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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.

15/08/2025

As India completes 78 years of independence, let us remember the great ideals and sacrifices of those who came before us, fought for freedom and made this land into a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. Orient BlackSwan, publishers to the nation since 1948, salutes the indomitable spirit of the Indian democracy, and examines its contemporary perceptions and practices, problems and processes.

Let the ‘Naya Bharat’ we build together be one where every Indian can participate and stake a claim in, and live, love and work with dignity and security irrespective of their religion, caste or gender. In this journey, Orient BlackSwan continues to bring you books that keep the spirit of democracy alive by encouraging dialogue, debate and diversity.

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Women in Translation Month presents a unique opportunity for us to observe how women—writing and written, translating an...
14/08/2025

Women in Translation Month presents a unique opportunity for us to observe how women—writing and written, translating and translated—bring subjectivity and universality to the story told, through the lenses of their distinct sensibilities and lived experience. This week, we bring to you the second of our showcases.

‘Stayed Back, Stayed On’, edited by Epsita Halder (https://www.facebook.com/epsita.halder), features nineteen short stories from Bengali Muslim authors, delving into the lives of the community that chose to live on the western side of the Bengal border after the Partition of 1947. Translated by renowned scholars and translators, these stories explore religious sensibilities, class, sexuality, and the tussle between tradition and modernity.

‘Voices of Resistance’, edited by Volga and Kalpana Kannabiran features English translations from Telugu progressive-political literature—poems, songs, stories, and extracts from novels and tracts by 89 authors. Translated by Vasanth Kannabiran (https://www.facebook.com/vasanth.kannabiran.2025), these renditions open a window into literary imaginations around issues that continue to preoccupy us today—egalitarianism, dignity, oppression, violence, and resistance. This volume is part of the ‘Dakshinayan Indian Thought’ series of books curated by G. N. Devy (https://www.facebook.com/ganesh.devy), showcasing the plurality and diversity of Indian traditions.

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In ‘Men at Home’, Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University locates the...
12/08/2025

In ‘Men at Home’, Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University locates the South Asian man within the domestic context.

In a review on 26 July 2025, Deccan Chronicle makes note of Pandey’s “multi-dimensional” approach in this text and observes: “The cover contains a sepia picture of a joint family with men at the centre. This hypothetical central place of men in family, despite their operational absence in marital, intimate and conjugal relationship is what the book analyses.”

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We welcome August, celebrated across the global literary community as Women in Translation Month. presents a unique op...
08/08/2025

We welcome August, celebrated across the global literary community as Women in Translation Month. presents a unique opportunity for us to observe how women—writing and written, translating and translated—bring subjectivity and universality to the story told, through the lenses of their distinct sensibilities and lived experience. At Orient BlackSwan, we are proud to house a robust catalogue of literature written and/or translated by women, and now bring to you the first of our showcases.

This week, we look at two titles that have brought literature from South Asia to a global readership. In ‘The Prisons We Broke’, Maya Pandit (https://www.facebook.com/maya.pandit.129) artfully translates a tale that marries individual and community memory to portray the life of the Mahar community, before the impact of B. R. Ambedkar. It is at once a historical and political record, a feminist critique, a protest against brahminical Hinduism, and the memoir of a cursed people.

In ‘The Wooden Cow’, Lakshmi Kannan absorbs the silences of the unsaid and recreates them seamlessly in translation as she evocatively brings to life small-town Tamil Nadu, and its whimsical, lovingly-etched inhabitants.

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‘Dissent on Aadhaar’ explains how the Aadhaar project opens doors to immense opportunities for government surveillance a...
06/08/2025

‘Dissent on Aadhaar’ explains how the Aadhaar project opens doors to immense opportunities for government surveillance and commercial data-mining. Focusing on Aadhaar, but drawing lessons from ID projects across the world, this book alerts readers to the loopholes and threats of expansive digital profiling. It asks how Aadhaar, contrary to government claims, excludes people entitled by right from welfare when made compulsory. It also explores the interlinked ideas of citizenship and identity in this country.

Edited by Reetika Khera, Associate Professor (Economics and Public Systems) at IIM Ahmedabad, this book brings together perspectives from economists, lawyers, technologists, journalists and civil liberties campaigners. With a Foreword by Justice A. P. Shah, this timely read is brought to our readers in English and Hindi as paperbacks. Ebooks in English are also available.

