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Welcome to Shalimar Books, the leading distributor of Indian books in the UK.

We supply books from Indian publishers to schools, libraries and bookshops. We also sell direct to the public at our Indian bookshop in London, and through our online shop.

Featured books

In The Kaurs of 1984, Wazir weaves together scattered stories of grief, betrayal and loss that finally brings Sikh women out of the shadows of contemporary Indian history.
£10.95
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Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India
£12.95
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Issues in Secularism and Democracy
£7.95
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Awraq-e Musawir analyses the Mughal portraiture painting in its intellectual context with a keen focus on historiographical, political, sociological and cultural perspectives.
£35.00
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India on Their Minds, 9789385606427
£7.95
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Annotated selections from The Untouchables: who were they and why they became Untouchables
£8.95
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Thoughts of Gaza Far from Gaza Soumyabrata Choudhury 9788194631354
£9.95
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Political Writings of Bhagat Singh
£12.95
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Decolonising the Palestinian Mind, Haider Eid, 9789392018367
£7.95
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Ashok Gopal has won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2024 for his meticulously-researched biography, A Part Apart: The Life
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We’ll be spending 2024 visiting some of our favourite indie bookshops around the UK and Ireland, choosing one bookshop each
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We are very pleased to be participating in the Quiet Revolutions event at the Barbican on Saturday 26th November.   The event
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