Author: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On master craftmanship in India; includes a list of craftsmen selected for national awards, 1965-1979.
Author: Asha Shukla Choubey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 100047769X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Nicholas Barnard
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781850297055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the tradition of arts and crafts in India, portraying in detail the lives, skills and creations of the present-day artists who continue the traditions of ancient times. The book provides an insight into an exotic culture for the traveller, or for the collector.
Author: Ilay Cooper
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780500278635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A discussion of each medium, ranging from wood to basketry complemented by an outline of the regional styles, history and the social and symbolic significance of many of the artefacts.
Author: Aashi Manohar
Publisher: Grantha Corporation
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In the middle of India lies a vast land peopled with one of the country's largest tribal populations. Considered as the original inhabitants of this land, with a culture that traces back to pre-Aryan days, the tribals of Madhya Pradesh are as varied as they are vital. Living side by side with their Hindu and Muslim neighbours they have simultaneously managed to enrich and keep separate their cultural identity from theirs." "This book brings to you, for the first time, the exciting world of Madhya Pradesh's many tribes. Interwoven with their myths and legends, and illustrated with stunning colour visuals and with line drawings, here are the textiles and the tattoos, the stonework and the carvings, the totems and the ritual terracottas of the many tribes explained by scholars whose work has led them to spend half a life time with these people."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Aditi Ranjan
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9781890206857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. P. Ranjan
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 2024-09-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789215024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique compendium of Indian crafts, this informative source-book maps the handicrafts of the subcontinent and captures the traditions that have enriched the day-to-day lives, and incomes, of Indian craftspeople.
Author: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. McGowan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-07-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0230623239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.