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Indological publishers and bookshops

• [ALCTS (American Library Association: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services) Foreign Book Dealers Directory]

  The Foreign Book Dealers Directories Subcommittee (FBDDS) of the ALCTS Acquisitions Section Publications Committee was established in 1990 to develop directories of book and serial vendors who provide materials from Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the countries that comprise the former Soviet Union. The work of the FBDDS updated the 1979 print publication Third World Booksellers: A Selected List of Bookdealers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ...

• [Indologische Buchhandlung]

  New online bookstore based in Germany, specializing in indological titles. Delivery in Europe within 48 hours. Has the Motilal Banarsidass distribution contract for Germany.

• [K. K. Agencies]

  The India books store for books and publications on all subjects and tastes from the whole array of publishers based in the vast Indian sub-continent.

  Online bookstore in New Delhi.

• [YogaVidya.com]

  We are dedicated to publishing excellent and affordable books about Yoga.

  Includes a downloadable PDF version of the text and translation of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Svatmarama, tr. by Brian Dana Akers [www.briandanaakers.com] with illustrations of yoga postures.

• [Manohar]

  Delhi publisher and bookseller.

• [Khemraj Shrikrishnadass]

  The Shri Venkateshwar Press, Mumbai. Estd. 1871!

• [Egbert Forsten Publishing]

  Publishers of the Grongingen Oriental Series and the Gonda Indological Series as well as numerous other books and series.

• [Swantham Publishers, Thiruvanantapuram]

• [Low Price Publication India]

  Delhi bookdealer offering a wide range of indological books, specializing in publishing reprints of old and rare classics on Indian indological subjects.

• [SAGE Publications international home page]

  Includes a good selection of publications on South Asian history, language, religions, sociology, etc. Publishers of McKim Marriott's India through Hindu Categories, etc.

• [Munshiram Manoharlal]

  Well-known Delhi bookshop and publisher

• [D.K. Publishers Distributors (P) Ltd./Indianbooks]

  A Delhi publishing and distribution company. (Different branch of the same family as D.K. Agencies).

• [Banarsidass, Delhi]

  Smart web presence for perhaps the best known of all Indological publishers.

• [D. K. Agencies, Delhi, Home Page]

• [Khazana: India Arts Online]

  Minneapolis store offering collectables of various kinds, including an online selection of India-related books.

• [Vedams Books International]

  Delhi book dealer stocking works on Hinduism, Buddhism, Indian Art and Iconongraphy, and Art History. An online catalogue on Indian History and Politics, Botanical Sciences, Women, Law, Demography, Economics, Anthropology, Geology, Natural History etc..

  Provides complete table of contents and excerpts from the jackets of most of the books listed on their site.

• [Bagchee Associates New Delhi. Home Page.]

  Indian book dealer specializing in blanket order plans for Indian publications. The website includes online catalogs on several indological subjects i.e. art, buddhism, hinduism, jainism, islam, Sanskrit, ayurveda, astrology, music, numismatics etc. The site has an online shopping facility and includes a searchable database of Indian publications.

• [The IndiaClub online bookstore.]

• [World Book Centre]

  A Bombay-based bookshop and ordering service. General stock, but strong on Indian topics, including Puranas, etc.

• [Chetana Bookshop, Bombay]

  Founded by S.Dikshit, a student of Vedanta, Chetana is better known the publisher of "I Am That" - the dialogues with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a contemporary sage.

• [IBC: Indian Books Centre (Sri Satguru Publications), Delhi]

• [Asian Rare Books (New York)]

• [E. J. Brill]

• [Eastern Book Corporation]

  Online bookstore supplying academic books from India all over the world at the cheapest prices on various subjects including Indian & South Asian Art, Architecture, Archaeology, Ayurveda, Buddhism, Economics, History, Literature, Politics, Religion-Philosophy, Sanskrit, Women Studies, Yoga, etc. We specialize in library supply and mail order service.

• [William H. Allen, Bookseller]

  Book dealer in Philadelphia with a good Indological stock.

• [Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium]

  Formerly the antiquarian book department of Brill, in Leiden. Has a good catalogue of Indological books, including rare texts.

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• [South Asia book vendors, exporters and publishers].

  A very full and well-maintained list of vendors from David Magier's SARAI pages at Columbia.

General book shopping services

• [Amazon USA]

  The biggest and the best.

• [Amazon UK]

  UK-based, so cheaper postage for Europeans. Formerly called Bookpages, but bought by Amazon in early 1998. Still my personal favourite.

• [AbeBooks]

  Union database of many secondhand dealers. Excellent resource. Try searching for "Sanskrit"!