Orient Blackswan

• Author(s): Margaret Jones • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThere has been an extensive historiographical debate on the role of Western or allopathic medicine in the colonial context. However, mo...

• Author(s): Dipankar Sinha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDevelopment is a contested concept involving abundant local-level controversies and gotiations. Its multifarious workings on the groun...

• Author(s): Lata Singh • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRaising the Curtain, through the study of women performers in colonial and Independent India, problematises the question of gender and patr...

• Author(s): Phanishwar Nath Renu • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRenu’s world is rural Bihar—a world of poverty, ignorance, helplessness, superstition and exploitation. The characters in his...

• Author(s): Ed. by Premakumari Dheram • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book is a collection of key papers presented at an international conference held at the Indo-American Centre for Interna...

• Author(s): Vaidehi Ramanathan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book critically examines the role of English in a postcolonial, multilingual society such as India. The book argues that issues...

• Author(s): Rob Vos, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Ana Luiza Cortez • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThat we all live longer is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of human progress. Yet increased...

• Author(s): Madhulika Banerjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIf the presence of Ayurveda in modern times invites surprise, its renewed vigour in the age of globalisation gives rise both to rom...

• Author(s): Someswar Bhowmik • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThis ‘narrative historiography’ traces the evolution of censorship discourses in post-colonial India, delineates the theoretical ...

• Author(s): V.Padma • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFiction in India has witnessed great changes since the 1980s. Written, critiqued, read, patronised and translated from the myriad subject posi...

• Author(s): Gulfishaan Habeeb • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdEnglish for Speakers of Urdu: A Proficiency Course has been written for the purpose of empowering Urdu speakers and improving their ...

• Author(s): Manmohan Singh Bawa • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPawan and Naveen escorted by their Uncle Manjit decide to cross the awe-inspiring mountains. Their journey is to take them through...

• Author(s): Jinee Lokaneeta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe opening scene of the 2009 film Slumdog Millionaire shows the Indian police torturing Jamal, the protagonist of the film, who was s...

• Author(s): Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi Translator: Tridip Suhrud(tr) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA novel of epic proportions written in four parts from 1887 to 1901, Sarasvatichandra is...

• Author(s): Vasanth Kannabiran • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdA Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work and Loss is a series of conversations with women about marriage and widowhood. The women sp...

• Author(s): S Viswanathan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book is a compilation of different erudite articles already published by the author in various scholarly journals and other edited v...

• Author(s): A.R.Venkatachalapathy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe first Indian language book ever to be printed was in Tamil, in 1577. After many fits and starts and some spectacular achieve...

• Author(s): Monika Mehta • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi...

• Author(s): Ashish Chandola, Shanthi Chandola, T.N.A.Perumal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdM. Krishnan (1912-1996) was endowed with a wide range of interests and amazing prowess as a writer in...

• Author(s): Aneek Chatterjee • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdNeighbours, Major Powers and Indian Foreign Policy is a significant addition to the field of International Relations. Today, after ne...

• Author(s): K. S. Krishnaswamy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdK. S. Krishnaswamy was a leading light in the Reserve Bank of India and the Planning Commission between the early 1950s and the lat...

• Author(s): Naveeda Khan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIn Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan''s relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radica...

• Author(s): Bipan Chandra • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe author discusses in detail the twin phenomena of colonialism and nationalism that has loomed large over the historical canvas of mod...

• Author(s): Kamlesh Sadanand and Susheela Punitha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book is intended to help develop the oral communication skills of second language learners, especially those...

• Author(s): M Narasimha Murty and V Susheela Devi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdObserving the environment and recognising patterns for the purpose of decision making is fundamental to human na...

• Author(s): Shanta Rameshwar Rao • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdRead about the magician Jabbo Jadoowala, the enterprising mouse’s harvest feast, the new baby, lost Ramu and the clever bulbul ...

• Author(s): Suvir Kaul • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe essays in this book suggest ways in which the tangled skein of Partition might be unravelled. Two of them deal with culture and history...

• Author(s): Chandrika Balan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdShe is from a village. She is angry at her conservative mother. She is a flawed activist. She is being judged. She makes compromises. ...

• Author(s): Ida Kantor, Jirí MatouÅ¡ek and Robert Å ámal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdMathematics++ is a concise introduction to six selected areas of 20th century mathematics providing numer...

