WBCS: SUGGESTED BOOKS FOR MAIN

Assume that you are acquainted with the WBCS Examination. WBCS Examination is the biggest and the most prestigious competitive examination conducted by the West Bengal Public Service Commission. Thus, you have to cover much area, read many books to become a WBCS officer. Since, time is always at a premium, you would prefer to read those books which will directly help you in your WBCS preparation. The struggle is to find the right books, so that you can utilize your precious time reading them, rather than wasting your time in the useless venture of reading books that would make no difference to your bottomline. The funda of reading books or other material is simple: if it is not in the syllabus, do not read them. Here is a list of reference books for the optional paper of the WBCS examination. We are still adding resources to this page. Please visit our active links for the information you are looking for.

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• AGRUCULTURE


• ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE


• ANTHROPOLOGY


• BOTANY


• CHEMISTRY


• CIVIL ENGINEERING


• COMMERCE AND ACCOUNTANCY


• ECONOMICS


• GEOGRAPHY


• GEOLOGY


• HISTORY


• LAW


• MATHEMATICS


• MEDICAL SCIENCE


• PHILOSOPHY


• PHYSIOLOGY


• PHYSICS


• POLITICAL SCIENCE


• PSYCHOLOGY


• SOCIOLOGY


• STATISTICS


• ZOOLOGY

• AGRICULTURE

1. Soil Science - D.K Das
2. Soil Science - Brady
3. Genetics - B.D.Singh
4. Plant Breeding - B.D. Singh
5. Entomology - Vasantha Raj & David
6. Pathology - Singh
7. Indroduction To Horticulture - Kumar

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• ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND VETERINARY SCIENCE

• ANTHROPOLOGY

1. An Introduction to Anthropology : Haviland
2. Cultural Anthropology: Herskovits
3. Cultural Anthropology: Gaya and Pandey
4. An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Majumdar & Madan
5. Physical Anthropology & Human Genetics:Shukla & Rastogi
6. An Introduction to Physical Anthropology:Stein & Rowe
7. Social Change in Modern India: Srinivas
8. Caste in India & Other Essays: Srinivas
9. Indian Anthropology:N. Hasnain
10. Tribal India:N. Hasnain
11. Indian Tribes:R.C. Verma
12. Tribal Cultures of India: Vidyarthi & Rai

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• BOTANY

1. Microbiology:J Powars
2. Pathology: Singh
3. Cryptograms:B.R. Vasista
4. Cryptograms:Pandey and Trivedi
5. Plant Anatomy: B.P. Pandey
6. Taxonomy: Datta
7. Cell Biology: De Robertis & Ambrose
8. Genetics: Strickberger
9. Physiology and Biochemistry: Salisbury and Ross
10. Ecology: Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj and P.D. Singh
11. Economic Botany: B P Pandey
12. Economic Botany:Verma V.

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• CHEMISTRY

1. Advance inorganic chemistry - J.D. Lee
2. Organic Chemistry (5th Edition): Leroy G. Wade
3. Reaction Mechanism In Organic Chemistry: Mukherji, Singh (Macmillan)
4. Inorganic Chemistry:Dhawan(Tata McGraw Hill)
5. Atomic Structure:M.s. Yadav (Campus Publishers)
6. Chemical Bonding:Shobit Kumar Pandey(Campus Publishers)
7. Fundamentals Of Thermodynamics:Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, Gordon J. Van Wylen(Wiley India)
8. Chemical Kinetics 3rd Edition: Laidler(Dorling Kindersley (india) Pvt Ltd
9. Bioinorganic Chemistry:Bertini, Gray, , Lippard, Valentine(Viva Books)
10. Organic Reaction Mechanism:P.n. Mukherjee(Dominant)
11. Environmental Chemistry:Fritz Helmet

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• COMMERCE AND ACCOUNTANCY

1. Financial Accounting:P C Tulsian
2. Cost Accounting:Jawhar Lal
3. Taxation: Singhania, Girish Ahuja
4. Auditing: Kamal Gupta
5. Financial Institution: Anand Jain
6. Financial Management: I.M.Panday
7. Organisation Theory: L.M.Prasad, Rao Narayanan, R.S.Sharma
8. Industrial Relation: Mamoria, Singh & Chabra, Monappa

