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Crafting the Nation in Colonial India
Abigail Mcgowan
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Description for Crafting the Nation in Colonial India
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AFT; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230612679
SKU
V9780230612679
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99-15
About Abigail Mcgowan
ABIGAIL MCGOWAN is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Vermont, USA.
Reviews for Crafting the Nation in Colonial India
"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." - ... Read more