Crafting the nation in colonial India
By: Abigail McGowan.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Decorative arts -- India; Industries, Primitive -- India; Cultural awareness -- India; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Demanding knowledge, documenting the body; title: The culture of difference: from colonial knowledge to the problem with crafts; title: Developing traditions: preservationist design and the independent artisan; title: The cult of the craftsman in the spirit of modernization: rationalization, efficiency and the crafts sector; title: Conclusion: the long life of difference: Gandhi and the politics of crafts after 1920.