Shalimar Books London

Shalimar Books London Shalimar Books is the leading distributor of Indian books in the UK. We supply books to schools, libraries and bookshops.

We also sell direct to the public at our bookshop in Kennington, South London, and online through our website www.indianbooksuk.com

I download the video. I mute the audio before replaying it frame by frame, in dread, in desperation. I watch it four tim...
29/05/2026

I download the video. I mute the audio before replaying it frame by frame, in dread, in desperation. I watch it four times. It is not me. It is my fu***ng face.

Amrita Chaturvedi goes by Amy. Amy identifies as a communist on Twitter (her bio omits a cameo on reality TV and millionaire daddy who runs the show at Delhi High Court).

When a deepfake p***o of her 'forwarded many times' by WhatsApp aunties goes viral, the truth finally catches up. On her birthday, Amy, and allies - a Dalit, a consenting adult code-named the Child Solider, and white trustafarian India - battle a stoning in the digital town square that could cancel even Kim Kardashian.

Her executioners? An unhinged cartel of virgins styling themselves after V for Vendetta - except these anonymous keyboard warriors are on a merciless crusade to eradicate desi jezebels and Make India Hindu Again.

A literary provocation about incels, influencers and AK-47s where the online turns offline turns bloody. 'Fieldwork as a S*x Object' is not a novel you read but a novel that reads you. It invites every one of us to ask ourselves how much we're prepared to risk for our principles.

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'A one-woman, agitprop literary-political movement' INDEPENDENT

'One of the most urgent voices of tomorrow' HARPER'S BAZAAR

'One of fiction's most fiery and unclassifiable' GUARDIAN

'Her prose is electric, at once brave and poetic and satirical' PARIS REVIEW
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'Fieldwork as a S*x Object' by Meena Kandasamy.
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Established in 1968, Shalimar Books is London's leading South Asian book specialist.📚✨️Based in Kennington, London, we h...
28/05/2026

Established in 1968, Shalimar Books is London's leading South Asian book specialist.
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Based in Kennington, London, we have a great selection across a number of subject areas; from , and to , , dual-language children's books, Palestine and much more!
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We also offer a unique collection of fair-trade art, textiles, cards, posters and handmade craft products from across the sub-continent.
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Open:
🕜 Tuesday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm

Website:
🌐 www.indianbooksuk.com
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A May of UK published stock titles at Shalimar Books ! 🙂📚Visit us in Kennington, South London for an unrivaled select...
21/05/2026

A May of UK published stock titles at Shalimar Books ! 🙂📚

Visit us in Kennington, South London for an unrivaled selection of South Asian books alongside our unique range of fair-trade art and handmade craft products 😃✨️

Open Tuesday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm



🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com
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20/05/2026

Hidden among the busy streets near Waterloo, Shalimar Books has quietly spent decades preserving stories, histories and identities often overlooked by mainstream British bookselling.

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Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ was among the maverick writers who shaped modern Hindi literature. Fearless, provocative and...
20/05/2026

Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ was among the maverick writers who shaped modern Hindi literature. Fearless, provocative and startlingly original, much like his poetry- Nirala regards the world with the eyes of a compulsive satirist, committed to laying bare its hypocrisies.
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'A Portrait of Love' is an ode to Nirala’s genius, drawing attention to his long-ignored legacy in prose. This collection sparkles with wit, atmosphere and an unmistakable autobiographical streak, taking readers to the heart of India and introducing them to the colourful cosmos of Hindi literature.
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This edition features satirical and poignant stories that explore themes of love, marriage, caste, and social hypocrisy in pre-independence India, including the novella 'Billesur Bakriha'. 
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'A Portrait of Love: Six Stories; One Novella' Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.



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From the banks of the Barak, voices that refuse to be silencedFresh from prison, a woman returns home to grapple with he...
13/05/2026

From the banks of the Barak, voices that refuse to be silenced

Fresh from prison, a woman returns home to grapple with her husband’s betrayal. Accused of witchcraft, an aging midwife becomes the scapegoat for a tragedy. A destitute widow’s life takes a surreal turn when she’s thrust into local politics.
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Barak Valley- lush, picturesque, and seemingly tranquil to outsiders- appears in these stories as a land that serves as both tormentor and refuge, a witness to its people’s quiet hunger for connection, belonging, and dignity.
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Whether it is a mother confronting her daughter’s pregnancy out of wedlock, an octogenarian rediscovering her forgotten love for the sitar, or a child forming an unlikely friendship with an elderly man, the characters in this anthology reveal the singularity of seemingly ordinary lives.
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At once intimate and universal, bleak yet exuberant with hope, these stories swing between oppressive despair and human resilience, revealing the scents, shades, and sounds of daily life on the banks of the Barak.
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'Deceit Brought Us To Assam: And Other Stories from the Barak Valley' By Jhumur Panday.




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Beautiful and brilliant, Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times with h...
05/05/2026

Beautiful and brilliant, Amrita Sher-Gil lived life on her own terms, scandalizing the staid society of her times with her love affairs and unconventional ways.
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In this fascinating biography, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia charts the course of Amrita's turbulent life, and the development of her dazzling artistic career, as she traces the influences that shaped her, examines her relationships with her family, friends, lovers and mentors, and captures her charismatic aura.
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Dalmia paints a compelling portrait of the artist who, when she died in 1941 at the age of twenty-eight, left behind a body of work that establishes her as one of the foremost artists of the century and an eloquent symbol of the fusion between the East and the West.
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'Amrita Sher-Gil: A Life' by Yashodhara Dalmia.



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Kanafani presents a concrete analysis of the mass uprisings against Zionism, and for independence from British coloniali...
29/04/2026

Kanafani presents a concrete analysis of the mass uprisings against Zionism, and for independence from British colonialism, taking place in Palestine from 1936 to 1939.
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With a methodical yet illustrative approach, Kanafani examines the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions that contributed to, and limited, the anti-colonial struggle in this period.
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A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices.
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'The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine' by Ghassan Kanafani.



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'Never have Tamil women burned so bright, never have they dazzled so much, as when they were Tigresses... but nothing ha...
22/04/2026

'Never have Tamil women burned so bright, never have they dazzled so much, as when they were Tigresses... but nothing had prepared me to brace for the reality that these powerful women would be so vulnerable.’
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In 2009, the genocidal war of the Sri Lankan state against Tamils ends.

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In 2012, Meena Kandasamy, who grew up with poster-size pictures of Tamil Tigers and Tigresses, decides to make a documentary on the violence faced by the female fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the aftermath of the brutal war.

She meets the women who had survived the Sri Lankan camps where the orders were to r**e them—women who are now refugees in distant lands, pale shadows of their blazing selves. Her documentary never gets made. But Kandasamy exhumes old hard drives to piece together their shattered lives.

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Kandasamy also translates and presents us the poetry of three Tamil women combatants—poetry as op-ed, poetry as resistance, poetry as a call to arms, poetry as a call to poetry.
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'The Orders Were To R**e You' .a.n.d.a.s.a.m.y



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⚠️ Please note we will be closed Tuesday 21st April 2026 due to the train strikes.For enquiries please email:📧 books@sha...
20/04/2026

⚠️ Please note we will be closed Tuesday 21st April 2026 due to the train strikes.

For enquiries please email:

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We hope to be back open on Wednesday 11.30 to 6pm 📚



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Wednesday 11:30am - 5pm
Friday 11:30am - 5pm
Saturday 11:30am - 6pm

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