How India clothed the world : the world of South Asian textiles, 1500-1850 / edited by Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy, with the collaboration of Om Prakash and Kaoru Sugihara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riello, Giorgio.

Roy, Tirthankar.

Series:

Global economic history series ; v. 4.

Global economic history series, 1872-5155 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--India--History.

Textile fabrics.

Textile industry--India.

Textile industry.

History.

India.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Summary:

Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the 'first globalization’. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterized the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.

Contents:

Part 1 Regions of Exchange: Textiles in the Indian Ocean and Beyond

Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850 / Anthony Reid 31

Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Pedro Machado 53

English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa / Joseph E. Inikori 85

British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / H. V. Bowen 115

The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850 / Kaoru Sugihara 139

Part II Regions of Production: Textiles in South Asia

The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800 / David Washbrook 173

Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry / Ian C. Wendt 193

From Market-Determined to Coercion-Based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal / Om Prakash 217

The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy / Lakshmi Subramanian 253

Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: Indian Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century / Bishnupriya Gupta 281

Part III Regions of Change: Indian Textiles and European Development

The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons / Giorgio Riello 309

The French Connection: Indian Cottons and Their Early Modern Technology / George Bryan Souza 347

Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire 365

Quality Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade / Maxine Berg 391

Historical Issues of Deindustrialization in Nineteenth-Century South India / Prasannan Parthasarathi 415.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004176539

9004176535

OCLC:

318867162