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16. 05. 2023

‘The word Hindu is Arabic. Why don’t they throw it out?’ – Nehal Ahmed in conversation with the eminent Historian, Irfan Habib.

Prominent historian Irfan Habib tells Nehal Ahmed that lies and falsehoods are being glorified in textbooks by India’s right-wing government.

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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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01.01.1970 @ Talking Red Books: Labour matters - 'Labouring Lives' | 'Body on the Barricades'

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Selected Writings

Ruth First

$12.00

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...

Selected Writings

Ruth First

$12

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 Lives

Archana Aggarwal

$15

Clothes and cars are sparkling symbols of India’s economic success, but few think about the men and women who toil ceaselessly on the sewing machines and assembly lines to produce them. Based on ...

The Political Marx

Aijaz Ahmad, Vijay Prashad

$12

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...

Our Own Path to Socialism

Hugo Chavez

$15

Hugo Chávez’s speeches are a call to action, challenging us to take up the task of building a socialism that emerges from our own histories and is for our own people. The Bolivarian Revolution b...

Education or Exclusion?

$16

The BJP-led Narendra Modi government announced a new National Education Policy (NEP) in July 2020. Neither knowledge production nor enhancing the democratic ethos find a place in the objectives of ...

Students Won't Be Quiet

$28

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...

Sabarimala

Jitheesh P.M.

$13

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 Liberation

Mahdi Amel

$20

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...

Jai Bhim

Justice K. Chandru

$13

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

$20

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

$17

‘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

$13

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

$32

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

$13

‘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

$15

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

$30

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 ...

कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन

Premchand

$13.00

ऐसे समय जब कहा जा रहा है कि हिंदू और मुस्लिम दो अलग-अलग संसार हैं, ये कहानिया�...

कुछ और अलगू, कुछ और जुम्मन

Premchand

$13

ऐसे समय जब कहा जा रहा है कि हिंदू और मुस्लिम दो अलग-अलग संसार हैं, ये कहानिया�...

ज़ीरो माइल अलीगढ़

Jaisingh

$13

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

पुस्तक प्रदेश

Ibbar Rabbi

$13

इब्बार रब्बी की कहानियां संस्मरण और कहानी के बीच आवाजाही करती रहती हैं। उन�...

ज़ीरो माइल मेरठ

Bhuvendra Tyagi

$13

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

$15

जब भी भारतीय क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन की चर्चा होती है, भगत सिंह का ना...

मुसाफ़िर की डायरी

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

$22

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

मेरी आवाज़ सुनो

Justice K. Chandru

$13

यह किताब कुछ बहादुर महिलाओं के बारे में है।

बहादुर इसलिए कि हमारे देश मे�...

अपनों के बीच अजनबी

Farid Khan

$13

क्या मुस्लिम नौजवान ‘लव जेहाद’ करना चाहते हैं?

क्या मुसलमान कश्मीरी आतं...

जम्बूद्वीपे भरतखंडे महर्षि मार्क्स के हथकंडे

Atul Tiwari

$10

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

ज़ीरो माइल पटना

Sanjay Kundan

$13

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

कितने यातना शिविर

$13

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

कँटीले तार की तरह

$13

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

तख़्तापलट

Vijay Prashad, Sanjay Kundan

$13

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

कबहूं ना छाड़े खेत

Pranjal

$12

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

वारली आदिवासी विद्रोह

Archana Prasad

$12

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

हल्ला बोल

Sudhanva Deshpande

$17

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

John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

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‘Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky, is an analysis of the very nature of cinema that makes it such a threat in the eyes of the state. It i...

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John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky
Ashish Rajadhyaksha

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‘Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky, is an analysis of the very nature of cinema that makes it such a threat in the eyes of the state. It i...
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The Communist Manifesto

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Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the original publication of The Communist Manifesto, this textbook offers a series of new interpretations...
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Building the Ambedkar Revolution
Gail Omvedt

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The book 'Building the Ambedkar Revolution: Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and Kokan Dalits' is an overdue tribute to Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad, Dr. Ambedkar's trusted ...
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The Living Flame
Paul Le Blanc

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Rosa Luxemburg, a brilliant early-twentieth-century German revolutionary, comes alive in a rich set of essays that analyze her tremendous contributions to revolutiona...
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इस्लाम का ऐतिहासिक भूमिका
M.N. Roy

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पिछली घटनाओं को देखने से ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि यदि देश की स्वतन्...
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Ways of Beings

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Does writing have a nationality? Are writers defined by geography, language, religion, gender and ethnicity alone, or are there other attributes that identify them.?<...
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The Shape of a Poem
Paresh Tiwari, Srividya Sivakumar

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Like flowers from first love,
we have pressed poems between the pages of this book.
...
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I Know the Psychology of Rats
Saeed Mirza

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“Why am I writing this book? Is it because I feel my time is running out? Perhaps that is true. It is becoming more and more difficult to remember the conversations...
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भागा हुआ लड़का
Manoranjan Byapari

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मनोरंजन ब्यापारी बंगाली दलित साहित्य का चमकता सितारा हैं। रिफ�...
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Capital and Politics
Greg Albo, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nicole Aschoff

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The 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register offers a careful political assessment of the organization and practices of the modern corporation ...
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The Rafale Deal Flying Lies?
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Ravi Nair

$40

The story of the purchase of the Rafale fighter aircraft from the privately-owned French company Dassault Aviation is different from, and yet similar to, other scanda...
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The Education of Yuri
Jerry Pinto

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‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’

At fifteen, Yuri Fonseca of...
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Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
Kuzhali Manickavel

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Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man is a collection of 37 dialogues that melds the classical philosophical tradition of Plato and Socrate...
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River of Stories
Orijit Sen

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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Sardar Sarovar Dam project in Western India became the focal point of a massive grassroots protest. People from all over the co...
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मेरा बिज़नेस मेरी कहानी
Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Shrutika Mathur, Nishtha Vadehra

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'मेरा बिज़नेस मेरी कहानी' भारत की बीस प्रेरक उद्यमी मह...
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Apple is Our Livelihood

$15

After a brief overview of the National Workshop of Apple Farmers by Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami, the book begins with P Krishnaprasad's article stating the need for appl...
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