'Freud and the Non-European' is Edward Said's final book that explores the implications of Freud's theory that Moses was Egyptian, arguing it challenges pure identity and could offer a path to understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. 📚 Freud and the Non-European' by Edward Said. #booksky

'Freud and the Non-European' is Edward Said's final book that explores the implications of Freud's theory that Moses was Egyptian, arguing it challenges pure identity and could offer a path to understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. 📚 Freud and the Non-European' by Edward Said. #booksky

In August 2024, the people of Bangladesh defied all expectations to overthrow the violently repressive government of Sheikh Hasina. 📚🔥 This book offers a detailed analysis of the year since the uprisings – charting the roots of Bangladeshi discontent and the potential shoots of renewal. 📚📚🔥

'Navigating Life as a Brown Girl' holds space for discussions on identity, family dynamics, marriage, mental health, stigma and more. 📚💜 It's full of warmth, honesty and insights from Fahima Ali, a psychotherapist who has walked this path herself. 📚📚💜 #booksky #books

A collection of #translated stories written by Indian and Pakistani women now settled in Britain. Outside their language domain, these women have continued to write in #Urdu, their preferred creative medium. 📚💜 'The Golden Cage: Urdu Short Stories by Asian Women in Britain' 📚📚💜 #booksky #books

A quick glance at our #history, #caste, #partition, #politics and #sociology shelves 📚💜🔥 For a curated experience in South Asian books, visit or contact us at Shalimar Books 🙂📚 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar #booksky #bookshop #London

'Navigating Life as a Brown Girl' holds space for discussions on identity, family dynamics, marriage, mental health, stigma and more. 📚💜 It's full of warmth, honesty and insights from Fahima Ali, a psychotherapist who has walked this path herself. 📚📚💜 #booksky #books

A collection of #translated stories written by Indian and Pakistani women now settled in Britain. Outside their language domain, these women have continued to write in #Urdu, their preferred creative medium. 📚💜 'The Golden Cage: Urdu Short Stories by Asian Women in Britain' 📚📚💜 #booksky #books

With a largely silent mainstream media, it's very easy to switch off and think that something really changed when a 'ceasefire' was announced. Undoubtedly, books can help us to better understand what is the key issue of our time, and to never give up on hope 📚💔 #booksky #books

Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices. 📚 'Palestine Minus One' @commapress.bsky.social #booksky

A quick glance at our #history, #caste, #partition, #politics and #sociology shelves 📚💜🔥 For a curated experience in South Asian books, visit or contact us at Shalimar Books 🙂📚 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar #booksky #bookshop #London

Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. 📚📚💜 @dalitdiva.bsky.social

Our UK stock bestseller #bookpile for January 2026! 📚💜🔥 Bestselling books are so for a reason, and that reason is surely in the eye of the beholder 😊📚 Whatever your reason, visit us for a wide range of titles and unique collection of fair-trade craft products from across the Indian sub-continent.

What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision. 📚📚💙 'The Complete Stories'

From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision. 📚📚💙 'The Complete Stories'

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the works, a collaboration between Prof. B.N. Goswamy and Dr. Eberhard Fischer, is filled both with scholarly authority and poetic utterance. 📚💜 'Pahari Paintings: The Horst Metzger Collection in the Museum Rietberg' indianbooksuk.com?s=Pahari&pos...

Commanding in its scope, revelatory and unsparing in argument, 'Republic of Caste' amounts to a new map of post-Independence India. 'Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva' by Anand Teltumbde.

Our UK stock bestseller #bookpile for January 2026! 📚💜🔥 Bestselling books are so for a reason, and that reason is surely in the eye of the beholder 😊📚 Whatever your reason, visit us for a wide range of titles and unique collection of fair-trade craft products from across the Indian sub-continent.

'Capitalism: A Ghost Story' examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. #ArundhatiRoy @shalimarbooks.bsky.social

'Capitalism: A Ghost Story' examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. #ArundhatiRoy @shalimarbooks.bsky.social

Commanding in its scope, revelatory and unsparing in argument, 'Republic of Caste' amounts to a new map of post-Independence India. 'Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva' by Anand Teltumbde.

What are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022

Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. 📚📚💜 @dalitdiva.bsky.social

In August 2024, the people of Bangladesh defied all expectations to overthrow the violently repressive government of Sheikh Hasina. 📚🔥 This book offers a detailed analysis of the year since the uprisings – charting the roots of Bangladeshi discontent and the potential shoots of renewal. 📚📚🔥

The shop today at Shalimar Books!🙂📚❤️ With over 55 years of specialisation we are London's leading South Asian book specialist. We cover a wide range of subject areas from #art, #history and #politics to #poetry, #fiction and #childrensbooks😃💜 🌐 www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

Great South Asian #fiction titles in this stock #bookpile at Shalimar Books! 🙂📚❤️ These books are published in the UK, so you should be able to find them widely. However, the reality is you can't! 🤔📚 Yet another good reason to come and visit London's leading South Asian book specialist! 🤗📚💜

This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the works, a collaboration between Prof. B.N. Goswamy and Dr. Eberhard Fischer, is filled both with scholarly authority and poetic utterance. 📚💜 'Pahari Paintings: The Horst Metzger Collection in the Museum Rietberg' indianbooksuk.com?s=Pahari&pos...

