Free Download Karuna Dietrich Wielenga, "Weaving Histories: The Transformation of the Handloom Industry in South India, 1800-1960 "
English | ISBN: 0197266738 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 33 MB
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.
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