Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre colonial Eastern India written by Asha Shukla Choubey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
Download or read book Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India written by Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book discusses the development of non-agricultural production in pre-colonial Indian cities. The author's purpose is twofold: firstly, to analyze the technological, organizational and social evolution of urban crafts in medieval India along with the economic and socio-political atmosphere in which this sphere of production existed and, secondly, to compare the above-mentioned processes with their counterparts in other medieval societies, especially the better known European ones, and thus ascertain the level that India had achieved in this sphere by the beginning of colonial era. Research material collected from various types of sources allows the author to critically re-asses the established notions of medieval Indian crafts as artistically exquisite but technologically backward and organizationally primitive. Comparative study of ""stagnant"" medieval Indian crafts vis-a-vis ""progressive"" European ones makes it possible to realize that in some industries or technological operations India did really lag behind, on others it was ahead, but all in all the level of technology and organization achieved by urban industries of medieval India was approximately equal to what Europe had during the craft and even early stage of manufactory period. As far as general socio-political conditions are concerned, this juxtaposition, however, is not wholly favorable for India. No study of medieval crafts will be adequate if the researcher concentrates exclusively on technology, forms of organization and economic relations, but forgets the people who were involved in these activities. Bearing this in mind the author undertakes the reconstruction of medieval craftsmen's socio-psychological profile and tries to denote the main features of his world outlook. The book may be of interest to the scholars and students of medieval Indian history, especially its economic, social and cultural aspects, and to all those who, in their thoughts and researches, try to situate medieval India in world history."
Download or read book The Indian Craftsman written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artisans in 18th Century Eastern India a History of Survival written by Vipul Singh and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to the social and economic conditions in Patna District.
Download or read book Rethinking a Millennium written by Rajat Datta and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays by eminent historians exploring a millennium of India s history between the eighth and the eighteenth century, conventionally understood as early medieval and medieval India. Though these terms are subjected to critical
Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen in Traditional India written by M. K. Pal and published by . This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Craftsman written by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Indian Craftsman Dr. Coomaraswamy's study of the Indian craftsman raises questions of the widest and deepest interest, questions that will not only give consciousness to modern Eastern thought, but help us with some of the most advanced of our Western problems. He tells us of a condition of life among the eastern Aryans that still exists, and he tells it in such a way as to make us feel that there is no reason why it should not go on existing. Why, we ask, has this custom of the centuries, which seems so reasonable in the East, and through which the western Aryan once passed, changed in one part of the world and not in the other, and what are the merits of the change? If we examine our own Western economic history, more particularly the history of England, we find that the break up of the conditions of English craftsmanship and the English village order, cannot be traced back beyond the industrial revolution of the 18th century, and the enclosure of the common lands that accompanied it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Changing Theory written by Dilip M Menon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual. With essays by scholars, across generations, and from a variety of disciplines – history, anthropology, and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of critical theory and the social sciences.
Download or read book Oswal Gurukul Economics Most Likely Question Bank CBSE Class 12 for 2023 Exam written by Oswal - Gurukul and published by Oswal Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oswal Gurukul Economics Most Likely Question Bank ISC Class 12 for 2023 Exam written by Oswal - Gurukul and published by Oswal Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confronting the Body written by James H. Mills and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.
Download or read book Crafting the Nation in Colonial India written by A. McGowan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of archival evidence, Abigail McGowan argues that crafts seized the political imagination in western India because they provided a means of debating the present and future of the country.
Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen in Traditional India written by Mrinal Kanti Pal and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arts and Crafts Jammu and Kashmir written by D. N. Saraf and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir Is Known For Its Arts And Crafts. But There Is No Single Book So Far Which Deals Overall And Totally With Both Known And Lesser Known Crafts Of Jammu & Kashmir State. This Book Portrays A Comprehensive Study Providing Wealth Of Information And Visual Documentation On The Beautiful Part Of India Comprising Jammu, Kashmir Valley And Ladakh. A State With Rich Craft And Cultural Heritage Deserves To Be Better Known In Its Crafts Context Of People And Culture. As A Close And Living Relationship Ties Land To People And People To Craft And Culture, The Book Opens With Brief Description Of This Relationship. Since Traditional Skills Co-Exist And Change In The Course Of Changing Conditions, The Book Covers Some Of The More Important As Well As Lesser Known Crafts In Their Historical Background, Present And Potential For Future. Development Being A Constant Process, The Book Also Reviews The Actual Craft Situation,, Its Scope, Design, Craft Training, The Domestic Marketing And Exports Of Crafts, Concluding On The Most Important Factor-The Craftsmen And Their Welfare. The Book Is Invaluable In Many Way. Over 100 Pages Of Excellent Photographs And Typical Design Motifs. General Readers, Planners And Administrators As Well As Traders And Exporters Will Find Highly Useful The Details The Book Provides With The Personal Touch Of Author S Rich Experience Over The Years.
Download or read book Women Shopkeepers Tavernkeepers and Artisans in Colonial Philadelphia written by Frances May Manges and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Crafts written by D. N. Saraf and published by New Delhi : Vikas. This book was released on 1982 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Courts of Pre Colonial South India written by Jennifer Howes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set against the historical background of the events which led to the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is richly illustrated in colour.
