APTI PLUS ACADEMY IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR OPTIONAL COACHING IN KOLKATA/ BHUBANESWAR

·        Soil Science – D.K Das or Brady

·        Agronomy by Yellamananda Reddy

·        Plant Breeding by B.D. Singh

·        Genetics by B.D.Singh

·        Physiology by Pandey & Singha

·        Introduction to Horticulture – Kumar

·        Handbook of Agriculture by ICAR

·        Agricultural Extension Education in India

·        Pathology – Singh

·        Entomology – Vasantha Raj & David

·        The Hindu – Survey of Indian Agriculture

·        Agriculture Statistics – Dept. of Agri. and coop. statistics at a glance

·        Special Issue of Agriculture by The Hindu

·        A Textbook Of Animal Husbandry- G C Banerjee

·        Advanced Animal Nutrition- D. V Reddy

·        Agricultural Economics- S Subba Reddy

·        Animal husbandry & veterinary science- T.N. Palanivelu

·        Animal Husbandry- Gyan Deep Singh, Anmol Publishers

·        Animal Physiology- K. A. Goyal, Rastogi Publishing

·        Animal Physiology- Kavita Juneja, Anmol Publishers

·        Basics Of Animal Physiology- Monalisa Kar, Anmol Publishers

·        Biotech’s Dictionary Of Animal Husbandry – Daya Publishing

·        Biotechnology Expanding Horizons – B D Singh, Kalyani Publishers

·        Essentials Of Plant Breeding -Phundan Singh, Kalyani Publishers

·        Fundamentals of Agriculture Volume-1 -Arun Katyayan, Kushal Publications

·        Fundamentals Of Agriculture Volume-2 -Arun Katyayan, Kushal Publications

·        General Agriculture- Muniraj S Rathore, Jain Brothers

·        Handbook Of Agriculture, Publisher: ICAR

·        Handbook Of Animal Husbandry -Manoj Kumar Rai, Oxford Book Company

·        Horticulture At A Glance Volume II -A S Salaria, Jain Brothers

·        Indian forestry – A breakthrough approach to forest service- K. S Manikandan and S. Prabhu

·        Introduction To Agriculture – A K Vyas, Jain Brothers

·        Milk And Milk Products Technology -Subhash Biswas, Jaypee Brothers

·        Principles Of Agronomy- Yellamanda Reddy, Kalyani Publishers

·        Principles Of Animal Nutrition & Feed Technology- D V Reddy, Oxford

·        Principles Of Genetics & Animal Breeding- F H KHAN, Jaypee Brothers

·        Textbook Of Animal Diseases -Ashok Kumar, Sonali Publication

·        Anthropology by Ember and Ember

·        An Introduction to Social Anthropology by D.N.Majumdar & T. N. Madan

·        An Introduction to Anthropological thought ( Theories) – by Makhan Jha

·        Indian Anthropology by Nadeem Hasnain

·        Indian Anthropology by R. N. Sharma

·        Tribal India by Nadeem Hasnain

·        Xaxa committee report

·        State, society and tribes by Virginius Xaxa

·        Cryptograms- B.R. Vasista

·        Botany for Degree Students; Pteridophyta (Vascular Cryptogams)-P.C. Vashishta

·        Ecology, Microbiology, Animal Behaviour, Pollution and Toxicology For B. Sc. Part III, Paper III- Dr Veer Bala Rastogi

·        Economic botany in the tropics- S. L. Kochhar

·        Embryology Of Angiosperms- S P Bhatnagar

·        Genetics- Strickberger

·        Elements of Genetics-Dr. Veer Bala Rastogi

·        Microbiology- Powars

·        Pathology-  Singh’s book along with a foreign author

·        Physiology and Biochemistry -Salisbury and Ross or Fritz and Noggle

·        Plant Anatomy- Esau

·        Plant Anatomy- B.P. Pandey

·        Taxonomy-R Nair

·        Systematic Botany-S C Datta

Ø  Atomic Structure – Principle of physical chemistry – Puri, Sharma & Pathwa

Ø  Advance Inorganic Chemistry – J.D. Lee

Ø  Chemical Periodicity, Chemical bonding,Coordination compound- Maden, Malik, Tuli

Ø  Theoretical principles of inorganic chemistry – G.S. Manku,

Ø  Extradiction of metals, Principle of inorganic chemistry – Puri, Sharma, Jauhar.

