BAHRI PUBLICATIONS is one of the first publishers to publish books and journals on Language & Literature and the first to publish books and journals on Linguistics in India. It was founded by Dr. U. S. Bahri in 1973 with an aim to venture into the then unnoticed and neglected field of linguistics in India. Dr. Bahri was himself a struggling scholar at that time researching extensively in the field of Punjabi linguistics and teaching at Punjabi University, Patiala. Finding no suitable platform to publish his works, he chose to start a publishing house, which would cater to the needs of upcoming linguistic scholars in India. The aim at the outset was to provide a platform for the upcoming scholars researching in the area of linguistics, for whom there were not many opportunities waiting. Hence, without caring about the risks involved in this field, its management continued its mission to see that the studies in linguistics find a place not only in India but also in the world market.

The first attempt made in this direction was to publish two books namely, Introductory Course in Spoken Punjabi (by Dr. U. S. Bahri) & Introductory Course in Spoken Hindi (by Dr. U. S. Bahri & V. R. Jagannathan) in 1973 by BAHRI PUBLICATIONS. Number of books in the field of Linguistics, English Language and Literature, Semiotics, Stylistics, Language Teaching, Education and allied subjects followed in the coming years. However the major breakthrough came when we started two journals solely on Language, Literature & Linguistics namely, Language Forum – LF (ISSN 0253-9071) and Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics – IJOAL (ISSN 0379-0037), in the year 1975. Since then there was no looking back and in no time BAHRI PUBLICATIONS established an envious reputation by providing a strong platform to scholars in the field of linguistics through these journals and by virtue of it, helped them gain international repute. To name a few scholars who associated with us in the early years of these journals and have now gained international reputation in their respective fields are: Tej. K. Bhatia, Thakur Dass, V. S. Dubey, E. A. Levenston, Maurice Imhoof, Geoffery Mills, Larry Selinker, Keith Johnson, Jo Mcdonough, H. G. Widdowson, V. R. Jagannathan, R. N. Srivastava, Herbert W. Seliger, Henning Wode, Ann Borkin, Omkar N. Kaul, L. David Daiches, B. N. Patnaik, Anvita Abbi, Jasbir Jain, Harish Raizada, Marlene Fisher, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Saros Cowasjee, Uday Narayan Singh, R. K. Agnihotri, D. S. Maini, G. D. Barche, Ravinder Gargesh, Braj B. Kachru, Gerhard Nickel, A. N. Dwivedi, Harjeet Singh Gill, R. K. Singh, Franson Manjali, R. S. Pathak, David Ian Birch, John B. Pride, Gideon Toury, A. L. Khanna, D. Vasanta, Ravi Sheorey and many more.

In order to further expand the discipline, we started three more journals. In 1988, Creative Forum – CF (ISSN 0975-6396), which is a journal of Literary and Critical Writings pertaining to the 20th century in India and elsewhere, came into existance. The other journal was started on Translation Studies in 1989 and was named International Journal of Translation – (ISSN 0970-9819). The third one namely, International Journal of Communication – IJC (ISSN 0975-640X), the most popular today having more than 930 subscriptions in India alone, was focused on Cognition, Culture and Communication and began in 1991.

All these were flowering very well under the leadership of Dr. U. S. Bahri, but in an unfortune event, we lost him in August 2003. Since then, all the five journals are being run with the same zeal and enthusiasm by his son, Deepinder Bahri and his daughter, Harpreet Bahri after his death. Today all five of them have found a respectable place in the academics of India and abroad. And we feel proud to say that we have had the chance to get associated with almost every prominent scholar of Indian and Foreign origin in the field of Linguistics, Translation, Literature and Communication through these journals after being in the business for close to four decades.

Starting the year 2010, we have come up with the publishing of two more journals, one on Computational Linguistics namely, International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications – IJCLA (ISSN 0976-0962); and the other on Cognitive Science, namely International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition – IJMBC (ISSN 0976-3112). They are also running successfully well and have received quite a good response from the academia.

In 2011, we plan to come up with three more namely, Literary Miscellany (ISSN 2230-7451), Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies (ISSN 2231-4075) & Journal of Post Colonial Studies and the Transnational.

We would strive hard to keep the fire burning and keep producing quality journals in not only in the field of Humanities but other interesting and commercially viable fields of education.