2020: a remarkable year for Tulika Books (pandemic notwithstanding)!

In 1995, Tulika (meaning a painter’s brush or writer’s quill in Sanskrit) Books published its first book, Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception, a collection of seminal essays by the renowned historian Professor Irfan Habib. Designer Ram Rahman on the Tulika Books logo: “Tulika is the word for brush or quill. I took the idea of a calligraphy nib and the angular mark it makes with ink. This was stylized in a graphic form and then played on with positive and negative spa[...]

Announcing the launch of our e-books

Tulika Books announces the launch of e-books with a first set of 4 titles Only a click away on Amazon Kindle, from 30 September 2020, are the e-editions of: The World of Ideas in Modern Marathi: Phule, Vinoba, Savarkar by G.P. Deshpande INR 170, USD 9.99 The historiography of nineteenth-century India is beset by a problem which flows from an assumption that India is one history area. It is within the grand narrative of Indian history that debates in different regions and in various lan[...]