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- Víctor JaraINR 500
“As long as we sing his songs, as long as his courage can inspire us to greater courage, Víctor Jara will never die.” – Pete Seeger
“An intensely moving account. A love story — a...
- Body on the BarricadesINR 325
‘This set of essays is a series of meditations on hatred, tenderness, grief, mourning, labour, resistance, social justice and the possibilities of meaning and solidarity, all viewed through the l...
- Selected WritingsINR 150
Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa.
Until her assassinat...
- Labouring LivesINR 275
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- The Political MarxINR 175
For a thinker whose revolutionary ideas have had such a decisive impact on the world, it is ironic that Marx’s own political writings remain so neglected. His political writings are often seen as...
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A democracy dies when critical voices are absent. We, in India, are in danger of a silent democracy. Either we let the rulers suffocate our voices or we get the courage to stand up, raise questions...
- SabarimalaINR 250
Several surprising facts about the Sabarimala temple have been drowned out by the noise over the need to protect its ‘ traditions ’. Some relate to the tradit...
- Arab Marxism and National LiberationINR 350
Mahdi Amel (1936–1987) was one of the most well-regarded and beloved Marxist theoreticians of his generation in the Arab world. He wrote widely and left behind a sc...
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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 MoveINR 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...
- KeralaINR 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 MalabarINR 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 MinhINR 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 ForgottenINR 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...
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- कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मनINR 250
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ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
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- ज़ीरो माइल मेरठINR 250
ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
- भगत सिंह के साथी
Prabal Saran Agarwal, Harshvardhan Tripathi, Ankur Goswami
INR 295जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन की चर्चा होती है, भगत सिंह का ना...
- मुसाफ़िर की डायरीINR 450
उन दिनों दुनिया पर दूसरे महायुद्ध का ख़तरा मंडरा रहा था। चौबीस साल का एक नौ...
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- अपनों के बीच अजनबीINR 225
क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?
क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...
- जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडेINR 150
जब कार्ल मार्क्स को मृत्युलोक से धरती पर कुछ पल बिताने का मौका मिलता है, तो व...
- ज़ीरो माइल पटनाINR 250
ज़ीरो माइल एक ऐसी सीरीज़ है, जो हमारे चिर-परिचित शहरों को एक नयी नज़र से देखत...
- कितने यातना शिविरINR 250
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‘ये कविताएँ सामाजिक रूप से सजग हैं। विडंबनाओं, विषमताओं की सही पहचान करती ह...
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- कबहूं ना छाड़े खेतINR 95
आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार ऐसा हुआ कि लाखों के हुजूम ने राजधानी...
- वारली आदिवासी विद्रोहINR 195
सन् 1945 में महाराष्ट्र के ठाणे में एक बड़े विद्रोह की शुरुआत हुई। यह था – वारली...
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Unknown Heroes Of India's Freedom Struggle
This unique collection of graphic narratives by illustrators from across the country, in their distinctive styles, tells 16 stories of the forgotten foot soldiers of ...
- Unknown Heroes Of India's Freedom StruggleINR 375
This unique collection of graphic narratives by illustrators from across the country, in their distinctive styles, tells 16 stories of the forgotten foot soldiers of ...
- Caste PrideINR 999
In this masterful work, Manoj Mitta examines the endurance and violence of the Hindu caste system through the lens of the law. Linking two centuries of legal reform with social movements, he uneart...
- In Search of AnswersINR 995
“I believe that we should have a sense of history. In a sense, an autobiography is history. It has in it traces of geography as well. Each new place, the sights the...
- Maps of Sorrow
Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran
INR 825The book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnect...
- Fighting Free to Become Unfree AgainINR 995
Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colo...
- A Part ApartINR 899
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human...
- Kasauli Art Centre, 1976–1991INR 3,000
This book on the Kasauli Art Centre, located at Ivy Lodge, Kasauli – which functioned as a centre for the arts and was actively engaged in numerous art activities for a decade and a half, from 19...
- Debating Education in IndiaINR 995
The essays in this volume amply highlight that education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue. Representing the transfer of knowledge, skill endowment and so on, educa...
- Inequality, Class, and EconomicsINR 895
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society—and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of t...
- Marx, Dead and AliveINR 350
Karl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnso...
- The Communist ManifestoINR 675
Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the original publication of The Communist Manifesto, this textbook offers a series of new interpretations...