Download or read book Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India written by Tirthankar Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier studies, historians of the region focused on mechanized rather than craft industries, arguing that traditional manufacturing was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that modern industry is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy s book contests these notions, demonstrating that while traditional industry did evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these transformations had a positive rather than destructive effect on manufacturing generally. In fact, the book suggests, the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. Tirthankar Roy s book offers new and penetrating insights into India s economic and social history.

Download or read book The Crafts and Capitalism written by Tirthankar Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. An important intervention in Indian economic history, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indian history, economic history, colonial history, modern history, political history, labour history and political economy. It will also interest nongovernmental organizations, textile historians, and design specialists.

Download or read book Precious Threads and Precarious Lives written by Amit Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of the himalyan state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It focuses on the three processes – production, circulation, and consumption – of the textile industry of the region to highlight its socio-economic and political importance in 19th- and 20th-century Kashmir. Using the micro-history approach, it studies the sites of production – the home looms or the small karkhana – efficiency of labour, and innovations by weavers in their techniques to suit the demands of the market. It also locates the impact colonialism had on transforming the labour economy in the Kashmir textile industry. Further, it compares these karkhanas with the Scottish factories or home looms to illuminate many sites of difference and comparison between the working styles and technologies. Mapping a history as complex as the weave on the finest Kashmiri shawl, this book brings to life the interface between culture, commodity, and colonial networks. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, colonial and imperial history, cultural studies, and economic and labour history.

Download or read book Catalogue of Government of India Civil Publications written by India. Ministry of Works and Housing and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletins of Indian Industrial Research written by India. Industrial Research Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Civil Publications Relating to Agriculture Forestry Civic Commerce Finance Legislation Industry Public Health Railways Science Trade Etc Published by the Government of India Compiled and Corrected Up to written by India. Government of India Publication Branch and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Civil Publications Relating to Agriculture Forestry Civic Commerce Finance Legislation Industry Public Health Railways Science Trade Etc written by India. Publication Branch and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Civil Publications Relating to Agriculture Forestry Civic Commerce Finance Legislation Industry Public Health Railways Science Trade Etc written by India. Government of India Publication Branch and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of Industrial Publications Published in India from 1921 written by India. Industrial Research Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of Publications Relating to Agriculture Forestry Army Civic Commerce Finance Legislation etc written by India. Central publication branch, Calcutta and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Outline of a History of Labour in Traditional Industry in India written by Tirthankar Roy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India 1500 A D to 1947 A D pt 5 British parliamentary papers pt 6 Reports of committees and commissions written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Some Aspects of the Tariff Question written by Frank William Taussig and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1915 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: