The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9781032175164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Tirthankar Roy

Opis

This book presents a comprehensive history of handloom weaving industry in India. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK where he teaches South Asia and Global History. He is the author of India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present (2012); Law and the Economy in Colonial India (with Anand V. Swamy, 2016); and The Economy of South Asia from 1950 to the Present (2017). His research interests are history and development of South Asia, global history, empires, and environmental history.