''Oxford Companions'' is a

book series A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their pub ...

published by

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print book ...

, providing general knowledge within a specific area. The first book published in the series was '' The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (1932), compiled by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey. The series has included (in alphabetical order):

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''Booknotes'' interview with Joel Krieger on ''The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World'', July 4, 1993.

''Oxford companion to politics in India''
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