Orient Blackswan Private Limited

Orient Blackswan Private Limited Academic Publishers Orient Blackswan Private Limited is one of India's best known and most respected publishing houses.

Incorporated in 1948, the consistent emphasis of its publishing has been on quality. It publishes well-researched, original academic books by distinguished authors and school textbooks reputed for their high quality, relevance and affordability. It also selectively reprints and co-publishes outstanding titles published abroad, for the Indian market. Established in 1948 as Orient Longmans by the UK

publishing company Longmans, Green & Company, it was taken over by Raja Rameshwar Rao, who became its chairman in 1964. The company changed its name to Orient Blackswan Private Limited in 2008. Its board has included eminent persons such as Dr Zakir Hussain, Khushwant Singh, Sarvepalli Gopal and Romila Thapar amongst others. Orient BlackSwan also distributes books published by Sangam Books, Universities Press, Permanent Black, Social Science Press and co-publishes books with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the English and Foreign Languages University.

‘For Home, Family, and Nation’ by Aparajita Dasgupta centres women’s writings, and critically examines elite perceptions...
06/06/2025

‘For Home, Family, and Nation’ by Aparajita Dasgupta centres women’s writings, and critically examines elite perceptions in contemporary journals, newspapers, and popular politics in the pulp literature from Battala to demonstrate how in the late 19th and early 20th century, gender politics among the ‘bhadralok’—Bengal’s educated Hindu and primarily upper-caste middle classes—transformed from a movement against colonial interference in the ‘private sphere’ to a communally charged campaign to protect Hindu women from the ‘Muslim threat’.

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For years now, the world has been assailed by biomagnifying pollution, intensifying climate change, and fast-depleting b...
05/06/2025

For years now, the world has been assailed by biomagnifying pollution, intensifying climate change, and fast-depleting biodiversity. Every year, lives and livelihoods, particularly those on the margins, suffer acutely the onslaught of rapid and terrifying environmental challenges. Awareness and action on building sustainable production and consumption methods, repairing ecosystems, and mitigating the impacts of climate change have become more urgent than ever. This World Environment Day, we at Orient BlackSwan invite you to take a journey with our books, through the varying perspectives from the realms of environmental justice action, law and conservation efforts, policy, history, and literary/cultural theory. Let us join the global drive to observe !

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‘Postcolonialism Now: Reading, Literature, Decolonising’ by Sourit Bhattacharya is now available as paperback and e-book...
05/06/2025

‘Postcolonialism Now: Reading, Literature, Decolonising’ by Sourit Bhattacharya is now available as paperback and e-book! The volume introduces a new method of decolonial reading and critically examines the history and ongoing influence of colonialism and imperialism in postcolonial cultures and literatures.

It is part of our Literary/Cultural Theory series which offers concise, lucid and nuanced analyses of a range of key concepts, theorists and texts in contemporary literary and cultural theory.

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Historian Gyanendra Pandey in Men at Home offers a hitherto unmapped, detailed exploration of men’s comportment and cond...
03/06/2025

Historian Gyanendra Pandey in Men at Home offers a hitherto unmapped, detailed exploration of men’s comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives.

The Telegraph remarks, “The curious paradox that Pandey seeks to explore is both the centrality of home in the lives of these men and the deliberate denial of that significance in their … memoirs or autobiographies.”

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We are happy to announce the publication of ‘The Indian University: A Critical History’ by Debaditya Bhattacharya. This ...
30/05/2025

We are happy to announce the publication of ‘The Indian University: A Critical History’ by Debaditya Bhattacharya. This volume explores the historical makings of the Indian university as it stands today, by sifting through archives, colonial/postcolonial policies, textual-literary records and political-economic developments. What results is a ‘critical history’ – navigating the force of myth and promise, revolutions and reforms, communities and markets. From the glorification of ancient ‘greatness’ to the riskiness of ‘platform futures’, the book offers a time travel through one of the most exalted and yet most abused institutions of our age – the university.

Debaditya Bhattacharya teaches literature at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Two of his edited anthologies on critical university studies include ‘The Idea of the University: Histories and Contexts’ and ‘The University Unthought: Notes for a Future’.

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Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory’ by David Anshen provides a compre...
28/05/2025

Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory’ by David Anshen provides a comprehensive introduction to Marxist theory, its praxis in literary and cultural studies, and a range of pioneering and contemporary theorists.

It is part of our Literary/Cultural Theory series which offers concise, lucid and nuanced analyses of a range of key concepts, theorists and texts in contemporary literary and cultural theory.

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See You Today!Join us this evening for an insightful online discussion on 100 Years of A Passage to India, edited by Har...
23/05/2025

See You Today!
Join us this evening for an insightful online discussion on 100 Years of A Passage to India, edited by Harish Trivedi.

Friday, 23 May 2025
6:30 PM IST
Online | Live on YouTube

Chair: Harish Trivedi
Panelists: Anjum Hasan | Howard J. Booth | David Jasper | Ruth Vanita

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Don’t miss this conversation on the themes, legacy, and contemporary relevance of Forster’s classic.

Just 1 Day to Go!Join us tomorrow for an online discussion on the volume 100 Years of A Passage to India.A compelling co...
22/05/2025

Just 1 Day to Go!
Join us tomorrow for an online discussion on the volume 100 Years of A Passage to India.
A compelling conversation around Forster’s modern classic and its enduring legacy.

Friday, 23 May 2025
6:30 PM IST
Online | Live on YouTube

Chair: Harish Trivedi
Panelists: Anjum Hasan | Howard J. Booth | David Jasper | Ruth Vanita

Register here: https://shorturl.at/66GHG
Watch live: https://shorturl.at/i7OdG

Join us for an online book discussion commemorating E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.Orient BlackSwan invites you to a...
16/05/2025

Join us for an online book discussion commemorating E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.

Orient BlackSwan invites you to a conversation on 100 Years of A Passage to India, edited by Harish Trivedi.

Date: Friday, 23 May 2025
Time: 6:30 PM IST
Online Event

Chair: Harish Trivedi
Panelists: Anjum Hasan | Howard J. Booth | David Jasper | Ruth Vanita

Engage with the themes, legacy and contemporary relevance of Forster’s modern classic.

Register here: https://shorturl.at/66GHG
Watch live on YouTube: https://shorturl.at/i7OdG

Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Edward Said: A Critical Introduction’ by Jaydeep Chakrabarty engages wi...
13/05/2025

Available now in paperback and e-book editions! ‘Edward Said: A Critical Introduction’ by Jaydeep Chakrabarty engages with the fundamentals of Saidian theory and provides critical outlines of his major works.

It is part of our Literary/Cultural Theory series which offers concise, lucid and nuanced analyses of a range of key concepts, theorists and texts in contemporary literary and cultural theory.

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16/04/2025

‘Nakshi kantha’ is running-stitch embroidery from West Bengal and Bangladesh, depicting artistic motifs inspired by the social and personal lives of women artisans.

We are grateful to Weavers Studio Resource Centre, Kolkata, for permission to use this image from their collection on the cover of ‘Stayed Back, Stayed On’, the first ever anthology of contemporary short stories by Bengali Muslim writers in English translation, put together by Epsita Halder.

Paperback and e-book editions available in bookstores, on Amazon, and on the Orient BlackSwan website.

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