'Too Many Men, Too Few Women' explores the social impacts of skewed sex ratios in India and China. Moving beyond demographic causes this book examines consequences like bride shortages, increased violence, and changes in cultural practices like dowry. 📚 #gender #India #China

'Too Many Men, Too Few Women' explores the social impacts of skewed sex ratios in India and China. Moving beyond demographic causes this book examines consequences like bride shortages, increased violence, and changes in cultural practices like dowry. 📚 #gender #India #China

In conversation with eight women who survived lives of abuse, this book draws attention to the fact that despite years of suffering, many abuse survivors can and do live enhanced lives and experience personal growth 📚💜 What I am Today, I Won't Remain Tomorrow: Conversations with Survivors of Abuse.

In conversation with eight women who survived lives of abuse, this book draws attention to the fact that despite years of suffering, many abuse survivors can and do live enhanced lives and experience personal growth 📚💜 What I am Today, I Won't Remain Tomorrow: Conversations with Survivors of Abuse.

'Palestine +100' poses a question to 12 Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in 2048? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? @commapress.bsky.social

'Palestine +100' poses a question to 12 Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in 2048? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? @commapress.bsky.social

The shop today at Shalimar Books!🙂📚❤️ With over 55 years of specialisation we are London's leading South Asian book specialist. We cover a wide range of subject areas from #art, #history and #politics to #poetry, #fiction and #childrensbooks😃💜 🌐 www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

Festive hours update! 🌲📚🎁 We are open Mon-Sat 11.30am to 6pm up to (and including) Christmas eve for all your special, last minute gift giving needs 😁📚❤️ Visit us for a unique range of fair-trade art and craft products and an unrivalled selection of South Asian books 😃🎁💜

"A rare window into the reality of young women living under brutal siege: their loss, terror, and grief; their hope, ingenuity, curiosity, and humour as well as despair. These testimonials come straight from hell, and yet-read them, you'll see-they are radiant with undiminished life." Olivia Laing 📚

A #bookpile you could only find @shalimarbooks featuring a few new titles alongside some stone cold classics. 📚❤🙂 South Asian #fiction is not just one thing, hopefully there's some inspiration in here for all! 🤗📚💜 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

A #bookpile you could only find @shalimarbooks featuring a few new titles alongside some stone cold classics. 📚❤🙂 South Asian #fiction is not just one thing, hopefully there's some inspiration in here for all! 🤗📚💜 🌐 Website: www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar

An urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today. 🌎 This book is for everyone who wants something better than what the West has served up. This is a book for our time. 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This' @canongate.co.uk #booksky #nonfiction

'After Savagery' reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. 🍉 If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. 📚🍉 'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi. @haymarketbooks.org

A stunning new literary vision of India. In these dozen minutely observed stories, Jeyamohan juxtaposes the great themes of Indian life - politics, religion, caste, violence - in illuminating relation to the quiet internal machinery of his characters. 📚🌐 'Stories of the True' by Jeyamohan. #booksky

"A rare window into the reality of young women living under brutal siege: their loss, terror, and grief; their hope, ingenuity, curiosity, and humour as well as despair. These testimonials come straight from hell, and yet-read them, you'll see-they are radiant with undiminished life." Olivia Laing 📚

Coming Back is a captivating travelogue exploring the shared heritage of South Asia. This unique travel memoir offers a fresh perspective on the enduring connection between Pakistan and India. 📚💜 'Coming Back: the Odyssey of a Pakistani through India' by Shueyb Gandapur.

With a largely silent mainstream media, it's very easy to switch off and think that something really changed when a 'ceasefire' was announced. Undoubtedly, books can help us to better understand what is the key issue of our time, and to never give up on hope 📚💔 #booksky #books

A stunning new literary vision of India. In these dozen minutely observed stories, Jeyamohan juxtaposes the great themes of Indian life - politics, religion, caste, violence - in illuminating relation to the quiet internal machinery of his characters. 📚🌐 'Stories of the True' by Jeyamohan. #booksky

Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices. 📚 'Palestine Minus One' @commapress.bsky.social #booksky

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of 'The God of Small Things'. ❤️ 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy. @randomhouse.bsky.social www.indianbooksuk.com 📚 Bookshop.org: uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar #ArundhatiRoy #Memoir #Booksky

Festive hours update! 🌲📚🎁 We are open Mon-Sat 11.30am to 6pm up to (and including) Christmas eve for all your special, last minute gift giving needs 😁📚❤️ Visit us for a unique range of fair-trade art and craft products and an unrivalled selection of South Asian books 😃🎁💜

Coming Back is a captivating travelogue exploring the shared heritage of South Asia. This unique travel memoir offers a fresh perspective on the enduring connection between Pakistan and India. 📚💜 'Coming Back: the Odyssey of a Pakistani through India' by Shueyb Gandapur.