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Between Islam and Industry

其他書名	Laboring Identities in Colonial Era India
出版	Indiana University, 2020
ISBN	9798641783642
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W7gmzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indian artisans encountered industrial change not only as a technological process, but also as an ideology of modernization, often shaped by colonial oversight but refracted through local religious and cultural discourses. This dissertation asks how artisans including stonemasons, carpenters, and metalsmiths adapted to technical and ideological change in colonial-era South Asia. It analyses what I term Islamic industrial modernity, meaning the attempts of regional Muslim elites to integrate technical practices rooted in British colonial preferences with the perceived Islamic history and heritage of trades. The dissertation argues that artisans were not passive recipients of colonial conceptions of industrial modernity, but instead participants in an unequal but adaptive exchange. In the context of Muslim-led "native" or "princely" states, quasi-autonomous polities under British administrative oversight, artisans selectively engaged with state policies of Islamic industrial modernity. Through its study of artisan labor in contexts of contested political and religious authority, the dissertation reorients our understanding of artisan engagement with industrial policy and revaluates the relationships between labor, religion, and technical change.