The Crafts and Capitalism - Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India (Hardcover)

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. An important intervention in Indian economic history, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indian history, economic history, colonial history, modern history, political history, labour history and political economy. It will also interest nongovernmental organizations, textile historians, and design specialists.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Tirthankar Roy
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	186
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-36528-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > General Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Other manufacturing technologies > Clothing & footware manufacture Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-367-36528-6
Barcode:	9780367365288

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