01628nam a22002297a 4500 20261025112957.0 261025b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780367510701 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. : 123256 : 21/10/2026 305.56 ROY Roy, Tirthankar. The Crafts and Capitalism : Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India. / Thirthankar Roy. , London : Routledge ,2020. xiv, 186p. : 24cm. 605.5 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. Crafts and Capitalism Capitalism Crafts Tirthankar Roy. BOOK 70924 70924 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-10-25 International Book Distributor 605.50 0 305.56 ROY 31922 2026-10-25 11:30:25 2026-10-25 BOOK