Gita Press to receive Gandhi Peace Prize: A brief history of the publishing house
Gita Press, Gorakhpur, has been selected for the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021.
A jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi unanimously selected Gita Press for the award after due deliberations on Sunday (June 18)
“in recognition of its outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods,” the government said in a statement.
A publisher of Hindu religious texts, Gita Press was established in 1923, and is presently one of the world’s largest publishing houses.
Including copies of its monthly magazine, Kalyan, it has thus far sold approximately 93 crore copies of over 1,850 religious books, in 15 languages.