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082			_aCRFT _bROY
100			_aRoy, Tirthankar
245		4	_aThe Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India
260			_a. _bRoutledge _c2020
300			_a200: ill. _rHardbound
504			_aThis 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.
650			_aArt and craft
650			_aCrafts and Capitalism
650			_aHandlooom weaving
650			_aIndia
650			_aTextile industry
942			_cBKS
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