Agostino Lanzillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 984499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agostino Lanzillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agostino |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanzillo |
| SIGNATURE | LANZILLO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1688-4413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1918 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. …
Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam
This introduction to the special section “Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam: Beyond Received Frameworks” explores how “the everyday” has been used conceptually across disciplines such as anthropology, history, and religious studies in the study of Islam. Through this special section, the authors argue for renewed focus on the methodologies of studying the everyday, and they assert the importance of studies of Islam in South Asia …
Everyday Muslim Labor in Pashto “Books of Trade
This article analyzes early twentieth-century Pashto-language kasbnamahs, or “books of trade,” to ask how textual sources help us understand the intersections of quotidian laboring and religious practices. These short, printed treatises describe idealized Muslim practices of blacksmithing, carpentry, and pottery, providing prophetic and Sufi lineages for work, as well as Quranic verses that workers should recite during their daily labor. The arti…
Introduction to Making Artisans: Artisanal Lives and Production in South Asian History
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–1950
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 changes, Indian Muslim artisans began publicly asserting the de…
A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology: New Opportunities From Modern South Asia
This article examines interconnected questions that are central to new scholarship on the history of technology in modern South Asia. Which communities, groups and individuals have formed and sustained relationships with knowledge and practices that are seen as representative of technological modernity? Why were some individuals and communities understood—by both the state and various South Asian publics—to be cultivators of technological knowled…
Princely prisons, state exhibitions, and Muslim industrial authority in colonial India
This article analyses the prison industries and state industrial exhibitions of three Indian princely states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing how princely elites sought to develop distinct labouring and industrial cultures. Drawing on examples from three Muslim-led princely states, namely Rampur, Bhopal, and Hyderabad, the article argues that state elites distinguished their forms of cultural and religious authority f…
Prison Papermaking: Colonial Ideals of Industrial Experimentation in India
This article questions the economic rationale of colonial experimentation and prison labor, arguing that for many administrators a prison-based experiment's success mattered less than its existence. It examines the position of convict labor and penal discipline within colonial industrial experiments in colonial India, where convicts performed experiments for what one administrator described as "the most penal" form of labor, papermaking. The beli…
Book and Film Reviews
ALTNURME, Riho, ed., Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia. xii, 185 pp., 6 tables, 1 map, references, index. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Paperback, $54. ISBN: 978-90-04-52446-0. CHAMEL, Jean, and Yael DANSAC, eds., Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. xvi, 254 pp., 25 b/w ills., index London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Hardback, $129. ISBN: 978-3-031-10293-6. CH…
Building Peshawar: Labor, Security, and Infrastructure at the Edge of Empire
This article focuses on the recruitment and organization of labor for projects of colonial state infrastructure in the city of Peshawar between 1849 and 1947. Providing access to the Khyber Pass—and thus Afghanistan—Peshawar was an urban center from which the colonial state sought to organize security on the Indo-Afghan frontier. Peshawari laborers, recruited to support the city’s large colonial military cantonment, railways, jail, and other infr…
Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal 1850-1920
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India
Artisans in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India engaged with industrial change through vernacular-language manuals that explained new technologies and practices using regional cultural, literary and religious references. This article analyses the development, circulation and use of manuals written in Urdu for trades including metal smithing, masonry and carpentry. Urdu-language artisan manuals drew on both European-authored industri…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
Between Industry and Islam: Stonework and tomb construction in colonial-era India
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, monumental Muslim tombs in India served as spaces for refashioning local religious and social identities. Elite patrons, technical overseers, and stoneworkers engaged with new technologies of construction at sites meant to reflect claims on the Muslim past. This article interrogates divergent class understandings of monumental Muslim tombs in colonial-era India. It compares the construction of…
Translating the Scribe: Lithographic Print and Vernacularization in Colonial India, 1857–1915
Focusing on the lithographic print revolution in North India, this article analyses the role played by scribes working in Perso-Arabic script in the consolidation of late nineteenth-century vernacular literary cultures. In South Asia, the rise of lithographic printing for Perso-Arabic script languages and the slow shift from classical Persian to vernacular Urdu as a literary register took place roughly contemporaneously. This article interrogates…
Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely states
This working note analyzes the social and ideological salience of lithographic book design in the context of quasi-colonial Indian ‘princely’ or ‘native’ states in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on two Muslim-ruled princely states, it argues that local publishers and patrons used lithographic aesthetics to communicate both engagement with the ideal of colonial modernity and Indo-Islamic prestige to book consumers. The working note provides…
La Disfatta del Socialismo
Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely states
