On All Fools' Day in 2000, we started a publishing house. We named it Permanent Black. We began Permanent Black with small savings and...

This year's winners have been announced! Dharmanand Kosambi Memorial Book Prize: Rubab Ali Punjabi, Susan Philip, Uma Tara Bakshi Simon...

We are delighted and proud that the just-announced Infosys Prize has been awarded to two scholars whom we published years before the...

For Ranajit Guha's ninetieth birthday, Permanent Black had asked "a few scholars and friends of Ranajit Guha to contribute a short piece...

This year's World Book Fair is special for us as it coincides with the 75th anniversary of Orient Blackswan publishers (formerly...

A measure of the international stature of historians is the prestige of the university or institutional campus that employs them and the...

The historian spoke to Abhishek Roy about her new book. Nayanjot Lahiri’s first effort at narrative history, Finding Forgotten Cities ...

We had sad news yesterday, about the passing of Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya. Searching around for a picture of him we realised he had not...

When Permanent Black turned twenty, we instituted the Kosambi Memorial Book Prize to be given annually to the best student in Ancient...

We have all had odd experiences lately. Odd in the sense that they could not have been imagined before 2020. The pandemic in which we...

If I were asked to put it into words, I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint a major way in which studying History as a part of my Undergraduate...

Growing up, I was fortunate to be surrounded by people who enjoyed creative pursuits and engaging in the social sciences. It certainly...

Historian and professor of the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), A.R. Venkatachalapathy, has been selected for the...

Niraja Gopal Jayal speaks to Madhav Khosla about her book, Citizenship and its Discontents Q1. It is sometimes felt that a strictly legal...

To mark the publication of Akeel Bilgrami’s Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment, we requested the political theorist Uday Singh Mehta...

It is rare to speak of “religion” in the political domain these days, and you mention your own difficulties in breaking out of the...

Joya Chatterji's most recent book is PARTITION’S LEGACIES . It was published by Permanent Black in June 2019. In this wide-ranging...

ARITRA GHOSH, winner of the Kosambi Memorial Book Prize 2021, awarded every year by Permanent Black, gives us a student's guide to...

Neeladri Bhattacharya’s monograph, The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World (Ranikhet: Permanent Black,...

Wonderfully written and deeply moving new book on society and history in Nagaland over the past couple of centuries has just been...