BORTHAKUR'S
                              IAS ACADEMY
                           READINGS FOR GS
                          Preliminary Examination
    1.               Environment
      a.     Chapter on Ecology & Environment – Biology Book – Old NCERT – Class-XIIth
      b.     ICSE Book
      c.     Topic ‘Environment’ – India 2019 or 2020
      d.     Specific websites for International Agreements and Organisation
      e.     Class and Class Notes
      f.      Current Issues
     
    2.               Art & Culture
      a.     R.S. Sharma for Ancient
      b.     Satish Chandra for Medieval
      c.     Class and Class notes
      d.     Class booklet – Only prescribed topics
     
    3.               Ancient Indian History
      a.     R.S. Sharma
     
    4.               Medieval Indian History
      a.     Satish Chandra
     
    5.               Modern Indian History
      a.     Bipin Chandra
      b.     Class and Booklets
     
    6.               Indian Polity
      a.     Laxmikant
      b.     Our Parliament by Subhash Kasyap
      c.     Current Issues
     
    7.               Economics & Economy
      a.     Class and class notes
      b.     Current Issues
     
    8.               India 2019 & 2020
      a.     Class Notes (to be given) excepting two topics mentioned in PT- Strategy 2020-02-18
     
    9.               Economic Survey 2018-19 & 2019-20 
      a.     Class Notes (to be given)
     
    10.             All existing Programmes
      a.    Class Notes (to be given)
     
    11.            Geography
      a.    NCERT – Class IXth & Xth
      b.    Any Atlas for maps
      c.    Class and class notes
      d.    Current Issues
     
    12.            Science & Technology
      a.    NCERT – Class IXth, Xth and XIIth (as per the requirements)
      b.    Current Issues