Mechanical Engineering as optional

My friend, Raveesh Gupta , AIR-16, CSE 2011 had cracked the Mechanical engineering optional by scoring 435 marks in it..His views can be read on the link given below..I am re-producing just the list of books here too...

• Mechanics of Rigid Bodies – No particular book – questions are of the same nature as asked in the engineering entrance examinations, and are of much simpler level – may use any XI standard book on Mechanics (Arihant etc.)
• Mechanics of Deformable Bodies – B.C.Punmia (Mechanics of Materials) (many also recommend Sadhu Singh)
• Engineering Materials – Relevant chapters of the book on Manufacturing by E.Paul De Garmo (many recommend V.Raghavan)
• Theory of Machines – S.S.Rattan (Sharma and Aggarwal for Machine Design)
• Manufacturing Processes – E.Paul De Garmo (some inputs from Hazra Chowdhary as well)
• Manufacturing Management – E.Paul De Garmo, various “free view” snippets from Google books*
• Thermodynamics – P.K.Nag
• Gas Dynamics & Turbines – S.M.Yahya
• Heat Transfer – J.P.Holman
• I.C.Engines – Mathur & Sharma (Ganeshan, or Obert might be as useful)
• Steam Engineering – P.K.Nag
• RAC – C.P.Arora

Source: http://raveeshgupta.blogspot.in/2012/10/mechanical-engineering-as-optional.html