Orient Blackswan

• Author(s): Ashokamitran (Author), Translated from the original Tamil by Gomathi Narayanan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: World Literature - Asia (General)Ashokamitran (1931–2017), ...

• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe, Sathyaraj Venkatesan (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdEdgar Allan Poe is one of the most enigmatic and controversial writers of American literature. Poe’s wor...

• Author(s): Benjamin B. Cohen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdClubs in India are often regarded as antiquarian institutions left over from a bygone era with little to teach us about the past or ...

• Author(s): Anil J Elias • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdChemistry of the p-block elements is an essential and integral component of the chemistry curriculum from the school level to the post-gr...

• Author(s): Madhuri Desai • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBetween the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu centre in northern India that is often described as ...

• Author(s): Lisa Björkman • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyDespite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable f...

• Author(s): Sarita Anand and Archna Kumar(Ed) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdCommunication is the essence of our lives. The ability to communicate makes it possible to exchange views, opinions,...

• Author(s): S. Narayan and Sreeradha Datta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAt present, Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, which has transitioned to a middle-income count...

• Author(s): Kinnari Pandya, Jigisha Shastri, Vrinda Datta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Schools - GeneralCare and education of young children is crucial for a nation's development an...

• Author(s): Michele Kelley and Deepika D’Souza • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBringing together academic discussions on public policy and the experiences of the common people of India, this c...

• Author(s): Chitralekha Zutshi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDespite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historia...

• Author(s): Aditya Bharadwaj • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAssisted reproductive technologies have become a visible part of contemporary Indian reality. Popular culture, print and electronic m...

• Author(s): Achintya Kumar Dutta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asia - GeneralBengal was the primary centre of East-West interaction and the first region in India to be influenced by ...

• Author(s): Anne Birrell • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAnne Birrell has translated representative narratives drawn from over a hundred classical texts in the course of her work on various aspe...

• Author(s): Alice Mary and Ramana • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdControl Systems describes the essential elements of control system engineering in a simple language that can be understood by st...

• Author(s): Jadunath Sarkar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: General BooksAs a historian, Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) is a study in himself. This re-issue of his classic work fulfils a demand from al...

• Author(s): Ashima Sood and Loraine Kennedy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Urban & RegionalCity-building has been an enduring idiom of politics in India. Iconic capital cities suc...

• Author(s): Banu Subramaniam • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralBehind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a fascinating but untold story of an evolving...

• Author(s): Maritsa V. Poros • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAlthough globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great dis...

• Author(s): Ruchi Singh, Richa Sharma • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBioinformatics has been recognised and studied as a separate discipline only in the last decade. Being a multidisciplinary s...

• Author(s): G.N.Devy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA collection of essays on Adivasis. Tribal groups (adivasis) in India have often been excluded, marginalized and oppressed by `mainstream’ ...

• Author(s): Charu Gupta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdCaste and gender are complex markers of difference, hierarchy, and inequality. They have rarely been addressed together in the context of ...

• Author(s): Mahesh Rangarajan, N. Balakrishnan and Deepa Bhatnagar (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdChakravarti Rajagopalachari, the last Governor General of India, was, in the words of hi...

• Author(s): Prem Chowdhry • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAs the discipline of gender studies has almost become synonymous with women’s studies, men and masculinities are subsumed under patria...

• Author(s): Harold M. Edwards • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAlthough number theorists have sometimes shunned and even disparaged computation in the past, today's applications of number theory ...

• Author(s): A. M. Shah • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdConceived as a series of dialogues between Shah and his fellow social scientists, and indeed between the two disciplines of Sociology and H...

• Author(s): Helle Jørgensen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdTranquebar, a small fishing town on the coast of Tamil Nadu, was a Danish trading colony from 1620 to 1845. In recent years, the drive...

• Author(s): Surinder S. Jodhka (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd‘Rural’ and ‘urban’ are the foremost categories through which social life has been visualised and engaged with in mod...

• Author(s): Jaiwanti Dimri • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA transcreation of Jaiwanti Dimri’s Hindi novella, Surju Ke Naam, this is the story of Sukurmani, a young woman who migrates to Bhuta...

• Author(s): Niraja Gopal Jayal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBreaking new ground in scholarship, this is the first history of citizenship in India. Unlike the mature democracies of the West, ...

• Author(s): G. N. Devy (Chief editor), Vibha S. Chauhan (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBihar is one of the larger, more populous states in what is popularly known as the ‘Hindi belt’ ...

