Books for Geography Preliminary Exam :
1. 6th to 12th NCERT Books for Geography.
2. Certificate of Physical Geography – Goh Cheng Leong.
3. Physical Geography -Savindra Singh
4.Physical Geography – Made simple series – Rupa Publications
5. Economic & Commercial Geography – Made Simple Series – Rupa Publications.
6. Human and Economic Geography – Leong & Norgan
7. Human Geography – Majid Hussain.
8. Geographical thoughts – Majid Hussain.
9. Field Work – 11 th NCERT.
10. Cartography – R.L. Singh
11. Geography of India – Gopal Singh
12. Economic & Commercial Geography of India – C.B. Memoria
13. Orient longman – Atlas.
14. TTK – Atlas
15. Dictionary of Geography – Penguin
16. Spectrum guide for Geography.
17. Siddhartha – Preliminary Question Bank.
18. Geography Guide – Narmadeshwar Prasad.

Books for Geography Main Exam :
For Paper – I

* Physical geography – Savinder Singh
* The Earth’s dynamic surface – K. Sidhartha
* Physical geography – Strahler & Strahler
* Climatology – D.S. Lal
* Physical geography made simple – Rupa
* Oceanography – Sharma & Vital
* Biogeography – Savinder Singh
* Evolution of geographical thoughts – Majid Hussain and Adhikari
* Economic geography – K. Sidhartha
* Economic and social geography made simple – Rupa
* Urban geography – K. Sidhartha
* Human geography – Majid Hussain
* Geography of population – R.C. Chandra
* Regional Planning in India – hand & Puri
* Political geography – Dixit

For Paper – II

* Physical environment – NCERT
* NCERT Class XII
* India: Physical aspects – K Sidhartha
* Geography of India – Mamoria
* Agricultural geography – Majid Hussain
* Agricultural problems in India – Sadhu and Singh
* Economic & Commercial geography of India – Mamoria
* India’s urbanisation and urban systems – R. Ramachandran
* Regional planning in India – Chand and Puri
* Political geography – Dixit
* India: political aspects – K. Sidhartha

Other Books  :
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

* NCERT Vol -1
* Physical Geography – Bunnett
* Certificate physical and human geography – Goh, Cheng Leong
* Physical Geography made simple

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

* Human and Economic Geography – NCERT
* Economic Geography, Economic and Social Geography made simple
* Penguim masters studies on geography
* The Cultural Landscape – Rubeistein

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

* Indian geography – Rammorthy Gopalakrishnan
* Physical geography of India – S.M. Mathur
* General geography – NCERT
* Mineral of India – NBT (Wadia)
* Resources and regional development – NCERT
* Catography – R.L. Singh
* World regional geography – Fellnan
* Work book – K. Siddhartha and S. Mukherjee
* Question Bank – Surendra Singh, 1000
* Geography quiz – Muthiah

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