| Parent company | Rajpal & Sons |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Founder | Rajpal Malhotra (more popularly known asMahashay Rajpal &Mahashe Rajpal) |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | Delhi |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Meera Johri and Pranav Johri |
| Publication types | Hindi,Urdu andEnglish |
| No. of employees | More than 50 |
| Official website | www |
Rajpal & Sons[1][2][3] is an Indianpublishing house based inDelhi.[4]
Rajpal & Sons was founded in 1912 by Rajpal Malhotra inLahore. He was assassinated by the Indian MuslimIlm-ud-Din in 1929 for publishing a book calledRangeela Rasool.[5] After his demise, his wife and son Vishwanath Malhotra took over the running of the publishing house. In 1947, after thepartition 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]
Seven prime ministers and presidents of South Asia have had their works published by Rajpal & Sons, namelyA. P. J. Abdul Kalam,Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,Benazir Bhutto,Narendra Modi,I. K. Gujral,Atal Bihari Vajpayee andP. V. Narasimha Rao. In the field of classic Hindi literary writing, the works ofHarivansh Rai Bachchan,Ramdhari Singh Dinkar,Sachchidananda Vatsyayan,Mahadevi Varma,Amritlal Nagar,Acharya Chatursen Shastri,Vishnu Prabhakar andKamleshwar have been published by Rajpal & Sons. Hindi translations of Nobel Prize–winning authorsRabindranath Tagore,Amartya Sen andPatrick Modiano are also on its list of published works.[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.