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‘Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities’ seeks to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of media,...
04/08/2025

‘Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities’ seeks to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of media, and recognises that media and technologies have an independent existence, with their own lives, histories and afterlives. This volume makes an effort to retrieve and posit a subaltern and lost LGBTQIA imaginary to the making of media theory and history, and deals with the history of genres such as cartoons, textbooks and newer cultural forms.

Arjun Appadurai https://www.facebook.com/arjun.appadurai.3 notes in the Foreword, ‘This volume reveals the power of bringing together a diversity of minor or occluded archives to unseat the landscape of majority in India.’ This volume is edited by https://www.facebook.com/thinditeepe, Professor of Communication Studies at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad and Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, and Nuaiman Keeprath Andru https://www.facebook.com/nuaiman, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Calicut University.

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We are delighted to see that our recent publication, ‘Lavanyadevi’ has been shortlisted under the ‘English Translation’...
01/08/2025

We are delighted to see that our recent publication, ‘Lavanyadevi’ has been shortlisted under the ‘English Translation’ category for the Valley of Words Book Awards 2025, presented by the Valley of Words Translated by Prof https://www.facebook.com/bmahantaa from the original award-winning Hindi title by .khemani.9 https://www.facebook.com/kusum.khemani.9, ‘Lavanyadevi’ vividly brings to life a story about women in aristocratic Bengal, and celebrates their search for self, shared laughter and friendships across generations and cultures. Blurring the schisms between ‘Bengali’ and ‘Marwari’ to reveal a delightfully plural and distinctively Indian ethos, ‘Lavanyadevi’ is a deeply political novel that contests colonialism and Western modernity, and advocates sustainable, indigenous approaches to life. It also features a Foreword by renowned scholar, Prof Amritjit Singh https://www.facebook.com/amritjit.singh.5.

Our new release ‘Burnt: Beyond Return’ is an urgent reckoning with India’s caste realities. It is the English translatio...
30/07/2025

Our new release ‘Burnt: Beyond Return’ is an urgent reckoning with India’s caste realities. It is the English translation of .sunani ’s https://www.facebook.com/basudev.sunani Odia novel ‘Padapodi’ —where ‘pada’ stands for locality and ‘podi’, means burnt. Based on a true incident in 2012, it follows Makaru’s journey by train, a symbol of Dalit emancipation, to his childhood home—Lathore village, Odisha, where forty Dalit families were displaced overnight, when their settlement was torched by an upper-caste mob. ‘Burnt’ weaves an unforgettable tale of systemic oppression over three generations, while lyrically portraying the many life worlds of the Odia Gana community: their festivals, music and deities; the scars left by violence, migration and erasure; their humanity, humour and restraint.

The author Basudev Sunani is an award-winning poet, writer and cultural scholar who represents a strong, articulate and engaged Dalit presence in the world of Odia letters. He is a recipient of the Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award (2014) and the M. Karunanidhi Porkizhi Award, among others. This evocative translation in English is brought to life by Raj Kumar, Professor of English at University of Delhi, who specialises in Dalit studies, autobiographical studies, and Odia literature.

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𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 & 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘚𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗮𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱...
30/07/2025

𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 & 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘚𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧

𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮: 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗮𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮
𝘉𝘺 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 6:30 pm
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: Conference Hall, 1st Floor, Press Club of India, 1 Raisina Road, New Delhi

𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Mahtab Alam (Journalist and Researcher)
𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀:
• Apar Gupta – Lawyer, Founder-Director, Internet Freedom Foundation
• Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty – National Affairs Editor, The Wire
• Vivek Mukherji – Senior Journalist

Can the media remain truly independent amid powerful competing interests?

Join us for the launch and a compelling discussion on the evolving role of media in Indian democracy.

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦!

Gandhi believed that real swaraj is not majoritarianism; it is rule by the people for justice. Taking this as the point ...
25/07/2025

Gandhi believed that real swaraj is not majoritarianism; it is rule by the people for justice. Taking this as the point of departure in ‘Debating Swaraj’, our new release, the authors, who hail from diverse fields in the social sciences and Gandhian Studies, construe swaraj as a shared responsibility for collective living, and interpret it to reclaim the centrality of the people in a nation-state.

The authors study swaraj in the context of: the early dissenting tradition of the Radical Enlightenment; the significance of non-violence; the primacy of civil society over sovereignty; the dichotomy between the economic agent and the political citizen; understanding technology, science and experience in the context of spinning swaraj; ‘Nayi Talim’ and self-sufficiency; and the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate concerning texts and traditions.

This volume is edited by Dhananjay Rai https://www.facebook.com/raidhananjay, Head of Department and Associate Professor at the Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Studies, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Vadodara.

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