Abigail McGowan

Crafting the Nation in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-61267-9
• 2009 edition
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9780230612679
• ISBN-10: 0230612679
• Artikelnr.: 26177062

Autorenporträt

ABIGAIL MCGOWAN is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Vermont, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Demanding Knowledge, Documenting the Body The Culture of Difference: From Colonial Knowledge to the Problem with Crafts Developing Traditions: Preservationist Design and the Independent Artisan The Cult of the Craftsman in the Spirit of Modernization: Rationalization, Efficiency and the Crafts Sector Conclusion: The Long Life of Difference: Gandhi and the Politics of Crafts after 1920

Rezensionen

"In this imaginative and empirically rich study, Abigail McGowan demonstrates convincingly that the Indian crafts became a critical ground on which both colonial and nationalist projects of power were constructed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book is a pioneering effort in establishing the relationship between colonial knowledge, state interventions into the economy, and visual/material cultures." - Douglas Haynes, Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth University