About us
A publishing house near Chennai, for books worth keeping.
Indus Books Publishers edits, designs, prints, publishes and sells books on classical literature, ancient culture and civilisation, archaeology, health and well-being, and self-help — 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 classical literature, ancient culture and civilisation, archaeology, health and well-being, and self-help, in Tamil, English and bilingual editions. 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.
A focused list
We publish five subjects rather than everything. A narrow list means each book gets real attention instead of competing with a catalogue too wide to do well.
Tamil is not a second tier
Tamil titles are not an afterthought or a translation of an English list. 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
Five subjects.
We do not currently accept fiction, including novels and short stories.
Languages we work in
Tamil, English, or both.
Two languages, published on their own or together in one book — each gets our full attention.