About us

A publishing house near Chennai, for books from everywhere.

Indus Books Publishers edits, designs, prints, publishes and sells books — in every genre, in print and digital, from our base in Guduvancheri to readers across India.

What we are

The whole job, in one place.

Getting a book published in India usually means assembling it yourself — finding an editor, then a designer who has not read the edit, then a printer who has met neither, then working out distribution on your own. Plenty of good books never make it through that gauntlet.

We put all of it under one roof. Editing, design, typesetting, printing, ISBN registration, digital conversion, distribution and selling are handled by people who talk to each other and who have all read the book.

We publish across every genre and work in Tamil, English and other Indian languages. We are based in Guduvancheri, just south of Chennai, and we deliver to every state and union territory in the country.

Based in

Guduvancheri, Chennai

Close to the printers and binderies we work with, which is the practical reason production stays here.

Delivering to

All of India

Print orders ship nationwide. Digital editions reach readers anywhere in the world.

How we work

Four things we hold to.

No genre hierarchy

A competitive-exam guide is not a lesser book than a literary novel. Both have readers who need them, and both get the same production care.

Regional languages first-class

Tamil and other Indian-language titles are not an afterthought or a translation tier. They get editors who read the language and typesetters who know the script.

Honest reads

If a manuscript is not ready we say so, and say why. Taking money to publish something that will disappoint its author helps nobody.

Books that stay available

Between print-on-demand and digital editions, there is little reason for a book to go permanently out of print. We try not to let that happen.

Genres we publish

All of them.

Literary FictionCommercial FictionPoetryShort FictionChildren & Young AdultBiography & MemoirHistory & PoliticsBusiness & FinanceSelf-Help & WellnessSpirituality & DevotionalAcademic & ReferenceTextbooks & Exam PrepCookery & LifestyleTravel & PhotographyScience & TechnologyRegional Literature

Languages we work in

Tamil, English, and more.

TamilEnglishTeluguMalayalamKannadaHindiMarathiBengali

Working in a language not on this list? Ask us — the list reflects where our editors are today, not a policy.

Come and publish something with us.