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Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 3G | CRFT/ROY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK00581 |
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| CRFT/LUC Craft and the Creative Economy | CRFT/MAR 8 Ways to Draw Fish | CRFT/MCI Creativity and Cultural Production | CRFT/ROY The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India | CRFT/SHA Culture Change and the New Technology | CRFT/WRI Contemporary Crafts: Stained Glass | DSGN/ANT Design and Violence |
This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India to challenge and revise the view that competition from machine-produced textiles destroyed the country’s handicrafts as claimed by historians until recently. It shows that skill-intensive handmade textiles survived the competition on a large scale, and that handmade goods and high-quality manual labour played a positive role in the making of modern India. Rich in archival material, The Crafts and Capitalism explores themes such as the historiography of craft technologies; statistical work on nineteenth-century cotton cloth production trends; narratives of merchants, the social leaders, the factory-owners; tools and techniques; and, shift from handloom to power loom. The book argues that changes in the handloom industry were central to the consolidation of new forms of capitalism in India.
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