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The first full-fledged attempt by a Marxist to evaluate Gandhi ’'s role in India' ’s freedom struggle.

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Nehal Ahmed's 'Nothing Will Be Forgotten' receives Muzaffar Ahmad Memorial Award, 2022

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LEFTWORD BOOKS

LeftWord Books is a New Delhi-based publishing house that seeks to reflect the views of the left in India and South Asia. We publish critical and analytical works on a range of subjects, and pay special attention to works on Marxist theory. We project the interests of the working people and movements for social transformation.

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07.08.2021 @ Book discussion: 'People’s Planning: Kerala, Local Democracy and Development'

Join Leftword Books and 1804 Books for a discussion on ...

Sabarimala

Jitheesh P.M.

INR 250.00

This is a forthcoming book, we will dispatch it by 20 October.

Several surprising facts about the Sabarimala temple have been drowned out by the noise o...

Sabarimala

Jitheesh P.M.

INR 250

This is a forthcoming book, we will dispatch it by 20 October.

Several surprising facts about the Sabarimala temple have been drowned out by the noise o...

Arab Marxism and National Liberation

Mahdi Amel

INR 350

This is a forthcoming book, we will dispatch it by 10 October.

Mahdi Amel (1936–1987) was one of the most well-regarded and beloved Marxist theoretici...

Jai Bhim

Justice K. Chandru

INR 195

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was endowed with a sense of being outraged. For someone steeped in the learning and practice of law, the capacity to feel outraged does something very distinct, it becomes a ...

Farmers on the Move

Ajit Navale

INR 375

In March 2018, 40,000 farmers, overwhelmingly Adivasis, marched 182 kilometres from Nashik to Mumbai, across hill and dale, in blistering heat. Mostly barefoot, some with bleeding feet, these farme...

Kerala

T.M. Thomas Isaac

INR 250

‘There is no alternative (TINA)’ has been the slogan of the neoliberals ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The counter-slogan has been, ‘Another world is possible’. Here is the st...

The 1921 Uprising in Malabar

INR 175

In 1921, there was a peasant rebellion in Malabar in present-day Kerala. The British colonialists attempted to give it a communal colour, since most peasants were Muslim and the landlords Hindu. Th...

Selected Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

INR 550

Poet Ho Chi Minh,
who punches from Vietnam
to all humanity.
No cannon will erase
the furrow of your rice field.
The right to live in peace.

So sang Victor Jara, the legendary...

Nothing Will Be Forgotten

Nehal Ahmed

INR 250

‘Nehal Ahmed’s book is a student participant’s passionate account of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The university resistance led by Jamia Millia Islamia and the great Sh...

Gramsci's Thought

E.M.S. Namboodiripad, P. Govinda Pillai

INR 195

In the early 1990s, E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909–1998) came across the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937). Gramsci, one of the most significant communist theorists of his time, had s...

People's Planning

T.M. Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke

INR 595

In 1996, the state of Kerala launched possibly the world’s most extensive and successful experiment in decentralization. The campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala’s 30 million people and ...

From Volga to Ganga

Rahul Sankrityayan

INR 595

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was a polymath and polyglot. A pioneering explorer-traveller, he is known not only for his travelogues but also for contributions to history, philosophy, memoir-wri...

Listen to My Case!

Justice K. Chandru

INR 195

Justice K. Chandru, former judge of the Madras High Court, heard many cases in his illustrious career and passed landmark judgments on them – over 54,000 in fact. Among these are rulings on commo...

This Fire Never Dies

Fréderike Geerdink

INR 495

Fréderike Geerdink’s This Fire Never Dies is a gripping account of her year spent with the Kurdish political and guerrilla group, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). She bravely goes ...

Washington Bullets

Vijay Prashad

INR 250

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperial...

Halla Bol

Sudhanva Deshpande

INR 350

This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness.

On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – t...

No Free Left

Vijay Prashad

INR 395

Over the past twenty years, the Indian political climate has shifted decidedly to the Right – with the BJP and the Congress dragging India into a growth trajectory that squanders the hopes of wor...

भगत सिंह के साथी

Prabal Saran Agarwal, Harshvardhan Tripathi, Ankur Goswami

INR 295.00

This is a forthcoming book, we will dispatch it by 10 October.

जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन क...

भगत सिंह के साथी

Prabal Saran Agarwal, Harshvardhan Tripathi, Ankur Goswami

INR 295

This is a forthcoming book, we will dispatch it by 10 October.

जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन क...

मुसाफ़िर की डायरी

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

INR 450

उन दिनों दुनिया पर दूसरे महायुद्ध का ख़तरा मंडरा रहा था। चौबीस साल का एक नौ�...

मेरी आवाज़ सुनो

Justice K. Chandru

INR 250

यह किताब कुछ बहादुर महिलाओं के बारे में है।

बहादुर इसलिए कि हमारे देश मे�...

अपनों के बीच अजनबी

Farid Khan

INR 225

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...

जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे

Atul Tiwari

INR 150

जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो व...

ज़ीरो माइल पटना

Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...

