Status | Active |
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Founded | 2000 |
Founder | Rukun Advani, Anuradha Roy |
Country of origin | India |
Headquarters location | Ranikhet, India |
Distribution | Orient Blackswan |
Nonfiction topics | Academic publishing |
Official website | permanent-black |
Permanent Black is an independent publishing press headquartered in Ranikhet, India. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 2000 by novelist Anuradha Roy, and her husband, author Rukun Advani. [4] [5] It is considered one of India's major academic imprints and has tied up with the Ashoka University to publish a scholarly series titled "Hedgehog and Fox" edited by the historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee. It has published books by noted scholars, including Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Muzaffar Alam, Romila Thapar, Tanika Sarkar, Sudipta Kaviraj, Sheldon Pollock, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Nivedita Menon, Ramachandra Guha, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mukul Sharma, Kaushik Basu and Partha Chatterjee. [6] Their books are distributed by the Indian publishing house Orient Blackswan. It has in the past partnered with various foreign university presses, such as University of California Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Washington Press, and State University of New York Press to co-publish their titles in Europe and the USA. [7]
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer, best known for his English language historical fiction. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India’s highest literary honor. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and Southeast Asia. He has also written non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
Palwankar Baloo was an Indian cricketer and was also a political activist. In 1896, he was selected by Parmanandas Jivandas Hindu Gymkhana and played in the Bombay Quadrangular tournaments. He was employed by the Bombay Berar and Central Indian Railways, and also played for the latter's corporate cricket team. He played in the all-Indian team led by the Maharaja of Patiala during their tour of England in 1911 where Baloo's outstanding performance was praised.
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha first published by HarperCollins in August 2007.
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha published by Penguin Random House in September 2018. One of the most extensive biography on the sole icon of the Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi, it has garnered wide recognition and accolades. The book runs in excess of 1100 pages. It is a standalone sequel of the 2013 book Gandhi Before India.