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Weaving Histories
€108.00
Weaving Histories looks at the economic history of South Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry of South India between 1800 and 1960, drawing out its wider implications for the Indian economy. It employs an unusual array of sources, including paintings and textile samples as well as archival records, to excavate the links between cotton growing, cleaning, spinning and weaving before the nineteenth century. The rupture and re-configuration of these links produced a sea-change in the lives of ordinary weavers. Weaving Histories examines the configuration of forceslocal, regional, national and globalthat drove this transformation, and uncovers its effects on different groups of weavers. The handloom industry is used as a case study to throw light on the historical emergence of the ‘informal sector’ in India, and to re-examine contemporary debates about industrialisation and economic development.
Author: Wielenga, Karuna Dietrich Year: 2020 ISBN: 9780197266731 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher's city: Oxford Publication date: