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Crafting the nation in colonial India

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Crafting the nation in colonial IndiaAbigail McGowan.
Author:	McGowan, Abigail.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xiii, 265 p. :ill. ;22 cm.
Subject:	Decorative artsIndia.
Subject:	IndiaIn literature.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230623231

Crafting the nation in colonial India
McGowan, Abigail.

Crafting the nation in colonial India[electronic resource] /Abigail McGowan. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xiii, 265 p. :ill. ;22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demanding knowledge, documenting the body -- The culture of difference : from colonial knowledge to the problem with crafts -- Developing traditions : preservationist design and the independentartisan -- Modernizing artisanship : rationalization, efficiency and the cult of the craftsman -- Conclusion : the long life of difference : Gandhi and the politics of crafts after 1920.

"Well before Gandhi popularized hand-spun, hand-woven cloth, Britishand Indian activists had made crafts central to plans for India's economic and cultural revival.  Combining tradition and employment at a time of industrial transition, crafts appealed to both government officials and nationalist activists alike - even as they bemoaned artisansas conservative and backwards.  That connection between development and cultural judgment was not incidental. Drawing on a wide range ofcraft development initiatives in western India between 1851 and 1922 -from art and industrial schoolsto model factories, pattern books, exhibitions, technical experiments, and cooperatives - McGowan argues thatcrafts came to political prominence through British and Indian negotiations over power: power over the lower classes, over the economy, and over the future of the country.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230623231

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230623231doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

460716
Decorative arts
--India.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

392991
India
--In literature.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: NK1047 / .M38 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/70954

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