Yoda Press

Yoda Press is a publishing house in India, with its headquarters located at Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi.^[1]

Yoda Press

Founded	2004; 21 years ago (2004)
Founders	Arpita Das
Headquarters location	Shahpur Jat, Siri Fort, New Delhi
Owner(s)	Arpita Das
Official website	YodaPress.co.in

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.^[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] Later, Yoda Press 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

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]