Indian Polity by M. Laxmikanth and Civil Service exams are two synonyms that cannot be seperated, maybe in future! God knows. Originally published in 2004 and till now, there is not a single replacement of this book for the Indian Polity. Indian Polity holds a quite popularity among UPSC aspirants and this is a single book to cover Pre And Mains portion of this subject. 100 thousands search on world wide internet search can easily tell you the power of this book, just type Indian polity on Google and their is no other answer than  Indian Polity By M.Laxmikanth.

Who is M. Laxmikanth ?

M.Laxmikanth is an author, trainer and he also is the former founder of Laxmikanth's IAS Academy in Hyderabad. He obtained his Masters In Political Science from Osmania University in the year 1989. Apart from Indian Polity he also wrote books on Governance and on same related topics. This detail can be found on this book.

What makes this book so important? In his Acknowledgment section of this book he wrote that the valuable works of Nani Palkhivala, the greatest lawyer of India, jurists like Soli Sorabjee, VN Shukal and DD Basu, K Santhanam etc. have been inspiration of this book.

Indian Political section holds very important in UPSC Pre and Mains paper. One need to qualify Pre-Examination to qualify for further Mains paper. In Pre-examination out of 100 questions, there are 15 questions (that's 30 marks out of 200 marks) from polity section. In GS II mains paper out of 250 marks 200 marks consist of Indian Polity. 

This book covers Historical background for establishing modern Indian Polity, Making of the Indian Constitution, its Preamble along with its salient features,Union and its territory, Citizenship, Fundamental Rights and DPSP along with Fundamental Duties, Procedure of amending Constitution. 

This book also contains Parliamentary system, Federal system, The relation between Centre-State and Inter-State.

President of India, Vice-President, Prime Minister and his Council of Minister- they all are the basic central structure of Indian Polity

This book covers each and every aspects that fulfills the Indian Constitution and Its Parliament structures. This book unnecessarily do not go round and round and theoretical about Indian Political structure. It directly deals on important point of every section of Indian Polity and that is why this book is very popular among aspirants.

This was all about Indian Polity by M. Laxmikanth .