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There was terrible violence in North East Delhi in the last days of February 2020. Fifty-four people were killed, man...

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Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was a polymath and polyglot. A pioneering explorer-traveller, he is known not only f...

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आज़ाद हिंदुस्तान के इतिहास में पहली बार ऐसा हुआ...

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30. 07. 2021

LeftWord Books is happily independent with 1804 Books, New York and Inkani Books, South Africa

LeftWord Books is happily independent with 1804 Books, New York and Inkani Books, South Africa

We are very happy to announce our collaboration with 1804 Books, New York and Inkani Books, South Africa.

 

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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'

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10.08.2021 @ Call for Artists from LeftWord Books

In recent times, India has witnessed lakhs of student protestors braving all odds to hit the streets – from Himachal to Kerala and from Pune to Assam.

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BOOKS FROM LEFTWORD . . .

Paris Commune 150

Paris Commune 150

Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Bertolt Brecht, Tings Chak, Vijay Prashad

INR 195.00

On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris opened the door to utopia. Over 72 days, the workers built new institutions and advanced the practice of democracy. The forces of counter-revolution regrouped,...

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  1. Paris Commune 150
    Paris Commune 150

    Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Bertolt Brecht, Tings Chak, Vijay Prashad

    INR 195

    On 18 March 1871, the people of Paris opened the door to utopia. Over 72 days, the workers built new institutions and advanced the practice of democracy. The forces of counter-revolution regrouped,...

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  2. They Have Forgotten Us
    They Have Forgotten Us

    Peter Mertens

    INR 250

    Stars are only visible in the dark. During the coronavirus crisis, it became suddenly dark. Very dark. And everyone could see the stars shining: the heroes of the coronavirus, the working class. Th...

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  3. Gramsci's Thought
    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...

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  4. People's Planning
    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 ...

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  5. Gender and Neoliberalism
    Gender and Neoliberalism

    Brinda Karat, Elisabeth Armstrong

    INR 495

    This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided ...

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  6. Listen to My Case!
    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...

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  7. This Fire Never Dies
    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 ...

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  8. Washington Bullets
    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 imperialism, but nev...

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HINDI BOOKS

कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

Pranjal

INR 95.00

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

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  1. कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत
    कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

    Pranjal

    INR 95

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

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  2. वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह
    वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह

    Archana Prasad

    INR 195

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

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  3. जाति से जंग
    जाति से जंग

    Pranjal

    INR 100

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

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  4. मोदीनामा
    मोदीनामा

    Subhash Gatade

    INR 195

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

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  5. कार्ल मार्क्स
    कार्ल मार्क्स

    शंकर दयाल तिवारी

    INR 175

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

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  6. मंडल कमीशन
    मंडल कमीशन

    Satyendra PS

    INR 350

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

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. . . AND FROM THE INDIE PRESSES

The Origin of the Family,Private Property and the State

The Origin of the Family,Private Property and the State

Frederick Engels

INR 150.00
The following chapters constitute, in a sense, the fulfillment of a bequest. It was no less a person than Karl Marx who had planned to present the results of Morgan's researches in connection with the...

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  1. The Origin of the Family,Private Property and the State
    The Origin of the Family,Private Property and the State

    Frederick Engels

    INR 150
    The following chapters constitute, in a sense, the fulfillment of a bequest. It was no less a person than Karl Marx who had planned to present the results of Morgan's researches in connection with the...

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  2. Dialectics of Nature
    Dialectics of Nature

    Frederick Engels

    INR 350
    DIALECTICS OF NATURE IS ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT WORKS OF FREDERICK ENGELS. IT GIVES A DIALECTICAL MATERIALIST GENERALISATION OF THE PRINCIPAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATURE SCIENCES IN THE MID - NINETEE...

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  3. The German Ideology
    The German Ideology

    Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

    INR 300
    Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves,about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The ...

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  4. Anti-Duhring
    Anti-Duhring

    Frederick Engels

    INR 250
    The following work is by no means the fruit of any "inner urge". On the contrary . When three years ago Herr Duhring , as an adept and at the same time a reformer of socialism, suddenly issued his cha...

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  5. On Literature and Art
    On Literature and Art

    Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

    INR 200
    This volume offers the reader a selection of both excerpts and complete works and letters by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, giving their views on art and its place in society. Though it contains far ...

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  6. On Religion
    On Religion

    Karl Marx, Frederick Engels

    INR 150
    The present collection includes works in which Marx and Engels expound their view on the essence and origin of religion and its role in class society; these works lay the theoretical foundations of pr...

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  7. I Could Not Be Hindu
    I Could Not Be Hindu

    Bhanwar Meghwanshi

    INR 399

    In 1987, as the Ramjanmabhoomi movement gathers momentum, a thirteen-year-old from a village in Rajasthan joins the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Despite his untouchable status, he quickly rises to ...

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  8. Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura
    Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura

    INR 600

    The fourth in the Socio-Economic Survey series of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), this book is a field report on agrarian relations in rural Tripura. It is based on a detailed household ...

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