Author: Indrajit Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135138726X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Bengal’s traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new industries emerged during this period. The book reappraises the thesis of India’s deindustrialisation and discusses the development status of the traditional industries in the early nineteenth century, examines their technology, employment opportunities and marketing and, finally, analyses the underlying reasons for their decay. It offers a study of how traditional industries evolved into modern enterprises in a British colony, and contributes to the broader discussion on the global history of industrialisation. This book will be of interest to scholars of Indian economic history as well as those who seek to understand the widespread effects of industrialisation, especially in a colonial context.
Author: Tirthankar Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000024695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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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.
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Andrew Gourlay Clow
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Category : Industrial policy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: V. R. Chitra
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Category : Cottage industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Author: India. Ministry of Commerce and Industry
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Category : Cottage industries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Bengal (India). Land Revenue Commission
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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