Permanent Black


Permanent Black is an independent publishing press headquartered in Ranikhet, India. It was founded in 2000 by novelist Anuradha Roy, and her husband, author Rukun Advani. It is considered one of India's major academic imprints, and has published books by noted scholars, including Ramachandra Guha, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Mukul Sharma, Kaushik Basu and Partha Chatterjee. Their books are distributed by the Indian publishing house, Orient Blackswan. It has in the past partnered with various foreign university presses, such as University of California Press, to represent and publish their titles in India.