Ø  Rest all the chapters – An advance inorganic chemistry – J.D. Lee

Ø  Pollution and its control – A text book of environmental chemistry and pollution – S.S. Dara.

·        PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Ø  Principals of Physical Chemistry (Gaseous state, Thermodynamics, Phase rule, solutions, Colligative properties, Electro Chemistry, Catalysis, Colloids) – Puri, Sharma & Pathawa

Ø  Chemical kinetics – Advance physical chemistry – Gurdeep Raj

Ø  Photo chemistry – A text book of physical chemistry (Vol. – IV) – K.L. Kapoor

Ø  Advance physical chemistry – Gurdeep Raj

·        ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Ø  Bonding and shape of organic molecules, Stereo chemistry of carbon compound – Reactions and reagents – O.P. Agarwal

Ø  A guide to mechanism in organic chemistry – Peter Sykes

Ø  Rest all the chapters – A text book of organic chemistry – Bahl & Bahl

·        Strength of Material- Prof. S. Ramamrutham

·        Mechanics for Engineers- B Johnson

·        Structural Analysis- C. K. Wang

·        Limit state design of steel structures: S K Duggal

·        Design of steel structures: N Subramanian

·        Engineering Mechanics – McLean

·        Limit State Design – Ram Chandra

·        Soil Mechanics – K.R. Arora

·        Fluid Mechanics – Modi and Seth

·        Surveying – Punmia

·        Strength of Material – V. N. Vazaram

·        Basic and applied Fluid Mechanics-Garde

·        Theory of Structure: Volume- II – Vazirani and Ratwani

·        Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering – A Singh and K R Arora

·        Strength and Materials -UC. Jindal

·        Introduction to Mechanics of Solids – Crandall, Stephen, Lardner, Thomas

·        Engineering Hydrology – K. Subramanya

·        Irrigation Engineering – S.K. Garg

·        Strength of material – Gere and Timoshenko

·        Concrete Technology – M.S. Shetty

·        R.C.C. (WSM) – Syal and Goyal

·        R.C.C. (LSM) – A.K. Jain

·        Steel Structure – L.S. Negi

·        Prestressed Concrete – N. Krishna Raju

Ø  Corporate Accounting – Naseem Ahmed

Ø  Accounting Standards- D. S. Rawat

Ø  Cost Accounting; Theory & Problems- Maheshwari & Mittal

Ø  Students’ Guide to Auditing- Aruna Jha (Taxmann)

Ø  Income Tax book by- V.K. Singhania or Girish Ahuja

Ø  Financial Management; Text & Problems- Khan & Jain

Ø  Indian Financial System- M.Y. Khan

Ø  Financial Institutions & Markets- L.M. Bhole

·        PAPER-II

Ø  Organisation Theory & Behaviour- B.P. Singh & T.N. Chabra

Ø  Organisation Behaviour- L.M. Prasad

Ø  Human Resource Management- C.B.Gupta

Ø  Human Resource Management- K. Ashwathapa (Tata McGraw Hill)

Ø  Industrial Relations- T.N. Chabra & R.K.Suri

Ø  Dynamics of Industrial Relations- C.B. Mamoria & Satish Mamoria

Ø  Microeconomics – Ahuja and Koutsyansis

Ø  Macroeconomics – Ahuja and Mankiw

Ø  International Economics – Salvatore and M.C Vaish

Ø  Public Finance – Lekhi, Balton and Bhatia

Ø  Money and Banking – Gupta and Ahuja

Ø  RBI Website

·        PAPER-II

Ø  Indian Economy – Mishra and Puri, Dutt and Sundaram, Uma Kapila, Economic Survey, EPW, RBI

Ø  Any One Business Newspaper – ET, The Economist or Financial Express

·         Radio Engineering – G.K. Mithal

·        Circuit Analysis – Gupta Electrical Technology – Thereja

·        Electrical Power – Star

·        Physics of Semiconductor Devices – Sze

·        Automatic Control System – Kuo

·        Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics – Rao

·        Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating System – Jordan & Balmain

