Niyogi Books

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1833–86) was perhaps the most popularly known saint of 19th century India and an important figure in Bengali Renaissance. His philosophy impacted intellectuals even beyond the boundaries of the country. Philologist and Ori...

नेता जी सुभाष चंद बोस और उनकी पत्नी एमिली शेंकल के संबंधों के बारे में बहुत कम लोग जानते हैं। ये संबंध नेता जी के जीवन के सबसे कम ज्ञात पक्षों में से एक हैं। उन दोनों की मुलाक़ात जून 1934 में विएना में हुई थी और उन्होंने दिसम्बर 1937 में आस्ट्रिया...

He, who cannot dream and imbue others to dream, is not a revolutionary,’ said Charu Majumdar. True to his words, he dreamt of a shackles-free India and drew thousands of youth to join the armed revolution unleashed by his party in the 1970s. This...

मकबूल फिदा हुसेन: इस नाम से जुड़े अनगिनत खयाल और किस्से उन लोगों के जहन में हैं, जो किंवदंती बन चुके इस कलाकार की शख्सियत से वाकिफ हैं। माहिर चित्रकार, रंगीन व्यक्तित्व, अलग किस्म के फिल्मकार, महंगी से महंगी जिसकावर्णनों के आशिक, नंगे पांवों चलने ...

फ़ील्ड मार्शल सैम मानेकशॉ 1969 से 1973 तक भारतीय सेना के अध्यक्ष रहे। यह किताब सैम के जीवन, व्यवहार की विशेषताओं, विनोदप्रियता, नैतिक एवं पेशेवर साहस और वह रहस्य चित्रित करती है, जिसने उनके व्यक्तित्व को इस प्रकार गढ़ा। सबसे बड़ी बात यह है कि उनकी वि...

The churches of India takes the reader on a fascinating journey through India to discover the history and architecture of the country Christian churches. With fine illustrations and an informative, easy-to-read text The book reveals the diverse ar...

Calcutta In The Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration

Best friends JoJo and Moni are in for a thrilling adventure in their very own backyard! What happens after a naughty stranger visits their garden? Will JoJo and Moni be able to solve their new problem together? Join in on this heartwarming tale a...

The book takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. It brings alive India’s growth from an ancient to a modern, strong democracy in a vivid and detailed manner.

-Renowned architectural writer Anil Dey analyzes the myriad myths and mysteries surrounding the Konark Sun Temple, one of the Seven Wonders of India-Gorgeous pictures and accessible text on a complex and engaging subject-Will be of interest to tho...

This is the story of Pauloma Chattopadhyay, a middle-aged housewife living in Kolkata. When an old earthen vessel in the storeroom of her house transports Pauloma to different worlds, the rules of time and space are suspended, puncturing the munda...

About the Book - The author preserves for posterity's sake this vibrant tradition of wall painting that is an integral part of the country's representative art forms - The author has painstakingly collected images from temples, palaces, havelis, m...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to be divine revelations received by seers and saints. This set of three books is available as a gift pack.

On 25 may 1967, in an obscure village of Bengal, nine men, women, and children died in police firing, while trying to take possession of the surplus land of a big landlord. It was a shock for a complacent nation that was oblivious to the plight of...

इस्तांबुल का किस्सा– एक ऐतिहासिक उपन्यास है, जो कला, सौंदर्यशास्त्र, कल्पना की सुंदरता और भव्यता के परिप्रेक्ष्य में तुर्क साम्राज्य के सबसे शानदार कल को दर्शाता है। यह आर्थिक और सामाजिक पतन का, फिजूलखर्ची और बर्बादी का समय था, यह भी बतलाता है। ट्...

About the Book Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture explores the idea of settlements in different areas of the Himalayan region, cutting across national boundaries, from Kashmir via Nepal to the north-eastern parts...

Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is a fascinating collection of nine carefully curated chronicles related to the city in the 19th century. They are rare to find. Some of them were discovered inside dusty files in government archive...

Rani Gaidinliu: Legendary Freedom Fighter from the North East (P.B)

Flavours of Avadh: journey from the royal banquet to the corner kitchen is the story of food and cooking from the palaces to the pavement of the Avadh region in utter Pradesh. The book charts out a unique socio-cultural route down the decades, ske...