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• ECONOMICS

1. Monetary Theory and Public Policy - Kenneth Kurihara
2. Micro Economics Theory:James M Enderson
3. Macro Economics: M Gregory Mankiw
4. International Economics - Bo Soderston
5. Public Finance - K.K. Andley and Sundharam
6. Indian Economy - Mishra and Puri
7. Indian Economy - R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram


8. The Economic of Developments and Planning:M L Jhingan

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• GEOGRAPHY

1. Physical Geography -Savindra Singh
2. Physical Geography - Bunnett
3. Geomorphology: Arthur M Bloom
4. Economic Geography: study Of Resources:Roy P K(New Central Book Agency Culcutta)
5. Human Geography:Majid Husain(Rawat Publication)
6. World regional geography - Fellnan
7. Indian geography - Rammorthy Gopalakrishnan
8. Physical geography of India - S.M. Mathur
9. Political geography - Dixit
10. Economic & Commercial geography of India - Mamoria
11. World Grography: Majid Husain
12. Geography for The UPSC Civil Services Main Examination Optional Paper: Rajiv Ahir(Spectrum)

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• GEOLOGY

1. Text Book of Geology - P.K. Mukherjee
2. Geomorphology - Woolridge or Tharnbury
3. Structural Geology, 3rd Edition:Billings(Prentice-hall Of India Pvt Ltd)
4. Principles of Petrology - G.W. Turrel
5. Petrography - Williams
6. Economic Geology:U Prasad(Cbs Publishers)


7. Simple Geological Structure - Plate and Charlincr

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• HISTORY

1. An Advanced History Of India:Majumdar Et Al(Macmillan)
2. Medival India - Volume I & II Satish Chandra
3. Medival India - L. Mukherjee
4. Modern Indian History - Groover & Grooover.
5. Freedom Struggle - BipinchandraVarun Dey and Amlesh Tripathy (NBT)
6. Modern India - L. Mukherjee
7. A Concise History Of The Modern World:S R Bakshi
8. European History: Jere Link
9. European History - L. Mukherjee
10. Europe since Napolean - David Thompson.

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• LAW

1. Constitutional Law Of India:Acharya Dr. Durga Das Basu
2. Indian Constitutional Law:M P Jain
3. Jurisprudence:Dr.B N Mani Tripathi
4. Salmond of Jurispredence: P J Fitzgerald
5. Law of Tort:Winfield
6. The Law Of Torts:Frederick Pollock(Bibliolife)
7. Merchantile Law:M C Kuchhal(Vikas Publishing)/li>
8. Mercantile Law:Arun Kumar(Atlantic)
9. The Indian Evidence Act, No. 1 Of 1872:India(General Books)
10. Criminal Major Acts: Khastagir

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• MATHEMATICS

1. Linear Algebra - K.C. Prasad, K B Datta
2. Calculus - Santhi Narayan
3. Calculus - Das,Das & Mukherjee
4. Theory and Problems of Advance calculus:Murray R. Spiegel
5. Introduction To Ordinary Differential Equations:Coddington(Prentice-hall)
6. Introductory course in Differential Equations:D. A. Murray(Orient Longman)
7. Vector Analysis:Murray R. Spiegel(Schaum Publishing)
8. A Text Book of Vector calculus:Shanti Narayan
9. Statics:S.L. Loney(Macmillan)
10. Dynamics of a Particle: M.Ray
11. Tensor Calculus:Barry Spain
12. An Elementary Treatise on the Dynamics of a Particle and of Rigid Bodies:S.L. Loney
13. Introduction to the Theory of Relativity:P.G. Bergmann(Prentice Hall of India)
14. An Introduction to Real Analysis:P.K. Jain and S.K. Kaushik(S. Chand & Co)
15. Complex Analysis: Ponnuswamy(Narosa Publishing )
16. Complex Analysis -J.N. Sharma
17. Elements of Partial Differential equations: I.N. Sneddon(McGraw Hill)
18. Introduction to Numerical Analysis: C.E. Froberg(Addition-Wesley)
19. Numerical Analysis - S.S. Sastry
20. An Introduction to Applied Probability:I. Blake(John Wiley & Sons)
21. Numerical analysis and Computer Progg. - V. Rajaraman, SS Shasri

