REFERENCE BOOKS FOR PPSC PREPARATION

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Indian History Books

1. Ancient History: Class 11th Old NCERT: 
2. Medieval History: Class 11th Old NCERT: 
3. Modern History: Spectrum or Bipin Chandra Books- Class 11th NCERT; India's Struggle for Independence;
4. Post-Independence: India After Independence, Bipin Chandra

World History

NCERTs:

1. The Story Of Civilization- Class 9th-Ch 6 to Ch 8
2. The Story Of Civilization- Class 10th-Ch 9 to Ch 13
3. Contemporary World History-Class 12th

Tamil Nadu Board Books

1. Class 10th Social Science Book-Ch 1 to Ch 4
2. Class 12th History Book-Ch 10 to Ch to Ch 15

10th TN Board Book 12th TN Board Book

World History Since WW I: Norman Lowe

Art & Culture

1. NCERT Fine Arts Class XI
2. Nitin Singhania Handwritten Notes

11th NCERT

*Combine with reading from Ancient & Medieval Old NCERTs

Advanced Resource:

3. CCRT website

CCRT website

Geography

1. Class XI-Fundamentals of Physical Geography
2. Class XI-Indian Physical Environment
3. Class XII-Human Geography
4. Class XII-India, People & Economy

Advanced Book:

1. G C Leong

Society

1. Class 11th-Sociology Part 1

11th NCERT

2. Class XII-Sociology NCERTs

12th NCERT

3. Newspaper Analysis; Magazines; Editorials provide lot of useful content for preparing this section of the Exam

Political Theory

1. Political Theory-Class 11th

Polity

Use NCERTS for basic understanding as a beginner the M. Laxmikant (comprehensive resource-No other book needed);

International Relations

1. Class 12th NCERT-Contemporary World Politics
2. Siddhi Punjab Current Affairs
3. Siddhi Punjab IR Book(*Coming Soon)

Siddhi Current affairs

Governance

1. 2nd ARC Reports
2. Siddhi Course & Resources (*Coming soon)

Economy

1. Basic Understanding from 9th to 12th NCERT
2. Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh
3. Newspaper Analysis & Siddhi Punjab Current Affairs

Statistics

Class 8th to 12th Mathematics NCERT- Cover concepts like Graphs, Pie charts, Venn diagrams, Mean, Mode, Median

Security

1. Newspaper Analysis
2. Siddhi Punjab Current Affairs

Science & Technology

1. NCERTS class 6th to 10th

2. Newspaper Analysis
3. Siddhi Punjab Current Affairs

Environment

1. Biology NCERT 12th Class- Ch 13 to 16
2. Chemistry NCERT 11th Class-Ch 14
3. Chemistry NCERT 12th Class-Ch 16
4. Newspaper Analysis
5. Siddhi Punjab Current Affairs