About Gulshan Books Kashmir in Residency Road, Srinagar

The Gulshan Books is the most reliable and trusted name in book business since several decades. Being the pioneers in the field of book publishing in Kashmir. The Gulshan is accredited with having first traced, located, subsequently consolidated and published the scattered historical literature/ material on Kashmir; making easily available to scholars, intellectuals, academicians as well as the general readers a variety of rare books which were otherwise beyond their reach.

The Gulshan has successfully rendered available old and almost extinct books and travelogues on Kashmir on adequately reasonable rates through its impressive marketing outlets and well organized distribution system including online website: www.gulshanbooks.net.

The Publishing house has brought to light the not only vitally important but curiously forgotten and ignored aspects of the culture heritage of Kashmir. If writers like Lawrence, Grierson, Robert thorp, G.M.D Sufi etc have become household names in Kashmir and if today’s generation is familiar with these names; it is largely due to the unrelenting and painstaking endeavoures of the Gulshan Books who has left no stone unturned to bring to the fore the most rare and unique books on Kashmir, Ladakh and Jammu. The fresh and the most significant release of the Gulshan Books are undoubtedly going to enrich the historical capital and cultural wealth of Kashmir immensely.

In 2007 about twenty five books were released by the company. Today about forty one new titles are being released which are expected to set a new trend in book publishing venture in Kashmir.

The company has instituted awards to encourage talent in the valley and also recognize the valuable contributions of historians, scholars, poets and other luminaries of the J & K state in their respective fields.