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Juggernaut Books is a publisher headquartered in New Delhi, India. Starting with digital books distributed via its website and mobile apps, it turned to publishing physical books later.
Juggernaut raised Rs 15 crores in its initial round of seed funding from Fabindia chairman William Bissell; former CEO and co-founder of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani and MD of Boston Consulting Group, 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, Bharti Airtel acquired a strategic stake in the house. In March 2019, American publishing house HarperCollins joined in a partnership with Juggernaut Books, becoming their sales, distribution partner.
In 2018, the book The Burning Forest: India's war in Bastar published from Juggernaut books, written by Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar based on Maoist insurgency and the violence in Bastar district 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.
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