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025			_aI-E-2020335852
037			_bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
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100	1		_aRoy, Tirthankar, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe crafts and capitalism : _bhandloom weaving industry in colonial India / _cTirthankar Roy.
250			_aFirst South Asia edition.
260			_aNY : _bRoutledge, _cc2020.
300			_axiv, 186 pages ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index.
505			_aList 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
520			_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. 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.
530			_aAlso available as an e-book.
650		0	_aHandloom industry _zIndia _xHistory.
650		0	_aWeaving _zIndia _xHistory.
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