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Out now. তরুণ ভেয়ার্টার-এর যন্ত্রণা। A Bengali translation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Translated from the German by Debabrata Chakrabarti.
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Out now: Jetor Lore: Oral Tales from the Jetor Indigenous Community. By Nirmalendu De. Translated by Debdas Roy. With a foreword by Sharankumar Limbale.
amazon.in/dp/B0H1QN3DH4
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Out now: Jagadis Chandra Bose and the Indian Reponse to Western Science. 25th anniversary edition. By Subrata Dasgupta, amazon.in/dp/938366021X
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London folks, mark this event: Drawing History, with comics makers Sarnath Baneree & Esther McManus, on May 27, 530 pm at Senate House. Copies of JUP's Famine Tales will be available at the event, from BOOKS, a 2ndhand bookshop run by Peter Willis. history.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
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JUP is delighted to announce that it will be publishing the long-awaited Bengali translation of Nirad C. Chaudhuri's 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian' (1951), in 2027.
The book will be translated by Sarban Bandyopadhyay who teaches English at SMSG College, Sherghati.
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Out in May 2026. The Angolan writer João Melo's short stories in Bengali, translated by Rita Ray. Cover by Paramita Brahmachari.
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For our overseas readers: our English-language titles are available to order from our UK partner, Contextual Alternate. Do look at their e-store here:
contextualternate.com/#jup
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We are delighted to announce that the iconic Mayday Bookstore in Delhi is stocking all our English-language titles. They are the first bookstore in Delhi who will be displaying our entire English-language catalogue.
Image courtesy LBB.
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We are thrilled to announce Trinankur Banerjee's cover for 'Merleau-Ponty' has just won the best 'Book Cover of the Year (Indian Languages)' category in the Publishing Next awards, announced in New Delhi earlier today. Our heartiest congratulations to Trinankur!
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After a gap of three years, JUP will be back at the New Delhi World Book Fair. Do turn up and spread the word.
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23 Dec 2025
Thrilled that two of our titles, Biplab Prashange, second in a series of Sartre’s works in Bengali , and Magadh by Shrikant Verma are in the longlist of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Congratulations to the designers, Trinankur Banerjee @trinankur and Rochishnu Sanyal!
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Jadavpur University Press retweeted
25 Oct 2025
'And everyone here knows her':
Arvind Krishna Merhotra's evocative poem on readers at the Bharati Bhavan Library, among them a young Francesca Orsini.
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Jadavpur University Press retweeted
21 Oct 2025
Few have shaped our understanding of Hindi and North Indian literary cultures like Francesca Orsini. To know she’s been denied entry into the country she’s written about with such love and rigour feels deeply wrong.
21 Oct 2025
Francesca Orsini's scholarship has greatly enriched Hindi literary studies and history of the book in India. She is a renowned scholar published worldwide in English and in Hindi. She has just been denied entry into India, with no reason given.
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22 Oct 2025
RT @AakritiMandhwa1: Francesca Orsini has done more for Hindi than many so called lovers of Hindi. To not allow entry to a true lover of la…
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