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This is only an indicative list. Students are advised to use the books according to their choice and requirements. Some of these books are at the B.Sc. level and some are at the M.Sc. level.

The books themselves contain very good references that should be referred to by the students.

 

Electrodynamics
BSc Level
Introduction to Electrodynamics 3rd ed. by David J. Griffiths
Electricity And Magnetism by Purcell
A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by D. Fleisch

MSc Level
Classical Electrodynamics 3rd ed by J. D. Jackson
Classical Electricity and Magnetism by Panofsky and Philips
The Classical Theory of Fields by Landau & Lifshitz

Classical Mechanics
Herbert Goldstein
Simon
Greenwood
Landau and Lifschitz
Takwale and Puranik
Rana and Joag


Solid State Physics
Dekker
Kittel
Ashcroft and Mermin

Mathematical Physics
Arfken and Weber
M. L. Boas
Dass and Sharma
P. K. Chottopadhyay
Potter and Goldberg
Charlie Harper

Mathew and Walker


Quantum Mechanics

BSc Level
Quantum Mechanics by E. Merzbacher
Quantum Mechanics by L.Schiff
A Textbook of Quantum Mechanics by P.M.Mathews &  K.Venkatesan
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by D. J. Griffith
Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications by Ghatak and Lokanathan
A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics by Townsend
Quantum Mechanics by Powell and Crasemann
A Course of Theoretical Physics: Vol. 3, Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory by L.D. Landau,E.M. Lifshitz
Quantum Mechanics I by Cohen-Tannoudji

MSc level
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai
Quantum Mechanics by A.Bohm
Advanced Quantum Mechanics by F Schwabl
Quantum Mechanics I & II by Cohen-Tannoudji


Books for Practice Problems
Quantum Mechanics by F. Constantinescu and E. Magyari ( translated by V. V. Grecu)
Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics by Yung-Kuo Lim
Quantum Mechanics (Schaum's Outline Series)
Problems in Quantum Mechanics by D. Ter Haar
Problems in Quantum Mechanics by G. Squires

 

Electronics
Millman & Halkias (This is a comprehensive course on analog, digital, networks
and integrated circuits.)
A. Mottershead
Malvino and Leach- Digital Electronics
Malvino-Electronics


Plasma Physics
F. F. Chen
S.N. Goswami (This book takes an approach that is different from Chen, but
gives a good understanding)

Modern Physics
A. Beiser

Nuclear Physics
I. Kaplan

S.B. Patel (The book is good for a first reading)

Krane

Statistical Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics & Properties of Matters: Theory and Applications by E.S.R. Gopal
Statistical Mechanics by R.K. Pathria
Statistical mechanics by K. Huang
Fundamentals of Statistical and Thermal Physics by F. Reif
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics by Arnold Sommerfeld
Statistical Physics. Vol. 5 of the Course of Theoretical Physics by L. Landau and E. Lifshitz

Thermodynamics
Zeemansky and Dittman.

Optics

Fundamentals of Optics by F. A. Jenkins and H.E. White
Optics by E. Hecht
Contemporary Optics by A. Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan
Optical Electronics by A. Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan
Fiber Optics by A. Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan

Spectroscopy

The Physics of Atoms and Molecules by B. Bransden and C.J. Joachain
Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy by C.N. Banwell
Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure by Gerhard Herzberg
Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles by R. Eisberg and R. Resnick 

General Physics

H C Verma part I, II

Feynman's lecture series in Physics-parts I to III

Resnick Halliday Walker

Lectures on Theoretical Physics by Arnold Sommerfeld



This list is not complete and will be updated. Suggestions are welcome here.