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. 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 Indian market 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 & Linguistics namely, Language Forum - LF and Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics - IJOAL, 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: 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, Khuswant Singh, Harish Raizada, Marlene Fisher, Meenakhsi Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Saros Cowasjee, U. N. Singh, R. K. Agnihotri, D. S. Maini, G. D. Barche, Ravinder Gargesh, Braj B. Kachru, Gerhard Nickel, A. N. Dwivedi, Harjeet Singh Gill.

In order to further expand the discipline, we ventured to start yet three more journals, namely, Creative Forum – (A journal of Literary and Critical Writing) in 1988, International Journal of Translation – (A half-yearly review of Translation Studies) in 1989 and International Journal of Communication – (A half-yearly review of Cognition, Culture and Communication) in 1991. 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.

Seeing the need to expand the scope beyond pure language, literature and linguistics now, we have come up with the plan of starting a new journal on Cognitive science this time. The journal would be named as the International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition – IJMBC and would start from Jan 2009. We anxiously await its first issue and hope that this also finds a suitable place in the cognitive science community in India and elsewhere.