Nicholas

Not available in Hindi Medium but should be read by Hindi aspirants as well.

Nicholas Henry’s book covers Evolution of Public Administration, Forces of Organisation, Leadership theories, Budget Types, Public Policy etc. in a thorough manner. In Pre-CSAT era, serious players would consult his book specifically for prelim questions about Budget types.
Since he’s a famous author , Sometimes statements directly lifted from his book example
Incrementalist paradigm posits a conservative tendency in public policy making.15m (2011 Mains Paper 1)
You don’t have to read his entire book but only the chapters related to our syllabus.
Syllabus is given in official UPSC CSAT-2012 notification. You can download the pdf file link is on the top navigation bar of my site.

Stephen Robbins

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Not Available in Hindi.

Stephen Robbins is For Administrative Behaviour topics: leadership, communication, motivational theories etc.
Most of the books even IGNOU booklets stop after Maslow, Herzberge’s motivational theories and don’t talk much about modern motivational theories.
But Stephen’s book covers them with charts, diagrams and examples.
In Pre-CSAT era prelims, 3-4 questions used to come from his book.
His ideas on organisational design, communication, motivation, hierarchy, leadership, performance appraisal etc. can be applied and linked to other questions in Paper-I and II. so that way it indirectly helps you to frame better answers.
His book is written in very easy language, barely 350 pages, can be read like a storybook and finished within 7-10 days.

Apart from this, 2nd ARC report. Reading of Yojana, Kurukshetra Magazines etc.