Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India; (Thirteenth - Eighteenth Centuries)
Vanina, Eugenia
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Book ID : 25960
ISBN-10 : 81-215-1083-X / 812151083X
ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1083-7 / 9788121510837
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2004
Edition :
Language : English
224p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteen-Eightnne Centuries) discusses the development of non-agricultural production on pre-colonial Indian cities. The author's purpose is twofold:firstly, to analyse the technological, organisational and social evolution of urban crafts in medieval India along with the economic and socio-political atmosphere in which this sphare of production existed and, secondly, to compare the above mention process with their counterparts in other medieval societies, especially the better none european ones, and thus ascertain the leval that India have achived in this sphere by the begning of colonial era.
