Our reputation in School publishing is well-established, being founded on our expertise in delivering cutting-edge content and high-quality service to schools in India and abroad. We publish, market and sell books in most subject areas, in English and other Indian languages, from pre-primary to higher secondary levels for CBSE, CISCE and State Board schools. Our comprehensive publishing programme for schools includes in its scope:

• Coursebooks  • Workbooks  • Supplementary Learning Materials • Library Books  • Atlases and Maps  • Teachers’ Resource Materials  • Digital Resources for students and teachers  • Blended Learning Courses  • Digital Learning Management Systems

• We stay up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations in education, the National Education Policy (NEP) being the most recent and powerful guiding force in our journey. Our content—whether English, Hindi, Mathematics or Science—consistently reflects a student-centric, responsible and holistic approach. It places a strong emphasis on values, life skills and citizenship skills, across Indian and global perspectives. Additionally, the content is supported by a variety of exercises and practice materials to reinforce key concepts.
• Perfectly aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP), most of our titles are designed specifically to fulfil all its Curricular Goals and Competencies for all stages and the Learning Outcomes for all grades, as specified in the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
• In recent years, our focus has steadily expanded to include the newest and latest pedagogies and technologies in education:
  • HTML-based Orient BlackSwan Smart Books  embedded with HD quality animation, audio support, slideshows, picture galleries, interactive activities, question paper generators etc, hosted on the Orient BlackSwan Teachers’ Portal.
  • Orient BlackSwan Teachers’ Portal a one-stop shop for all the resources a teacher will need to teach our courses.
  • High quality Orient BlackSwan ONE On Education webinars and other free educational resources such as Mongabay, Humanising Language Teaching and Mongabay Kids to support teachers.
  • Orient BlackSwan Smart App for students with AR experiences, QR-linked resources such as animation, audio support, slideshows, picture galleries, interactive activities, karaoke etc.
  • a state-of-the art Learning Management System which includes courses in English, Maths, Science and Social Studies as well as Spoken English and Spoken Hindi Programmes.
  • Orient BlackSwan Centre for Professional Development (CPD) an online teacher training platform with self-paced online training courses by world-renowned instructors for Indian school teachers.
  • Gul Mohar, our flagship course for the teaching of English, is now in its TENTH EDITION. First published in 1974, it has gone past its  golden jubilee, a rare feat in itself. Generations have learnt from Gul Mohar and have themselves gone on to teach Buzzword, Raintree and Magnolia are some of the other courses  that have firmly established Orient BlackSwan at the forefront of English Language Teaching (ELT) in school education.
  • We are also recognised for the superior quality of the titles we publish in other curricular domains. Major series such as the Ahead series in Maths (MathsAhead), Science (ScienceAhead), Social Studies (GettingAhead with Social Studies), and Computer Science (ComputersAhead), have been extremely successful across the country. The Inspired series for Science (Inspired Science), and Social Science (Inspired Social Studies and Inspired Social Science), is popular in CISCE schools. The new NEPtune series (NEPtune Science), (NEPtune Maths) and (NEPtune World Around Us) are powered by the curricular goals and competencies urged by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).
• We have always believed that it is critical for the learner and the teacher to benefit from new and effective pedagogies and this conviction has created many FIRSTS.
  • CONCEPTUALISED Gul Mohar as the first Indian course designed by Indian ELT (English Language Teaching) experts for Indian teachers and children in Indian classrooms, at a time when all other English textbooks were imported from the UK
  • INTRODUCED audio CDs alongside the Onward English textbooks in the early 1980s
  • INITIATED the concept of groundbreaking semester and term book titles, launching Sangam with GulMohar nationwide as the lead brand
  • PUBLISHED the first ever Indian series on Peace Studies, titled White Dove
  • DEVELOPED the Orient BlackSwan School Atlas, created entirely by our in-house cartography department
  • DESIGNED thoughtfully visualised and comprehensive support material for teachers
  • CREATED game-based multimedia learning materials for students with Advantage Multimedia CDs
  • PIONEERED teacher training workshops for the first time in the 1980s, a tradition we continue to this day

In addition, we work very closely with schools at all times through the academic year; and the quality and the efficacy of our content has been endorsed by millions of Indian teachers and school children. We cherish our relationship with them, and value their support and feedback. All the teams in our School section (publishing, marketing and sales) work together with the deep belief that everything we do must be in the best interests of the children who use and learn from our books.

In the Social Sciences, Humanities and Indian Languages, we publish titles of general and academic interest. Our textbooks in the social sciences and humanities (in English and select Indian languages) are carefully prepared for the undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels, while our reference books, which are at the cutting edge of research, reflect ongoing academic discussions in these fields. Our trade books list includes literature translated from Indian languages into English.

• Our series such as New Perspectives in South Asian History, The Illustrated Classics, Literary/Cultural Theory and Literary Contexts represent the best of Indian publishing. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India series of volumes provide detailed information of the Scheduled and Non-Scheduled languages of India, as they currently exist in each state of the country. The Literature in Translation series offers in English translation the works of writers such as Volga, Des Raj Kali, M T Vasudevan Nair, Akkineni Kutumba Rao, Vaikom Mohammad Basheer, Mannu Bhandari, Baby Kamble, Anil Gharai, Ashokamitran and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
• We also produce excellent textbooks designed to help students in colleges and universities. Our custom learning materials offer them the best of English language and literature.
• We have a large publishing programme in the social sciences in Hindi for students as well as for those interested in taking the UPSC examinations. Some of our critically acclaimed titles in English have been translated into Hindi and Bangla.
• Some of our authors are Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Krishna Kumar, N S Prabhu, M L Tickoo, Pramod Nayar, Sivakami, Akkineni Kutumba Rao, Iravati Karve, Arjun Dangle, Sharankumar Limbale, E V Ramakrishnan, G N Devy, Meena T Pillai, Robert Goldman, Tove Skutnabb‐Kangas, R K Agnihotri, Paul Sharrad and other eminent academicians from India and other countries.
• Our vast lists are enriched by the titles we co-publish (including the critically acclaimed For Beginners series) with university presses and publishers from the UK, the US, Australia and Europe, such as the university presses of Duke, Indiana, Yale, California, Chicago, Harvard and Princeton, as well as publishers such as Zed Books, Pluto Press, Lawrence and Wishart and Multilingual Matters.

In addition to our independent publishing, we also have strategic tie-ups with the following:

• The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
• Jadavpur University, Kolkata

• , an associate company of Orient BlackSwan , specializes in the publication of textbooks for Science, Technology, Medicine and Management. The company also publishes books for test preparation and competitive examinations such as NEET, JEE, and CUET.
• For secondary and senior secondary students, its catalogue includes books on Artificial Intelligence, Python Programming, Informatics Practices, and 'Foundation' books for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics.
• Universities Press’ Engineering, Computer Science, and Management collection features advanced and emerging topics such as Blockchain Technology, Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics, R Programming, and Python Programming.
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  Its Ayurveda section features a distinguished five-volume series on Indian Medicinal Plants.
• The Science catalogue covers both physical and life sciences, including the popular Vignettes in Physics series by G. Venkataraman. In Mathematics, Universities Press collaborates with the Ramanujan Mathematical Society to publish the Little Mathematical Treasures series.
• Its reference books in Mathematics, co-published with the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), are well-regarded in SAARC countries.
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