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This book looks at the economic history of south Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry in colonial south India.
Sommario
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1: The Geography of Weaving: South India in the Early Nineteenth Century
- 2: Statistics, Looms and People: The Changing Contours of the Handloom Industry
- 3: From Cotton to Cloth: The Linking Threads
- 4: Weaving: Changing Structures
- 5: Caste and Work
- 6: Solidarity and Action
- 7: The State and the Weaver
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Note on the Loom Tax
- Bibliography
- Index
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After obtaining her Ph.D from the University of Delhi, Karuna Dietrich Wielenga was a Newton International Fellow at Oxford University. She is a historian of south Asia and her research interests span economic, social and labour history. She has worked on the history of handlooms, labour legislation, and the emergence of the informal sector in India. Her papers have been published in Modern Asian Studies and the International Review of Social History among other journals. She currently teaches at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. She is a research associate of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies.
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This book looks at the economic history of south Asia from a fresh perspective, through a detailed study of the handloom industry in colonial south India.
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Weaving History is an exceptional scholarly work that not only engages lively with these debates but indeed also offers answers and insightful analysis. To begin with the book combines different traditions to produce an excellent outcome. It bridges economic, social, cultural, and labor history while it rarely compromises on any of these fronts. The length and breadth of the sources employed in the book is similarly truly impressive ... Weaving History is thus an outstanding contribution to existing debates and would hopefully bring new life to some of the classical questions concerning the economic/social nexus.
