Crafting the nation in Colonial India / Abigail McGowan

By:

McGowan, Abigail

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: xiii, 265p. ; 23cmISBN:

9781349960019

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DDC classification:

306.470954 MCG 22

Summary: 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.

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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.

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