Tulika Books is an Indian publisher of scholarly and academic books in the humanities and social sciences, with a "broadly left perspective." The

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-based Tulika Publishers is a sister company of Tulika Books.

History

Tulika Books was founded in 1995 and is based in

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. It is managed by the Managing Editor Indira (née Indu) Chandrasekhar, who started her career as a copy editor with Macmillan India in the 1980s and also did some teaching in

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and Delhi Universities. The authors published by Tulika include some of India's best known left intellectuals and academics. Tulika Books is one of the founder-members of the Independent Publishers' Distribution Alternative of India and the Independent Publishing Group. In 2014, it won the Printed Book of the Year award from Publishing Next for the book ''Project Cinema City''. The book falls into the Tulika Books' line of "art books," books on modern Indian art as well on modern Indian artists. In 2013, Chandrasekhar protested the invitation of

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as the chief guest of the "Romancing Print" conference. She and several other publishers withdrew from the conference, as a result of which Modi is said to have cancelled his plans to address the conference. Chandrasekhar is a member of the India Chapter of the

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. The former Tulika editor Sudhanva Deshpande went on to work as the managing director of the explicitly

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publisher LeftWord Books and Tulika maintains links with LeftWord. Its books are provided on the LeftWord Book Club and Chandrasekhar serves on the editorial advisory board of LeftWord.

Publications

Book series

* A People's History of India (in partnership with Aligarh Historians Society) * Comprehensive History & Culture of Andhra Pradesh (in association with Andhra Pradesh History Congress &

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) * Agrarian Studies * Labour History * Modern Indian Thinkers (in association with ''

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'') * Muttukadu Papers
India Since the 90s

Journals

* ''

'' (in association with Indian School of Social Sciences) * '' Review of Agrarian Studies'' (in association with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies)

Selected authors

* Amiya Kumar Bagchi * Barnita Bagchi * Gautam Bhatia *

Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami (born 28 February 1950) is an Indian philosopher. He has been in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University since 1985 after spending two years as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bilgra ...

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* Jayati Ghosh *

Irfan Habib Irfan Habib (born 10 August 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He is known for his strong stance against Hindutva. He has au ...

Geeta Kapur Geeta Kapur (born 1943) is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India, and who, as ''Indian Express'' noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemp ...

Sashi Kumar Sashi Kumar is an Indian journalist. He set up the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, which was administered by the Media Development Foundation which he had founded. Early life and education Kumar was born at Karupadanna near Kodung ...

* A. G. Noorani * Prabhat Patnaik * Devi Prasad * Ashish Rajadhyaksha * Shereen Ratnagar * Paritosh Sen *

Arpita Singh Arpita Singh (''née'' Dutta; born 22 June 1937) is an Indian artist. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, she made her canvases to have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner. Her artis ...

* Jomo Kwame Sundaram *

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References

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