Juggernaut Books is a publisher headquartered in

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. Starting with digital books distributed via its website and mobile apps, it turned to publishing physical books later.

History

Juggernaut was founded by Durga Raghunath and

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in September 2015. Before co-founding Juggernaut, Sarkar was a publisher of

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and founder-publisher of Random House India. Raghunath was the CEO of Network18 Digital, senior VP-Growth, at Zomato and also founded

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. Juggernaut raised Rs 15 crores in its initial round of seed funding from Fabindia's chairman William Bissell; former CEO and co-founder of

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and MD of

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, Neeraj Aggarwal. In April 2016, Juggernaut launched India's first mobile-publishing application. Priya Ramani was appointed as the editor-at-large for its digital properties in the same year. In February 2017, Raghunath resigned from the post of CEO and decided to continue as a shareholder. Simran Khara is the current CEO of the publishing house. In December 2017,

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acquired a strategic stake in the house. In March 2019, American publishing house

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joined in a partnership with Juggernaut Books, becoming their sales, distribution partner.

Controversies

On 4 August 2017,

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imposed a ban on publication and sale of book ''Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev'' from Juggernaut Books written by Priyanka Pathak Narain based on Ramdev's life. After a legal battle with Ramdev, the ex-parte interim injunction was lifted from the book on 28 April 2018. In 2018, the book ''The Burning Forest: India's war in Bastar'' published from Juggernaut books, written by

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professor Nandini Sundar based on

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and the violence in Bastar was dropped from the department's syllabus. Sundar was also indicted in a murder case filed by a woman called Vimla Baghel of her husband, a Maoist activist. But in February 2019, the professor was cleared of murder charges by police.

Published works

* '' Akbar of Hindustan'' by Parvati Sharma (2022)

References

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