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Papyrus

A Kolkata publisher of Bengali and English criticism, history and memoir, active since the late 1970s.

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Papyrus is a Kolkata publisher of serious non-fiction, with its address at 2 Ganendra Mitra Lane in north Kolkata. Its titles in library catalogues go back to 1978, and it has published in Bengali and English ever since.

The English list is scholarly: Susobhan Sarkar's On the Bengal Renaissance, Abu Sayeed Ayyub's Tagore's Quest, Sukumar Sen's The Great Goddesses in Indic Tradition and Sumit Sarkar's A Critique of Colonial India. The Bengali list leans to criticism and memory: Sankha Ghosh's prose, Paritosh Sen's Zindabahar, Hirankumar Sanyal's recollections of the journal Parichay, selections from the quarterlies Kabita and Jijnasa, and Sudhir Chakraborty's anthology of modern Bengali song.

Papyrus was still bringing out new books in the late 2010s.

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Parichay-er Kuri Bachhar o Anyanya Smritichitra

Parichay-er Kuri Bachhar o Anyanya Smritichitra

Hirankumar Sanyal · 1978

Memories of the journal Parichay

Selections from English Periodicals of 19th Century Bengal

Selections from English Periodicals of 19th Century Bengal

Benoy Ghose (comp.) · 1978

Zindabahar

Zindabahar

Paritosh Sen · 1979

Kabitar Janma Ebang Anyanya

Kabitar Janma Ebang Anyanya

Sunil Gangopadhyay · 1979

On the Bengal Renaissance

On the Bengal Renaissance

Susobhan Sarkar · 1979

Tagore's Quest

Tagore's Quest

Abu Sayeed Ayyub · 1980

Urbashir Hasi

Urbashir Hasi

Sankha Ghosh · 1981

Shabda ar Satya

Shabda ar Satya

Sankha Ghosh · 1982

Sankater Swarup o Anyanya Prabandha

Sankater Swarup o Anyanya Prabandha

Ashok Mitra · 1982

The Great Goddesses in Indic Tradition

The Great Goddesses in Indic Tradition

Sukumar Sen · 1983

A Critique of Colonial India

A Critique of Colonial India

Sumit Sarkar · 1985

Kabita, Buddhadeva Basu Sampadita

Kabita, Buddhadeva Basu Sampadita

Minakshi Datta (comp.) · 1987

From Buddhadeva Bose's quarterly Kabita

Adhunik Bangla Gaan

Adhunik Bangla Gaan

Sudhir Chakraborty (ed.) · 1987

Diary, 1916-1919

Diary, 1916-1919

Kalidas Nag · 1991

Jijnasa Sankalan

Jijnasa Sankalan

Shibnarayan Ray (ed.) · 1992

From the quarterly Jijnasa

Dhwanimala Barnamala

Dhwanimala Barnamala

Palash Baran Pal · 2001

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