[2][3][4] It is based in New Delhi and publishes fiction, nonfiction, academic and children's books for, by and about women in South Asia.

[6] In 1984, Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon founded Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house.

[citation needed] In 2011, Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon were jointly conferred the Padma Shri award, for their contribution to the nation by Government of India.

[7] In 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zubaan worked to create PDFs of their entire collection, opening their ebookstore in August 2020.

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.