From previous post we now know what to read and how to plan the
syllabus, let’s go through BOOKS that we can refer for TSPSC Group 2 exams. I
will provide you books that are contemporary and easy to get in the market and would
request you to not read everything and anything that comes in your way.
We have a perception that a friend or classmate buys a book from the
market is considered as a standard or relevant book for Group 2 syllabus, I will
put forth few books that would help you in covering most of the syllabus of
TSPSC Group 2.
As you know we have 4 papers for TSPSC Group 2
Let’s start with
Paper 1 – General Studies and
General Abilities
·
Daily Newspaper – The Hindu for Current affairs,
International Relations and Events as well as Science and technology.
·
Read NCERT or SCERT books class 6th
to class 10th for Disaster Management, Environmental Issues, and
Basic English and also for History and Cultural heritage of India.
·
Policies of Telangana state- Read from newspapers
or we can get book from market on policies if not go through their website for a
specific policy.
·
Modern approach to logical Reasoning – by R.S.
Aggarwal
·
Oxford Student Atlas for India (they have added
telangana details as well) or Telangana geography – from Telugu Akademi
Paper 2 – History, Polity and
Society
Socio-Cultural History of India
and Telangana:
·
India’s Struggle for Independence – by Bipin
Chandra
·
Telangana History – Intermediate 2nd
year book – by Telugu Akademi
Polity:
·
Indian Polity – by laxmikanth
Society:
·
Indian Social Issues and Indian Social System –
by Ram Ahuja
Paper 3 – Economy and
Development
·
Indian Economy – by Ramesh Singh, information about
NITI Aayog you can visit their website or you can Google to know more about it.
·
50 years of AP – by Vittal and Swaminathan
·
Census Surveys and CRIDA Research papers, also
read Economic Survey report for India and Socio-Economic Survey Outlook for
year 2016 of Telangana - Socio-Economic Outlook Survey of Telangana-2016
·
We don’t have much of books available in the
market for English medium, will update more for this section please follow the
blog to know more about Economy books.
Paper 4 – Telangana Movement and
State Formation
·
Telangana State A Demand – by Prof. Jaya Shankar
Sir..
·
Telangana Rashtrodhyam - by Prof. Kodanda Ram
Sir
·
Telangana udhyamam – By V Prakash
·
Telangana Sayudha Poratam – by Telugu Akademi
(If you have time read this)
I would update if we have any new relevant book is released in the
market, other than these books it is better to pick one book for each paper of any
of the good lecturers from any of the competitive coaching institutes.
Other than books you have to read English newspaper (preferably “The
Hindu”) and a Telugu newspaper, follow Kurukshetra and Yojana magazines as well
as India 2016 – Year book published by Govt of India.
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