People's Publishing House (India)
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1942 |
| Founder | |
| Country of origin | India |
| Headquarters location | 5E, Rani Jhansi Road, New Delhi – 110055, India. |
| Key people | Sudhakar Reddy Bhalchandra Kango Narayana Kankanala Atul Kumar Anjan |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | History, Politics, Marxism, Literature, Children's Literature, philosophy |
| Official website | www.pphbooks.net |
People's Publishing House (PPH) is an Indian publisher. It is headquartered in New Delhi. PPH publishes books on topics including politics, history, art and culture, novels, children's literature, autobiographies and others, but primarily caters to Marxist and progressive literature. PPH was officially established in 1942, when the British Indian government legalised the Communist Party of India. PPH was incorporated as a trust in 1947. The current publishers of PPH are Sudhakar Survaram Reddy, Bhalchandra Khanderao Kango, Narayana Kankanala and Atul Kumar Anjan
Presently, apart from its headquarters at Rani Jhansi Road, in New Delhi, PPH has three other branches in Delhi, that is in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Connaught Place Showroom, and at CPI Headquarters at Ajoy Bhawan. Outside Delhi, PPH has branch offices in Lucknow and Ranchi as well. There is a People's Book House, operating in Patna also. In Maharashtra, PPH was rechristened as "Lok Vangmay Griha (House of People's Literature in Marathi)", which is located at Bhupesh Gupta Bhavan, Leningrad Chowk, Mumbai. Apart from its own Printing Press at Prabhadevi Mumbai, It also operates a book shop "People's Book House" at Horniman Circle of Mumbai city. In Rajasthan, there exists "Rajasthan People's Publishing House (RPPH)", which is a separate entity closely linked with Communist Party of India. Narendra Acharya who is on the board of directors of RPPH is State Secretary of Communist Party of India's, Rajasthan State Council. RPPH was established in 1978, and is located at Chameliwala Market in state capital Jaipur.
They also publish works by foreign Marxist authors from time to time, with special copyright arrangements with the original publishing houses. In 1980's, PPH and RPPH had jointly published Soviet Books in Hindi, with Raduga Publishers Moscow. These books were printed in Soviet Union, but carried the names and logo of these three publishing houses.
PPH was a major importer and distributor of Soviet books in India between 1943 and 1995.