Modernizing Artisanship

In 1889, writing at the height of the preservationist efforts discussed in Chapter 3—with the Lahore and Jaipur exhibitions less than seven years before, the Journal of Indian Arts and Industries in its second volume, the Technical Art Series only three years old, and the Reay Workshops to open the following year—the Gujarati poet Dhirajrai issued a plea for industrial regeneration in India in the pages of the Buddhiprakash: O Natives, now take pride in your own Nation, get together Encourage the native ways and fill up the nation with your crafts and skills. You have become powerless and your home is burnt down, you are making great efforts to stay afloat; But if you do not discover new strategies, you are surely done for. Using the key of chemistry, discover new machines, Go abroad, visit America, England, China, bring forth all their skills. Says Dhirajrai, embrace swadeshi, remove your superstition and other faults.1 Compared with preservationists, Dhirajarai offered a very different summary of the issues facing India's crafts. The problem with current production, in his mind, was not frenetic change but powerlessness and passivity; superstition, shame, and helplessness had combined to burn down the house of Indian manufactures. Dhirajrai also offered a radically different solution: not to look inward to India's traditional past but to turn outward to Western science and modernity.KeywordsModern IndustryArtisanal ProductionModernize ArtisanshipPrincely StatePlain ClothThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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