About
Kotoba Books was founded in 2012 in Vizianagaram, A.P., India, by Peri Bhaskararao, Professor Emeritus of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. It is a non-profit academic press specializing in linguistic scholarship. Since 2022, Masato Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, has been involved in the operation of the press.
コトバブックスは東京外国語大学アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所のペーリ・バースカララーオ名誉教授がインドのヴィザヤナガラム(アーンドラ・プラデーシュ州)で始めた言語学出版社です。 2022年から、小林正人(東京大学)が非営利の言語学出版プラットフォームとして運営を引き継いでいます。 出版物は無償で冊子および pdf として配布されています。
Publications
Texts and analyses of Indian languages
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Classical languages
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Triveni, Texts of Three Literary Traditions in Early Modern Languages of North India
ISBN 978-4-911171-01-1.
Ādāb al-Ḥarb wa al-Shajāʿa: A Persian Treatise on the Rules of War
by Fakhr-i Mudabbir Dedicated to the Sulṭān of Delhi, Iltutmish
Kurux literature
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Khatrka Ropnas gahi Tungul (Poor Ropna's Dream)
Second edition (2020)
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Sawa Rupiya Khatri (For One and a Quarter Rupees)
First Edition.
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Brahui literature
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An Ideal Culprit
Brahui Literary Fund Series 1
Collected papers
Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean
ISBN 978-4-911171-04-2.
Links
- Peri Bhaskararao's Toda Dictionary, (2025, Tokyo: ILCAA)
- Liaquat Ali and Masato Kobayashi (eds.), Brahui Texts, (2024, Tokyo: ILCAA)
- MP3 Recording of The Kurux Language (Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey, 2017, Leiden: Brill)
- MP3 Recording of Purkhar gahi Khiri (Kurux Folklore Reader, Masato Kobayashi and Tetru Oraon, 2020)
- MP3 Recording of Texts and Grammar of Malto (Masato Kobayashi, 2012)
- MP3 Recording of Brahui Texts (Liaquat Ali and Masato Kobayashi, 2024)
- MP3 Recording of Hill Korwa (Masato Kobayashi, 2024)
