Rajpal & Sons
Rajpal & Sons is an Indian publishing house based in Delhi.
History
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. The book was considered highly controversial due to its satire of the marital life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Its publication led to reforms in India's penal code that made blasphemy illegal.After Rajpal's killing, 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. The publishing house is now run by Meera Johri and her son Pranav Johri, the third and fourth generation descendants of Rajpal.
Business profile
Seven prime ministers and presidents of India have had their works 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, the works of 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 of published works.According to the publisher, 70 new titles are published every year, and the publishing house has a catalogue of 1500 books in print.