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• PHILOSOPHY

1. The Problems of Philosophy:Russell, Bertrand
2. A Short History of Philosophy:Higgins, Kathleen M. and Solomon, Robert C.
3. Contemporary Western Philosophy:Dr. B.K. Lal
4. Indian Philosophy:Dr. C.D. Sharma
5. Socio-Political Philosophy:Dr. J.P. Sood Vol IV
6. Philosophy of Religion:John Hick
7. Philosophy And Religion:M. Kirti Singh
8. Outlines Of Logic, Psychology And Ethics:Arthur Baker
9. Indian Ethic:Dr. Divakar Pathak
10. Western Ethic:Dr. V.P. Verma

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• PHYSICS

1. Physics Vol I&II: David Haliday and Resnick
2. Mechanics - D.S. Mathur, B.S. Agarwal


3. Special Relativity-R.Resnic
4. Introduction of Electrodynamics - David Griffiths
5. Optics-Ajay Ghatak
6. Text Book Of Electrostatics:D.k. Jha
7. Electricity & Magnetism: D.C. TAyal, B.S. Agarwal, Griffith


8. Fundamental of Magnetism electricity - B.N. Basudeva
9. Thermal Physics - Singal, Agarwal & Prakash
10. Thermal Physics - P.K Chakraborty
11. Statistical Physics -B.B laud
12. Quantum Mechnaics - A Ghatak
13. Atomic Physics - J. B. Rajan
14. Nuclear Physics - D.C. Tayal
15. Solid State Physics -Kittel
16. Waves and Oscillations - Brijlal & Subramanyam, B.S. Agarwal
17. Electronics - Milman & Halkias,

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• POLITICAL SCIENCE

1. Political Theory —O.P. Gauba
2. A History of Political thought—Subrata Mukherjee, Susheela Ramaswamy
3. Introduction to the Constitution:D.D. Basu
4. 'Political Theory' —Amal Ray, Mohit Bhattacharya
5. Politics in India —Rajani Kothari
6. Our Constitution —S.C. Kashyap
7. Public Administration - Avasti & Maheswari
8. New Horizons of Public Administration - Mohit Bhattacharya
9. Indian Administration - S.R. Maheswari.
10. International Relations:V N Khanna
11. International Relations: Joshua S. Goldstein
12. Indian Foreign Policy:Prem Arora
13. Foreign Policy Of India:U R Ghai

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• PSYCHOLOGY

1. Introduction to Psychology - Morgan & King
2. Abnormal Psychology - Colman
3. Social Psychology - David G Myers
4. Social psychology - Baros & Bryne
5. Industrial Psychology -M L Bulm &J C Naylor
6. Organisational behaviour - Stephen P. Robbins
7. Educational psychology - Charles E Skinner
8. Organisational behaviour - Stephen P. Robbins

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• SOCIOLOGY

1. Introductory Sociology: T.B.Bottomore
2. Social & Cultural Process:Madan & Majumdar
3. Introduction to Sociology:Harlambus


4. Social structure: M.N. Srinivas
5. Basic Concepts of Indian Sociology: Y.Singh
6. Social problems in India:Ram Ahuja
7. Social Change in India:Y. Singh

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• STATISTICS

1. Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications - Paul Meyer
2. An Introduction to Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics -V K Rohtagi
3. Sampling Techniques-William G. Cochran
4. Sampling Theory of Surveys with applications - B. V Sukhatme & B V Sukhatme
5. Fundamentals of Applied Statistics-S C Gupta and V K Kapoor
6. Fundamentals of Statistics (2 Vol.)- A M Goon, M K Gupta and B Dass Gupta

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• ZOOLOGY

1. Fundamentals Of Ecology, 5th Edition:Odum Eugene P
2. Ethology - Reena Mathur
3. Economic Zoology - Shukla and Upadhaya
4. Economic Zoology:Manju Yadav
5. Cell And Molecular Biology, 8e (ex):E.d.p. De Robertis
6. Genetics:Veer Bala Rastogi
7. Evolution - Vir Bala Rastogi
8. Biochemistry - Harper
9. Physiology - H.R. Singh
10. Fundamentals Of Biochemistry:J.L. Jain, Sunjay Jain & Nitin Jain
11. Embryology - Balinsky
12. Cell Biology Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution And Ecology:P.S. Verma & V.K. Agarwal

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