Orient Blackswan

• Author(s): Nandini Oza • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Ori BlackS • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsOne of the most powerful mass movements in independent India, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) brought together thousand...

• Author(s): Rohini Mokashi-Punekar (Author), Foreword by Bhalchandra Nemade • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: HistoryMahatma Jotiba Phule (1827–1890), a towering figure who spearheaded...

• Author(s): Nico Slate • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a way to improve the world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values o...

• Author(s): Yitzhak Katznelson and Yonatan R. Katznelson • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLinear algebra is the study of vector spaces and the linear maps between them. It underlies much of moder...

• Author(s): Mary E. John and Meena Gopal (Eds) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia has one of the world’s lowest work participation rates for women—an issue that is only belatedly receivin...

• Author(s): Álvaro Lozano-Robledo • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMany problems in number theory have simple statements, but their solutions require a deep understanding of algebra, algebraic ge...

• Author(s): S.Kaushik • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt attempts to generate awareness among primary level teachers on what to teach and how to do it. The book pays attention to activity based ...

• Author(s): Aloka Parasher Sen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the late twentieth century, the scope of history writing has expanded beyond textual sources to include additional sources such ...

• Author(s): V. Janardhan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndustrial Relations refers to the social relationships that people enter into to produce material goods and services. In an inegalitaria...

• Author(s): Karline McLain • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyNearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with a white beard from Shirdi village i...

• Author(s): K. V. Krishnaswamy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMethods of news gathering and writing, and presenting them have seen unprecedented changes in the past two decades. Newsrooms today...

• Author(s): Linda Hess • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdKabir’s work lends itself to topics that range from subtle inner states to political argument and activism—the relation between the rel...

• Author(s): Ranabir Samaddar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia nurtures a contradiction between two images of its cities—they are the engines of economic growth and, at the same time, an i...

• Author(s): Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt is well known that notions of work and employment in official data systems undermine women’s work. D...

• Author(s): Anjali Dave • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the 1980s, a field action project, which later developed into a socio-legal service to address Violence against Women (VAW), was initia...

• Author(s): Ahmad Azhar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLate-colonial Lahore witnessed the rise of organised workers’ politics with the unionisation of native Indian workers at the Mughalpura ...

• Author(s): Manoranjan Mohanty,Vinod C. Khanna,Biswajit Dhar (eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMuchkund Dubey is one of Indias best-known diplomats and public intellectuals. For many decade...

• Author(s): Lakshmi Lal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn this vivid retelling of the ancient Indian epic Ramayana, the author uses anecdotes, lores and legends of the epic to narrate the story...

• Author(s): Michael H. Fisher • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndians have been visiting or settling in England since the early 1600s. Forming ‘counterflows’ to colonialism, Indians entered ...

• Author(s): Mirza Farhatullah Beg, Mohammed Zakir (trans.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt was a queen’s promise that upon the release of her son from prison, she would present a ritual cha...

• Author(s): G. Kanato Chophy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLandlocked and relatively inaccessible, the mountain state of Nagaland in north-east India has, within a century of missionary contac...

• Author(s): Kaushik Sunder Rajan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn this book, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of “pharmocracy” to explain the structure and operation of the glob...

• Author(s): Kusum Khemani • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMarwari literature from Bengal reflects a rich interplay of migration, dislocation and fluid identities. As a Kolkata Marwari, in Kusum ...

• Author(s): Ghazala Shahabuddin • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia faces an ecological crisis of massive proportions. The overexploitation of the country’s forests and wetlands is eating a...

• Author(s): R. C. Tripathi and Rohit Dwivedi(Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndian organisations are more complex than organisations elsewhere, because of the unique cultural, economic an...

• Author(s): María Cristina Pereyra, Lesley A Ward • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the last 200 years, harmonic analysis has been one of the most influential bodies of mathematical ideas, havi...

• Author(s): Alberto Torchinsky • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt is generally believed that solving problems is the most important part of the learning process in mathematics because it forces ...

• Author(s): K. V. Krishnaswamy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMethods of news gathering and writing, and presenting them have seen unprecedented changes in the past two decades. Newsrooms today...

• Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLanguage (sabda) occupied a central yet often unacknowledged place in classical Indian philosophical thought. Foundational thinker...