·        Modern Central Engineering – Ogata

·        Electromagnetic Waives and Field – R.N. Singh

·        Control Systems Engineering – Nagrath Gopal

·         Semi Conductor – Nagchoudhary

·        Integrated Circuits – D. Roy Choudhary

·        Network Analysis – Valkenbury

·        Basic Current Analysis – Murthy

·        Topics in Communication Theory – David Middleton

Ø  Physical Geography – Majid Hussain/ Savindra Singh

Ø  Modern Physical Geography – Strahler and Strahler  (Optional)

Ø  Certificate Physical and Human Geography – Goh Cheng Leong

Ø  Physical Geography Made Simple – Rupa Publication

Ø  Dictionary of Physical Geography – Penguin

Ø  Evolution of Geographical Thought – Majid Hussain

Ø  Economic and Social Geography Made Simple – Rupa Publication

Ø  Models in Geography – Majid Hussain

Ø  Dictionary of Human Geography

Ø  Oxford Student Atlas

·        PAPER-II

Ø  India – A Comprehensive Geography  – Khullar

Ø  Regional Planning in India – Mahesh Chand

Ø  India Year Book – Publication Division

Ø  Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines

·        Text Book of Geology – P.K. Mukherjee

·        Text Book of Physical Geology – Mahapatra

·        Geomorphology – Woolridge or Tharnbury

·        Principles of Petrology – G.W. Turrel

·        Petrography – Williams

·        Mineral and Crystal Science – V.C. Jesh

·        Sedimentary Rocks – Petti John

·        Underground Hydrology – David Keith Toad

·        Igneous Rocks and Metromorphic Petrology – Turner

·        Ocean – Squaredrop, Johnson and Bliming

·        Simple Geological Structure – Plate and Charlincr B

·        Soil Minerology – I. E. Grim

·        A Dictionary of Geology – Morrison

·        India’s Struggle For Independence – Bipan Chandra and Others

·        India’s Ancient Past – R.S. Sharma

·        The Wonder That Was India – A.L. Basham

·        Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas  – Romila Thapar

·        Medieval India: From Sultanat to Mughals – 1- Satish Chandra

·        Medieval India: From Sultanat to Mughals -2 – Satish Chandra

·        Mastering Modern World History – Norman Lowe

·        History of the World – Arjun Dev

Ø  Autochthon Pillai

Ø  Ratanlal Dhiraj Lal

·        Merchantile Law

Ø  R.K. Bangia

Ø  Avatar Singh

Ø  Pollack and Mulla

·        Law of Tort

Ø  Autochthon Pillai

Ø  R.K. Bangia

Ø  Winfield

·        Constitutional Law

Ø  V.N. Shukla

Ø  S.K. Kapoor

Ø  J.N. Pandey

·        Jurisprudence

Ø  P.K. Tripathi

Ø  Dias

·        Organisational Behaviour: Luthans and Robbins

·        Strategic Cost Management: Business Today supplements

·        Economics: Any good economics book

·        Management: Terry and Franklin; Koontz and Donnel; Koontz and Weihrich

·        Strategic Management: Michael Porter

·        Marketing: Kotler and any one Indian author book(Saxena/Ramaswami etc.)

