Yoda Press


Yoda Press is a publishing house in India, with its headquarters located at Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi.

History

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. Five Yoda Press titles were cited by the Supreme Court of India during its judgement in 2018 that decriminalised homosexuality in the country.
In 2015 the Press signed up for a joint academic imprint with Sage Publishing India, and more recently, Yoda Press has established another joint imprint with Simon & Schuster India for trade books with the Press's characteristic political edge. The first title on this joint imprint, Azadi: A Graphic Biography of Bhagat Singh will be published in April 2020.

Notable publications

Notable publications of Yoda Press:
#First PublishedTitleAuthor NotesRelated references
12005Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in IndiaArvind Narrain
22019Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat.Harsh ManderPolitical Commentary
32016Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and YogaCarl W. Ernst
42018Purgatory in Kashmir: Violation of Juvenile Justice in the Indian Jammu and KashmirMohsin Alam Bhat & Suroor Mander
52004Aryans and British IndiaThomas R. Trautmann
62019Him, Me, Muhammad AliRanda Jarrar