Yoda Press

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Yoda Press
Founded2004;19 years ago (2004)
FoundersArpita 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]

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History

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] and more recently, Yoda Press has 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

Notable publications of Yoda Press:

#First PublishedTitleAuthor (s)NotesRelated references
12005Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in IndiaArvind Narrain [9]
22019Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat. Harsh Mander Political Commentary [10]
32016Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga Carl W. Ernst [11]
42018Purgatory in Kashmir: Violation of Juvenile Justice in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir Mohsin Alam Bhat & Suroor Mander [12]
52004Aryans and British India Thomas R. Trautmann [13]
62019Him, Me, Muhammad Ali Randa Jarrar [14]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bhagat Singh</span> Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1984 anti-Sikh riots</span> Series of organised pogroms in India after PM Indira Gandhis assassination

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Niralamba Swami</span>

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On September 5, 1985, at 9:20 am member of the Delhi Metropolitan Council, close associate of Sanjay Gandhi, and Congress leader Arjun Dass was assassinated by 3 Sikhs in Delhi. The assassins were Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha, and another member of Jinda's gang. They killed Dass in revenge for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Along with Arjun Dass his bodyguard, a constable, was killed and 6 others were injured.

References

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  3. "Full text of Supreme Court's verdict on Section 377 on September 6, 2018" (PDF). TheHindu.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
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  6. "Simon & Schuster India announces tie-up with Yoda Press". devdiscourse.com. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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  8. Swati Daftuar (21 November 2014). "A decade with books". The Hindu . Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  9. Niladri Chatterjee. "Because I Have a Voice". Intersections. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  10. Mander, Harsh (2019). Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat. New Delhi: Yoda Press. p. 292. ISBN   978-93-82579-73-1.
  11. W. Ernst, Carl (22 August 2016). Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga. New Delhi: Yoda Press. p. 498. ISBN   978-93-515-0891-5.
  12. M Mohsin Alam Bhat; Suroor Mander (2018). Violation of Juvenile Justice in the Indian Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi: Yoda Press. p. 52. ISBN   978-93-82579-70-0.
  13. Trautmann, Thomas (December 2005). Aryans and British India. ISBN   9788190227216 . Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  14. Jarrar, Randa (2016). Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. ISBN   9781941411315 . Retrieved 14 February 2020.