Anchor every factual claim to a primary or canonical secondary source. The CAPF level rewards clean static facts; sourcing keeps them correct.
Approved sources
- The Constitution of India, Acts, Rules, and official Notifications.
- NCERT textbooks (Classes VI to XII), the canonical base for history, geography, polity, economy, and science at the CAPF level.
- Standard reference books (see booklist below).
- Government primary sources: PIB releases, ministry annual reports (especially the Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report for the forces), the Economic Survey, Union Budget, NITI Aayog reports, RBI publications, Census of India, NCRB.
- Multilateral / human-rights primary sources: UN bodies, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions and ICRC material (for the security and human-rights syllabus), relevant indices and their publishers.
Not cited as sources (their underlying primary sources are fine; their summaries are not): coaching publications and commercial current-affairs magazines.
Hard rules
- No em dashes anywhere in the content.
- Give the number, the date, the Article; avoid "many", "several", "recently".
- Date-stamp currency-sensitive facts and re-verify before exam season.
- M. Laxmikanth, Indian Polity (selective; CAPF needs the core, not every chapter).
- NCERT Class XI Indian Constitution at Work.
- NCERT Class VI to XII history set.
- Spectrum, A Brief History of Modern India (for the freedom struggle, which Paper II rewards).
- NCERT Class XI Fundamentals of Physical Geography and India Physical Environment.
- NCERT Class XII Fundamentals of Human Geography and India People and Economy.
- G.C. Leong, Certificate Physical and Human Geography (world geography).
- Oxford School Atlas (map work).
- NCERT Class XI Indian Economic Development.
- Ramesh Singh, Indian Economy (selective).
- Economic Survey highlights and the latest Union Budget.
- NCERT Class VI to X science.
- Lucent's General Knowledge (science and static GK at CAPF depth).
- R.S. Aggarwal, Quantitative Aptitude.
- R.S. Aggarwal, A Modern Approach to Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning.
- A standard daily newspaper (The Hindu or The Indian Express).
- Monthly current-affairs compilation for revision (use for the events; verify facts against primary sources).
- Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report (mandates of BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, SSB).
- NHRC primary material; the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993.
- Basic familiarity with the Geneva Conventions / international humanitarian law.
- Practice essays on the five indicative themes (freedom struggle, geography, polity-economy, security and human rights, analytical).
- Wren and Martin, High School English Grammar and Composition (for Part B grammar and précis).
- Booklist detail, study plans, and paraphrased digests of the canon:
_books/
- Security and human-rights deep dives, anchored to the founding Acts, the MHA Annual Report, and the Geneva Conventions: deep notes
- The durable, structural current-affairs layer (organisations, indices, schemes, places in news): current affairs (thematic)
- The machine-readable fact dictionaries and their source policy: README
- The vault's no-fabrication and sourcing rules: sources and honesty policy
- Syllabus mapping: syllabus index
- Full catalog: master index