Ascent-Booklist

This is a tentative list. You can check other websites anytime for any books you consider helpful. This is what I used:

Modern History-Spectrum publication, NCERT old and new

Indian Culture-Spectrum Publication, selected chapters from A Wonder That was India(by K.L. Basham)

Ancient History-NCERT Class 11^th(by R.S.Sharma), Kiran Publication(can be used, contains bullet point information)

Post Independence history-VisionIAS notes, covered most of it in Sociology using several books.

World History-Mastering Modern World history by Norman Lowe

Physical Geography-G.C. Leong Certificate Physical Geography(Orange cover)

Economics-Ramesh Singh(for basics), Economic Survey, India Year Book, TheHindu/Indian Express

Enviroment and Ecology-Shankar IAS book, Vision IAS notes, Class 12^th NCERT biology(Chapter 13-18)

International Relations-India’s Foreign Policy by V.N. Khanna(just to get overview of historical development of India’s relations.), The Hindu, Vision IAS notes

Society-(Read plenty as Sociology was my optional)

Indian Polity-M.Laxmikanth(More than sufficient). Also-Our Constitution by Subhash.C. Kashyap can be read.

 Social Issues-Yojana, Kurukshetra

Agro processing etc(Paper 3)-Notes from Mrunal, VisionIAS, Combined with Geography

Internal Security-VisionIAS notes, Internet

Ethics-Lexicon, book by D. Subbarao, VisionIAS notes

CSAT-Careel Launcher practice sets, basics from R.S.Aggarwal(Reasoning, Logical aptitude etc.)

Mock practice from daily questions on Insightsonindia website and VisionIAS

 Owing to my love for reading I read a lot of other books which helped in some way or the other.


I hope this helps. All the best.