·        Financial: Pandey/Chandra/Khan & Jain/Bearley

·        Operations: Adams/Taha

·        HRD: Mammoria/Monappa/Prasad/Flippo

Ø  Linear Algebra Schaum Series – Seymour Lipschutz

Ø  Linear Algebra – Hoffman And Kunze

Ø  Calculus Mathematical Analysis – S C Malik And Savita Arora

Ø  Elements Of Real Analysis – Shanti Narayan And M D Raisinghania

Ø  Analytical Solid Geometry – Shanti Narayan And P K Mittal

Ø  Solid Geometry – P N Chatterjee

Ø  Ordinary And Partial Differential Equations – M D Raisinghania

Ø  Dynamics And Statics Krishna Series

Ø  Vector Analysis Schaum Series – Murray R. Spiegel

·        PAPER 2

Ø  Algebra – Contemporary Abstract Algebra – Joseph Gallian

Ø  Real Analysis – Same As Calculus Of Paper 1

Ø  Complex Analysis Schaum Series – Speigel, Lipschitz, Schiller, Spellman

Ø  Linear Programming And Game Theory – Lakshmishree Bandopadhyay

Ø  Partial Differential Equations

Ø  Same As Ode Of Paper 1

Ø  Advanced Differential Equations – M D Raisinghania

Ø  Numerical Analysis And Computer Programming

Ø  Computer Based Numerical And Statistical Techniques – M.Goyal

Ø  Numerical Methods – Jain, Iyengar And Jain

Ø  Digital Logic And Computer Design – M. Morris Mano

Ø  Mechanics And Fluid Dynamics Krishna Series

·         Heat Transfer – Gupta Prakash

·         Heat and Mass Transfer – R. Yadav

·        Energy Conversion – Sukhalmoy

·         Environmental Pollution Central Engineering C S Rao

·         Surveying and Levelling – T P Kanetakar

·         Heat Conversion – Arora & Kundwar

·         Manufacturing Science – R K Jain

·         Thermodynamics – R Yadav Theory of Mechanics – S S Rattan

·         Theory of Mechanism and Mechanics – Jagdish Lal.

·         Mechanic of Solids – Popru

·         Manufacturing Science – Ghosh and Malik

·         Manufacturing Technology – P N Rao

·         Production Manangement – R K Jain

·         Principles of Manufacturing Material & Process – Campbeu

·        Human Physiology– Ganong; Guyton and A.K.Jain book

·        Biochemistry–  by U. Satyanarayan’s book.

·        Pathology–  Pathological basis of disease by Robbins and Cotran, one can also refer to Harshmohan’s book also.

·        Pharmacology– K D Tripathi’s book or even Lipincott is very good for memory point of view.

·        Microbiology– D R Arora’s book. And same author’s book for medical parasitology.

·        Forensic medicine– Essentials of Forensic medicine and Toxicology by Dr. K S Narayan Reddy.

·        (Community medicine)Preventive and social medicine– K Park’s book is sufficient enough.

·        General Medicine– there are various books for medicine and no one is complete. Highly recommend reading only those books which you have referred during your graduation years.

·        General Surgery– Manipal’s manual of surgery. For Differential diagnosis part one can refer to clinical surgery by S Das.

·        Pediatrics–  Essential pediatrics by O P Ghai, Paul and Bagga. For d/d one can refer to DR. Mayoor K cheda book.

·        Deramatology– illustrated synopsis of Dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases by Neena Khanna.

·        Obstetrics and gynecology including family planning– Obstetrics by D C Dutta. And for gynecology either D C Dutta’s book or Shaw’s Gynecology.

Ø  W. T. Stace: A Critical History of Greek Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle).

Ø  Copleston: A History of Philosophy (Relevant Chapters from volume I, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX & XI).

Ø  Anthony Kenny: A New History of Western Philosophy. OUP Oxford.

Ø  Datta & Chatterjee: An Introduction to Indian Philosophy. Rupa Publishing.

Ø  C. D. Sharma: A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy. MLBD.

Ø  Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

·        PAPER II

Ø  John Hick: Philosophy of Religion.

Ø  Michael B. Wilkinson: Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction.

Ø  O. P. Gauba: Social & Political Philosophy.

Ø  Political Theory, An Introduction. Edited By Rajeev Bhargava & Ashok Acharya.

Ø  Oxford Dictionary of Politics.

·        Mechanics – Kleppner & Kolenkov -D.S. Mathur

·        Wave/Spl.Relatively – D.S. Mathur/Kleppner&Kolenkov

·        Special Relativity-R.Resnic -Gupta & Goyal

·        Optics-Ajay Ghatak-B.S. Agarwal

·        Electrodyanamics – David Griffiths

·        EM Theory -Chopra&Agarwal/Satya Prakash

·         Thermal Physics – P.K Chakraborty – Satya Prakash, Singhal & Agarawal -Statistical Physics -B.B laud

