Pustak Mahal

Pustak Mahal Publishers is a family-owned company incorporated in 1974. As of 2010, Ram Avatar Gupta is the Chairman of the company. With headquarters at New Delhi, it has branches at Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Patna. It publishes mainly low cost paperback editions on subjects like English learning courses, dictionaries, astrology, palmistry, numerology, beauty care, self-improvement books, books for children, cooking guides, Hindu Mythology, text books etc. and participates in Books fairs arranged in cities like Prayagraj, Visakhapatnam, Beijing etc. Pustak Mahal joined other Indian publishers to protest against scanning and uploading of books by Google under the provisions of Google Book Settlement and filed objections with a New York court during 2010.

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