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People's Publishing House (New Delhi)

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Founded in Bombay in 1942, when the Communist Party of India was legalised, as the party's publishing and book-distribution arm, operating from Raj Bhuvan on Sandhurst Road, the party's headquarters. It was incorporated in 1947 and moved its headquarters to Delhi in the early 1950s; its building on Rani Jhansi Road was built between 1956 and 1958. It publishes Marxist and progressive literature, history, fiction and children's books, and remains active with branches across India. In Maharashtra its successor is Lok Vangmay Griha.

Years
1942–present
Location
New Delhi, India
Name history
  1. 1942–? People's Publishing House, Bombay — Headquarters at Raj Bhuvan, Sandhurst Road
  2. ?–present People's Publishing House, New Delhi — Headquarters moved to Delhi in the early 1950s
Also known as
PPH · People's Publishing House, Bombay · Lok Vangmay Griha
Affiliation
Publishing arm of the Communist Party of India
Languages
English, Hindi, and other Indian languages
Authority records
Wikidata
Sources
Wikipedia — People's Publishing House (India)

Backlist

27019401960198020002020Founded 19421942: 1 title1943: 15 titles1944: 22 titles1945: 24 titles1946: 12 titles1947: 20 titles1948: 12 titles1949: 6 titles1950: 15 titles1951: 15 titles1952: 17 titles1953: 13 titles1954: 12 titles1955: 8 titles1956: 6 titles1957: 5 titles1958: 9 titles1959: 9 titles1960: 3 titles1961: 5 titles1962: 11 titles1963: 11 titles1964: 8 titles1965: 3 titles1966: 9 titles1967: 6 titles1968: 5 titles1969: 21 titles1970: 27 titles1971: 11 titles1972: 15 titles1973: 21 titles1974: 6 titles1975: 16 titles1976: 11 titles1977: 22 titles1978: 14 titles1979: 14 titles1980: 9 titles1981: 9 titles1982: 11 titles1983: 9 titles1984: 22 titles1985: 5 titles1986: 5 titles1987: 4 titles1988: 4 titles1989: 1 title1990: 5 titles1991: 5 titles1992: 3 titles1993: 4 titles1994: 5 titles1995: 2 titles1996: 1 title1997: 2 titles1998: 3 titles2000: 1 title2005: 1 title2008: 1 title2010: 1 title2012: 1 title2014: 1 title2020: 1 title
Titles of People's Publishing House (New Delhi) by year: 576 dated titles, 1942–2020, most in 1970 (27); 5 undated. Lines mark founded 1942.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1940s112
1950s109
1960s82
1970s157
1980s79
1990s30
2000s3
2010s3
2020s1
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1942Soviet Workers Battle for War Production✓—English
1943A Short History of the Peasant Movement in Kerala✓E. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
1943Articles on India✓
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- 16
Karl MarxEnglish
1943Critique of "China's Destiny"✓ — Review of Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek's BookPai-Ta ChenEnglish
1943Forgery Versus Facts✓ — Communist Party Exposes the Fifth ColumnN. K. KrishnanEnglish
1943Kisans on the March for Food and Freedom✓ — Resolutions of the 7th Session of the All-India Kisan Sabha at Bhakna, April 1943—English
1943Life and Teachings of Karl Marx✓
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- No.5
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1943Literature and the People✓ — Address to the Fourth All-India Progressive Writers' Conference on 22nd May 1943, in BombayShripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1943Makers of New China✓
SAMP Early 20th-century Indian Books Project
S. S. BatliwalaEnglish
1943National Unity for the Defence of the Motherland✓ — Resolutions of the Two Plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India Held in September 1942 and February 1943 Respectively—English
1943Pakistan and National Unity✓Gangadhar M. AdhikariEnglish
1943People's Way to Food✓ — The Report Made by S. G. Sardesai Before the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India Held in Bombay from 10th to 24th February 1943S. G. SardesaiEnglish
1943Red Army in the War of Liberation✓ — A Symposium of Articles Written by Soviet Writers on the Occasion of Its 25th Anniversary—English
