Pramod Kapoor | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Education | Banaras Hindu University |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, author |
| Known for | Founder of Roli Books |
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Pramod Kapoor (born 1953) is an Indian writer and publisher, who in 1978 founded Roli Books, a publishing company that prints books pertaining to Indian heritage. In 2016, for his contributions to publishing, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
The first book he authored, Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography, was published in 2016. It led him to write 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence, released in 2022. Previously he had produced illustrated versions of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and Manohar Malgonkar's The Men Who Killed Gandhi. He compiled the photographs of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in one of her biographies, picked several previously unpublished images from Britain to be included in New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (2009), and photo-edited the 'past' section of Calcutta Then – Kolkata Now (2019).