• Author(s): Ramin Jahanbegloo • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn today's world, happiness and wellbeing are often dictated to us by the State or by mass culture and shallow, consumerist and fals...

• Author(s): Partha Chatterjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1921 a travelling sadhu appeared by a river bund in Dhaka. He was there every day. Soon, people began to identify him as none oth...

• Author(s): Raghav Kishore • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: HistoryMirza Ghalib, the poet laureate of Delhi, had lamented the transformation of the city into a cantonment in the aftermath of the Grea...

• Author(s): Lawrence Grossberg • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLawrence Grossberg is one of the leading international figures in the study of the relations between political and popular cultures...

• Author(s): Jagadish Gupta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdJagadish Gupta was a pioneer of the great modernist movement that began in the last quarter of Rabindranath Tagore's life, and ushered ...

• Author(s): Sharmila Rudrappa • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow ...

• Author(s): Shahriar Shahriari • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIs there always a prime number between n and 2n? Where, approximately, is the millionth prime? And just what does calculus have to ...

• Author(s): Dipak Bhattacharyya, Sutapa Bhattacharya • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt is a comprehensive textbook for engineering and management students. The subject is covered in relation to...

• Author(s): Ismat Mehdi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: HistoricalIn the words of historian Sugata Bose: ‘Netaji’s comrade-in-arms Abid Hasan Safrani was a quiet revolutionary who ...

• Author(s): Sumit Sarkar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFor the past half-century, one of the most influential, respected, and popular scholars of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. W...

• Author(s): Gautam Bhan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLike many cities in the global South, New Delhi has not been built by architects, engineers or planners, but by residents themselves. One ...

• Author(s): Neha Vora • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded ...

• Author(s): Anup Dhar, Tejaswini Niranjana and K. Sridhar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIs the entrenched division between the natural and human sciences unbridgeable? Is this divide crippling...

• Author(s): Priya Jaikumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to write a magisterial history of th...

• Author(s): Constantine V. Nakassis • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India. Through ethnographic descri...

• Author(s): Sudha Pai and Avinash Kumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1938, when he opposed the formation of Karnatak Province along linguistic lines, Ambedkar pointed out, ‘… we have b...

• Author(s): Nora Engel • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia is the country with the highest number of patients with active tuberculosis (TB). Emerging drug resistance poses a huge threat, but m...

• Author(s): Meenakshi Bharat (Ed.) and Sharon Rundle (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn this vibrant collection of short fiction, editors Meenakshi Bharat and ...

• Author(s): Harjot Oberoi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndian historiographical praxis has long been problematic. Al-Biruni, the eleventh-century polymath, was puzzled by how people in the su...

• Author(s): Afsar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAfsar’s deceptively simple stories negotiate complexities of urban and mofussil life in Andhra, Telangana, and Hindu–Muslim interactions ami...

• Author(s): Saumen Chattopadhyay • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the clamour around the demonetisation of high-value Indian currency notes in 2016, a few questions were never asked: What is t...

• Author(s): Anjali Arondekar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refutes the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexua...

• Author(s): Hans Harder and Dhruv Raina • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn India, the modern university as a ‘teaching and examining body’ was set up as an instrument of colonial governmenta...

• Author(s): Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHow do we recognize and understand the interactions between nature, nationness, and nationalism? How is nature...

• Author(s): Partha Chatterjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Lineages of Political Society the eminent political theorist Partha Chatterjee reveals the emergence of a new theory of postcolon...

• Author(s): Akkineni Kutumbarao, Alladi Uma (tr) and M. Sridhar (tr) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Malapalli, an ‘Untouchable’ corner of a village in the Andhra region, every child’s ...

• Author(s): Jandhyala B. G. Tilak (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length an...

• Author(s): V. Janardhan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndustrial Relations refers to the social relationships that people enter into to produce material goods and services. In an inegalitaria...

• Author(s): Sarasij Majumder • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia is witnessing a unique moment in populism, with sentiments divided between economic reforms that promise fast industrialization...

• Author(s): Rick Miranda • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn this book, Miranda takes the approach that algebraic curves are best encountered for the first time over the complex numbers, where th...

• Author(s): L. N. Venkataraman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIs an equitable distribution of opportunities possible within a stratified social system in which caste-based socio-economic privil...