1943Unity in Action for National Defence and National Government✓ — Resolution Passed Unanimously by the First Congress of the Communist Party of India May 1943—English
1943Who Lives If Bengal Dies?Puran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1943Working Class and National Defence✓ — Report on Production—English
1944A Socialist Answers Masani✓ — A Reply to Masani's "Socialism Reconsidered"M. G. DesaiEnglish
1944Among Kisan Patriots✓ — A Review of the Bezwada Session of the All-Indian Kisan SabhaP. C. JoshiEnglish
1944Burma Will Rise Again✓A. S. R. ChariEnglish
1944China's "New Democracy,"✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1944Congress and Communists✓Puran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1944Critique of "China's Destiny,"✓Free — Review of Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek's BookBoda ChenEnglish
1944Food in Bombay Province✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1944Food in the United Provinces✓S. G. SardesaiEnglish
1944France Fights for Freedom✓—English
1944From Peace Front to People's War✓
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series
Gangadhar M. AdhikariEnglish
1944Imperialism and the People✓Frank VerulamEnglish
1944Light on League-Unionist Conflict✓Sajjād ẒahīrEnglish
1944New Germany in Birth✓Mohan KumaramangalamEnglish
1944On Leninism✓
Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Series
Joseph StalinEnglish
1944On Religion✓Free
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- No. 11
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1944On Youth✓Free
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- No. 23
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1944Polish Conspiracy Exposed!✓—English
1944Spotlight on Yugoslavia✓—English
1944The Paris Commune✓FreeKarl MarxEnglish
1944They Must Meet Again✓Puran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1944They Must Meet Again, by P. C. Joshi✓Puran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1944Who Threatens China's Unity?✓Zhongguo gong chan dangEnglish
1945Articles on India✓
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- 16
Karl MarxEnglish
1945Bengal's Forgotten Warriors✓Niranjan SenEnglish
1945British Workers in Action 1800-1945✓John StammersEnglish
1945China's "New Democracy"✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1945China's Strategy for Victory✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1945Chittagong Armoury Raiders✓Free — ReminiscencesKalpana DuttEnglish
1945Communist Reply to Congress Working Committee's Charges✓Puran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1945Correspondence Between Mahatma Gandhi and P.C. Joshi✓Gandhi MahatmaEnglish
1945I Visit Yenan✓ — Eye Witness Account of the Communist-Led Liberated Areas in North-West ChinaIsrael EpsteinEnglish
1945India's Sterling Balances✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1945India's Sterling Balances, by B.T. Ranadive✓FreeBhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1945Indonesia's War of Independence Being the Voice of 60 Million People 350 Years Under the Dutch Heel✓S. MohammedEnglish
1945Inside Bengal 1941 - 1944✓ — Forward Bloc and Its Allies Versus Communist PartyArun BoseEnglish
1945Jobs for All✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1945Lid off Andhra Anti-communism✓A. S. R. ChariEnglish
1945Marxism and the Question of Nationalities✓ — Selected Speeches and Articles
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- 14
Joseph StalinEnglish
1945Over the Ashes✓ — A Play About Resurgent BurmaSinḥ Phe MrạṅEnglish
1945Rural Bengal in Ruins✓Bhowani SenEnglish
1945Sikh Homeland Through Hindu-Muslim-Sikh Unity✓Gangadhar M. AdhikariEnglish
1945The Ghadar Heroes✓ — Forgotten Story of the Punjab Revolutionaries of 1914-15Raṇadhīra SiṃhaEnglish
1945The Revolution of 1905✓
Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Series -- No.9
Vladimir Il’ich LeninEnglish
1945The Soviet Spirit✓
Introduction to Marxism -- No. 2
Hewlett JohnsonEnglish
1945What Is Marxism?✓Free
Introduction to Marxism -- No. 1
Emile BurnsEnglish
1945گاندھی جوشی — خط و کتابتMahatma Gandhi & Puran Chandra JoshiUrdu
