Orient Blackswan: 280 books

Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite,...

The dictionary is a response to a long-felt need of students, scholars and afficionados of the art for a comprehensive coverage of the terminology peculiar to Bharata Natya.

The Tamils of the north and east of Sri Lanka have a distinct cuisine which reflects their geography and their resourcefulness in the use of the products of their harsh lands. This compilation of recipes of the Jaffna Tamils is a tribute to that tradition. Rani Thangarajah collected these from her own...

The First Promise is a translation of Ashapurna Debi’s novel, Pratham Pratisruti , originally published in Bengali in 1964. Celebrated as one of the most popular and path-breaking novels of its time, it has received continual critical acclaim: the Rabindra Puraskar (the Tagore Prize) in 1966 and the...

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the last Governor General of India, was, in the words of his grandson Rajmohan Gandhi, a ‘prophetic political figure’ who predicted in 1916 the success of Gandhi’s satyagraha in India. A true follower of Gandhi, C.R., or Rajaji (as he was called), gave up a lucrative...

Industry and the Region introduces readers with varying levels of familiarity with economics to the basic theories, issues and problems of regional analysis as well as the analytical and empirical methods that may be utilised within a regional framework of study. The book deals with contemporary issues...

Transportation Engineering, Volume I covers the undergraduate curriculum in Highway Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses offered by technical universities across India. The book cites and specifies the latest IRC and IS codes, including the special publications, in its discussion...

K. S. Krishnaswamy was a leading light in the Reserve Bank of India and the Planning Commission between the early 1950s and the late 1970s. He retired as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank.Armed with a doctorate from the London School of Economics he began his career at a time when the road was...

Statelessness is defined as the quality of being without a state, a nationality, or even the protection that nationality should offer. Addressing the lacuna in literature on stateless people in post-colonial South Asia, this study brings together the lived experiences of diverse stateless groups within...

The book is a compilation of seventy-nine lead articles written by Dr Madhav Godbole and published in leading national newspapers, periodicals and journals between the middle of 1995 through 1997. Although newspaper articles  are considered ephemeral, given that they comment on the immediate and the...

This volume presents a set of readings which primarily focus on the social, political and cultural aspects of village life.  A few readings discuss issues of agrarian change and the economy of rural India.  A comprehensive introduction provides a detailed historical analysis of the study of rural...

This Book is concerned with the nature of financial transfers from colonial India Between 1890 And 1914- The Years Of Finance Capital. This book identifies the magnitude, the process and the real as well As monetary implications of such transfers for the domestic economy.

This collection of essays provides insights into the making of public policies across a spectrum of areas between the years 2003 and 2008, a period of rapid growth of the Indian Economy as well as extraordinary challenges for the conduct of monetary policy. It was during this period that Dr Y.V. Reddy...

• This volume examines the credibility and legitimacy of the Indian Parliament, scrutinising various aspects of its functioning. • The introduction provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the functioning of parliamentary institutions and the rapid changes witnessed in Indian...