Rajpal and Sons was founded in 1912 in Lahore (now in Pakistan) by Shri Rajpal Malhotra, a journalist-turned-publisher. His first publication,┬аWisdom of the Vedas┬а(1920) was recommended by the University of Oxford as the definitive text on Indian philosophy, and became the first book published in India to be prescribed as a textbook in the University of Oxford.