Yoda Press
| Founded | 2004 |
|---|---|
| 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]
History[edit]
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[edit]
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] |
References[edit]
- ^ Anderson, Porter (August 2017). "Arpita Das on Women in Publishing: 'Such a Non-Level Playing Field'". Publishing Perspective. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "The Publishing Next Industry Awards 2016". Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Full text of Supreme Court's verdict on Section 377 on September 6, 2018" (PDF). TheHindu.com. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Dibyajoti Sharma (5 August 2015). "Sage and Yoda Press to start a new imprint". PrintWeek.in. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "Building Bridges to Grow Publishing". 1 August 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Simon & Schuster India announces tie-up with Yoda Press". devdiscourse.com. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Profile of Yoda Press". Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ Swati Daftuar (21 November 2014). "A decade with books". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ Niladri Chatterjee. "Because I Have a Voice". Intersections. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Trautmann, Thomas (December 2005). Aryans and British India. ISBN 9788190227216. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ Jarrar, Randa (2016). Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. ISBN 9781941411315. Retrieved 14 February 2020.