Orient Blackswan Private Limited: 195 books

Post-Independence Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence, particularly from the late 1970s to 2009. These protracted conflicts have been immensely destructive, resulting in many thousands of deaths and disappearances, both of armed personnel (whether of the Sri Lankan...

This volume aspires to be a handy reference work for users whose interest is not limited to one or two Indian language literatures but spreads over Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and the Prakrit as well as to Asimiya, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi,...

There has been an extensive historiographical debate on the role of Western or allopathic medicine in the colonial context. However, most of the literature concentrates on the implementation and significance of public health measures, mental health institutions and the control of epidemic diseases;...

• This book explores the ways in which conservation of biodiversity can coexist with human actions and interests through a series of eight essays. These are tied together by an analytical introduction by the editors. • It seeks to supplement the dominant discourse of conservation in India, which...

Madhav Godbole, Union Home secretary had to seek premature retirement in March 1993, nearly eighteen months before the due date. This event was widely reported and extensively debated in the media. Ending all speculation, the author for the first time, narrates in his memoirs the events that prompted...

Who were the Damarla brothers? For what apparently mysterious reasons did Francis Day urge the East India Company to move the trade point from Armagon to what is now Chennai? How did the other settlements react to the British entry?This book, written in 1977, when the city was still called Madras, offers...

The Politics of Sanitation in India examines how the environmental problems confronting Indian cities have arisen and subsequently forced millions of people to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation, and other basic urban services. This has occurred because of two factors. The first...

Power is the key element of patriarchy; and the other significant element is love. Traditional control over women’s sexuality was rearticulated in the mid-nineteenth century through the ideology of a non-consensual, non-dissoluble conjugality, based on the wife’s unconditional fidelity and loyalty...

Since the 1980s, the Supreme Court of India has intervened regularly and actively in cases involving environmental issues, calling both state and private agencies to task on environmentally destructive actions and policies and asserting itself in the implementation of its judgments. It has thus earned...

• Neoliberalism and Water tells us the story of the reforms in the water sector in Maharashtra in the first decade of the twenty-first century.  • It looks at it through the prism of neoliberalism, which works in combination with other processes, and by the specific nature of water as a resource. ...

Writing on the lives of the Mahars of Maharashtra, Baby Kamble reclaims memory to locate the Mahar society before it was impacted by Babasaheb Ambedkar, and tells a consequent tale of redemption wrought by a fiery brand of social and self-awareness. The Prisons We Broke provides a graphic insight into...

Hyderabadis still remember the reign of Mahbub Ali Pasha as a golden age in the history of their city. Mahbub, beloved of his people, who ruled Hyderabad at the turn of the present century, became a legend in his generosity and benevolent concern for his subjects.Weaving together memories, stories...

"""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...

"""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...