LeftWord Books
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Prakash Karat |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | New Delhi |
| Key people | Sudhanva Deshpande, Vijay Prashad |
| Publication types | books |
| Nonfiction topics | Leftist views, Marxist theory |
| Owner | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Official website | http://leftword.com/ |
LeftWord Books is a New Delhi–based publisher that seeks to reflect the views of the Left in India and South Asia. Its Managing Director is Prakash Karat, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). The Chief Editor is Vijay Prashad and the Managing Editor is the actor-publisher Sudhanva Deshpande.[1][2]
History
[edit | edit source]LeftWord Books was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Naya Rasta Publishers Private Limited. It was conceived by a group of Leftist intellectuals including Prabhat Patnaik, Aijaz Ahmad, Indira Chandrasekhar, Prakash Karat, V. K. Ramachandran and N. Ram and sometimes regarded as "the English publishing arm of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)".[3] It is managed by the Managing Editor Sudhanva Deshpande, who had earlier worked with Tulika Books during 1994 to 1998 and continues to be involved with the theatre group Jana Natya Manch. LeftWord differs from Tulika Books, according to Deshpande, by being explicitly Leftist.[4]
May Day
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The company runs the May Day bookstore and cafe in New Delhi which happens to the only left-leaning bookstore in the city, next to the theater space, Studio Safdar. It lives in the vibrant neighborhood of Shadipur in West Delhi, nearby the Shadipur metro station.
Internet Retail
[edit | edit source]It sells books via it's website from various Leftist publishers including Tulika Books. It also has a membership-based book club, whose subscriptions served to form the seed capital of the publishing division. By mid-2000, the company established itself as a successful publisher with several well-subscribed titles.[1][2]
Book series
[edit | edit source]- LeftWord Classics
- SIGNPOST: The Issues that Matter
Selected titles
[edit | edit source]- Fidel Castro, The Gigantic Casino: Reflections on the World Financial Crisis, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Hugo Chavez, The South Also Exists, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Carlos Ferrer, Becoming Che, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Teo Ballve, Vijay Prashad, Dispatches From Latin America- Experimenting Against Neoliberalism, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- John Harriss, Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (also issued by London: Anthem Press).
- E. M. S. Namboodiripad, History, Society, and Land Relations: Selected Essays, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Thomas Isaac, Richard W. Franke, Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (also issued by Rowman & Littlefield, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[3]
- Prakash Karat, Subordinate Ally: The Nuclear Deal and India-US Strategic Relations, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet, History of the Communist Movement in India, Vol. 1: The Formative Years, 1920-1933, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Richard Levins, Talking about Trees: Science, Ecology, and Agriculture in Cuba, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Utsa Patnaik, The Agrarian Question In Marx And His Successors, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib, Prabhat Patnaik, A World To Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- A. G. Noorani, The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- A. G. Noorani, Savarkar and Hindutva: The Godse Connection, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Dwijendra Narayan Jha, The Many Careers of DD Kosambi, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..[5]
- Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations- A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Vijay Prashad, War Against the Planet: the fifth Afghan war, imperialism, and other assorted fundamentalisms, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Archana Prashad, Environmentalism and the left: contemporary debates and future agendas in tribal areas, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- N. Ram, Riding the Nuclear Tiger, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Praveen Swami, The Kargil War, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Parvathi Menon, Breaking Barriers: Stories of Twelve Women, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Ninan Koshy, Under the Empire: India's New Foreign Policy, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Govind Deshpande, Selected Writings Of Jotirao Phule, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).,.
- C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh, The market that failed: a decade of neoliberal economic reforms in India, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Prabir Purkayastha, Ninan Koshy, M. K. Bhadrakumar, Uncle Sam's Nuclear Cabin, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Madhura Swaminathan, Weakening welfare: the public distribution of food in India, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Githa Hariharan, From India to Palestine — Essays in Solidarity, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..[6]
- K. Chandru, Listen to My Case!, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
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- ^ The Master Revisited, Outlook, 6 February 2012 Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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External Links
[edit | edit source]- 6763955887 May Day Bookstore on OpenStreetMap