Established in 1991, AAKAR Books is a publishing company, started publishing quality scholarly books in Social Sciences in English and Hindi since 2001 and is now a niche for itself. Aakar Books is reputed for quality scholarly publishing in the field of Social Sciences. Its sphere of subject include History, Politics and International Affairs, Central Asian Studies, Economics, Economic History, Sociology & Anthropology, Gender Studies, Religion & Philosophy, Literature, Art & Archaeology, Education, Management, Reference, Science and Technology, and much more. Besides, publishing individual authors it also publish works sponsored by many institutions, e.g. Academy of Third World Studies, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women's Studies, Department of History & Culture, Department of Economics, Department of Social Work of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; European Union Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It also has co-publishing arrangements with Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press and Merlin Press of the U.K., Monthly Review Press and M.E. Sharpe Publisher of the U.S.A.