Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is to begin academic publishing in India with the first title publishing this year. R. Chandra Sekhar has joined as Publisher to start the publishing programme and will report toRajiv Beri, Managing Director, Bloomsbury Publishing India.
Jonathan Glasspool, Managing Director, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, said:
Bloomsbury’s Academic Division has grown rapidly over the past decade, and publishes internationally from Oxford, London and New York. Bloomsbury India has established itself as a leading Trade publisher in India since it was established six years ago. Now we are creating a new academic publishing programme in South Asia under Chandra Sekhar, alongside our Bloomsbury Professional lists. This is part of Bloomsbury’s strategy to balance its consumer publishing interests with global academic and professional revenues.
Rajiv Beri, Managing Director India, said:
We have for the past few years been actively marketing and selling the large and diverse academic lists of Bloomsbury UK. The results have been excellent and have encouraged us to launch an India origin academic publishing programme. Our aim will be to publish high quality content in Humanities and Social Sciences with authorship from centres of academic and scholarly excellence in India. The list we create will have international appeal and will reach all parts of the world. We are indeed delighted with this significant initiative and look forward to contributing to dissemination of India origin high quality, meaningful and fresh academic content.
About Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division:
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division has grown rapidly since its inception in 2008, and specializes in the humanities, social sciences, visual arts, law and tax. The output of titles and services is over 1400 per year. The division includes the active imprints of Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Professional, Hart, Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Fairchild Books, I B Tauris, and the historic imprints of A&C Black, Berg Publishers, Bristol Classical Press, Duckworth Academic, Continuum, and AVA Books.
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional publishes many world-leading writers, Nobel laureates and researchers in their fields. Authors include Carol J. Adams, Alain Badiou, Karl Barth, Roland Barthes, Rosi Braidotti, Bertolt Brecht, Hélène Cixous, Noel Coward, Franz Fanon, Margaret Farley, Paulo Freire, M.A.K. Halliday, Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Midgley, Arthur Miller, Rebecca Miller, Jacques Ranciere, Mari Ruti, Jane Schaberg, George Bernard Shaw, Wole Soyinka, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Tennessee Williams, Rafia Zakaria, and Slavoj Žižek.