Permanent Black

Permanent Black
Permanent Black was set up in 2000 and very quickly established a reputation as India's most prestigious academic imprint. They now have nearly 400 books in print and have published the region's most eminent scholars. Their books are distributed by Orient BlackSwan (formerly called Orient Longman), India. A large number of these books are co-published with prominent university presses in Europe and the US.
The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shap...
This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe – with its many forms of livelihood – were reshaped to create a new agrarian world o...
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges sta...
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays
Described by Ashis Nandy as the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India’s vast non-English speaking world, D.R. Nagaraj (1954–1998) was a profound political commentator and cultu...