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Orient BlackSwan
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Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.The company publishes professional, trade as well as academic and school textbooks. One of our ever popular English-language school series is ‘Gulmohar'. At Orient BlackSwan we take great pride in publishing well-researched academic books by distinguished authors and interesting, informative general and trade books such as ‘Indian literature in translation.' We also publish distinctive school textbooks reputed for their high quality, relevance and affordability.We selectively reprint outstanding titles published abroad, to make these foreign titled books accessible and inexpensive to readers in India and the subcontinent. In 2011 we forayed into the e-book market and have more than 300 books available (some of them rare and out of print) in most major e-retailers like Amazon, iBookstore, Kobo and Nook.Through our associate company, Universities Press, we offer our readers cutting edge professional books in biotechnology, computer science, engineering, home science, management and medicine.We distribute books published by Sangam Books, Universities Press, Permanent Black, D C Publishers, Social Science Press, Vishwa-Bharati and Tata Institute of Social Sciences.Our History:Established in 1948 as Longmans, Green and Company, (subsequently Orient Longmans, later changed to Orient Longman) by the UK publishing company Longman, it was taken over by Raja Rameshwar Rao, who bought the majority shareholding and became the company chairman in 1968. Mr. Rao retained the majority holding till 1984 after which the company's board included Khushwant Singh and the Patwardhans of Pune.In 2008, Orient Longman dropped "Longman" and was renamed as Orient BlackSwan. Today, our 14 offices are spread nationwide and are coupled with a distribution network of over 1500 booksellers to ensure easy availability of our books throughout India.