• Author(s): Ranajit Guha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd“. . . a pioneering work on the intellectual origins of [the Permanent Settlement]”—Holden Furber (1964) The infamous Permanent Se...

• Author(s): Robert E Greene, Steven G Krantz • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdComplex analysis is one of the most central subjects in mathematics. It is compelling and rich in its own right, but ...

• Author(s): Pradip Kumar Bose • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA study of the early history of Indian sociology reveals two distinct trends: its appropriation of the principles, logic and methods...

• Author(s): Bhaswati Bhattacharya • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBased on oral history, fiction, interesting intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, Much Ado Over Coffee:...

• Author(s): Vimala Ramachandran • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAfter seventy years of independence, the tragic reality is that the schools we attend and the quality of education we receive are ...

• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdCertain important facets of the Mughal polity during Akbar’s reign are the subject of this book. Professor Iqtidar Alam Khan trace...

• Author(s): Bianca Brijnath • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAs life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people ...

• Author(s): Shelley Walia • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralAgainst the backdrop of a neoliberal world in danger of being taken over by totalitarian forces, Humanities at the Cros...

• Author(s): Steve Fuller • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThomas Kuhn's, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best-known and most influential books of the twentieth century. But ...

• Author(s): Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi and Tridip Suhrud (tr) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Hindi LiteratureA novel of epic proportions written in four parts from 1887 to 1901, Sarasvatichand...

• Author(s): Sudeep Basu • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA large number of Tibetans migrated to India following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. Till the end of the twentieth century, Tib...

• Author(s): GUHA, RAMCHANDRA (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAn Indian Cricket Century is a collection of the best essays written by Dr Sujit Mukherjee, over four decades. The essays range...

• Author(s): Joan Sales • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd“Joan Sales’ outstanding novel, Uncertain Glory, is fiction from the ranks of the defeated in the Spanish Civil War. Written in 1948, t...

• Author(s): Cecilia Coale Van Hollen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAs the news spread that more women died from breast and cervical cancer in India than anywhere else in the world in the early...

• Author(s): Shailaja Deshmukh, Vidyagouri Prayag • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdActuarial science is an interdisciplinary science comprising four subjects—mathematics, statistics, economics a...

• Author(s): Volga and Kalpana Kannabiran (Eds.), Vasanth Kannabiran (Tr.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • BISAC: Asian - GeneralVoices of Resistance presents a selection of Telugu writings in...

• Author(s): Kesavan Veluthat • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA major intervention in Indian historiography when it was first published, this book examines the power structure of the four monarch...

• Author(s): Valentin Boju, Louis Funar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe Math Problems Notebook is a collection of nontrivial, unconventional problems requiring deep insight and imagination re...

• Author(s): William W. Adams, Philippe Loustaunau • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAs the primary tool for doing explicit computations in polynomial rings in many variables, Gröbner bases are an ...

• Author(s): Sanatan Bhowal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA study and postmodern critique of Mahasweta Devi’s major fictional writings on tribals, The Subaltern Speaks addresses some primary ...

• Author(s): N R Farooqi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSufivaad: Kuchh Mahatvpurna Lekh provides a detail account of Sufism, its rise, fulfillment and decline of the Chisti brotherhood of Sufi...

• Author(s): Apa Pant • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdApa Pant writes about his father, Raja Bhawanrao, the ruler of Aundh, a small princely state in western India. Starting with a description of...

• Author(s): Jonathan Eacott • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdLinking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India—both as an idea and a place—to t...

• Author(s): Jane F. Gardner • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe myths of the Romans are stories not about the gods but about the Romans themselves. Writers such as Livy, Virgil and Ovid presente...

• Author(s): Arvind Kumar, Shrish Barve • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAmong the formal physics textbooks, problem manuals and general expository books lies the domain of non-formal physics—th...

• Author(s): Sanjoy Bhattacharya • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAs a crucial component of the global smallpox eradication programme, which has been widely hailed as one of the greatest public he...

• Author(s): Nico Slate • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA hidden history connects India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the ...

• Author(s): Harmony Siganporia • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAn examination and critical analysis of the life-work and times of Behramji Merwanji Malabari (1853–1912)—Parsi social reformer...

• Author(s): Dr Mrutyunjay Kumar Guttal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdTextbook of Physiology has been developed for the undergraduate MBBS students. It may also come to the aid of learners of a...