Orient Blackswan Private Limited: 195 books
by Shormishtha Panja
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Questions of truth, untruth, representation and deception were pivotal to sixteenth and seventeenth century thought. Be it Machiavelli, More or Montaigne, writers and philosophers struggled with questions of lying and truth-telling, and how truth is constructed and performed. But what view did Shakespeare...
Open Sesame
Starter
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Open Sesame is a series of activity-based environmental studies books. The Starter is for the pre-primary level. The books integrate science, social studies, handicrafts and language teaching in a number of popular primary school topics such as living and non-living things, people, animals, homes and transport.
Cultural History of Early South Asia
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader presents a wide-ranging survey of the diverse art forms of early South Asia. In doing so, it departs from the dominant tendency of treating the arts as static ‘heritage of the past’ with just exhibition value, and instead perceives them as dynamic processes...
The Intimate Other
Love Divine In Indic Religions
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The Intimate Other explores the theme of the devotional element in Indic Religions not only in Hinduism in which bhakti has become the dominant form, but also in Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Islam. The essays by scholars of international repute, show the strength of this devotion to the divine as a...
by Rosinka Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Freedom and Beef Steaks explores path-breaking debates to do with the literary, with identity, and with cultural authenticity in nineteenth-century Calcutta--- debates arising from the flux of creative and critical work in that period. The seven essays collected in this book range across a diverse...
GANDHI’S KHADI
A History of Contention and Conciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The book is a study of khadi, the fabric that successfully transcended its commodity status to become a political symbol. Khadi was not just a symbol; it was a massive exercise in organisational establishment, in forging networks, brand-building, and ideological investment. Using a fresh andimaginative...
by J Lourdusamy
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal.
Memories and Movements
Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Situated in northern Kutch in Gujarat, the Banni grasslands lie on the border dividing India and Pakistan. It is home to diverse communities; while Muslim pastoralists form the majority, one also finds Dalit Hindus, and a community that is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Banni’s people, have for centuries,...
Travels to Europe
Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives, 1870-1910
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power - it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis...
Radical Rabindranath
Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s Fiction and Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Much has been said and documented about the multifaceted genius of Rabindranath Tagore. Radical Rabindranath is a post-colonial reading that focuses on areas that have been marginalised because of the more dominant and compelling desire in the West to establish Tagore as a transcendent visionary and...
by Harriet R Lynton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A reconstruction of the life and times of Salar Jung, the Regent of Mahbub Ali Pasha and the Dewan of Hyderabad for thirty years. Based on the Salar Jungs correspondence, the book explores the richly layered and developing relations between the British and the Hyderabadi cultures, the misunderstandings,...
Language, Ideology and Power
Language Learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book-length study of the history of language teaching and learning among South Asian Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching among the Muslims of north India and present-day Pakistan, and then relates language-learning (the demand) and teaching (the supply) to ideology (or...
Fractured States
Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious...
Gendered Citizenship
Historical and Conceptual Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive...