Orient Blackswan: 280 books

This book is designed for pupils at the upper secondary level and the first year of undergraduate study. As a proficiency book, while covering basic components in a thorough and systematic way, it offers extended practice in areas of grammar and composition which present special difficulty to students...

For nearly thirty years from 1940, the Gemini Studios of Madras (Chennai) was the most influential film-producing organisation of India and its founder, the brilliant multi-faceted entrepreneur S.S.Vasan lent substance and quality to the rather fragile and unpredictable movie business.The Gemini emblem...

This book is an engagingly told cultural historical narrative of the island nation of the Maldive Islands from the earliest references in Indian and European classics. It also narrates the story of the settlement by people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their later conversion to Islam. The second...

THEODORE BASKARAN weaves the magic and matter of South Indian films into a rich tapestry of readable essays. They cover such topics as early cinema in the south, trade unionism in South Indian film industry, and the need for historicizing southern cinema. Baskaran also investigates how Tamil cinema is...

One of the first serious film studies in India. A contemporary analysis of the central issues contained in Indian films—issues which distinguish this cinema from films of other countries. The book argues that film in India is a genuine cultural expression carrying meaning. The special and valuable...

The book presents excerpts from Nehrus major works such as An Autobiography, The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History as well as from his important speeches and statements. The purpose is to acquaint the reader with the many-faceted personalities of Nehru: the private man, the historian, the philosopher, the statesman, the lover of wildlife and adventure etc.

This book traces the history of one of the quixotic figures who had occupied the Mughal throne in Hindustan. His character is to be gleaned from his actions, which have been described at full length from his attitude towards the problems in life and the opinions expressed by him in regard to private...

As an unborn son appears incognito to meet his parents in Time Travel, or XR-89 steps in from alien space to teleport human nervous systems, astral dimensions merge with curious fascination into living reality.In a collection of sixteen short stories, R.N. Sharma explores the paradoxes of the occult,...

This book appears in English translation more than a quarter of a century after its first appearance in Bengali. The lucid and scholarly translation from the original Bangla Hindu Samajer Goran has been done by Andre Beteille. Prof. Beteille’s introduction analyses the qualities of Bose’s mind...

Women of character and strength, reveal his failings, one by one. And, Sudhakaran runs; from village to town, from town to city and city to city. The city now is Varanasi. This ancient city reminds him of all that it stands for—dharma, lust and death—and that there is no place where one can hide...

A History of English Literature: Traversing the Centuries provides a comprehensive outline of the course of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. In its fourteen chapters, the book covers all major literary periods with inclusive analyses of the political, social and intellectual...

This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material...

Here is an authentic account of a brief, momentous event that preceded Indias Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal account by the author, a junior naval officer at the time, caught by chance at the centre of the disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their far reaching implicationsthe historic...

In The Vedic People, well-known astro-physicist Rajesh Kochhar provides answers to some quintessential questions of ancient Indian history. Drawing upon and synthesizing data from a wide variety of fields linguistics and literature, natural history, archaeology, history of technology, geomorphology...