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Seagull Books is a publishing venture begun in Kolkata in 1982 by Samik Bandopadhyay and Naveen Kishore. It began primarily as a response to the growing need for an Indian publishing house for theater and the other arts and since then it has expanded its list to include translations from the European languages (including French, German, Norwegian and Italian) as well as twentieth-century critical theory and non-fiction. Since 2005, the company is registered in London and New York but all its publishing work continues from its initial establishment in Kolkata.

Origin
Beginning with the series New Indian Playwrights which translated the work of regional Indian playwrights into English, the project grew to accommodate film scripts, especially post-production film scripts. The presence of English in India as a link language made it possible for plays composed in the regional languages to be brought onto the same platform, thereby widening the scope of national theater.The series attempted to enhance important play scripts with additional material to provide the interested student, scholar, theater person and reader with more complete access to the script. Theater, cinema, theoretical writings on theatre, cinema and art made up the initial catalogue of Seagull Books and since its inception, with its translation project of the selected works of Mahasweta Devi, its focus has been on what might be termed as serious fiction.

Distribution
One of the ways Seagull circumvented the problem of being reduced to the status of an Indian publishing house catering to a niche market was by acquiring an international distribution system that would source its books to a global audience. At present, the University of Chicago Press holds the distribution rights for Seagull Books for the rest of the world except India. . In India, Seagull Books is distributed by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, based in New Delhi. The arrangement with the University of Chicago Press is not one of co-publication for Seagull Books does not sell rights; the books are produced in Kolkata and shipped to the Press who then send them out to booksellers all over the world.

Publications
At present, each book published is classified under one of the several series heads.
 * Seagull World Literature
 * The Swiss List
 * The German List
 * The French List
 * The Italian List. Series Editor: Alberto Toscano
 * Enactments. Series Editor: Richard Schechner
 * In Performance. Series Editor: Carol Martin
 * Manifestos for the 21st Century. Series Editors: Ursula Owen and Judith Vidal-Hall
 * Censorship Series
 * Conversation Series
 * What Was Communism? Series Editor: Tariq Ali
 * The Selected Works of Mahasweta Devi
 * The Selected Works of Utpal Dutt
 * The Selected Works of Badal Sircar
 * Culture Studies
 * New Indian Playwrights
 * Seagull Filmscripts
 * Film Theory
 * Art