The crafts and capitalism : handloom weaving industry in colonial India / Tirthankar Roy.
Material type: TextPublication details: NY : Routledge, c2020.Edition: First South Asia editionDescription: xiv, 186 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780367510701
- 338.476 ROY
- HD9866.I42 R69 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
List of Figures, Maps, Tables
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Scale and Composition, 1795-1940
3. Consumption and Market
4. Capital and Labour
5. Tools and Techniques
6. Towns and Regions
7. Handlooms and Powerlooms, 1920-1990
8. Handloom after Independence
Glossary
Selected Biographies
References
Index
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.
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