Tulika Books

{{Short description|Indian publisher of scholarly and academic books}}

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Tulika Books is an Indian publisher of scholarly and academic books in the humanities and social sciences, with a "broadly left perspective."{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://tulikabooks.in/tulika-aboutus/|access-date=21 September 2020|website=tulikabooks.in}} The Chennai-based Tulika Publishers is a sister company of Tulika Books.

History

Tulika Books was founded in 1995 and is based in New Delhi. 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 Bangalore and Delhi Universities. The authors published by Tulika include some of India's best known left intellectuals and academics.

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{{cite web |url=http://www.publishingnext.in/indu-chandrasekhar/ |title=Indu Chandrasekhar |work=Publishing Next |access-date=5 January 2015}}

Tulika Books is one of the founder-members of the Independent Publishers' Distribution Alternative of India and the Independent Publishing Group.

{{cite news |title=Consolidation goes against principles of independent publishing |url=http://www.printweek.in/Feature/364253,8220consolidation-goes-against-principles-of-independent-publishing8221.aspx |newspaper=PrintWeek |date=14 November 2013 |access-date=5 January 2015}}

{{cite news |title=Up for a stimulating read? Try out an indie book |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=5 November 2011 |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/up-for-a-stimulating-read-try-out-an-indie-book/article1-765348.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128224816/http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/up-for-a-stimulating-read-try-out-an-indie-book/article1-765348.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 November 2013 |access-date=5 January 2015}}

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.

{{cite news |title=Tulika Books (Delhi) bags printed book award at Publishing Next |url=http://www.printweek.in/News/390626,tulika-books-delhi-bags-printed-book-award-at-publishing-next.aspx |newspaper=PrintWeek |date=24 September 2014 |access-date=5 January 2015}}

In 2013, Chandrasekhar protested the invitation of Narendra Modi 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.

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Chandrasekhar is a member of the India Chapter of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

{{cite web |url=http://www.tadamon.ca/post/7661 |title=Indian call for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel |date=6 August 2010 |access-date=5 January 2015}}

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

{{cite web |title=Interview with Sudhanva Deshpande |url=http://notjustpublishing.in/interview/Sudhanva/Deshpande# |publisher=Not Just Publishing |access-date=5 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103183714/http://notjustpublishing.in/interview/Sudhanva/Deshpande |archive-date=3 November 2012 }}

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 & Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University)
Agrarian Studies
Labour History
Modern Indian Thinkers (in association with Social Scientist)
Muttukadu Papers
[http://tulikabooks.in/series/post/india-since-the-90s/ India Since the 90s]

= Journals =

Social Scientist (in association with Indian School of Social Sciences)[https://www.swb.co.in/store/journal/social-scientist "Social Scientist"], Scholars without Borders website. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
Review of Agrarian Studies (in association with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies){{cite web | url=https://ras.org.in/index.php?id=AboutUs | title=Index }}

= Selected authors =

References

Category:Publishing companies established in 1995

Category:Book publishing companies of India

Category:Leftist organisations in India

Category:Publishing companies of India