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Pious labor : Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India / Amanda Lanzillo.

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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these massive changes, Indian Muslim artisans began to publicly assert the deep re...

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Main Author: Lanzillo, Amanda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Muslim artisans > India, North > 19th century.
Muslim artisans > India, North > 20th century.
Islam > India, North > 19th century.
Islam > India, North > 20th century.
Technology > India, North > 19th century.
Technology > India, North > 20th century.
Islam.
Muslim artisans.
Technology.
North India.
1800-1999
Table of Contents:
  • Lithographic labor : locating Muslim artisans in the print economy
  • Electroplating as alchemy : labor and technology among Muslim metalsmiths
  • Sewing with Idris : artisan knowledge and community history
  • Migrant carpenters, migrant Muslims : religious and technical knowledge in motion
  • The steam engine as a Muslim technology : boilermaking and artisan Islam
  • Building the modern mosque : stonemasonry as religion and labor.

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