·         Quantum Physics- Resnick & Eisberg

·         Concept of Mordern Physics – Arthut Bevser

·        Quantum Mechanics -Ghatak & Loknathan/Chatwal & Anand/Satya Prakash

·         Atomic & Molecular Spectra -Rajkumar

·        Nuclear Physics -S.B Patel

·        Solid State Physics -Kittel

·        Electronics -Allon Mottershed

·        Objective Physics -H.C. Verma/TMH

·        Introduction to Political Theory – O P Gauba

·        Politial Theory – Rajeev Bhargava

·        Politics – Heywood

·        Global Politics – Heywood

·        International Relations -Khanna

·        Foundations of Indian Political Thought – V R Mehta

·        Introduction to the Constitution of India  – D D Basu

·        India’s Struggle For Idependence – Bipan Chandra

·        Indian Government and Politics – B L Fadia

·        Does The Elephant Dance? Contemporary India

·        Foreign Policy – Malone

·        Introduction to Psychology Morgan & King

·        Systems & Theories of Psychology Krawiec & Chaplin

·        Psychology by Morgan and King

·        Psychology by Ciccarelli

·        Social Psychology Baron & Byrne

·        Theories of Personality Hall & Lindzey

·        Psychology Robert A Baron

·        Statistics for Psychology by Aron, Aron, Coups

·        Social Psychology by Robert Baron, Branscombe, Gopa Bhardwaj, Byrne

·        Tests, Measurements and Research Methods in Behavioural Sciences by A K Singh – Bharti Bhawan publications

·        Social Psychology by Robert Baron, Branscombe, Gopa Bhardwaj, Byrne

·        The Psychology of Small Groups Shaw

·        Public Administration In India 1st Edition – Maheshwari

·        Public Administration In India – B L Fadia (optional)

·        Public Administration – Laxmikant

·        Administrative Thinkers – Prasad and Prasad

·        New Horizons of Public Administration – Mohit Bhattacharya

·        Public Administration – Fadia and Fadia

·        Public Administration and Public Affairs 12th Edition – Nicholas Henry

·        Essentials Of Organizational Behaviour10th Edition – Robbins, Sanghi and Judge

Ø  Sociology – Anthony Giddens

Ø  Sociology – Harlombos and Holborn

Ø  Sociological Thought – Francis Abraham and John Henry Morgan

Ø  Political Theory – O P Gauba

·        PAPER-II

Ø  Social Change in India – M N Srinivas

Ø  Modernization of Indian Tradition – Yogendra Singh

Ø  Handbook of Indian Sociology – Veena Das

Ø  Indian Society and Culture – Nadeem Hasnain

Ø  Rural Sociology – Doshi and Jain

Ø  Social Background of Indian Nationalism – A R Desai

·        Fundamentals of Statistics (2 Vol.)- A M Goon, M K Gupta and B Dass Gupta

·        Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications – Paul Meyer

·        Sampling Techniques-William G. Cochran

·        Sampling Theory of Surveys with applications – B. V Sukhatme & B V Sukhatme

·        An Outline of Statistical Theory (2 Vol.) -A M Goon, M K Gupta and B .Dass Gupta

·        Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics-A C Gupta and V K Kapoor

·        Fundamentals of Applied Statistics-S C Gupta and V K Kapoor

·        Comparative anatomy of vertebrate zoology – Kent

·        Animal physiology – H.R. Singh, Vander

·        Biochemistry – Harper, Leninger, Stryer, Rao

·        Embryology – Balinsky, A.K. Berry, Vir Bala Rastogi

·        Organic evolution – Veer Bala Rastogi

·         Genetics – P.K. Gupta, Gardner, Ahluwalia, Vir Bala Rastogi

·        Invertebrates – R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan

·         Vertebrates – R.L. Kotpal, Nigam, Jordan and Varma

·         Ecology – P.D. Sharma, Odum, Vir Bala Rastogi and M.S. Jayaraj, Kotpal and Bali

·         Economic Zoology – Shukla and Upadhaya, Kotpal- Khetrapal – Aggarwal

·         Ethology – Reena Mathur, Magazines like Science Reporter, Nature

·         General Zoology – Storer and Usurger

·        Physiology – H.R. Singh

·         Evolution – Vir Bala Rastogi

·         A Dictionary of Entomology – Leftwich