• Author(s): Saikat Majumdar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdProse of the World identifies and explores the way the banality of everyday life and the boredom that often accompanies it paradoxical...

• Author(s): Raziuddin Aquil and Partha Chatterjee (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHistorians of India have lately been looking at the place of history in the country, both as an academic ...

• Author(s): Richard A. Brualdi • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdGraphs and matrices enjoy a fascinating and mutually beneficial relationship. This interplay has benefited both graph theory and li...

• Author(s): A.L.Khanna and Anju Sahgal Gupta (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdEssential Readings for Teachers of English is a book by English teachers for English teachers who are looking ...

• Author(s): Chandran D. S. Devanesen • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFirst published over 50 years ago, The Making of the Mahatma was an important contribution to the literature on the life and ...

• Author(s): Rahul Ramagundam • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book is a study of khadi, the fabric that successfully transcended its commodity status to become a political symbol. Using a fre...

• Author(s): Felix Padel • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSacrificing People is a provocative anthropological study of the structures of power and authority which the British rule imposed on a tri...

• Author(s): Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdEvery subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject tha...

• Author(s): Ramachandra Guha • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd'I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramach...

• Author(s): Makhan L. Tickoo • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe book is a biography of the eminent British linguist and phonetician, Harold E. Palmer. It views Palmer at work through the 47 yea...

• Author(s): Kasturi Viswanath • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdAn Introduction to Mathematical Computer Science explores an alternative approach to teaching of computer science, an approach that ...

• Author(s): Department of English Anna University, Chennai • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdSince the book is an outcome of a thorough understanding of the language needs of contemporary students...

• Author(s): K.R.Narayanaswamy • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIt is a refresher, a reference book and a workbook for teachers of English. It is also for teachers handling subjects other than Eng...

• Author(s): H.R.Bhatia • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdExplaining the broad facts and principles of Educational Psychology, this book now forms an indispensable text for those preparing for the ...

• Author(s): Dalip Kaur Tiwana,Bhupinder Singh(tr) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: English LiteratureThe long-awaited English translation of the popular Punjabi novel Katha Kaho Urvashi by Sahitya Ak...

• Author(s): Rani Rao and Santosh Vaish • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFood is the key to good health and a balanced diet is critical in the maintenance of well-being and fitness. Written by two...

• Author(s): K Vasudevan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe additional topics covered in the second edition are: Computing the average probability of error for constellations having nonequipro...

• Author(s): Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdClass, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations takes as its central theme the plantations of Sri Lanka...

• Author(s): Anand Zachariah, R. Srivatsan and Susie Tharu (Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdHigh medical costs, the impersonality of technology-intensive speciality medicine and the difficu...

• Author(s): Mahuya Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBased on intensive fieldwork in a central prison in Kolkata, this book succinctly addresses issues in the sociology of institutio...

• Author(s): Dhavan • Publisher: Orient Blackswan • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsAmong the innumerable solutions proposed to combat corruption and maladministration in India was the institution of th...

• Author(s): Himani Bannerji • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdDemography and Democracy deals with different aspects of hegemony, nationalism, criteria for citizenship and democracy. In the process...

• Author(s): H V Lakshminarayana • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFinite Element Analysis: Procedures in Engineering covers the basic concepts, mathematical models and computational algorithms tha...

• Author(s): Sanghamitra Bhattacharyya • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIntroduction to Organization Theory is a textbook for students and scholars of business management, aspiring to be practicin...

• Author(s): S N Sarbadhikari • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdBioengineering is the application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical and other engineering principles to understand, modify...

• Author(s): E.Sridharan, R.Sudarshan, Zoya Hasan(Eds.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIndia became independent in 1947 and adopted, after nearly three years of debate in the Constituent Assembl...

• Author(s): G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Omkar N. Koul (Ed.) • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThis twelfth volume of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India attempts to document the languages ...

• Author(s): Ranabir Samaddar • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdFirst published in 1998, Memory, Identity, Power is a full-length study of the Junglemahals, an area lying at the margins of the Indi...

• Author(s): Veena Naregal • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdThe bilingual relationship between English and the Indian vernaculars has long been crucial to the construction of ideology as well as c...

• Author(s): Chandrava Chakravarty • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdGendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building di...

• Author(s): Pavel Etingof, Shlomo Gelaki, Dmitri Nikshych and Victor Ostrik • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdIs there a vector space whose dimension is the golden ratio? Of course not—the golde...