This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays
out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana - the warp
and the weft of the Banarasi sari - the author reproduces the
interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari
industry. As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centre
stage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents
the dissonance in representations of Banaras as a sacred Hindu city
and its essential plural character. The volume * examines in-depth
the lives of Banaras Muslims in the social and economic matrix of
the sari industry; * highlights how women negotiate between home,
family and their place in the artisanal industry; and * sheds light
on their fast-changing world of the Banaras weavers and their
responses to it. With a new introduction and fresh data, the second
edition looks at the subsequent developments in the weaving
industry over the last decade. This volume will be of immense
interest to scholars and researchers of social anthropology, gender
studies, development studies, sociology and South Asian studies.
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