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Crafting the Nation in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Crafting the Nation in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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"Well before Gandhi popularized hand-spun, hand-woven cloth,
British and Indian activists had made crafts central to plans for
India's economic and cultural revival. Combining tradition and
employment at a time of industrial transition, crafts appealed to
both government officials and nationalist activists alike--even as
they bemoaned artisans as conservative and backwards. That
connection between development and cultural judgment was not
incidental. Drawing on a wide range of craft development
initiatives in western India between 1851 and 1922--from art and
industrial schools to model factories, pattern books, exhibitions,
technical experiments, and cooperatives--McGowan argues that crafts
came to political prominence through British and Indian
negotiations over power: power over the lower classes, over the
economy, and over the future of the country.
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