कितने यातना शिविर

INR 250

समाज के कमज़ोर व्यक्ति के संघर्ष का चित्रण करती मार्मिक कहानियाँ।
क़ब्र �...

कँटीले तार की तरह

INR 225

‘ये कविताएँ सामाजिक रूप से सजग हैं। विडंबनाओं, विषमताओं की सही पहचान करती ह...

तख़्तापलट

Vijay Prashad, Sanjay Kundan

INR 250

तख़्तापलट मार्क्सवादी पत्रकारिता और इतिहास लेखन की शानदार परंपरा में ल�...

कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

Pranjal

INR 95

आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार ऐसा हुआ कि लाखों के हुजूम ने राजधानी...

वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह

Archana Prasad

INR 195

सन् 1945 में महाराष्ट्र के ठाणे में एक बड़े विद्रोह की शुरुआत हुई। यह था – वारली...

हल्ला बोल

Sudhanva Deshpande

INR 325

यह मौत की कहानी नहीं है। यह ज़िंदगी की कहानी है। एक सादालौह इंसान की दमकती, हस...

जाति से जंग

Pranjal

INR 100

राज्य और उसके क़ानून की निगाह में सभी नागरिकों की समानता का आदर्श स्थापित कर...

मोदीनामा

Subhash Gatade

INR 195

मई 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व में हिंदुत्ववादी दक्षिणपंथी भारतीय जनता �...

कार्ल मार्क्स

Shankar Dayal Tiwari

INR 175

मार्क्सवाद एक ऐसी विचारधारा है जो सिर्फ दुनिया का विश्लेषण ही नहीं करती बल�...

मंडल कमीशन

Satyendra PS

INR 350

भारतीय समाज और राजनीति को जिन घटनाओं ने सबसे ज्यादा बदला, उनमें मंडल कमीशन ...

The Vanishing Point

INR 1,200.00

The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video (volume 3 in the India Since the 90s series) tracks the fugitive afterlife of the moving image ever since the proclaime...

The Vanishing Point

INR 1,200

The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video (volume 3 in the India Since the 90s series) tracks the fugitive afterlife of the moving image ever since the proclaime...

A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

Jairus Banaji

INR 600

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated with the advances of the Industrial Revolution. But, as Jairus Banaji shows, this leap was prec...

The Long Arc of South Asian Art

INR 1,175

The long arc of art historical enquiry in the Indian subcontinent spans several centuries, and virtually all the arts, from temple architecture and sculpture to the s...

Land, Guns, Caste, Woman

Gita Ramaswamy

INR 599

1980s. Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, South India. Landless dalits are caught between a reddy and a hard place. The wealthy reddys are like movie villains, brandishing whips and guns.

Enter Gita...

Imaan

Manoranjan Byapari

INR 399

Imaan entered Central Jail as an infant—in the arms of Zahura Bibi, his mother, who was charged with the murder of his father and who died when he was six. He left ...

पेरियार ई.वी. रामासामी : भारत के वॉल्टेयर

Omprakash Kashyap

INR 595

पेरियार ब्राह्मणवाद के खिलाफ शूद्रजागरण के साथ-साथ द्रविड़ अस्�...

वैकल्पिक विन्यास

Amitesh Kumar

INR 400

आधुनिक हिन्दी रंगमंच और हबीब तनवीर के रंग-कर्म पर अमितेश कुमार �...

India's Undeclared Emergency

Arvind Narrain

INR 799

In 1975, the Indira Gandhi government declared Emergency in India, unveiling an era of State excesses, human rights violations, the centralisation of power and the di...

प्रतिबद्धता और मुक्तिबोध का काव्य

Prabhat Tripathi

INR 95

मुक्तिबोध की कविता को लेकर हिन्दी आलोचना में जितनी चर्चा है, उत�...

Coffee is Our Livelihood

INR 120

The book begins with P Krishnaprasad's article stating the need for alternative policies to expand and establish sustainability in coffee sector followed by Nidheesh ...

THE NEW REPUBLIC

INR 495

This edited volume interrogates the dynamics of populism in India which is going through an interregnum. It builds the argument that the 2019 general elections are a ...

The Emerging Face of Transformative Politics in India

Amit Bhaduri

INR 225

This collection of essays written in campaign mode while the historic farmers agitation was on during 2020-21 presents insights of enduing significance for reshaping ...

गुनाहों का देवता

Dharamvir Bharati

INR 200

गुनाहों का देवता हिंदी उपन्यासकार धर्मवीर भारती के शुरुआती दौ�...

Philosophical Notebooks

V.I. Lenin

INR 995

The span of the Philosophical Notebooks is from 1895-1911. Russia already had a Revolution in 1905. These Notebooks show many a revolutions had taken place in the hea...

Literature, Philosophy, Political Theory

Rustam Singh

INR 695

This book is a masterly meditation on love, loss, separation, death, time, writing, being, the self and the other and on the controversial relation between humans and...

Why Do You Fear My Way So Much?

Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba

INR 450

In the afternoon of 9th May 2014, a posse of policemen stopped a car in Delhi and pulled out a wheelchair-bound man on his way home from work. He was then flown to Na...

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