Orient Blackswan

• Author(s): Brijen K.Gupta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the first half of the eighteenth century there was a prolonged battle of words between successive Nawabs of Bengal and the East Indi...

• Author(s): Rob Jenkins and James Manor • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), passed in 2005, has been among the developing world’s most am...

• Author(s): Nicole Ostrowsky • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHere are 365 activities to discover that science is a part of our daily life, that you can take part in it with pleasure, that it can...

• Author(s): K. T. Margaret • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn this book, K. T. Margaret sets out to explain the substance of play and why she believes it is the most important element in the edu...

• Author(s): Ghazala Shahabuddin, K. Sivaramakrishnan (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn twenty-first century India, characterised by economic reforms and increased global demand for natur...

• Author(s): Yasmeen Arif • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn sociology and social anthropology, the everyday – that is, the continuing, the ordinary – and the event – the momentary and the ...

• Author(s): A. L. Dallapiccola • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia has long been regarded as the home of Hinduism, its mythology constituting the backbone of Indian culture. The myths have bee...

• Author(s): Rajesh Bhattacharya and Annapurna Shaw • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn the twenty-first century, for the first time in history, the world’s urban popu...

• Author(s): Jean-Marie De Koninck, Armel Mercier • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the spirit of The Book of the One Thousand and One Nights, the authors offer 1001 problems in number theory in...

• Author(s): Ameet Parameswaran • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyIn Performance and the Political, Ameet Parameswaran demonstrates how cultural performances can stage the pol...

• Author(s): P V Guharaj and Sudhir K Gupta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFirst published in 1982, Forensic Medicine has been a trusted book of reference, not only for students of medicine, but...

• Author(s): Durgabati Ghose, Somdatta Mandal (Tr.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1932, Durgabati Ghose, an upper middle-class Bengali woman accompanied her husband on a trip across Europe. ...

• Author(s): Jinee Lokaneeta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, the popular campaign to challenge the convictions of Aarushi's parents emphasized the result...

• Author(s): Nazia Akhtar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralIn addition to the general neglect of women writers, Urdu literary historiography in both English and Urdu...

• Author(s): Chaturvedi Badrinath • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the stories where the Mahabharata speaks of life, women occupy a central place. In living what life brings to them, the women ...

• Author(s): Tina Uys and Sujata Patel (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHistorically, India and South Africa have a lot in common; the migration of indentured and passenger Indians to South...

• Author(s): David S. Mason • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHighlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively textbook provides a succinct ...

• Author(s): Bipan Chandra • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFor more than half a century, Bipan Chandra has made unparalleled contribution to the study of modern Indian history. He is renowned wor...

• Author(s): Arvind Sivaramakrishnan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the context of increasing corporatisation of the media, this volume shows why public-interest journalism is crucial to a he...

• Author(s): Maitrayee Chaudhuri • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1991, the Indian state’s new economic policies led to a greater role of the market. A public discourse that had till then bee...

• Author(s): Christian Lee Novetzke • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn thirteenth-century western India, venture spiritualists—entrepreneurial religious figures—challenged the linguistic and ...

• Author(s): Peter Ronald deSouza, Tridip Suhrud • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn March of 1948, a group of Gandhi’s closest associatesled by Pandit Nehru—Vinoba Bhave, J. B. Kripalani, Mau...

• Author(s): Smita Banerjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Film - Genres - GeneralIn popular Bengali cinema, the 1950s–1970s are often referred to as the ‘Uttam­â€“Suchitra Yug’,...

• Author(s): Kevin McGrath • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Raja Yudhi??hira, Kevin McGrath brings his literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the Mahabharata to bear on the represe...

• Author(s): Pranab Kumar Das (ed.), with a Foreword by Dilip Mookherjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia believed it could take development closer to its people, make the government more ac...

• Author(s): Thillai Rajan A, Srivardhini K Jha, Joffi Thomas and Rohan Chinchwadkar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the new millennium, the shape of India’s vibrant entrepreneurial economy ...

• Author(s): Mrinal Pande • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Media StudiesIn India, the English-language media is considered the ‘national media’, while vernacular media remains ‘reg...

• Author(s): Christophe Jaffrelot • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn India and beyond, Hindu nationalism came into the headlines in the 1990s, when the Ayodhya movement—to build a temple in pla...

