Notes on the craft of scholarly books

Editorial reflections from Oniket Prokash on bilingual publishing in Bengali and English, the making of research monographs and edited collections, and the forthcoming volumes joining our list.

We follow each accepted manuscript from careful selection through peer review and structural editing, considering how argument, apparatus and layout shape the reader's path through the research.

Publishing in two languages means deciding, title by title, how terms travel between them. We reflect here on the translation choices that shape a monograph's reach without flattening its scholarship.

Peer review is the stage where a monograph is tested against its own evidence. These notes describe the questions reviewers and editors bring to a submission and how author responses are weighed.