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{{Infobox publisher<br />
| image = Zubaan logo.jpg<br />
| image_size=200px<br />
| parent = [[Kali for Women]]<br />
| founded = 2003<br />
| founder = [[Urvashi Butalia]]<br />
| status = Active<br />
| distribution = [[Penguin Random House|Penguin Random House India]] (India trade)<br>[[Cambridge University Press]] (India academic)<br>[[University of Chicago Press]] (international print)<br>[[Diversion Books]] (international e-books)<ref>{{Cite web| title = Distribution {{!}} Zubaan| access-date = 2018-02-12| url = http://zubaanbooks.com/distribution/}}</ref><br />
| topics = Many<br />
| genre = Many<br />
| country = {{flagcountry|India}}<br />
| headquarters =<br />
| url = [http://www.zubaanbooks.com www.zubaanbooks.com]<br />
| imprints = [[#Imprints|Many]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Zubaan Books''' is an imprint of [[Kali for Women]], [[India]]'s [[feminist]] [[publishing]] house.<ref name=z1>{{cite news|last1=Smruti Koppikar|title=Noted feminist to step down as director of Zubaa|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mumbai/noted-feminist-to-step-down-as-director-of-zubaan/article1-1108480.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816234650/http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/mumbai/Noted-feminist-to-step-down-as-director-of-Zubaan/Article1-1108480.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 August 2013|access-date=20 October 2014|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=16 August 2013}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Companies/595QfElEltDLfuvgNqTiOI/Urvashi-Butalia--I-want-to-prove-that-feminist-publishing-c.html|title=Urvashi Butalia {{!}} I want to prove that feminist publishing can survive commercially|last=Ghoshal|first=Somak|date=January 20, 2019|website=Live Mint}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
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In 1984, [[Urvashi Butalia]] and [[Ritu Menon]] founded '''Kali for Women''', India's first feminist publishing house. Its objectives were to publish quality work which meet international standards. Over the years it has become an important publishing house nationally and internationally.<ref name=z2>{{cite web|title=A Note from Zubaan Books|url=http://www.sacw.net/new/zubaan092003.html|website=sacw.net|access-date=20 October 2014}}</ref> In 2003 Urvashi Butalia founded Zubaan.<br />
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In 2011, Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon were jointly conferred the [[Padma Shri]] award, for their contribution to the nation by [[Government of India]].<ref name=pib2>{{cite press release|title=Padma Awards Announced|url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=69364|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |date=25 January 2011|access-date=16 August 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Meaning of Zubaan==<br />
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The word 'Zubaan' comes from [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] and means, literally, tongue, but it has many other meanings, such as voice, language, speech and dialect.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}<br />
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==Genres and imprints==<br />
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Zubaan has a considerable list of academic books examining issues of gender. It has a growing list of autobiographies of women, the best known of which is ''A Life Less Ordinary'' by Baby Halder. As part of its initiative to publish broadbased popular books, Zubaan regularly publishes fiction by women writers. Genres range from [[literary fiction]] to [[science fiction]] to [[Speculative Fiction|speculative fiction]]. Under the imprint of Young Zubaan, there is also a growing list of fiction for the age group 6 to 18 including books like [[Riddle of the Seventh Stone]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Authors==<br />
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*[[Baby Halder]]<br />
*Bama<br />
*[[Tabish Khair]]<br />
*[[Vandana Singh]]<br />
*Salma<br />
*Priya Sarukkai Chabbria<br />
*[[Anjum Hasan]]<br />
*Susan Visvanathan<br />
*[[Urvashi Butalia]]<br />
*Mahua Sarkar<br />
*[[Salim Kidwai]]<br />
*Janaki Nair<br />
*[[Uma Chakravarti]]<br />
*[[Farah Naqvi]]<br />
*[[Radha Kumar]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{official website|http://www.zubaanbooks.com/}}<br />
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