Asha Shukla Choubey

Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India (eBook, ePUB)

Technology and Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial eastern India. It offers an in-depth analysis of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000477696
• Artikelnr.: 62734625

Autorenporträt

Asha Shukla Choubey is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. With a teaching experience of close to four decades, her specialisation lies in Medieval Indian History, particularly crafts in medieval India. She is currently involved in exploring issues of state and sovereignty based on the study of the epic poem Ramcharitmanas. Her research papers have been published in peer-reviewed journals. She has contributed study material to the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi and National Open School, Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Cotton Textiles 2. Sericulture and Silk Textiles 3. Mining,
Metallurgy and Metal Craft 4. Craft Production Systems, Marketing and
Financing Patterns 5. Social World of the Craftsmen: Cultural Dimensions of
Crafts 6. Locating Continuing Craft Traditions 7. Conclusion. References