32	IX	Economics (New)
	33	X	Understanding Economic Development (New)
	34	XI	Indian Economic Development (New)
	35	XII	Introductory Macro Economics (New)
Science & Technology	36	VI	Science (New)
	37	VII	Science (New)
	38	VIII	Science (New)
	39	IX	Science (New)
	40	X	Science (New)
	41	XII	Biology (New) (UNIT: VII, VIII, IX, X)
Society & Social Justice	42	XI	Understanding Society (New)NCERTs
	43	XII	Social Change and Development in India (New) NCERTs

Subject	Sr. No	Class	Name of the NCERT Bookt
Ancient & Medieval History	1	VI	Ancient India (Old)
	2	VI	Our Pasts-I (New)
	3	VII	Medieval India (Old)
	4	VII	Our Pasts-II (New)
	5	VIII	Our Pasts-III (New)
	6	XI	Ancient India (Old)
	7	XI	Medieval India (Old)
	8	XII	Themes in Indian History-I (New) (Themes 4)
	9	XII	Themes in Indian History-II (New) (Themes 5,6,7,8,9)
Indian Art & Culture	10	XI	An Introduction to Indian Art-I (New)
History: Modern India	11	VIII	Modern India (Old)
	12	XII	Modern India (Old)
	13	XII	Themes in Indian History-III (New) (Themes 11,13,14)
Indian Economy	14	IX	Economics (New)
	15	X	Understanding Economic Development (New)
	16	XI	Indian Economic Development (New)
	17	XII	Introductory Macro Economics (New)
Science & Technology	18	VI	Science (New)
	19	VII	Science (New)
	20	VIII	Science (New)
	21	IX	Science (New)
	22	X	Science (New)
	23	XII	Biology (New) (UNIT: VII, VIII, IX, X)
Society & Social Justice	24	XI	Understanding Society
	25	XII	Social Change and Development in India
World History	26	IX	India and the Contemporary World Part-I (New)
	27	X	India and the Contemporary World Part-II (New)
Geograph & Maps	28	-	Goh Cheng Leong (ICSE Book) Chapter 15-25
	29	XI	Fundamentals of Physical Geography (New)
	30	XI	Indian Physical Environment (New)
	31	XII	India-People and Economy (New)
Polity & Governances	33	XI	Indian Constitution at Work
	34	XI	Political Theory
Environment	35	-	Biology NCERT

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Subject	Sr. No	Name of Book	Link to Buy
Ancient & Medieval History	1	Class XI Tamil Nadu History Book	Click Here
Modern History	2	A Brief History Of Modern India By Spectrum	Click Here
	3	India’s Struggle for Independence - Bipan Chandra	Click Here
	4	From Plassey to Partition - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay	Click Here
Post Independence	5	A Brief History Of Modern India By Spectrum	Click Here
	6	India Since Independence - Bipan Chandra	Click Here
Indian Art & Culture	7	Indian Art & Culture by Nitin Singhania	Click Here
World History	8	Mastering Modern World History - Norman Lowe	Click Here
Geography & Maps	9	Oxford Atlas	Click Here
	10	Majid Hussain (Only some Topics)	Click Here
Polity & Governance	11	Indian Polity by M. Laxmikanth	Click Here
International Relations	12	International Relations for UPSC by Pavneet Singh	Click Here
Economy	13	Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh	Click Here
Science & Technology	14	Science and Technology for UPSC by Ravi P. Agrahari	Click Here
Environment	15	Shankar IAS	Click Here
Internal Security & Disaster Management	16	Challenges to Internal Security of India (Ashok Kumar)	Click Here
Ethics	17	Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude by Awdhesh Singh	Click Here
CSAT	18	Quantitative Aptitude (R.S. Aggarwal)	Click Here
	19	Quantitative Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning (R.S. Aggarwal)	Click Here