English Book Store

The English Book Store in Connaught Place wears its history in a stack of weathered, hand-lettered wooden signs that lean against the shelves. Founded by Basant Ram Chaudhary in nineteen thirty-six, the shop specialized in military intelligence books and tactical manuals during the final decade of British colonial rule. While other bookstores in the city shifted their stock toward fiction or academic texts, this shop kept its focus on the precise, technical manuals and cartography that defined a different era of global conflict.