Rajpal & Sons

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Rajpal & Sons
Parent company Rajpal & Sons
StatusActive
Founded1912
FounderRajpal Malhotra
(more popularly known as Mahashay Rajpal & Mahashe Rajpal)
Country of origin India
Headquarters location Delhi
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleMeera Johri and Pranav Johri
Publication types Hindi, Urdu and English
No. of employeesMore than 50
Official website www.rajpalpublishing.com

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

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History

Rajpal & Sons was founded in 1912 by Rajpal Malhotra in Lahore. He was assassinated by the muslim extremist 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.

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