The Heavy Backpack follows a little girl called Enid who has just lost her Granddad. As Enid goes out for a walk with lots of different emotions whooshing around inside her head, she feels the weight of the heavy bag that she is carrying. Along h...

रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर...यह नाम हमारे हृदय के बहुत क़रीब है, जिसे देखते और सुनते ही मन में सम्मान, विस्मय और प्रेरणा के भाव पैदा होने लगते हैं। साथ ही, इस बहुमुखी प्रतिभा के बारे में और ज़्यादा जानने की उत्सुकता बढ़ने लगती है। उनके जीवनीकारों ने टैगोर क...

“बिस्मिल्लाह ख़ान - बनारस के उस्ताद» वह किताब है जो पाठकों को भारत के सबसे महान कलाकारों में से एक के दिल और घर-परिवार ही नहीं उनके ख़्याल और मौसीकी से भी रू-ब-रू करती है। यह डुमरांव जैसे छोटे क़स्बे से बनारस और फिर दुनिया तक के सफ़र को बयां करती है...

About the Book - An insightful handbook on spiritual thoughts for all, be an atheist, agnostic or a devout - An analytical comparative study of the major religions of the world - An excellent attempt to talk about dharma to the generation of this ...

In lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) saw the emergence of secret societies that aimed at a violent overthrow of British rule in ...

This lavishly illustrated book, the third and final volume in the series Orchha, Datia, Panna: Miniatures from the Royal Courts of Bundelkhand, deals with the third, fourth, and fifth periods of Bundelkhand painting, which spans the years 1635 thr...

The Vedas are considered the oldest scriptures of mankind, the sermon by Lord Krishna is known as the Bhagvad Gita and The Upanishads are said to be divine revelations received by seers and saints. This set of three books is available as a gift pack.

Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of the book is Indian literature). The book contains essays that look for paradigms based on Indian text...

Pioneering Parsis of Calcutta owes its origin to its authors passionate desire to learn more about her Parsi heritage by enquiring into the community recent history. This initial curiosity turned into a voyage of discovery which changed her percep...

Evil is stalking the jungle. As tiger after tiger vanishes from Nagarhole Wildlife Reserve, despite sophisticated digital and human eyes on the ground, DFO Vinay Mishra and his team of forest officials are left puzzled. Also, what is the role of a...

About the Book True Hinduism has a power and beauty that no one acquainted with it can regard with anything but the deepest respect. You have to approach it as you approach poetry, with a willing suspension of disbelief. Above all the peripheral m...

• A psychoanalytic, feminist interpretation of the art of F.N. Souza • Covers various stages of Souza's life and work, placing it in an art-historical context • Over 130 images of Souza's paintings and other artworks make for a visual spectacle ...

About the Book - Translated from French, this non-fiction on Indian dance theatre provides both an insider's and an outsider's perspective. The author-Katia L geret-Manochhaya - narrates her real life experiences with the art forms she learned in ...

This is the first biography to be written on Charles Correa (1930-2015), an architect, urban planner, filmmaker, and true-blue ‘Bombaywallah’. He was a man of many talents and one of the most globally honoured architects of his time. Today, Correa...

Mohammed Rafi: Svayan Iswar Ki Awaaz-(Hindi)

A large bulk of Indian miniature paintings comes from Rajasthan. These miniatures are endowed with warm colours, primitive vigour, directness of expression and all that corresponds to the unique land of Rajasthan. They encompass its fun and festiv...

The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand discards the belief that megaliths are only sepulchral monuments and illustrates that they also served as temples of the ubiquitous Mother Goddesses of the fertility cult. It reveals that...

Chikankari is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs of Awadh. Chikankari appeared in Lucknow in the late 18th century and its exquisite aesthetic and craftsmanship have s...

Before Mohammed Rafi there can only be a Zero and after him there can be only Two. That should succinctly describe the legendary singer of four decades whose rise to stardom was phenomenal. Indeed, Rafi was bigger than many of the stars who lip-sy...

