UPSC Booklist and Resouces

Posting the Booklist..

1. Art and Culture.

A. Fine Arts Class 11 new NCERT.

B. Selected Chapters of Nitin Singhania(Religion, Literature, Festivals, Music, Dance, Coinage, Bhakti and Sufi etc)

Same resource for both Pre and Mains.

For Mains - Made PYQ guided notes on dynasties contribution to Art and Literature, Evolution of painting and Literature and architecture, Region wise architecture, Religious Art and architecture, Prominent places etc.

2. Histroy

Prelims-

A. Ancient History - Old NCERT.

B. Medieval History - Old NCERT.

+ Lucent GK book for ancient and Medieval ( A bit fact loaded, but a very book for Prelims)

C. Modern History- Spectrum.

For Mains-

Again made PYQ guided notes from Spectrum on importance events, personalities, Revolutions and revolutionaries, Phases of Independence struggle, Social reform movements etc

3. Society.

Used Vision's Value Addition Materail (VAM) for mains specific notes.

Didn't nothing for prelims as such(Covered from current only)

4. Polity, Social issues, Governance

Prelims- Laxmikant.

Mains -

Constitution and Basic notes from Laxmikant...top up by VAM.

For Social issues and Governance used VAM to make notes.

5. IR

Made extensive use of Vision Current Affair magazine for both Prelims and Mains.

Eventually the magazine will cover all topics like Indo- Pak, china, usa, europe, central asia, IOR, international Bodies in 6-7 months.

Made short note on each of them from the magazine for mains.

6. Geography.

Prelims and Mains- Made notes from Class 11 and 12 NCERT..

Took help of Rajtanil Maam's videos of Mrunal Sir's channel for conceptual clarity.

7. Economy.

Prelims-

A. Used Mrunal Sir's Youtube videos for initial understanding.

B. Used Vivek Singh's book on Indian Economy.

Mains-

With Vivek Singh's book..used VAM for syllabus specific notes..

(For eg- used VAM for topics like includive growth etc).

8. Agriculture-

Prelims-

Nothing as such...CA+ Thode knowledge from Environment wale resources.

Mains-

Syllabus specific notes from VAM.

9. Environment.

Prelims-

Shankar IAS Envi book.

Mains-

CA+Shankar+VAM ke mili jhule notes as per syllabus

10. Disaster Management..

Its a mains specific subject...used VAM to make notes

11. S&T.

Prelims- CA booklets.

Mains-

Basic notes on Biotech, Nanotech, GM crops, Space tech,robotics etc from VAM

+ CA .

12. Internal Security.

Mains specific topic-

Used VAM+CA.

13. Ethics.

Used G Subbaroa book for initial understanding.

Then used Shubham Kumar Sir's notes and extensive use of internet to make keyword and syllabus specific notes with daigrams, quotes and examples.

14. Current Affairs.

Indian Express+

Vision CA monthly magazines

(Made markings in pdf for prelims.

And Made short notes for mains)

For Prelims, used to make markings in book,pdf

And made Notes for mains.