Online sources for South Asian books
Online sources for South Asian books
Asian Publications distributes multicultural books, especially Indian.
Asian Rare Books — by appointment in New York City — has rare and used books that may be hard to find elsewhere.
Bookshop of India carries books from India on all subjects.
Caju Press publishes South Asian folk literature.
CBH Publications deals in the areas of music, astrology, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Tamil.
DesiKnowledge sells Amar Chitra Katha, Karadi Tales, and other such products. Mt View, Ca.
D.K. Agencies will attempt to procure “any title in any language on any subject from anywhere in India”. Also has multimedia.
Eastern Book Corporation specializes in supply of Academic Books from India at Cheapest Prices on Indian and Southasian Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Ayurveda, Indian History, Politics, Literature, Religion, Indian Philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Women Studies, Sociology, Anthropology & Tribal Studies.
Gandhiana is a progressive South Asian multilingual online bookstore providing a platform to literature and an alternative worldview. Books in Hindi, English, Gujarati and Marathi.
Gyan Books publish, distribute and export all sorts of books from India.
Indian Books Centre supplies books on Hinduism, Ayurveda, Indology, Buddhism, Vedas.
India Club carries books on South Asian, especially Indian, authors, and is a US based store which has online ordering.
Khazana Book Catalog has over 15000 books from India.
K.K.Agencies carries academic & research books from India on all subjects including Women’s Studies reachable through their BookSearch database (updated weekly).
Low Price Publications sells books on agriculture, science, ayurveda, geography, history, performing arts, political science, reference, religion and sociology.
Navrang sells Amar Chitra Katha, children’s books, Penguin India, and other Indian books.
South Asia books says “our goal is to bring Indian books to our customers within 20-30% above the Indian Rs. price.”
The Other India Book Store (OIBS) of Goa is the only bookshop in the world that does not keep any title from Europe or America! More than 1000 titles can be found here, all published from either Asia, Africa or Latin America.” It is a mail-order outlet that can send its titles to anywhere in India or abroad. For more info, send email to oibs@bom2.vsnl.net.in.
Saujanya Books in Delhi.
Scholars Without Borders is an online bookstore for academic books published in India. They carry books in many disciplines including Gender Studies, Womens Studies, and from major as well as smaller publishing houses in India. They are locaed in Delhi and ship to anywhere in the world.
Spinifex Press is an independent feminist press publishing innovative and controversial fiction and non-fiction by Australian and international authors.
Times Editions, in Singapore, publishes books by and for SE Asians, including those of Indian origin.
TSAR Publications, based in Toronto, has been publishing South Asian writers for 25 years.
Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73 Harbord St, Toronto) stocks lots of writing by South Asians, including some anthologies that are hard to find. They host regular book launches by South Asian writers.
Vedams Books features academic books published in India on Arts of India, Antropology, Hinduism, Buddhism, Buddhist Art, Law, Economics, Botancial Sciences, Geology, Ecology, Natural History, Dance, Music, History and Politics, Demography, Reference, etc.
Also see Sasialit’s How to Find South Asian books abroad.