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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. _c: 123256 _d: 21/10/2026
082			_a305.56 ROY
100			_aRoy, Tirthankar.
245			_aThe Crafts and Capitalism _b: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India. _c/ Thirthankar Roy.
260			_a, London _b: Routledge _c,2020.
300			_axiv, 186p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b605.5
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.
650			_aCrafts and Capitalism
650			_aCapitalism
650			_aCrafts
700			_aTirthankar Roy.
942			_cBOOK
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