TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roy, Tirthankar
TI  - The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India
SN  - 9780367510701
U1  - CRFT 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - .
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Art and craft
KW  - Crafts and Capitalism
KW  - Handlooom weaving
KW  - India
KW  - Textile industry
N1  - 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
ER  -