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The Handloom Industry of Begampur in Transition
Technology, Disjuncture, and Development
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The Handloom Industry of Begampur in Transition
Technology, Disjuncture, and Development
About this book
The Handloom Industry of Begampur in Transition: Technology, Disjuncture and Development provides an ethnographic description of the handloom industry of the Begampur region, Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. While explaining the process of transformation within the industry, Abhradip Banerjee explores the uneasy relationship between technology, disjuncture, and development that has impacted the lives of this particular group of artisans for more than two decades. The novelty of this book lies in Banerjee's approach, which allowed him to perceive and analyze the process of transition within the handloom weaving tradition of Begampur region from a more inclusive perspective, miles away from the pitfall of gross "technological determinism." The "sociotechnical approach allowed him to gauge, analyze, and incorporate several important but neglected dimensions of this transformation, which were otherwise missing in many historiographic or empirical accounts regarding the process of industrialization, deindustrialization, and class formation in India.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Why Handloom? Excavating the Trope
- Chapter 1: The Setting: People, Place, the Economy, and Lives
- Chapter 2: Tracing the Historical and Cultural Landscape of Handloom Industry in Begampur: From Past to the Present
- Chapter 3: The Social and Religious Life of Handloom Weavers in Begampur Region
- Chapter 4: The Craft of Handloom Weaving: Technology, Work Coordination, Products and Their Market
- Chapter 5: The Disjuncture and Juxtapositions of Cloth Production, Organization, and Marketing
- Chapter 6: Handloom Weavers’ Cooperative Societies in Begampur: A Failed Experiment?
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author