This working note analyzes the social and ideological salience of lithographic book design in the context of quasi-colonial Indian ‘princely’ or ‘native’ states in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on two Muslim-ruled princely states, it argues that local publishers and patrons used lithographic aesthetics to communicate both engagement with the ideal of colonial modernity and Indo-Islamic prestige to book consumers. The working note provides…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
La Disfatta del Socialismo
La Disfatta del Socialismo
Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely states
This working note analyzes the social and ideological salience of lithographic book design in the context of quasi-colonial Indian ‘princely’ or ‘native’ states in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on two Muslim-ruled princely states, it argues that local publishers and patrons used lithographic aesthetics to communicate both engagement with the ideal of colonial modernity and Indo-Islamic prestige to book consumers. The working note provides…
Translating the Scribe: Lithographic Print and Vernacularization in Colonial India, 1857–1915
Focusing on the lithographic print revolution in North India, this article analyses the role played by scribes working in Perso-Arabic script in the consolidation of late nineteenth-century vernacular literary cultures. In South Asia, the rise of lithographic printing for Perso-Arabic script languages and the slow shift from classical Persian to vernacular Urdu as a literary register took place roughly contemporaneously. This article interrogates…
Writing Industrial Change in Urdu: Artisanship, Islam and Technology in Colonial India
Artisans in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India engaged with industrial change through vernacular-language manuals that explained new technologies and practices using regional cultural, literary and religious references. This article analyses the development, circulation and use of manuals written in Urdu for trades including metal smithing, masonry and carpentry. Urdu-language artisan manuals drew on both European-authored industri…
Butchers between archives: Community history in early twentieth-century Delhi
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an effort to improve their social standing within Delhi’s Muslim communities. On the other hand, when Delhi’s Muslim butchers appeared in the colonial archi…
Between Industry and Islam: Stonework and tomb construction in colonial-era India
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, monumental Muslim tombs in India served as spaces for refashioning local religious and social identities. Elite patrons, technical overseers, and stoneworkers engaged with new technologies of construction at sites meant to reflect claims on the Muslim past. This article interrogates divergent class understandings of monumental Muslim tombs in colonial-era India. It compares the construction of…
Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal 1850-1920
Book and Film Reviews
ALTNURME, Riho, ed., Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia. xii, 185 pp., 6 tables, 1 map, references, index. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Paperback, $54. ISBN: 978-90-04-52446-0. CHAMEL, Jean, and Yael DANSAC, eds., Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. xvi, 254 pp., 25 b/w ills., index London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Hardback, $129. ISBN: 978-3-031-10293-6. CH…
Building Peshawar: Labor, Security, and Infrastructure at the Edge of Empire
This article focuses on the recruitment and organization of labor for projects of colonial state infrastructure in the city of Peshawar between 1849 and 1947. Providing access to the Khyber Pass—and thus Afghanistan—Peshawar was an urban center from which the colonial state sought to organize security on the Indo-Afghan frontier. Peshawari laborers, recruited to support the city’s large colonial military cantonment, railways, jail, and other infr…
Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 changes, Indian Muslim artisans began publicly asserting the de…
A Railway Carpenter in the History of Technology: New Opportunities From Modern South Asia
This article examines interconnected questions that are central to new scholarship on the history of technology in modern South Asia. Which communities, groups and individuals have formed and sustained relationships with knowledge and practices that are seen as representative of technological modernity? Why were some individuals and communities understood—by both the state and various South Asian publics—to be cultivators of technological knowled…
Princely prisons, state exhibitions, and Muslim industrial authority in colonial India
This article analyses the prison industries and state industrial exhibitions of three Indian princely states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing how princely elites sought to develop distinct labouring and industrial cultures. Drawing on examples from three Muslim-led princely states, namely Rampur, Bhopal, and Hyderabad, the article argues that state elites distinguished their forms of cultural and religious authority f…
Prison Papermaking: Colonial Ideals of Industrial Experimentation in India
This article questions the economic rationale of colonial experimentation and prison labor, arguing that for many administrators a prison-based experiment's success mattered less than its existence. It examines the position of convict labor and penal discipline within colonial industrial experiments in colonial India, where convicts performed experiments for what one administrator described as "the most penal" form of labor, papermaking. The beli…
Introduction to Making Artisans: Artisanal Lives and Production in South Asian History
Scissors from Meerut, Locks from Aligarh: Locality and Production in North India, 1870–1950
The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. …
Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam
This introduction to the special section “Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam: Beyond Received Frameworks” explores how “the everyday” has been used conceptually across disciplines such as anthropology, history, and religious studies in the study of Islam. Through this special section, the authors argue for renewed focus on the methodologies of studying the everyday, and they assert the importance of studies of Islam in South Asia …
Everyday Muslim Labor in Pashto “Books of Trade
This article analyzes early twentieth-century Pashto-language kasbnamahs, or “books of trade,” to ask how textual sources help us understand the intersections of quotidian laboring and religious practices. These short, printed treatises describe idealized Muslim practices of blacksmithing, carpentry, and pottery, providing prophetic and Sufi lineages for work, as well as Quranic verses that workers should recite during their daily labor. The arti…
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