1946Dange Fights Anti-strike Bill — Speech in the Bombay Legislative AssemblyShripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1946Election Manifesto of the Communist Party of India✓Communist Party of IndiaEnglish
1946For the Final Bid for Power!✓ — The Communist Plan ExplainedPuran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1946Indians Fight for Equality in South Africa✓Mohan KumaramangalamEnglish
1946Iran at the Crossroads✓Mohan KumaramangalamEnglish
1946Keynesian Economics✓ — A SymposiumV. B. SinghEnglish
1946Land Revolution in Eastern Europe✓Mohan KumaramangalamEnglish
1946Marxist Miscellany✓—English
1946Notes on the Bengal Renaissance✓
SAMP Early 20th-century Indian Books Project
Amitā SenaEnglish
1946Strike!✓ — The Story of the Strike in the Indian Navy—English
1946Strike! The Story of the Strike in the Indian Navy, Edited by G. Adhikari [2nd Edition]✓Gangadhar M. AdhikariEnglish
1946The Way Out of China's Civil War✓ — A Report on Coalition Government Delivered to the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist PartyMao ZedongEnglish
1947Anglo-American Drive for World Domination✓Eugène VargaEnglish
1947For the Final Bid for Power!✓ — The Communist Plan ExplainedPuran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1947From Volga to Ganga✓ — A Picture in Nineteen Stories of the Historical, Economic, and Political Evolution of the Human Society from 6,000 B.C. to 1922 A.D.Rāhula Sāṅkr̥tyāyanaEnglish, Hindi
1947India and UNO✓Mohan KumaramangalamEnglish
1947India To-day✓Free
SAMP Early 20th-century Indian Books Project
R. Palme DuttEnglish
1947India's Economic Crisis and Its Solution✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1947Indo-British Big Business Deals✓ — New Forms of Imperialist Exploitation ...Arun BoseEnglish
1947Inside Vellore Jail✓ — Stop This VindictivenessPuran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1947Inspiring Story of the Historic RIN Uprising✓Victimised RIN StrikerEnglish
1947Land Fragments and Our Farmer✓ — Speech in the Bombay Assembly on the "Bombay Fragmentation (Prevention) and Consolidation of Holdings Act"Shripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1947Mountbatten Award and After✓ — Political Resolution, June 1947Communist Party of India. Central CommitteeEnglish
1947Pamphlets on Indian Economics✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1947Princistan✓ — Imperialism's Nest for TomorrowRomesh ChandraEnglish
1947Problems of International Development✓ — A Marxist AnalysisEdvard KardeljEnglish
1947Resurgent India at the Cross Roads✓ — 1946 in ReviewGangadhar M. AdhikariEnglish
1947Stop This Vindictiveness✓ — Inside Vellore JailPuran Chandra JoshiEnglish
1947The "Goondas" of Karnatak✓ — Memo to Congress Working Committee from Karnatak Communist Party Provincial Committee—English
1947The New Ideology of "Democratic Socialism"✓Ajoy Kumar GhoshEnglish
1947Viet Nam Fights for Freedom✓Subrata BanerjeeEnglish
1947Vietnam Fights for Freedom✓Subrata BanerjeeEnglish
1948Aspects of China's Anti-Japanese Struggle✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1948Down with Autocracy✓ — Tasks Before the States' Peoples Movement—English
1948For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy — Full and Complete Reports Submitted to the Nine Communist Parties's Conference Held at Warsaw in September 1947Communist Parties of Europe & Communist Information BureauEnglish
1948Marx and the Trade Unions✓FreeA. LozovskyEnglish
1948Marxism and the General Crisis of Capitalism✓Eugène VargaEnglish
1948Program of the Communist International✓ — Adopted at the Sixth Congress in 1928Communist InternationalEnglish
1948Programme of the Communist International✓Internacional ComunistaEnglish
1948Programme of the Communist International, Adopted at the Sixth Congress in 1928—English
1948Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies and Sem-Colonies✓ — Thesis Adopted by the Sixth Congress of the Communist International, 1928Communist International. CongressEnglish
1948Soviet Literature and World Culture✓Tamara MotylevaEnglish
1948The Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies and Semi-colonies — Thesis Adopted by the Sixth Congress of the Communist International, 1928Communist International, 6th CongressEnglish
