Rajpal & Sons

Rajpal & Sons[1][2][3] is an Indian publishing house based in Delhi.[4]

Rajpal & Sons
Parent companyRajpal & Sons
StatusActive
Founded1912
FounderRajpal Malhotra
(more popularly known as Mahashay Rajpal & Mahashe Rajpal)
Country of originIndia
Headquarters locationDelhi
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleMeera Johri and Pranav Johri
Publication typesHindi, Urdu and English
No. of employeesMore than 50
Official websitewww.rajpalpublishing.com

History

Rajpal & Sons was founded in 1912 by Rajpal Malhotra in Lahore. He was assassinated by radical muslim Ilm-ud-din in 1929 for publishing a book called Rangeela Rasool'.[5] After his demise, his wife and son Vishwanath Malhotra took over the running of the publishing house. In 1947, after the partition of India and Pakistan, the publishing house shifted to New Delhi.[6] The publishing house is now run by Meera Johri and her son Pranav Johri, the third and fourth generation descendants of Rajpal.[7]

Business profile

Seven prime ministers and presidents of south Asia have been published by Rajpal & Sons, namely A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Benazir Bhutto, Narendra Modi, I. K. Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and P. V. Narasimha Rao. In the field of classic Hindi literary writing, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Mahadevi Varma, Amritlal Nagar, Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Vishnu Prabhakar and Kamleshwar have been published by Rajpal & Sons. Hindi translations of Nobel Prize–winning authors Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen and Patrick Modiano are also on its list.[8][9]

According to the publisher, 70 new titles are published every year, and the publishing house has a catalogue of 1500 books in print.

See also

References
  1. "Audible partners with Rajpal & sons". english.jagran.com. Dainik Jagran. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. "A publisher's effort to popularise Urdu poetry". theHindu.com. The Hindu. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  3. "Best seller list". www.indulgexpress.com. Induldge Express. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  4. "पाइरेसी से क्या लड़ना". aajtak.intoday.in. India Today. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  5. "IPA's SPECIAL AWARD 'DARE TO PUBLISH' TO LATE SHRI RAJPAL" (PDF). internationalpublishers.org. International Publishers. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  6. "Bestsellers in Hindi". Business-standard.com. Business Standard. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  7. "Let A Thousand Voices Bloom". allaboutbookpublishing.com. Smedia Group. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  8. "Rajpal & sons". Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  9. "Beacon of publishing". thehindu.com. The Hindu. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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