• Author(s): S. Jaipal Reddy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralIn modern history, the Industrial Revolution is seen as the biggest break, helping humankind move from the Agrarian t...

• Author(s): Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Eds) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn India, few things open faster than colleges, but few sectors reform more slowly than higher education. De...

• Author(s): Rajesh Mishra • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdForeign policy is synonymous with the process of continuous change. Due to China‘s expansionist policy a new cold war is brewing up be...

• Author(s): James Chiriyankandath, Diego Maiorano, James Manor, Louise Tillin • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn 2004 the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance co...

• Author(s): David Hardiman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHow relevant are nonviolent Gandhian protests in India, decades after Independence? What tools and techniques of nonviolence can histor...

• Author(s): Sunanda Sen & Anjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDeveloping countries today are subject to a process of transformation, from what could be identified as a developm...

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

• Author(s): Vasudha Dalmia • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn her Introduction to this book—which showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious history—Vasudha Dalmia ou...

• Author(s): Susan Heydon • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1966 New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, “hero” of Everest, built a small hospital for the celebrated Sherpas of Himalayan mountaine...

• Author(s): Shoma Choudhury Lahiri • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn an ex-colonial nation such as India, the discipline of sociology grew by absorbing multiple inf...

• Author(s): Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn the course of the past two decades, the Supreme Court has regulated the use of India’s forest resources; passe...

• Author(s): Lucilla Burn • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHere retold in all their dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all Greek myths: the epic struggle of the Trojan...

• Author(s): E. Suresh Kumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdEngineering English, a textbook of English for BTech students. Written in a simple style, the books covers important topics in oral an...

• Author(s): Dr GK Pal & Dr Pravati Pal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn recent years, rapid advancements have taken place in dental science. Physiology as the mother subject in medicine ha...

• Author(s): K. Seeta Prabhu and S. Parasuraman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Economics - GeneralIn 2012, the Ministry of Rural Development launched the Prime Minister’s Rural Devel...

• Author(s): Paul Pollack • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdGauss famously referred to mathematics as the “queen of the sciences” and to number theory as the “queen of mathematics”. This bo...

• Author(s): Sujata Patel (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralIn a path-breaking volume, contemporary India's most prominent sociologists reflect on and reframe the three 'clas...

• Author(s): Sushma Goel • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn our daily lives, we all use a wide variety of resources for different purposes. We are also acutely aware that the resources available ...

• Author(s): Jennifer Dubrow • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn late-nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pag...

• Author(s): Anup Kumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 1994, the reactionary student agitation against OBC reservations metamorphosed into a jan andolan (populist social mobilisation) for cre...

• Author(s): John McCleary • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHow many dimensions does our universe require for a comprehensive physical description? In 1905, Poincaré argued philosophically about t...

• Author(s): Sameer Banerjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn a critical departure from books that concentrate on Gandhi the person, Gandhian thought and Gandhism, Notes from Gandhigram focuses...

• Author(s): Mohamed Elhamdadi and Sam Nelson • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFrom prehistory to the present, knots have been used for purposes both artistic and practical. The modern science of ...

• Author(s): G. N. Devy (Chief editor), Kanji Patel (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdGujarat, with the longest coastline in the country, is also one of the largest states of India. The union...

• Author(s): Kathryn Hyatt • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Marilyn for Beginners, Marilyn speaks for herself—to her psychologist, to a reporter, and ultimately to the reader of this book. Ma...

• Author(s): K. Seeta Prabhu and S. Parasuraman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn 2012, the Ministry of Rural Development launched the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF). In...

• Author(s): G K Pal and Pravati Pal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFirst published in 2001, the Textbook of Practical Physiology has been considered the most reliable book on the subject for ov...

• Author(s): Thomas R. Trautmann • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBecause of their size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of eminence. In early civilizations—such as Eg...

• Author(s): R Srinivasa Kumar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn a first course in transportation engineering at the undergraduate level, the various aspects of road transportation, particularly...

• Author(s): Liza Weinstein • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDirectly opposite Mumbai’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies Dharavi, where as many as one million squatters li...

• Author(s): Pulkit Mathur • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFood is one of our most basic requirements. Access to safe, healthy food is now considered a right, not a privilege. To that effect, sev...

• Author(s): Ralph H. Henderson • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Immunising the Children of the World, Ralph H. Henderson tells the story of WHO’s contributions to the global efforts to ensur...