Abhijit Gupta is a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He co-edited the following four volumes that helped define book history as a field in India: Print Areas (2004), Moveable Types (2008), New Word Order (2011), and Founts of Knowledge (2015). He was an associate editor for South Asia for the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010). This is the se...

Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, invites you to the launch of Schoolbooks Archive, a free, open-access online portal for schoolbooks and related documents that have been developed and used in India and the subcontinent over the last two hundred years, in different languages and on different subjects.

Introducing the exciting world of schoolbooks from over two centuries, which have helped children to learn and inspired teachers to teach. Schoolbooks Archive brings together teaching and learning material used in Indian schools and in countries in South Asia. This repository is an open-access interactive digital platform. An excellent resource for teachers and tea...