Status | Active |
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Founded | 1958 |
Founder | Shyam Shundar Agarwal |
Country of origin | India |
Headquarters location | New Delhi |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Key people | Shyam Sunder Agarwal, Prabhat Kumar, Piyush Kumar and Pawan Kumar |
Publication types | Books & E-books |
Nonfiction topics | More than 4500 Hindi books |
Fiction genres | Novels, Autobiography, Biography, Motivational, Competition, learning, Articles : Essay : Letter Book by Kalam, Devotional Studies, Environment, Memoir : Travel memoirs : Tourism Play : Drama, Satire Students : GK Astrology Business : Economics : Management Dictionary : Encyclopedia Fiction : Stories Military : Defence Poem, Science, Vivekananda Literature, Autobiographies Computer : Internet, Education, Health & Yoga, Novel, Political, Sports, Biography, Cookery, English Language Teaching, Library Science, Personality Development : Self-Help Quiz Book, Stories |
Imprints | Ocean Books, Prabhat Paperbacks |
Official website | prabhatbooks |
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