GS books

Note: I Request the Users to mention the name of books Authors etc in case you are aware of Kannada Medium books for KAS on various Optional subjects and General Studies. Please do the needful as a lot of Kannada medium aspirants want this information. 
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General Studies Suggested reading :

Books for Prelims English Medium:

For Prelims Spectrum or Tata Mc grawhills General Studies book which covers all topics

Geography: 

Indian and World Geography by Majid husain , apart from that Buy a book which covers Karnataka geography i.e Geography of Karnataka by Ranganath. 

Geography Of Karnataka by Ss Nanjannavar, Mn Meeranaik 

History :
Bipan chandra :India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra, Modern India by Spectrum Publications
For History I use Krishna Reddy book of Indian Hisotory for prelims. Since its just like a guide, For Karnataka History Suryanath U Kamath's book.




Economy:
Read the Book Which covers All basic Concepts, If you have got spectrum Book for GS it has covererd all economy concepts, NCERT Economy books 
Ramesh singh's indian economy {many people suggested (Personally i have not yet read this book).}
Also News paper reading on economy is needed.
For karnataka economy i still dont know the books Some Said Madaiah, But Karrnataka Economic survey will be useful, Also regular news reading may help.
Govt reports if you can get any ... will be helpful

Indian Polity :
DD Basu and also can read Indian polity by Laxmikant

also if possible Buy NCERT books of  6th, 7th, up to 12th for History, geography, polity and economy will help us understand better and remember things than reference books. Things are explained in a simple manner in these books.

If you are buying books in due respect of mains Exam then you almost have the all the topics to read in your hand.

For Science and Technology :
Thursday issue of Hindu also Special Issues by Magazines.

Current Affairs: Chronicle or Wizard any one should be Okay.

For Karnataka Related affairs May go through News Papers and Magazines

Magazines and Newspapers remain the same for Both Prelims and Mains.Moreover for Prelims you cant say that if you read few books its sufficient. It is vast No mater whatever book you read but remember you cover the core subjects like history geography polity and economy...

Mains Ref Books: 

Mostly the books will remain same for both prelims and mains. 

I will keep updating as and when i come to know more ref books.

Mains Exam is writing answers for 5 marks 10 15 and 30 marks. so You should prepare notes from books. not just remember one liners. There is no rule that you must read these books. But these are the mostly suggested ones by most of the people. 

One General Studies Manual of Spectrum Publications  or Tata Mcgrawhill which covers all the topics for General studies.

History Modern India : 
Spectrum publications Modern India, Bipan Chandra's Strruggle for Independence.
Chronicle special issues (Not mandatory) if you have any one from above.

Indian Polity :
DD Basu and also can read Indian polity by Laxmikant

Current Affairs: 
One News paper Hindu and Prajavani and Magazine such as chronicle

Economy: 
Remains the same books as mentioned above for prelims. you should concentrate on Current based Information. 

Other Books  : India Year book which will be released every year by Govt of India 

Or any other book you are comfortable with. 

Yojana and Kurukshetra from Govt of India Publications.(better subscribe for it for year or so,since very limited copies at bookstores)

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For Karnataka Current Affairs You can Buy Sparda Spoorthi or Sparda Chaitra Magazines. Since its in Kannada Its little difficult to translate it ad write notes. This might help only during prelims stage as its only multiple choice. But for mains, Prepare notes from newspaper and Internet.

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" MUSIC IS LIFE has left a new comment on your post "Next Prelims Exam 2013???": 

Hi Ashwini,
How far do you think the "Manorama year book" would be useful for national and international current affairs. Please provide your opinion and suggest others books if any.
Best Regards
T V Karthik "
Best Regards
T V Karthik "
------My Answer-------

Purpose of the year book as you all know to understand the set of events happened in a year at the national, international and states any in various fields such as Science and technology, politics,Environment, social and economic deveopments sports etc etc.....

All these things will be covered in any Year book u purchase, whether it is Manorama Year book, Chronicle Year book... or any other... 

But from the Exam point of view It will be too vast to read and remember so much of data...

Anybody who has already attempted Civilservices will be knowing what am actually trying to say... that Preparing for National International events should be done on a daily basis... i.e every day news will only help you, not a single book at the time of exam... 

Hence in my opinion Year books matter very little if you are preparing on daily basis. I too have Year books of 2009 and 2010... its just another book added to my book shelf... I hardly go through it... I am not saying you should not buy year book at all.. 

If you have one already , then don't go for buying it every year till you prepare.If you are buying monthly magazines that itself would be sufficient... or else u still u want Year book then Year book by Govt of India is better... May be it will help writing answers in Mains. 

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Also See:

http://kas-aspirants.blogspot.com/2011/09/role-of-dictionary-and-writing-good.html