List of English Books / Material for KPSC Mains

We’ve uploaded the list of books / sources required to prepare for KPSC mains. This is a comprehensive list and covers most of the topics required for Gazetted Probationers mains examination.

The current list is for English medium students. A comprehensive list of books / sources for Kannada medium is put up here.

We are also working on putting up detailed study material list (book / chapter wise, PDFs of notes which are not available otherwise ) for students which will be available to our existing class room students / mains test series candidate at our office (Hariprasad’s Institute for Competitive Studies).

KPSC Study material:-

• General Studies – 1

  • Section 1
    • Unit 1
      • WikiPedia.com
      • NCERT Ancient India Text Book
      • Chronicle History Special.
      • GK Today – Art and Architecture module, Ancient History Module
      • Religions of India – Ambition IAS notes.
    • Unit 2
      • Spectrum series – History of Modern India by Rajiv Ahir
      • Post Independence India by Bipan Chandra
    • Unit 3,4,5,6
      • Ambition IAS notes / Suryanath Kamath / Palaksha
  • Section 2
    • Ambition IAS notes,
    • Lakshmikanth – Indian Polity
  • Section 3
    • Ramesh Singh,
    • Ambition IAS notes,
    • Indian Economic Survey
    • Karnataka Economic Survey (Ambition IAS compilation)
    • R S Aggarwal – Quantitative aptitude

• General Studies – 2

  • Section 1
    • NCERT 10th, 11th and 12th
    • Geography of Karnataka by Ranganath
  • Section 2
    • Indian Polity by Laxmikanth
  • Section 3
    • 1 – Laxmikanth, Awasti Maheshwari
    • 2 – Awasti Maheshwari, Ramesh K Arora
    • 3 – Laxmikanth
    • 4,5 – Stefen Robins
    • 6 – Awasti Maheshwari, Laxmikanth, Ramesh K Arora, 2nd ARC Recommendation
    • 7 – Cosmos Book Hive : Concentrate on S.E Asia / SAARC, WikiPedia 

• General Studies – 3

  • Section 1
    • 1 – “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy”, E-Governance Programme, Digital India Program
    • 2,3 – Ambition IAS notes
    • 4 – Beta Publication : 9th & 10th ICSE Text Books
    • 5 –
    • 6 – Skill India Mission, GOI Websites, GOI Education Programs
    • 7 – Bio Fuel Policy of India / Karnataka, Food Procession Policy
  • Section 2
    • 1 – Beta Publication : 9th & 10th ICSE Text Books
    • 2 – Wikipedia, Inland Waterways Policies
    • 3, 4, 5 –
    • 6 – Ramesh Singh – Agriculture Programs
    • 7 –
  • Section 3
    • 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 Beta Publication : 9th & 10th ICSE Text Books
    • 2 – Geography notes.

• General Studies – 4

  • Ethics – Arihant
  • Access Publishing (G. Subba Rao, P.N.Roy Chowdhury)