1948What Is Marxism?✓FreeEmile BurnsEnglish
1949Colonial Peoples' Struggle for Liberation✓ — Reports to Institute of Economics and Pacific Institute of the Academy of Sciences, USSR—English
1949Colonial Peoples' Struggle for Liberation, Reports to Institute of Economics & Pacific Institute of the Academy of Sciences, USSR✓Institut ėkonomiki (Akademiia nauk SSSR)English
1949India from Primitive Communism to Slavery✓FreeShripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1949India To-day✓FreeRajani Palme DuttEnglish
1949India Today✓FreeRajani Palme DuttEnglish
1949Organisational Principles of CPSU (B)✓G. BrovarskiĭEnglish
1950China✓ — From a Semi-colony to a People's DemocracyG. V. AstafʹevEnglish
1950China's "New Democracy"✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1950Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1950Classical Work on the Principles of Bolshevik Tactics (Forty-fifth Anniversary of v. I. Lenin's Book Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution)✓A. P. KosulʹnikovEnglish
1950Colonial Peoples' Struggle for Liberation✓ — Reports to Institute of Economics & Pacific Institute of the Academy of Sciences, USSR—English
1950Fundamental Lessons of the Discovery of Traĭcho Kostov's Group and of the Struggle for Its Destruction on the Shortcomings in Party Work and Our Tasks✓ — Report to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, 16th January, 1950Vulko Chervenkov, Vŭlko Chervenkov & Bulgarska komunisticheska partiia. TSentralen komitetEnglish
1950Korea After the Second World War✓
Crisis of the Colonial System Series -- 4
F. I. ShabshinaEnglish
1950Lessons of the Chinese Revolution✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1950Literature and Reality✓Howard FastEnglish
1950New Stage in India's Liberation Struggle✓
[Crisis of the Colonial System Series -- 1]
A. M. DʹiakovEnglish
1950Sharpening of Crisis of Colonial System After World War II✓
Crisis of the Colonial System Series -- 2
E. M. ZhukovEnglish
1950The History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R.✓—English
1950The History of the Civil War in the USSRMaksim GorʹkiĭEnglish
1950The Soviet Cinematography✓—English
1950Working Class in the Struggle for National Liberation✓ — Reports & Resolutions of Trade Union Conference of Asian & Australasian Countries Called by the World Federation of Trade Unions—English
1951Articles on India✓Karl MarxEnglish
1951Crisis of the Colonial System✓ — National Liberation Struggle of the Peoples of East AsiaTikhookeanskiĭ institut (Akademiia nauk SSSR)English, Russian
1951India Welcomes Soviet Artists✓ — Press and Public Opinion on the Visit of Pudovkin and Cherkasov and on Soviet Cine-Art Festivals at Calcutta, Colombo and Nagpur—English
1951India, from Primitive Communism to Slavery✓Free — A Marxist Study of Ancient History in OutlineShripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1951Manoeuvres of British Imperialism in Ceylon✓
Crisis of the Colonial System Series -- 6
S. V. PokrovskyEnglish
1951On Inner-Party Struggle. A Lecture Delivered on July 2, 1941 at the Party School for Central China✓Shaoqi LiuEnglish
1951Problems of Art and Literature✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1951Sharpening of Crisis of Colonial System After World War II✓
Crisis of the Colonial System Series -- 2
E. M. ZhukovEnglish
1951Soviet Films✓ — Principal Stages of DevelopmentVsevolod Illarionovich PudovkinEnglish
1951Stalin on China✓ — A Collection of Five Writings of Comrade Stalin on the Chinese QuestionJoseph StalinEnglish
1951Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War✓Mao ZedongEnglish
1951The Nehru 5-year Plan✓S. G. SardesaiEnglish
1951The Peasant Question in Kerala✓S. ParameswaranEnglish
1951U.S. Armed Aggression Against China✓ — Statement in U.N.O. by Representative of People's Republic of China, Nov. 28, 1950Xiujuan WuEnglish
1951Young Builders of New China✓ — The Report of the W.F.D.Y. Delegation Which Visited the Chinese People's Republic in September-October 1950, on New China and Its Youth—English
