: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India Roy, Tirthankar. creator Tirthankar Roy. text London : Routledge ,2020 monographic eng

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xiv, 186p. : 24cm. 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. / Thirthankar Roy. Crafts and Capitalism Capitalism Crafts 305.56 ROY 9780367510701 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 261025 20261025112957.0