Tulika Books is a

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-based independent 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. 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

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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

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''Scholars without Borders'' website. Retrieved 20 October 2018.

Selected authors

* Akeel Bilgrami *

Jomo Kwame Sundaram Jomo Kwame Sundaram ( ta, ஜோமோ குவாமே சுந்தரம், Jōmō Kuvāmē Cuntaram) (born 1 December 1952), fondly known just as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist. He is a senior adviser at the Khazanah Resea ...

Ben Fine Ben Fine (born 1948) is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Background Fine was born in Coventry in 1948. One of six brothers, he and all but one other followed their father and studied m ...

Irfan Habib Irfan Habib (born August 10, 1931) is an Indian historian of ancient and medieval India, following the methodology of Marxist historiography in his contributions to economic history. He identifies as a Marxist and is well known for his strong ...

* A. G. Noorani * K. M. Shrimali *

Prabhat Patnaik Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement i ...

Shereen Ratnagar Shereen F. Ratnagar is an Indian archaeologist whose work has focused on the Indus Valley civilization. She is the author of several books and academic textbooks. Career Ratnagar was educated at Deccan College, University of Pune. She studied ...

Jayati Ghosh Jayati Ghosh (born 16 September 1955) is an Indian development economist. She is the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and her core areas of study include international eco ...

Sashi Kumar Sashi Kumar (born 23 February 1952) is an Indian journalist and media personality from Kerala. He worked in Asianet, the country's first regional satellite television channel. He founded and chairs the Media Development Foundation, the not f ...

Paritosh Sen Paritosh Sen ( bn, পরিতোষ সেন) (26 September 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. He was a founder member of the Calcutta ...

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

* Gautam Bhatia * Devi Prasad *

Vivan Sundaram Vivan Sundaram (born 28 May 1943) is an Indian contemporary artist. His parents were Kalyan Sundaram, Chairman of Law Commission of India from 1968 to 1971, and Indira Sher-Gil, sister of noted Indian modern artist Amrita Sher-Gil. He is mar ...

Barnita Bagchi Barnita Bagchi (born 12 June 1973) is a Bengali-speaking Indian feminist advocate, historian, and literary scholar. She is a faculty member in literary studies at Utrecht University, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, ...

Amiya Kumar Bagchi Amiya Kumar Bagchi (born 1936) is an Indian political economist. Biography His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, Kolkata. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fello ...

* Shireen Moosvi

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