1952Agrarian Crisis in India and the Reactionary Plans✓Bhowani SenEnglish
1952American Shadow over India✓L. NatarajanEnglish
1952China Can Make It — Eye-Witness Account of the Amazing Industrial Progress in New ChinaK. A. AbbasEnglish
1952China Stands up and Wolves of the Wild West✓R. K. KaranjiaEnglish
1952Colonialism in Africa✓T. GaneshEnglish
1952Food: Achilles' Heel of Indian Economy✓E. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
1952Foreign Capital in India✓Prem Sagar GuptaEnglish
1952Marx on China — 1853-1860Karl Marx & Dona TorrEnglish
1952Marxism-Leninism on Basis and Superstructure✓D. I. ChesnokovEnglish
1952Praja Socialism✓ — Monopoly's PawnEdatata NarayananEnglish
1952Problems of Art and Literature✓ — Addresses to a Conference in Yenan, May 2-23, 1942Mao ZedongEnglish
1952Soviets in Central AsiaW. P. (William Peyton) Coates & Zelda K. (Zelda Kahan) CoatesEnglish
1952The Middle East in Ferment✓Gopāla ṬhākuraEnglish
1952The National Question in Kerala✓E. M. S. NamboodripadEnglish
1952The New Ideology of 'Democratic Socialism'✓Ajoy Kumar GhoshEnglish
1952The Peaceful Co-existence of Capitalism and Socialism✓James KlugmannEnglish
1952Theories and Practice of the Socialist Party of India✓Ajoy Kumar GhoshEnglish
1953Bhagat Singh✓ — The Man and His IdeasGopal ThakurEnglish
1953Born of the People✓Luis TarucEnglish
1953I Sing of Man, and Other Poems✓Harindranath ChattopadhyayaEnglish
1953In the Image of Mao Tse-tung✓Khwaja Ahmad AbbasEnglish
1953Kashmir and Imperialist Intervention✓Kartar Singh, Bhai, sardarEnglish
1953Man's worldly goods✓Free — The story of the wealth of nationsLeo HubermanNot recorded
1953Mao Tse-Tung✓ — His Childhood and YouthEmi SiaoEnglish
1953Mao Zedong✓ — His Childhood and YouthSan XiaoEnglish
1953Marxism and Poetry✓FreeGeorge Derwent ThomsonEnglish
1953Peasant Uprisings in India, 1850-1900✓L. NatarajanEnglish
1953The Crisis of Britain and the British EmpireR. Palme (Rajani Palme) DuttEnglish
1953The Crisis of Indian Economy✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1953The Question of an Obligatory State Language in India✓Rambilas SharmaEnglish
1954Anglo-American Plot Against Kashmir✓Vijay KumarEnglish
1954Black-Out in East Pakistan✓Nikhil ChakravartyEnglish
1954Economic Development in India and China, 1950-53✓ — A Comparative StudyP. K. GuptaEnglish
1954Fight for Swadeshi✓Indulal Kanaiyalal YajnikEnglish
1954Government Labour Policy and the Bank Case✓Shripad Amrit DangeEnglish
1954Marxism and Poetry✓FreeGeorge Derwent ThomsonEnglish
1954Quest for Life, a Record of Five Months in the Soviet Union✓S. MahmuduzzafarEnglish
1954Rangrut✓ — (The Recruit)Baren BasuEnglish, Bengali
1954Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung✓FreeMao ZedongEnglish
1954The Crisis of Indian Economy✓Bhalchandra Trimbak RanadiveEnglish
1954The Peasant in National Economic Construction✓E. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
1954The R.I.N. Strike✓E. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish
1955A Handful of Wheat✓ — And Other StoriesMunshi PremchandEnglish
1955From Hiroshima to Bandung✓ — A Survey of American Policies in AsiaL. NatarajanEnglish
1955India Today and Tomorrow✓FreeRajani Palme DuttEnglish
1955Indian Land System and Land Reforms✓Bhowani SenEnglish
1955Indonesian Impressions✓ — By Ralph ParkerRalph ParkerEnglish
1955Kashmir and Its Future✓Harkishen Singh SurjeetEnglish
1955The History of the Communist Party of IndonesiaD. N. AiditEnglish
1955What Is Marxism?✓FreeEmile BurnsEnglish
1956American Shadow over India✓L. NatarajanEnglish
1956Keynesian Economics✓ — A SymposiumV. B. SinghEnglish
1956North of the Seventeenth Parallel✓Wilfred Graham BurchettEnglish
1956Our Future: Abundance or Annihilation?✓Lawrence A. BenjaminEnglish
1956Soviet Russia Goes to School✓ — A Guide to Soviet EducationBeatrice KingEnglish
1956World Socialist and Communist Movements from 1848 to 1918-19
History of the Three Internationals / William Z. Foster, 1
William Z. FosterEnglish
1957“A” Comprehensive History of India✓Ramesh Chandra MajumdarEnglish
1957Communism and Social Democracy✓ — Is the Gulf Really Wide?
Communist Party Publication
E. M. S. NamboodiripadEnglish