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Penguin Books India is the largest English language trade publisher in the subcontinent. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company’s commercial activity includes the publishing of its own books in the English language and the distribution of books from overseas publishers including the Penguin Group, Time Warner Books Group UK, Faber & Faber, BBC (adult) Books and Bloomsbury. Founded in 1985, Penguin began publishing in October 1987 with seven titles. Today, the company publishes over 200 titles every year and has an active backlist of over 750 titles. Among the significant titles published by Penguin India are William Dalrymple’s White Mughals, published in November 2002, Vikram Seth’s magnum opus A Suitable Boy, (Penguin India is the only publisher anywhere in the world to publish all of Vikram Seth’s titles), A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s India 2020 and Ignited Minds, Arundhati Roy’s Booker winner The God of Small Things and The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Gita Piramal’s classic Business Maharajas, Bipan Chandra’s India’s Struggle for Independence, which has become a standard college text for history students, Mark Tully’s No Full Stops in India, Maneka Gandhi’s essential reference Hindu Names, the bestselling translation of Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja: Shame, Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Novel, Shobhaa De’s Starry Nights, Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel, Romila Thapar’s Penguin History of Early India, Gurcharan Das’s India Unbound, Sudhir Kakar’s Intimate Relations, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August, India’s best loved children’s author Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof, Satyajit Ray’s Stranger: Stories, Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, Yann Martel’s Booker winner Life of Pi, R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Schooldays and The Best of Laxman, and R.K. Laxman’s collections of Common Man cartoons. Penguin India also publishes leading writers from other parts of the subcontinent including Carl Muller, Bapsi Sidhwa, Usma Aslam Khan, Romesh Gunesekera, Shyam Selvadurai and Tehmina Durrani, to name a few. Known for its strong fiction and narrative non-fiction list, Penguin India has published across virtually every segment including self-help, cookery, reference and quizzing, biography, travel, picture books, business, politics, history, health and fitness, religion and philosophy as well as sports and leisure.

 

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