TY - BOOK AU - McGowan, Abigail TI - Crafting the nation in colonial India U1 - 745.5 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave MacMillan N1 - CONTENTS List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Demanding Knowledge, Documenting the Body 23 2 The Culture of Difference: From Colonial Knowledge to the Problem with Crafts 67 3 Developing Traditions: Preservationist Design and the Independent Artisan 103 4 Modernizing Artisanship: Rationalization, Efficiency, and the Cult of the Craftsman 149 Conclusion The Long Life of Difference: Gandhi and the Politics of Crafts after 1920187 Notes 205 Bibliography 245 Index 261 ER -