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| Founded | 2004 |
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| Founders | Arpita Das |
| Headquarters location | Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi |
| Owner(s) | Arpita Das |
| Official website | YodaPress.co.in |
Yoda Press is a publishing house in India, with its headquarters located at Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi. [1]
Yoda Press was awarded the Publisher of the Year Prize in 2016 at the Publishing Next Conference, held annually in Goa, India. Yoda Press was founded by Arpita Das in 2004 as a house that would build lists which reflected the non-mainstream, alternative and yet equally vital contemporary reality of the Indian subcontinent. [2] Five Yoda Press titles were cited by the Supreme Court of India during its judgement in 2018 that decriminalised homosexuality in the country. [3]
In 2015 the Press signed up for a joint academic imprint with Sage Publishing India. [4] [5] Later, Yoda Press established another joint imprint with Simon & Schuster India for trade books with the Press's characteristic political edge. [6] The first title on this joint imprint, Azadi: A Graphic Biography of Bhagat Singh (in reference to Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the famous revolutionary martyr of India) will be published in April 2020. [7] [8]
Notable publications of Yoda Press:
| # | First Published | Title | Author (s) | Notes | Related references |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2005 | Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India | Arvind Narrain | [9] | |
| 2 | 2019 | Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat. | Harsh Mander | Political Commentary | [10] |
| 3 | 2016 | Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga | Carl W. Ernst | [11] | |
| 4 | 2018 | Purgatory in Kashmir: Violation of Juvenile Justice in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir | Mohsin Alam Bhat & Suroor Mander | [12] | |
| 5 | 2004 | Aryans and British India | Thomas R. Trautmann | [13] | |
| 6 | 2019 | Him, Me, Muhammad Ali | Randa Jarrar | [14] |
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