Light of Asia: Indian Silent Cinema, 1912- 1934 in its new avatar celebrates the centenary of Indian cinema and the release of Dadasaheb Phalke and rsquo;s Raja Harishchandra in1913 . It provides a close-up view of the nascent days of Indian filmm...

Meditative essays and mesmerising photographs capture the essence of Bombay/Mumbai in this travelogue. Piquant restiveness, personal stories and poetic musings enrich the memoir.

When death comes and whispers to me, “Thy days are ended,” let me say to him, “I have lived in love and not in mere time". A Tagore classic—a poetry collection that is part of a set of twelve books that have been translated by the Master himself.

How many faces does a woman have? A question that has always puzzled mankind and Professor Kumar is no exception. This intriguing book traces his growth, through the relationships with the women in his life.

Sir J.C. Bose has been resurrected in many fields recently, more than five decades after his death. In the late 1990s, Bose was acknowledged as one of the inventors of the radio, alongside Marconi. We now know Bose held the first patent for a semi...

It is used for just 20 minutes But to decompose, it takes 200 years. Never be fooled by its figure, because If you join all the plastic straws That pollute the beaches in a single year, You can make two round trips to the Moon! And it is so harmfu...

How beautiful is life under the sea...azure and carefree…. But it's not like that every day. At the end of an unfortunate day with an unexpected accident, The fish found themselves in glass jars. Moreover, they asked for it themselves to be safe. ...

It is an exciting day for cloth doll Gudiya and her friends, as they arrive in Kolkata right during the Durga Puja festivities. It is her first time in the big city, and there is so much to look at! The cloud-catching tall buildings, the thousands...

• Offers an in-depth look at Orchha painting from 1605 to 1675 • Explains the concepts of love for the divine (bhakti), and the love between Krishna and Radha (shringara) • Exquisite images of about 170 traditional Indian paintings enhance the v...

Embark on a visual odyssey of the colours of Krishna devotion, the dulcet hymns of Braj Bhasa guiding one through the air of peace and profundity in the by-lanes of Mathura, one of the oldest living cities of the world, lauding quotidian spiritual...

The Serengeti: Wild Wonders of Africa is a pictorial journey into some of the earth’s most iconic and untamed landscapes. Here we witness the great dance of survival between predator and prey play out across vast, undulating plains. Danger and bea...

Homeopathy as a system of healing was developed by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician in 1796. Now widely practised worldwide, Homeopathy follows the principle of ‘like cures like’ or similia similibus curentur. In this informative work, the aut...

Thirteen tales of village life in Sattari, a forested region in north-east Goa on the foothills of the Western Ghats. The stories are rooted in the joys and sorrows of poor villagers as they face Nature’s fury or revel in her bounty. They focus on...

In this land of big cats, the Indian leopard has been historically sidelined, despite being classified as a vulnerable Schedule I species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Researcher and photographer Soham Chakraborty decides to bring thi...

A huge lacuna exists between the teaching and learning of theory and skills that architecture and design students learn in class, studio and other subject books. Worksheets for Budding Designers attempts to rectify that. It is a unique activity b...

‘There are some of us who are naturally sturdy, and then there are others who are like trailing vines.’ In the aftermath of a mysterious disappearance and an unexplained pregnancy, Malini walked out of her marriage and the life she had painstakin...

Middle of the week, in front of the school where she drops off her son every day, Draupadi witnesses something grotesque. The ludicrous ways of fate leave the ball in her court—should she inform the police, or hold on to the safety of her little b...

A quiet household is transformed with the entry of Tublu—smart, mischievous, cuddly—a small dog who is handsome beyond words, everyone agrees. Mithu, his owner, loves to pamper him—she runs after him to give him baths, forces him to wear bright s...

The book critically examines several successive blunders committed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after becoming the chief helmsman of Bangladesh. Disregarding warnings of his well wishers, he appointed pro-Pakistani quislings to key positions in his go...

The invention of one of the world’s most popular apparel, the shoe, is widely unknown. The polymath Rabindranath Tagore imagines the invention of the shoe by humorously telling the story of a petulant king. King Habu wakes up one day to realise th...