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date: '2019-05-10'
description: 'Welcome, dear reader! NEWS: Major Announcment! samisdat.in is a home for samizdat — preserving and archiving research, materials and publications, especially books, that are out-of-print, out-of-copyright, or very difficult to find. The archive spans a wide range of subjects: historical research,…'
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# Welcome, dear reader!

- **[NEWS: Major Announcment!](https://samisdat.in/blog/major-website-update-2026)**

**samisdat**.in is a home for [samizdat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat) —
preserving and archiving research, materials and publications, especially
[books](https://samisdat.in/books), that are out-of-print, out-of-copyright, or very difficult
to find.

The archive spans a wide range of subjects: historical research, esoteric and
hermetic traditions, survival and self-reliance, political economy, and
declassified government documents. We occasionally publish [blog](https://samisdat.in/blog) posts
with highlights and summaries, and more rarely [audio/video](https://samisdat.in/media) content.

> **Please check the [World Copyright Lengths](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_lengths)
> for your country before downloading.** For in-copyright books, no
> commercial use without the copyright holder's approval.
> 
> **Note:** Some material on this site is controversial, has been banned or
> censored, or challenges mainstream narratives. Read with your own judgement.

![Several books, black and white](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/01.home/black-and-white-books.png?g-55942880)

- Read more [about **samisdat**.in](https://samisdat.in/about)

Note: The vast majority of the epub files were initially machine-generated from
the original PDF scans, are a work-in-progress and require further revision -
you can help by submitting back edits that fix the various issues.

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## Navigation

- Next: [Library](https://samisdat.in/library.md)