The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India

by Tirthankar Roy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032175168
• ISBN13: 9781032175164
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"