Orient Blackswan Private Limited: 195 books
A Living Faith- My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Change
An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the ‘Alternative Nobel’,...
by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Rethinking 1857, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, marking the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 1857, explores the possibilities and limits of recent thinking on the 1857 Uprising. The way we interrogate the past differs from generation to generation. The questions we ask today are moulded by...
The Writings of Pamela Price
State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour, Authority, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Pamela Price has been a perceptive observer and analyst of the politics and cultures of southern India for more than three decades. She became interested in how the people in the region honour and respect those in public life while doing research in Madurai on Dravidian nationalism. She has also researched...
by Apa Pant
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In this book Apa Pant writes about his father, Raja Bhawanrao, ruler of Aundh an unusual tale of an unusual Raja.Starting with a description of how the Raja came to rule over Aundh — a princely State in western India — the author recounts the events leading to the historic meeting between the Raja...
by Sujit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a spin-off of a series of articles, many of which have appeared in newspapers. Taking famous pairs of Indian Cricket (e.g. Gavaskar and Vishwanath, Bedi and Prasanna, Ashok Mankad and Surinder Amarnath), it sets off one career against another, balancing their test performance against their...
by Sujit Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Here is a substantial work which reviews Indias nearly half a century of international cricket, and places our test cricketers and their deeds in a historical perspective. Abandoning the traditional approach of other reviewers, each chapter is devoted to a particular specialisation of cricket. The author...
The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant
Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The book focuses on the changes in the Trading world of the Tamil Merchants in the southern Coromandel region, with the arrival of European trading companies and the concomitant creation of European port enclaves and the rapid expansion of demand for Coromandel cotton textiles. The author uses impressive...
Notes from Gandhigram
Challenges to Gandhian Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In a critical departure from books that concentrate on Gandhi the person, Gandhian thought and Gandhism, Notes from Gandhigram focuses instead on the institutions and individuals that have adopted the Gandhian approach as a means of social transformation. It looks beyond the conceptual and symbolic into...
China After 1978
Craters on the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Peoples Republic of China celebrated its 60th anniversary on 1 October 2009. December 2008 marked 30 years since the Chinese Communist Partys decision to launch market reforms. The breathtakingly rapid economic growth witnessed after 1978 has attracted worldwide attention. But the condition of more...
Ecology, Economy
Quest for a Socially Informed Connection
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ecology, Economy is an elaborate argument to establish society as central in policy-making for holistic development. The book presents cases of the adverse effects of resource utilisation—water, metals, power, land—on Adivasi communities in particular. It presents an overview of the paradoxes inherent...
Environment, Technology and Development
Critical and Subversive Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Drawn from the rich archival holdings of the Economic and Political Weekly, the essays in this volume capture the intense discussions in India that were debated as problems and questions over the environment, technology and development. As a collection, this volume proposes a fresh and new analytical...
Understanding Biodiversity
Life, Sustainability and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Understanding Biodiversity comes as a wake-up call at a time when the predatory practices of our 'modern' civilization have transformed nature into an exploitable resource, opened up our plant and animal life to endless expropriation and eroded the biodiversity that has made our life on earth possible....
History of the Social Determinants of Health
Global Histories, Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do...
by Leena Anil
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
"""Channel 1-9, a set of nine books for Classes 1-9, closely follow the English syllabus for schools, and are concerned with language practice workgrammar, composition and vocabulary.Some of the chief recommendations in the new syllabus are providing plenty of scope for practice, and relating the exercises...