a publishing partnership between mandira sen and popular prakashan . the company is based in kolkata and publishes the imprints stree and samya . it is noted for publishing authors such as kancha ilaiah om prakash valmiki uma chakravarti gail omvedt manikuntala sen ashok mitra v. geetha and bani basu citation needed and has prominent scholars such as susie tharu and maithreyi krishnaraj as editors . citation needed it publishes academic works in the social sciences memoirs and classic fiction in translation in english and bengali . popular prakashan is a bombay based publishing firm established in 1920 by ganesh r. bhatkal a former employee of oup bombay . contents 1 beginnings of stree 2 the early years 3 the bengali list and samya 4 literary translations 5 theorizing feminism series 6 see also 7 references 8 external links beginnings of stree edit mandira sen worked as a publisher s editor for houghton mifflin among others in the us until she returned to india in 1978 . she worked for a year for orient longman then set up mandira which published bilingual children s books ; with english text on the verso pages and the same text in an indian language on the recto . some books were also published in hindi bengali punjabi urdu and gujarati . the books were intended for export to help the children of non resident indians to learn their mother tongues . distribution was a major problem and in 1986 mandira sen met ramdas bhatkal of popular prakashan at an international book fair . citation needed bhatkal and sen was set up in 1990 creating a new imprint stree which publishes books dealing with women s issues and social sciences . the early years edit during her time in the us mandira sen had come into contact with many women s rights activists and she wished to use this experience to highlight the work that was being done concerning women s issues in india ; and to help educate people about the movement and its contributions to civil society . citation needed stree s early titles fell into the following categories scholarly translations of important texts in indian languages by or about women that deserved to reach a wider audience . works of scholarship in the social sciences with an indian context or sources or by indian scholars with special reference to women and popular works dealing with concepts and ideas of the women s movement with the objective of introducing them to indian audiences . stree s first title was a translation of a gujarati novel by s. j. joshi citation needed anandi gopal a fictional retelling of the life of the first indian woman to qualify as a doctor . many titles followed including women as subjects south asian histories edited by nita kumar isbn 81 85604 03 7 the struggle against violence edited by chhaya datar isbn 978 81 85604 01 5 and other works . the bengali list and samya edit in 1996 the singer songwriter moushumi bhowmik came to stree as an editor . she began and developed stree s bengali lists which included works such as sambuddha chakrabarti s andare antare inside within on the lives of bengali bhadralok women in the nineteenth century . there was also pinjore boshiya inside the cage a collection of essays by kalyani dutta edited by the school of women s studies at jadavpur university . the third title was a translation of kamla bhasin s what is patriarchy into bengali . the year 1996 also saw the inception of the samya imprint . the occasion for this was the publication of kancha ilaiah s why i am not a hindu a sudra critique of hindutva philosophy culture and political economy . ilaiah had been turned away by a number of publishers who felt his work was too controversial ; citation needed sen felt his critique of the caste system fitted in with stree s parallel critique of patriarchy and gender and began the samya imprint meaning equality or fairness in 1996 with his book . citation needed since then samya has published om prakash valmiki s joothan an account of a dalit s growing up under caste oppression and tirumaalvalavan s talisman extreme emotions of dalit awakening translated by meena kandasamy . literary translations edit stree also publishes an extensive list of works in translation by women writers past and present . these include sulekha sanyal s nabankur the seedling s tale and bani basu s the birth of the maitreya maitreyo jatak . marathi works translated into english include kamal desai s dark sun and the woman who wore a hat saroj pathak s whom can i tell how can i explain and vibhavari shirurkar s kharemaster . many of these books form part of the gender culture politics series edited by susie tharu . stree has helped to bring to a wider audience many forgotten memoirs by early women writers such as lalithambika antherjanam s cast me out if you will which documents namboodiri oppression of nair women in nineteenth century kerala . in this category falls manikuntala sen s in search of freedom an unfinished journey a translation of her shediner kotha which traces the early years of the communist movement in india . theorizing feminism series edit stree also publishes a series theorizing feminism which includes patriarchy book by v. geetha . see also edit list of urdu language book publishing companies references edit this article includes a list of references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . august 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message 1 2 unpublished interview with the publisher 4 february 2007 by rimi b. chatterjee . 1 dead link external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bhatkal and sen & oldid 739279171 categories book publishing companies of indiahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from august 2011all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2011articles lacking in text citations from august 2011all articles lacking in text citationsuse dmy dates from august 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 19 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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