The world of the Banaras weaver : a culture in crisis
- Title
- The world of the Banaras weaver : a culture in crisis / Vasanthi Raman.
- Published by
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
- Author
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- Description
- xxiii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana --the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari-- the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari industry. As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centrestage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents the dissonance in representations of Banaras as a sacred Hindu city and its essential plural character. The volume: - Examines in depth the lives of Banaras Muslims in the social and economic matrix of the sari industry; - Highlights how women negotiate between home, family and their place in the artisanal industry; - Sheds light on their fast-changing world of the Banaras weavers and their responses to it. With a new Introduction and fresh data, the second edition looks at the subsequent developments in the weaving industry over the last decade. This volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, sociology and South Asian studies"--
- Uniform title
- Warp and the weft
- Alternative title
- Warp and the weft
- Subject
- Muslims > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) > Social conditions
- Women weavers > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) > Social conditions
- Weaving > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) > History
- Communalism > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
- Gender identity > India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
- Communalism
- Ethnic relations
- Gender identity
- Muslims > Social conditions
- Weaving
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) > Ethnic relations
- India > Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Hindu Banaras: Plural realities and singular representations -- Muslims in Banaras -- Banaras Muslims today : men and women in the warp and weft of the sari -- Communal violence in the 1990s and Hindu-Muslim relations -- Of home and the world : the homes and worlds of Banaras women -- The vanishing world of the Julahas : the current crisis and its consequences -- Walking the razor's edge : narratives of two women -- Conclusion -- Appendix I-A: Census tables for handloom sector, Varanasi District -- Appendix I-B: Census tables for powerloom sector, Uttar Pradesh -- Appendix II: 2001 census for Varanasi District -- Appendix III: Family profiles -- Bazardiha, Jalalipur and Lohta -- Appendix IV: Handloom census of India: 2009-10.
- Call number
- JFE 19-10728
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Raman, Vasanthi, author.
- Title
- The world of the Banaras weaver : a culture in crisis / Vasanthi Raman.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright date
- ©2020
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other form:
- ebook version : 9781000650471
- LCCN
- 2019016041
- ISBN
- 9781138362390 hardcover
- 1138362395 hardcover
- 9781000650471 electronic publication
- 9781000650013 electronic book
- 9781000650242 Mobipocket electronic book
- 9780429316890 electronic book
- Research call number
- JFE 19-10728