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Shalimar Books
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South Asian book specialist based in London since 1968. Fine art and handmade fair-trade craft products from across the sub-continent.

Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm

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Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.

Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
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'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER

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December 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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'You can't exactly stop birds from flying, can you? They go where they will...'

'A remarkably accomplished, polished debut.' MALORIE BLACKMAN

'Rightfully tipped for greatness' SUNDAY TIMES

'We Are All Birds Of Uganda' by Hafsa Zayyan.

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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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'After Savagery' reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
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If Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine.
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'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi.

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November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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UK stock title #bookpile showcasing some of our new arrivals and bestsellers at Shalimar Books 😃📚🔥

Featuring titles on #politics, #history, #caste, #Palestine and #SouthAsianfiction 📚🙂❤

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November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And we're back!! 📚🙂💜

We are now officially back open from today (Wednesday 12-November 2025)

New arrivals include #Dokra jewellery, #Gond tribal art and printed #cards, exclusive to our showroom in London. 😁📚

We look forward to seeing you all! 😃📚

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November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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✴️We will be closed from 6th October - 3rd November as we take our annual break.

For enquiries, you can still get in touch with us here:
Email: [email protected]

We will be back open from 3rd November
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October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A roundup #bookpile of some recent bestsellers before we take a break for the month of October. 😀📚💜

A huge thank you to our special community and loyal supporters. We look forward to seeing you all in November!
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October 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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'Here, day and night were interchangeable. The immaculately dressed Chowringhee, radiant in her youth, had just stepped on to the floor at the nightclub.'
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Set in 1950s Calcutta, 'Chowringhee' reveals an irresistible vision of a lost metropolis, a homage to an old India of myth and memory.
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October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Arab women poets have been writing since the earliest of times, yet for millennia, their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows.
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This is some of the most beautiful poetry in the world … Timeless.’—Tracy Emin

'Classical Poems by Arab Women'

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September 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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'The book of Indian Kings' comprises stories and essays on the greatest rulers in Indian history.
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This volume brings together some of the finest writers of our time including:

* Salman Rushdie on emperor Akbar
* Khushwant Singh on Maharaja Ranjit Singh
* William Dalrymple on Bahadur Shah Zafar
September 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of 'The God of Small Things'.
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'Mother Mary Comes To Me' by Arundhati Roy.

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September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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An unrivalled selection of South Asian books alongside a unique collection of handmade fair-trade art and craft products from across the sub-continent.
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Images courtesy of the lovely @readsandchai
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September 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Some superb titles in this August #bookpile of UK bestsellers @shalimarbooks.bsky.social 📚💜🙂

For anyone looking at this #bookstack and suffering from #fomo, you can find all of these and more online here:

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August 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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We offer a huge range of single and dual-language titles for children at our showroom in Kennington, South London.
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We welcome #teachers, #parents and educational specialists to help make #schools inclusive, as every child deserves to feel seen from day one.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians.
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'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe.

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From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' left off. 📚🇵🇸 Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians – and the decision-making process itself – that laid the foundation of the occupation. This book paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world’s largest ‘open prison’. 📚📚🇵🇸 A powerful, groundbreaking history of Gaza and the Occupied Territories from one of Israel's most influential historians. 📚📚🇵🇸 'The Biggest Prison on Earth' by Ilan Pappe.
August 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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A comprehensive anthology of stories by a diverse group of authors from North India, West Bengal, Bangladesh and Pakistan on the most traumatic period in the history of the subcontinent.
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'Orphans of the Storm Stories on the Partiton of India' By Saros Cowasjee, K.S. Duggal.

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A comprehensive anthology of stories by a diverse group of authors from North India, West Bengal, Bangladesh and Pakistan on the most traumatic period in the history of the subcontinent. 🔆 The stories, many of them written originally in the vernacular and specially translated into English for this volume, explore every facet of Partition: from acts of unprecedented brutality and savagery to moments of tender compassion and humanity. 📚 What was the lived experience and how does it correspond to the Indian experience? To what extent must we hold politicians responsible for the holocaust and to what degree must we shoulder responsibility ourselves? These, and other such questions, are still searching for an answer. 📚📚 Represented in this collection are a variety of styles and themes that reflect a multiplicity of experience and voices. A strong, unique and valuable book.
August 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A tribute to one of India's most outstanding revolutionaries, Bhagat Singh, 'Liberation's Blazing Star' seeks to situate him in his own times and understand his legacy and relevance to us today.
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'Bhagat Singh, Liberation's Blazing Star' by P.M.S Grewal.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The electrifying story of India’s struggle for #independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975), containing hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants at the time – from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi.

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On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the largest empire history has ever seen. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. 📚🔆 In this superb reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the fabled British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan. 📚📚🔆 This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country’s division; of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Muslims to nationhood; of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice; of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he’d just passed to them.
August 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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A #bookpile of new and current UK stock titles and bestsellers at Shalimar Books 📚🔆

Visit us for a range of #SouthAsianbooks, our dedicated Palestine shelves, and our unique collection of fair-trade art and handmade craft products from across the sub-continent.
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August 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, 'Who Will Tell My Story?' conveys with astonishing clarity how seeds of hope might linger amid the most trying of times.
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It was a sleepless night full of tears and fear . . . I am not sure - if I make it out alive - if I will still possess what makes me, me. And I wonder: will I be there in the future, or will I be someone to be remembered in a diary or over a cup of tea by a friend after I am gone? 'Who Will Tell My Story?' presents an ordinary existence interrupted by unfathomably seismic and unjust events. On the ground during the first months of the assault on Gaza, the author of this diary - first published in The Guardian - maps out the physical and psychological terrain of a life under siege. Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, 'Who Will Tell My Story?' conveys with astonishing clarity how seeds of hope might linger amid the most trying of times.
August 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?
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'Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic' shows us how an unassailable consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled.
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In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed the map of the Middle East. Pro-Israel lobbies convinced British and American policymakers to condone Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law, grant Israel unprecedented military aid and deny Palestinians rights. Anyone who questioned unconditional support for Israel, even in the mildest terms, became the target of relentless smear campaigns. 'Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic' shows us how an unassailable consensus was built – and how it might be dismantled.
August 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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'The Argumentative Indian' brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition.
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'The Argumentative Indian'

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India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. 'The Argumentative Indian' brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition. The understanding and use of this rich argumentative tradition are critically important, Sen argues, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.
July 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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After Zionism' brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on the Middle East question.
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In thought-provoking essays, the contributors dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and explore possible forms of a one-state solution.
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July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Our happy book donation day! 😃📚

Bookbanks is a charity that brings books to food banks in the UK.

All we really want is to get good books into kids' hands, and these guys are really doing it! 📚

Please support their efforts, knowing that great books are getting to children who appreciate it most.
July 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A #bookpile of recent stock titles @shalimarbooks 📚

For more titles on #Palestine and a huge selection of South Asian books on a wide range of areas, visit us or check us out online and on bookshop.org:
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🌐 Website:
www.indianbooksuk.com

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July 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM