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Rajpal & Sons was founded in 1912 by Rajpal Malhotra in Lahore. He was assassinated by the Indian Muslim 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.
Lahore stands out with its numerous publishing houses and has been the hub of the industry from the pre-independence era. Even now, getting a book published from Lahore is much easier than elsewhere. Pakistan's publishing industry also has a lucrative market for Urdu and religious books abroad.
Now the company is spread countrywide in 26 big cities of Pakistan. It does the publishing, printing and selling of the books. It is a large book distribution network in Pakistan. It has created its retailing and distribution network in 200 markets including Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi and other major cities of Pakistan. [3]
Roli Books was founded in 1978 by Pramod Kapoor, initially with an illustrated book on Rajasthan, first printed in Singapore. [1] The company developed relations with publishing houses in France following Kapoor trip to Paris in 1981, when he bought 3,000 copies of The Last Maharaja and sold the whole lot in India. [2]
The NBT organizes the prestigious annual New Delhi World Book Fair, which is the largest book event in the Afro-Asian region. Over the last four decades the New Delhi World Book Fair has earned itself a high reputation among international publishers. The 28th NDWBF was held from 4 to 12 January 2020 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Rupa Publications was founded in 1936 by D. Mehra and R. K. Mehra at College Street in Calcutta. [1] [2] Also a book distributor and importer, [3] The logo of the company was designed by the film maker Satyajit Ray and he asked for some books as fees for his job.
Pustak Mahal Publishers is a family-owned company incorporated in 1974. [1] As of 2010 [update] , Ram Avatar Gupta is the Chairman of the company. [ 2 ] With headquarters at New Delhi, it has branches at Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Patna. [ 1 ]
Tulika was founded in 1996 as an independent publishing house by Radhika Menon. Menon and Indu Chandrasekhar ran a pre-press service called Tulika to "earn enough money" to publish their own books. Subsequently, Chandrasekhar founded Tulika Books in New Delhi in 1995, and Menon founded Tulika Publishers in Chennai .